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Posted: January 6, 2008
Updated: January 9, 2008

New Attack Choppers Supplement NC Guard Force

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Guard Gets Upgraded Attack Helicopters
Guard Gets Upgraded Attack Helicopters

Morrisville, N.C. — The North Carolina National Guard added 12 upgraded attack helicopters Sunday to the unit based at Raleigh-Durham International Airport.

Twenty-four are expected to be in place by the end of the year.

The AH-64(D) Longbow aircraft are upgraded versions of the Army's Apache attack helicopters. The Longbow has improved fire-control radar and radar guided Hellfire missiles. The Army also ordered improved engines for the new model.

The choppers that came into service Sunday are part of the 1st Attack Reconnaissance Battalion of the Guard's 130th Aviation Regiment. The 1st of the 130th is the first operational reserve unit in the Army to get the new model  helicopter, Maj. Matt Handley, a Guard public information officer said.

Maj. Gen. William E. Ingram Jr., adjutant general of the state's National Guard, spoke at a ceremony marking the arrival.

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"I hope these aren't going to be used agianst our own citizens..."

You weren't exactly at the head of the line when God was passing out intelligence were ya Johnny?
Click to view my profile Gandalf The White
January 7, 2008 12:50 p.m.
abf1, from what I read when he got home from his drill, he leaves 2/28/09, so I took that as official since it was on 'paper' so to speak, but maybe not. I always knew he would be deployed, that does not make me feel any different....proud, but scared. As I said, it is so much different when it's yuor own child. I am used to it being my father, uncle, or friends.
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January 7, 2008 10:51 a.m.
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January 7, 2008 10:50 a.m.
Iran has stirred the pot this morning at the Straight of Hormuiz (sp) at the Persian Gulf, with a couple of our Navy ships - to the point of our sailors having to man battlestations...haven't seen it covered on WRAL yet, but it sounded a little scary...
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January 7, 2008 9:48 a.m.
Put them on the border with live ammo!
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January 7, 2008 9:01 a.m.
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