Hate to see you go, love to watch you leave.
Seventeen UH-60A Black Hawks and seven UH-72 Lakota helicopters from the U.S. Army Military District of Washington's Army Air Operations Group, 12th Aviation Battalion lift off from Davison Army Airfield beginning a one-hour training flight over the skies of the National Capital Region. The exercise was the 12th's final flight with its current aircraft configuration before the UH-72 (Lakota) and UH-60A (black and gold Black Hawks) are redistributed to Fort Rucker, Alabama and the Army Museum. The redistributed aircraft will be replaced with UH-60L Black Hawk configuration.
(Photo by George Markfelder, JFHQ-NCR/MDW Public Affairs, 4 JUN 2014.)
[And for accompaniment, Ride of the Valkyries, by request.]
