The US military will ship more than 80 helicopters and 1,900 troops through the port of Zeebrugge next week to reinforce NATO's eastern flank, a deployment that parallels that of an armored brigade passing through the port. 'Antwerp, was learned Friday from US military source.
These helicopters of different types - AH-64 Apache attackers and CH-47 Chinooks, UH-60Ls and M Blackhawk transport - belong to the 1st Combat Aviation Brigade, 1st Infantry Division based in Fort Riley, Kansas .
They arrive in Zeebrugge on January 29, before reaching the US base of Chièvres (between Mons and Ath), then Germany and eastern Europe, it was reported concordant sources.
They will replace a similar number of aircraft and personnel from the 4th Combat Aviation Brigade, 4th Infantry Division, Fort Carson, Colorado, who have been in Europe for nine months as part of Atlantic Resolve (AOR). said the US Army in a statement sent to the Belga agency.
Original source (in French)/credit: https://www.lesoir.be/202917/article/20 ... ne-par-la?These helicopters landed in Europe while the US Army also chose for the second time - on four troop rotations to date - the port of Antwerp and Belgium to transit to Eastern Europe an armored brigade All in all, more than 3,000 soldiers and 3,500 pieces of equipment, including M-1 Abrams battle tanks (57-ton mastodons), fifteen M-109 Paladin howitzers, 120 M-2 infantry fighting vehicles Bradley, 500 tracked vehicles, 1,500 wheeled vehicles and 850 trailers.
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