{"id":67397,"date":"2024-04-25T12:49:19","date_gmt":"2024-04-25T12:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2024\/04\/25\/us-army-to-shift-aviation-force-structure-back-to-tailored-brigades\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T00:58:38","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T00:58:38","slug":"us-army-to-shift-aviation-force-structure-back-to-tailored-brigades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/land\/2024\/04\/25\/us-army-to-shift-aviation-force-structure-back-to-tailored-brigades\/","title":{"rendered":"US Army to shift aviation force structure back to tailored brigades"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">DENVER, Colo. \u2014 The U.S. Army\u2019s aviation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/digital-show-dailies\/ausa\/2022\/10\/10\/wormuth-army-to-invest-in-larger-high-tech-formations\/\" target=\"_blank\">force structure <\/a>will move away from modular Combat Aviation Brigade designs needed during heel-to-toe rotations in Iraq and Afghanistan and return to a model that tailors those units for specific divisions, according to the service\u2019s branch chief.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cToday we have modular CABs, so every CAB looks the same on paper,\u201d Maj. Gen. Mac McCurry, the Army\u2019s Aviation Center of Excellence commander, told reporters April 24 during the Army Aviation Association of America\u2019s annual <a href=\"http:\/\/summit.in\/\" target=\"_blank\">summit<\/a> in Denver. During heel-to-rotations \u201cit was imperative that we\u2019d be able to replace a [heavy] capability with a light capability and those changes to modular CABs happened in the early 2000s,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Army is returning to what it did prior to years of operations in the Middle East and will design division-based formations that do not look the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For example, McCurry said, \u201ca light infantry division is more reliant on mobility than a heavy division is from the air, those soldiers have to move, rapidly reposition. We\u2019re putting more [UH-60] Black Hawk [utility helicopters] into the light divisions and taking some of those Black Hawks out of the heavy divisions and heavy divisions remain focused on lethality.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the 101st Airborne Division, the Army is building an extra battalion of 32 CH-47F Chinook cargo helicopters to enable air assault. \u201cThat helps with the mobility and the ability to do air assault in that division,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Army decided as part of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/air\/2024\/02\/08\/us-army-spent-billions-on-a-new-helicopter-that-now-will-never-fly\/\" target=\"_blank\">a recent rebalancing of aviation capability<\/a> announced earlier this year that it would buy Boeing-made CH-47F Block II helicopters that it was not previously planning to buy for the active component. Utwill also complete its 12th CAB based in Europe, and has been operating as a partial CAB, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBy moving the aircraft around and slightly adjusting the design, we\u2019re able to build out that 12th CAB in Europe,\u201d McCurry said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The force structure changes do \u201ca couple of things for us,\u201d he added. \u201cAs we looked at our gaps years ago, we said, \u2018Hey, we need more reconnaissance and security capacity and we\u2019ve got to be able to air assault, in one period of darkness, a brigade,\u2019 and so that\u2019s where these focuses are.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to a controlled but unclassified document obtained by Defense News that lays out the force structure change recommendationsm based off of a recent total analysis assessment, the Army is planning eight heavy CABS and four light brigades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The units dedicated to heavy and theater enabling capability will be the 1st Cavalry Division, the 1st Infantry Division, 2ID, 3ID, 4ID, 16th Combat Aviation Brigade and 12 CAB, according to the document.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The three light CABs will be recapitalized under the 10th Mountain CAB, the 25th Infantry Division CAB, the 82nd Airborne Division and the air assault CAB will be with the 101st Airborne, the document notes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Conversions are planned to begin this year and won\u2019t fully complete until the fall of 2029, the document notes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The aviation changes are just<a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/land\/2024\/02\/27\/here-are-the-winners-and-losers-in-us-armys-force-structure-change\/\" target=\"_blank\"> a part of a wider push to change the Army\u2019s overall structure<\/a>. 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