Check Six – 1987: A Company, 193rd Attack Helicopter Battalion

Posted on Dec 4, 2020 in 1980's, Check Six
Off Jeffrey Protacio’s Facebook page

A Hawaii Army National Guard retiree sent Retiree News the link to this photograph. It is off Jeffrey Protacio‘s Facebook page. Among the many comments is one from Anthony Bolante:

The old “A-Team …” A Company, 193rd Attack Helicopter Battalion, HIARNG circa June 1987 at then-Wheeler Air Force Base (now Army Airfield) with the best-damn AH-1/OH-58 crews around back then led by two punk-LTs, Protacio and Bolante.

For a larger photograph, with most Soldiers identified and more comments.


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