Lakotas at Ft. Rucker
A little something for all the Dustoffers out there that might be reading care of www.army.mil:
Soldiers unpack a new UH-72A Lakota at Cairns Army Airfield on Fort Rucker, Ala., July 8. “Flatiron,” Fort Rucker’s Air Ambulance Detachment, aids not only the post but also local communities during emergency medical situations. This Lakota is the first of three to arrive here.
Photo credit Emily Brainard
Personally after working on BO-105s for a short period, I am no fan of rear loading clamshells. However, the Lakota seems to be a bit bigger than the BO-105. From the article I gathered these will be used only for the MAST mission at Ft. Rucker and not for deployments. The rest of us are still stuck in the the old standby UH-60 variants or, if you are CONUS only and not lucky enough to be at the U.S. Army Aviation Center, even older UH-1 variants.
The remainder of the article is here.
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