{"id":56591,"date":"2014-11-21T08:44:19","date_gmt":"2014-11-21T13:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=56591"},"modified":"2014-11-21T08:44:19","modified_gmt":"2014-11-21T13:44:19","slug":"fort-campbell-to-lose-the-159th-combat-aviation-brigade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=56591","title":{"rendered":"Fort Campbell to lose the 159th Combat Aviation Brigade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nevyan17 sends us a link from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theleafchronicle.com\/story\/news\/local\/fort-campbell\/2014\/11\/20\/fort-campbell-lose-159th-cab-2400-soldiers\/70007544\/\">Leaf-Chronicle<\/a> which reports that Fort Campbell will lose permanently the 159th Combat Aviation Brigade and it&#8217;s 2400 soldiers. The 101st Division lost their 4th Brigade earlier this year and now the Aviation Brigade;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Fort Campbell leadership issued the following statement at around 1:30 p.m. on Thursday:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The loss of the 159th Combat Aviation Brigade at Fort Campbell will have a wide-ranging effect both on and off the installation on many levels.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The inactivation of this unit is derived from the Army&#8217;s aviation restructure initiative. Locally, this means Fort Campbell will lose slightly more than 2,400 soldiers, as well as aviation assets which includes aircraft and equipment. The personnel loss figure becomes more dramatic when family members are included. Dependent figures at this time are roughly 3,800.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Because &#8220;readiness&#8221; means nothing, I suppose. They don&#8217;t need the aviation assets which means they won&#8217;t need them in the future, and if they do need the brigade, it will only take a week or two to get it off the ground again, right?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.military.com\/daily-news\/2014\/11\/20\/army-moves-to-shut-down-159th-combat-aviation-brigade.html\">Military.com<\/a> records Congressional response;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We are deeply disappointed by the Obama administration&#8217;s decision to remove the 159th CAB from Fort Campbell,&#8221; Kentucky Sens. Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul, and Rep. Ed Whitfield said in a joint statement. &#8220;It is bad news for our nation&#8217;s security and for the local Fort Campbell community.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It almost makes one think that closing that Brigade is about punishing  Kentucky for re-electing McConnell. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nevyan17 sends us a link from the Leaf-Chronicle which reports that Fort Campbell will lose permanently the 159th Combat Aviation Brigade and it&#8217;s 2400 soldiers. The 101st Division lost their 4th Brigade earlier this year and now the Aviation Brigade; Fort Campbell leadership issued the following statement at around 1:30 p.m. on Thursday: &#8220;The loss [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56592,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-army-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/159th-Combat-Aviation-Brigade.jpg?fit=211%2C238&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-eIL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/56592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}