More drones.
What interesting times.
Army Chief of Staff Gen. Ray Odierno told members of Congress on Tuesday that the move will save $12 billion through fiscal year 2017, Defense One reported.
How and why will this save all of this money?
So all CONUS Apaches are going to be Federalized?
The Feds need those vicious, mean ATTACK helicopters out in Nevada.
They are replacing the Apache’s with Black Hawks for the Nat. Guard. The Apache’s are replacing the one abuse by the harsh terrain of most Trashcanistan countries they have been working in over the last decade and since they are not being manufactured, they are being swapped out. Why go ape sh*t over a story without all the info?
this is all about the pre-mature retiring of the Army’s excellent and upgraded OH-58 Kiowa warrior observation helo . Throughout all the CAB in the Army these effective little choppers are being cut by the Hagel ‘ budget axe’ and the idea is to replace that OH ( observation) function with an AH ( attack helo ) capacity . Really really ill advised as they are two entirely different and mutually supportive missions .
However now all those NG Apaches will be assigned to the regular Army CABs , to serve as observation AND attack helos .
More crappy planning and execution by a regime that doesn’t know it’s ass from a hole in the ground .
This is a completely misleading headline and a lame article. The purpose of the AH-64 Apache is to provide for the nation’s defense, not to prop up the ego of states Adjutants General. The Apache is being shifted to the Active Army in order to replace the reconnaissance helicopters that cannot be retained due to budget cuts. The Active Army has to be priority in this case, but it doesn’t sit well with pompous politicians and their political Guard generals.
The Army is having to make do with what they’ve got, since it’s much more important to provide more money for entitlement programs, new Obamaphones, and unworkable green energy schemes.
I’ve yet to see any govt program “save money”.
Blame Obama and his Defense cuts.
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Well, isn’t that special.
On the other hand when not called into federal service the Air Guard is tasked with providing disaster relief in their local states. When your river is flooded and you’re trying evacuate trapped people or move relieve supplies in then what would do the better job? Apache or Blackhawk?
Active Duty ping.