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Sgt. 1st Class Eric Brown
USARCENT Public Affairs
ATLANTA, Ga. – U.S. Army Central hosted its second annual International Aviation Symposium here this week featuring more than 30 aviators representing 13 countries from across the command's area of responsibility.
USARCENT's G-3 Aviation, Fort Rucker aviators along with helicopter pilots representing many of the countries from within the command's AOR, led presentations and discussions, ranging across the full-spectrum of operations. Topics included helicopter support during humanitarian crisis, air assault and attack operations, medical evacuations and reconnaissance operations.
The major objective of this symposium was to increase cooperation of the many countries working together to support both humanitarian and combat operations.
"This event enables us all to learn from the expertise of others," said Lt. Col. Stephen Loftis, USARCENT's G-3 aviation. Loftis added that symposium participants had the unique opportunity to discuss in a small-group setting the many operations where rotary-winged assets are used and the inherent challenges that come with them.
Brig. Gen. Tanveer Ullah Khan, Pakistan's 101 Army Aviation Group commander, underscored this point during his presentation on the use of rotary-winged aircraft while stressing the challenges of relief operations such as managing air space and the lack of an international relief committee.
"The symposium was professionally rewarding because it afforded the opportunity to gel and exchange views of different subjects of interest. The mere gathering of army aviation pilots from such a variety of countries was a learning occasion by itself," said Khan.
This year's symposium was the second of a three phase series, originally launched with last year's International Aviation Maintenance Symposium. USARCENT's third aviation phase will be an aviation training exercise at Fort Rucker, Ala., building from the foundation of the two previous symposiums and following a combat aviation brigade's preparation for a combat tour in Iraq.
| Date Taken: | 06.02.2008 |
| Date Posted: | 06.02.2008 16:45 |
| Story ID: | 20039 |
| Location: | US |
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