Army National Guard Grounds All Helicopters Following Crashes
Published on February 27, 2024
The Army National Guard is standing down all of its helicopter units following two crashes last week, one of which left two Guardsmen dead. Two soldiers died last week in a helicopter crash in Mississippi. Another crash in Utah on Feb. 12 left two pilots, one from the Army National Guard and one from the Air Force, in the hospital. Pentagon press secretary Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder said that the units affected by the stand-down would be able to operate again after reviewing safety policies and procedures. “The separate crashes of AH-64D Apache helicopters in Utah on February 12 and Mississippi on February 23, respectively, drove the decision to ground all helicopters for safety reasons,” Gen. Ryder told reporters at the Pentagon on Tuesday....