More than 800 people -- service members and family -- gathered
Thursday for a memorial service at Hunter Army Air Field in
Savannah, GA, remembering the crew of an MH-47 Chinook that went
down in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan. It was the deadliest
single attack on American forces since the fighting in that South
Asian country began in 2001.
The US Army paved the way for continued modernization of the
world's most capable multi-role combat helicopter by signing the
first production engineering contract with Boeing for Block
III AH-64D Apache Longbows.
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