1st Battalion, 131st Aviation Regiment

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1st Battalion 131st Aviation Regiment
Active	???? - present
Country	United States
Branch	Army National Guard
Type	Aviation Battalion
Part of	36th Combat Aviation Brigade 4th Infantry Division U.S. Army III Corps U.S. First Army
Garrison/HQ	LSA Anaconda, Iraq and Dannelly Field, Montgomery, Alabama

The 1st Battalion 131st Aviation Regiment is an Army helicopter battalion that deployed to Iraq in September 2006 as a subordinate unit of Task Force Mustang to be a part of the US military Operation Iraqi Freedom. The battalion currently flies UH-60 Blackhawk aircraft. They are home based out of Dannelly Field, Alabama, and Mobile,Alabama as part of the Alabama Army National Guard 131st Aviation Brigade(P).

1 Current Units
2 History
- 2.1 pre-GWOT
- 2.2 Global War on Terror
3 External links

[edit] Current Units

HHC - Headquarters and Headquarters Company
A Company - "nickname" - aircraft type
B Company -
C Company -
D Company -
E Company -
F Company -

[edit] History

[edit] pre-GWOT

The 1/131st flew the CH-47 Chinook and UH-60 Blackhawk helicopters in the late 1990s.

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(see Ext Refs section below -- the globalsecurity.org site has more 1997-2000 history)

[edit] Global War on Terror

After several months of Theatre Immersion training at Fort Hood, Texas and Fort Sill, Oklahoma, they they were certified "Fit to Fight" by Lt. Gen. Russel L. Honoré, commanding general, First U.S. Army, on 30 July 2006. The unit shipped to Kuwait in late summer 2006, completed "boots on the ground" training at Camp Buehring, and entered Iraq in September as one of five battalions of Task Force Mustang in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. The BN principally flies out of Balad Air Base (aka Camp Anaconda) and flies missions all over Iraq.

The current formation of the 1/131st (as a unit of Task Force Mustang) consists primarily of Alabama Army National Guard personnel, but also includes Army aviation guard personnel from additional states.