Marines preparing to ramp up CH-53E Super Stallion reset effort

By Justin Doubleday / December 24, 2015 at 1:22 PM
The Marine Corps plans to accelerate the reset of its heavy-lift helicopters over the next year, with the service planning to overhaul a total of 17 helicopters during fiscal year 2016. The Marine Corps is currently resetting the first CH-53E "Super Stallion" helicopter at Marine Corps Air Station New River, NC, as the "validation aircraft" for the recovery plan, according to service spokeswoman Capt. Sarah Burns. In a Dec. 22 email to Inside the Navy, Burns wrote that work on...

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