Apaches of the 101st

Lieutenant Colonel William Bryan commanded an AH-64 Apache battalion of the 229th Aviation Regiment, attached to the US Army’s ‘Mist Air Assault Division, during the Gulf War.

“We knew that on G-day, the day the ground war started, the division was going to establish an airhead very deep inside Iraq. So in the week before that my mission was reconnaissance, to check the route into the country, destroy fortifications and clear the zone of enemy forces. The 101st’s sector was 50k wide and 200k deep. On G-day, the division moved along preselected air routes to an operating base 150k into Iraq. We had troops on the ground and the forward base up and running within eight hours.

“When we came across a convoy, I would attack with one of the battalion’s……..Read the rest of the story here (Apaches of the 101st)