227th Aviation Battalion Unit Crest (Pouvoir)
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227th Aviation Battalion Unit Crest (Pouvoir)
227th Aviation Regiment
POUVOIR (Can Do)
On 1 February 1963, the 31st Transportation Company was redesignated as the 227th Assault Helicopter Battalion and assigned to the 11th Air Assault Division. Starting on the 11th and ending on the 18th of July 1963, the Battalion was activated at Fort Benning, Georgia. In the next two years, through intensive training, its operational capability was enhanced, along with the modernization of fleet equipment.
On 01 July 1965, the units of the 11th Air Assault Division (Test) and the 2nd Infantry Division at Fort Benning, Georgia were reorganized and redesignated as the 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile).
Within 90 days of becoming the Army’s first air mobile division, the First Team, was back in combat as the first fully committed division of the Vietnam War. An advance party, on board C-124s and C-130s, arrived at Nha Trang between the 19th and 27th of August 1965. They joined with advance liaison forces and established a temporary base camp near An Khe, 36 miles inland from the coastal city of Qui Nhon. The remainder of the 1st Cavalry Division arrived by ship, landing at the harbor of Qui Nhon on the 12th and 13th of September, the 44th anniversary of the 1st Cavalry Division. In the Oriental calendar year of the “Horse”, mounted Soldiers had returned to war wearing the famous and feared patch of the First Cavalry Division. The First Team had entered its third war – and the longest tour of duty in combat history.
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