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Division to transport roughly 4,000 american troops deep into enemy territory in one night. landing in mosul, forcing the iraqi army to fight on two fronts. dwight eisenhower relied on the screaming eagles to jump behind enemy lines on d-day. after six years of budget cuts, army commanders say would be difficult to carry out those operations today. we used to have two aviation brigades, over 200 aircraft. now we are at slightly 100 aircraft. if you had to move out tomorrow and do a brigade-level assault, could you do it? we could not. this train was apparent when we visited fort campbell, kentucky. our requirements haven t reduced so you have an inexperienced maintenance group that has to support a high-tempo of support. ....
p is the commander of the aviation brigades. when this combat aviation brigade deployed to afghanistan, they had to leave their maintainers behind. the result, nearly 1,000 army helicopter mechanics lost nearly a year of training. they are skills atrophied and some of the most senior experienced apache mechanics left for other jobs. our maintainers didn t have a fleet of aircraft to work on. the military had to spend $106 million to on contractors to do the job. he is and apache pilots. the decision to leave their maintainers at home is nearly doubled maintenance time. 30 to 45 days normally. here it s taking something like ....