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4CAB port ops at Corpus Christi, Texas: Brigade unloads 1,500 pieces of equipment for transfer

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CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – Pfc. Connor Mitchell, AH-64 attack helicopter repairer, Delta Troop, 6th Attack Reconnaissance Squadron, 17th Cavalry Regiment, 4th Combat Aviation Brigade, 4th Infantry Division, closes a compartment door on an AH-64 attack helicopter March 28, 2019. The 4th CAB returned from Europe where they deployed in support of Atlantic Resolve, a mission which builds readiness, increases interoperability, and enhances the bonds between ally and partner militaries with multinational training events in Bulgaria, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Romania. About 1,500 pieces of brigade equipment, including helicopters, containers and tactical vehicles, were off-loaded from two vessels at the port March 19-31, 2019, and are being transported to Fort Carson, Colorado, by way of rail, truck and air. (Photo by Sgt. Anthony Bryant)

By Sgt. Anthony Bryant

4th Combat Aviation Brigade Public Affairs Office, 4th Infantry Division
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CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – 4th Combat Aviation Brigade, 4th Infantry Division Soldiers work on a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter at the Port of Corpus Christi, Texas, March 28, 2019. The 4th CAB returned from Europe where they deployed in support of Atlantic Resolve, a mission which builds readiness, increases interoperability, and enhances the bonds between ally and partner militaries with multinational training events in Bulgaria, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Romania. About 1,500 pieces of brigade equipment, including helicopters, containers and tactical vehicles, were off-loaded from two vessels at the port March 19-31, 2019, and are being transported to Fort Carson, Colorado, by way of rail, truck and air. (Photo by Sgt. Anthony Bryant)

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – 4th Combat Aviation Brigade, 4th Infantry Division Soldiers work on a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter at the Port of Corpus Christi, Texas, March 28, 2019. The 4th CAB returned from Europe where they deployed in support of Atlantic Resolve, a mission which builds readiness, increases interoperability, and enhances the bonds between ally and partner militaries with multinational training events in Bulgaria, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Romania. About 1,500 pieces of brigade equipment, including helicopters, containers and tactical vehicles, were off-loaded from two vessels at the port March 19-31, 2019, and are being transported to Fort Carson, Colorado, by way of rail, truck and air. (Photo by Sgt. Anthony Bryant)

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Soldiers with the 4th Combat Aviation Brigade “Ivy Eagles,” 4th Infantry Division, offloaded nearly 1,500 pieces of brigade equipment, including helicopters, containers and tactical vehicles, from two roll-on roll-off (ro-ro) vessels at the Port of Corpus Christi, March 19-31, 2019. The equipment was transported to Fort Carson by way of rail, truck and air.

The 4th CAB returned from Europe where they deployed June 2018 in support of Atlantic Resolve, a mission which builds readiness, increases interoperability, and enhances the bonds between ally and partner militaries with multinational training events in Bulgaria, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Romania.

“In a big operation like this, there’s always dilemmas and challenges that pop up,” said Maj. Jason Brubaker, officer in charge of port support activity, Bravo Company, 404th Aviation Support Battalion, 4th CAB. “We (have) the right leaders in place and the right team members in place who are able to address maintenance and personnel issues as they arise. The mission (is getting) accomplished as safely and efficiently as possible.”

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CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — 4th Combat Aviation Brigade, 4th Infantry Division, Soldiers prepare a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter for flight at the Port of Corpus Christi, Texas, March 29, 2019. (Photo by Sgt. Anthony Bryant)

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — 4th Combat Aviation Brigade, 4th Infantry Division, Soldiers prepare a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter for flight at the Port of Corpus Christi, Texas, March 29, 2019. (Photo by Sgt. Anthony Bryant)

Over roughly two weeks, Brubaker coordinated a team of about 125 aviators, blade-fold teams, unit movement officers and other support personnel who built and flew aircraft and tracked cargo.

The brigade-wide event was made successful because of the combined effort of the subordinate battalions, he said, which included 404th ASB; 3rd Attack Helicopter Battalion, 4th Aviation Regiment; 2nd General Support Aviation Battalion, 4th Avn. Reg.; and 6th Attack Reconnaissance Squadron, 17th Cavalry Regiment.

Capt. Erin M. Reid, UH-60 Black Hawk pilot, 3rd AHB, was part of a ferry crew that flew aircraft from port to the initial staging base (ISB) near Corpus Christi International Airport.

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CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – A team of Soldiers with 6th Attack Reconnaissance Squadron, 17th Cavalry Regiment, 4th Combat Aviation Brigade, 4th Infantry Division, unfold the rotary wings on an AH-64 Apache helicopter at the Port of Corpus Christi, March 28, 2019. (Photo by Sgt. Anthony Bryant)

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – A team of Soldiers with 6th Attack Reconnaissance Squadron, 17th Cavalry Regiment, 4th Combat Aviation Brigade, 4th Infantry Division, unfold the rotary wings on an AH-64 Apache helicopter at the Port of Corpus Christi, March 28, 2019. (Photo by Sgt. Anthony Bryant)

“(3rd AHB) is running the ISB; managing and monitoring flights from the ISB to Fort Carson,” Reid said. “We’re managing the maintenance support, and if there are any maintenance issues along flight routes post-ISB, we’re in charge of bringing parts and pieces or the people necessary to fix that equipment.”

3rd AHB created the multiple flight routes and maintenance checkpoints on the way to Fort Carson.

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CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – A team of Soldiers with 6th Attack Reconnaissance Squadron, 17th Cavalry Regiment, 4th Combat Aviation Brigade, 4th Infantry Division, unfold the rotary wings on an AH-64 Apache helicopter at the Port of Corpus Christi, March 28, 2019. (Photo by Sgt. Anthony Bryant)

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – A team of Soldiers with 6th Attack Reconnaissance Squadron, 17th Cavalry Regiment, 4th Combat Aviation Brigade, 4th Infantry Division, unfold the rotary wings on an AH-64 Apache helicopter at the Port of Corpus Christi, March 28, 2019. (Photo by Sgt. Anthony Bryant)

“Myself and the rest of the (UH-60M) crews will be waiting until all aircraft are off the port and ISB,” she added. “We will not begin our flight home until they are all safely past our maintenance checkpoints along the way. We’re the clean-up crew. If anyone needs any kind of maintenance support or help, we can ferry maintenance equipment to them from where we are.”

For Reid, the subordinate battalions working together to accomplish the mission were greater than the sum of its parts.

“How the whole brigade meshes together and we’re all accomplishing the same mission and supporting each other, we almost have an assembly line created for getting the aircraft unfolded and ready for flight,” Reid said. “There haven’t been major maintenance issues that we haven’t been able to fix within 24 hours.”

Ultimately, the port operations team was able to transport everything off the port and back to Fort Carson.

 

 

 

 

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CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – 4th Combat Aviation Brigade, 4th Infantry Division, Soldiers push an AH-64 Apache helicopter in preparation for transportation to Fort Carson March 28, 2019. (Photo by Sgt. Anthony Bryant)

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – 4th Combat Aviation Brigade, 4th Infantry Division, Soldiers push an AH-64 Apache helicopter in preparation for transportation to Fort Carson March 28, 2019. (Photo by Sgt. Anthony Bryant)

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CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – Apache pilots with 6th Attack Reconnaissance Squadron, 17th Cavalry Regiment, 4th Combat Aviation Brigade, 4th Infantry Division, prepare to take off from the Port of Corpus Christi, Texas, March 29, 2019. The 4th CAB returned from Europe where it deployed in support of Atlantic Resolve. About 1,500 pieces of brigade equipment, including helicopters, containers and tactical vehicles, were offloaded from two vessels at the port March 19-31, 2019, and were being transported to Fort Carson by way of rail, truck and air. (Photo by Sgt. Anthony Bryant)

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – Apache pilots with 6th Attack Reconnaissance Squadron, 17th Cavalry Regiment, 4th Combat Aviation Brigade, 4th Infantry Division, prepare to take off from the Port of Corpus Christi, Texas, March 29, 2019. The 4th CAB returned from Europe where it deployed in support of Atlantic Resolve. About 1,500 pieces of brigade equipment, including helicopters, containers and tactical vehicles, were offloaded from two vessels at the port March 19-31, 2019, and were being transported to Fort Carson by way of rail, truck and air. (Photo by Sgt. Anthony Bryant)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – Pfc. Connor Mitchell, AH-64 attack helicopter repairer, Delta Troop, 6th Attack Reconnaissance Squadron, 17th Cavalry Regiment, 4th Combat Aviation Brigade, 4th Infantry Division, closes a compartment door on an AH-64 attack helicopter March 28, 2019. The 4th CAB returned from Europe where they deployed in support of Atlantic Resolve, a mission which builds readiness, increases interoperability, and enhances the bonds between ally and partner militaries with multinational training events in Bulgaria, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Romania. About 1,500 pieces of brigade equipment, including helicopters, containers and tactical vehicles, were off-loaded from two vessels at the port March 19-31, 2019, and are being transported to Fort Carson, Colorado, by way of rail, truck and air. (Photo by Sgt. Anthony Bryant)

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – Pfc. Connor Mitchell, AH-64 attack helicopter repairer, Delta Troop, 6th Attack Reconnaissance Squadron, 17th Cavalry Regiment, 4th Combat Aviation Brigade, 4th Infantry Division, closes a compartment door on an AH-64 attack helicopter March 28, 2019. The 4th CAB returned from Europe where they deployed in support of Atlantic Resolve, a mission which builds readiness, increases interoperability, and enhances the bonds between ally and partner militaries with multinational training events in Bulgaria, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Romania. About 1,500 pieces of brigade equipment, including helicopters, containers and tactical vehicles, were off-loaded from two vessels at the port March 19-31, 2019, and are being transported to Fort Carson, Colorado, by way of rail, truck and air. (Photo by Sgt. Anthony Bryant)

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CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – A team of Soldiers with 6th Attack Reconnaissance Squadron, 17th Cavalry Regiment, 4th Combat Aviation Brigade, 4th Infantry Division, unfold the rotary wings on an AH-64 Apache helicopter at the Port of Corpus Christi, March 28, 2019. (Photo by Sgt. Anthony Bryant)

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – A team of Soldiers with 6th Attack Reconnaissance Squadron, 17th Cavalry Regiment, 4th Combat Aviation Brigade, 4th Infantry Division, unfold the rotary wings on an AH-64 Apache helicopter at the Port of Corpus Christi, March 28, 2019. (Photo by Sgt. Anthony Bryant)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – 4th Combat Aviation Brigade, 4th Infantry Division Soldiers unfold the rotary wings on a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter at the Port of Corpus Christi, Texas, March 29, 2019. The 4th CAB returned from Europe where they deployed in support of Atlantic Resolve, a mission which builds readiness, increases interoperability, and enhances the bonds between ally and partner militaries with multinational training events in Bulgaria, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Romania. About 1,500 pieces of brigade equipment, including helicopters, containers and tactical vehicles, were off-loaded from two vessels at the port March 19-31, 2019, and are being transported to Fort Carson, Colorado, by way of rail, truck and air. (Photo by Sgt. Anthony Bryant)

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – 4th Combat Aviation Brigade, 4th Infantry Division Soldiers unfold the rotary wings on a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter at the Port of Corpus Christi, Texas, March 29, 2019. The 4th CAB returned from Europe where they deployed in support of Atlantic Resolve, a mission which builds readiness, increases interoperability, and enhances the bonds between ally and partner militaries with multinational training events in Bulgaria, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Romania. About 1,500 pieces of brigade equipment, including helicopters, containers and tactical vehicles, were off-loaded from two vessels at the port March 19-31, 2019, and are being transported to Fort Carson, Colorado, by way of rail, truck and air. (Photo by Sgt. Anthony Bryant)

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CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – AH-64 Apache helicopters with 4th Combat Aviation Brigade, 4th Infantry Division, parked at the Port of Corpus Christi, Texas, March 28, 2019. The 4th CAB returned from Europe where they deployed in support of Atlantic Resolve, a mission which builds readiness, increases interoperability, and enhances the bonds between ally and partner militaries with multinational training events in Bulgaria, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Romania. About 1,500 pieces of brigade equipment, including helicopters, containers and tactical vehicles, were off-loaded from two vessels at the port March 19-31, 2019, and are being transported to Fort Carson, Colorado, by way of rail, truck and air. (Photo by Sgt. Anthony Bryant)

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – AH-64 Apache helicopters with 4th Combat Aviation Brigade, 4th Infantry Division, parked at the Port of Corpus Christi, Texas, March 28, 2019. The 4th CAB returned from Europe where they deployed in support of Atlantic Resolve, a mission which builds readiness, increases interoperability, and enhances the bonds between ally and partner militaries with multinational training events in Bulgaria, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Romania. About 1,500 pieces of brigade equipment, including helicopters, containers and tactical vehicles, were off-loaded from two vessels at the port March 19-31, 2019, and are being transported to Fort Carson, Colorado, by way of rail, truck and air. (Photo by Sgt. Anthony Bryant)


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