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Army Aviation Brigade Deploys to Afghanistan Minus Mechanics
Military.com | Feb 10, 2017 | by Richard Sisk
Call it the case of the marooned military mechanics of Fort Riley, Kansas.
The commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan said Thursday that an Army aviation brigade deployed to Afghanistan last year without its mechanics because of the 8,400-troop ceiling on U.S. forces.
Army Gen. John Nicholson, commander of U.S. Forces-Afghanistan and NATO's Resolute Support mission, said he had to hire contractors at greater expense to taxpayers to make up for each soldier mechanic that the 1st Combat Aviation Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, had to leave behind.
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