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Article: Guard gets new helicopters
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- Charleston Gazette
- Article date:
- August 12, 2002
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WASHINGTON - The replacement of West Virginia's Vietnam-vintage
National Guard helicopters has begun.
The state received the first of three modern Blackhawk helicopters
at the Guard's Williamstown facility last week, Sen. Robert C. Byrd,
D-W.Va., announced Friday. The other two Blackhawks will be delivered
next month.
Parts and maintenance problems have grounded the state's UH-1
Hueys. During last year's flooding in southern West ...