"Tomahawks"
1st Battalion, 14th Aviation Regiment has the primary mission of training 10 programs of instruction for the U.S. Army Aviation Center of Excellence. The unit is directly responsible for training, certifying and producing all AH-64D/E undergraduate Flight School XXI aviators and all graduate aviators, particularly instructor pilots and maintenance test pilots for both advanced airframes.
1-14th AR provides students with a rigorous program of instruction that includes basic aircraft systems, responses to emergency procedures, both basic and combat flight maneuvers, night vision systems qualification and basic aerial gunnery qualification. All tasks and subjects are trained in day, night, and night systems, and provide the United States and its foreign allies with highly trained combat aviators and junior leaders that are developed to exercise basic aviation leadership, maturity, judgment and decision making in their next operational assignment.
Our motto is “Versatility.”
Leadership
Commander, 1-14th Aviation Regiment
Lt. Col. Brian Haas is from Venturia, North Dakota. He graduated from the University of North Dakota in May of 2004 with a Bachelor of Science commercial aviation – rotorcraft with a Military Science minor. He later earned his Master of Science degree from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University with specialties in Aviation Operations and Human Factors. In November of 2005, he graduated flight school qualified in the AH-64D and was subsequently... READ MORE
Command Sgt. Major, 1-14th Aviation Regiment
Command Sgt. Maj. Brett M. Babin
Command Sergeant Major Brett M. Babin hails from New Orleans, LA and enlisted into the U.S. Army on 20 May 2003. He attended Basic Combat Training at Fort Benning, GA and Advanced Individual Training at Fort Eustis, VA. Upon completion of his training, he was awarded the Military Occupational Specialty of 67T (15T) UH-60 Utility Helicopter repairer. Command Sgt. Maj. Babin has served in various leadership positions from team... READ MORE