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Army Guard aviators team up with NY forest rangers for helicopter firefighting training Eric Durr and Sgt. Andrew Valenza for the New York National Guard | May 12, 2021
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New York and Connecticut Army National Guard UH-60 aircrews teamed up with New York Department of Environmental Conservation Forest Rangers to hone their helicopter wildfire fighting skills during an exercise in Colonie, New York using the Mohawk River as a water source and target.
New York Army National Guard Staff Sgt. Jake Pratt, assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 142nd Aviation and a New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Forest Ranger exit a UH-60 during helicopter firefighting training over the Mohawk River in Colonie, New York on May 6, 2021. Aircrews based at the Albany International Airport in Latham, New York, teamed up with aviators from the Connecticut Army National Guard and New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Forest
Federal Militarization of Law Enforcement Must End
The federal government arms local police forces in the United States with weapons of war. A program called “1033,” for the section of the act that created it, allows the Department of Defense to give state, local, and federal law enforcement agencies military hardware. Since its inception in 1996, nearly 10,000 jurisdictions have received more than $7 billion of equipment. This includes combat vehicles, rifles, military helmets, and misleadingly named “non-” or less-lethal weapons, some of which have featured in police raids and police violence against protesters, including recent protests for racial justice.
The ACLU helped place police militarization in the broader landscape of police violence with our 2014 groundbreaking report, “War Comes Home.” That report released just months before police killed Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri highlighted the ways that militarized police act aggressively and violently, ta
Fatal crashes prompt U.S. senator to question Black Hawk safety
By Dan Parsons | February 9, 2021
Estimated reading time 7 minutes, 42 seconds.
Two recent Black Hawk helicopter crashes that killed six Army National Guard soldiers have reawakened concerns in Congress that systemic safety issues in U.S. military aviation are causing unnecessary non-combat casualties.
On Jan. 19, three New York Guard aviators died when their UH-60 Black Hawk medevac helicopter went down just south of Lake Ontario near the city of Rochester. Two weeks later, three Idaho National Guard soldiers died when their UH-60 crashed in rugged, mountainous terrain near the state capital of Boise.