The venerable Vietnam-era OH-58D Kiowa scout helicopters have done the job as the valued eyes and ears of the Army's 82nd Airborne Division, but today's more complex battlefields demand the switchover ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. John Peabody Harrington papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution The preferred citation for the Harrington Papers will ...

Thirty-two OH-58D Kiowa Warriors with the 1st Squadron, 17th Cavalry Regiment, 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade, conduct a flyover during farewell flight, Fort Bragg, N.C., April 15. The flyover serves as ...

NAA MS 2531 Vol. 11 Notebook of Kiowa heraldry and personal names by an anonymous Kiowa artist MS 2531-11 000 This volume was borrowed by Alexander Lesser in July 1935 and was returned to the ...

FORT RUCKER, Ala. -- Several dozen AH-64D Apache and OH-58D Kiowa Warrior student-pilots gained hands-on experience regarding their aircraft weapons systems during a live-fire training exercise at ...

The U.S. military's use of Native American names for weapons and machinery is as offensive as the use of "Redskins" to refer to Washington's professional football team, a national writer claimed this ...

The U.S. Army selected Bell's "360 Invictus" single-rotor concept (top) andLockheed's RAIDER X coaxial helicopter (bottom) for the second phase of the Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft program ...

FORT DRUM, N.Y. (July 30, 2015) -- The skies over New York's North Country had a solemn feel as the 10th Combat Aviation Brigade's 6th Squadron, 6th Cavalry Regiment, conducted its final OH-58D Kiowa ...

The Kiowa, Comanche and Apache Intertribal Land Use Committee conducted its second annual cleanup event at the historical Fort Sill Indian School on Earth Day.

The US Army hasn’t yet said it will retire its aging fleet of Bell OH-58 Kiowa Warrior reconnaissance helicopters. But if the Army makes that decision — reports suggested it will — the fleet should be ...

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