Reserve helicopters descend on Fort Hood

From: Soldiers | Date: December 1, 2000| Author: Johnson, Tony | Copyright information

Fort Hood, Texas

NEARLY 300 Reserve soldiers of the 7th Battalion, 158th Aviation Regiment, and 7th Squadron, 6th Cavalry Regt., completed annual training here this summer - and assumed an important fire-prevention role during one of Texas' driest seasons.

The 7th Bn. is a CH-47D Chinook unit with a newly activated battalion headquarters and company at Fort Hood and companies in Olathe, Kan., and Fort Carson, Colo. Their mission was to support the 7th Sqdn., an Apache unit, ba...

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