Army aviation leaders to give top brass 'options' on transformation initiative

By Dominic Minadeo / May 16, 2025 at 9:31 AM
NASHVILLE, TN -- The Army aviation portfolio was already on the road to transformation before Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's major restructuring memo, according to a senior service leader. “We were already on a path,” Maj. Gen. Claire Gill, commander of the Army Aviation Center of Excellence, told reporters Thursday. For the past eight to nine months the service had been looking at divesting from old equipment like the AH-64D Apache and UH-60L Black Hawk. “All [the] Army Transformation Initiative really...

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