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Soldiers from the 128th Aviation Brigade and Soldiers in Advanced Individual Training assigned to Joint Base Langley-Eustis, provide maintenance and restoration to Elmerton and Bassett cemeteries in Hampton, Virginia, July 8, 2023. Fifty-two Soldiers volunteered for the community relations event, part of the Barrett-Peake Heritage Foundation’s restoration project. (U.S. Air Force photo by Abraham Essenmacher)

July 13, 2023

Joint Base Langley-Eustis — Soldiers volunteer to preserve a cemetery.

U.S. military leaders participate in a ribbon cutting ceremony.

March 15, 2023

Building dedication honors Army helicopter repairer

JOINT BASE LANGLEY-EUSTIS, Va. — The 2nd Battalion, 210th Aviation Regiment dedicated their new training facility as Jacoby Hall, after the late U.S Army Sgt. Kip A. Jacoby, in a memorialization ceremony on Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia, March 14, 2023.

U.S. Army Pfc. Nicholas Unangst, left, 1st Battalion, 210th Aviation Regiment, 15H student, asks Sgt. Shawn Wright, Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 210th Aviation Regiment, instructor, a question about the aviation ground power unit during hands-on training to become an aircraft pneudraulic repairer at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia, January 23, 2023. During the 14 week-long course, students will learn to perform maintenance on aviation pneudraulic systems such as landing gear, rudders, and brakes. (U.S. Air Force photo by Abraham Essenmacher)

Feb. 8, 2023

JBLE maintains the flow of hydraulic mechanics

JOINT BASE LANGLEY-EUSTIS, Va. — Hydraulics are required in all aviation airframes, from starting the aircraft, to landing gear, and the ability to overcome the aerodynamic feedback forces generated in flight. For the U.S. Army, this also requires a constant flow of Soldiers to pass through the 128th Aviation Brigade’s aircraft pneudraulics repairer, 15H military operational specialty (MOS), course at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia. The 14-week long course provides Soldiers with the critical starting point to learn about pneudraulic systems, properties, and tools of the trade for the 15H, ultimately keeping helicopters mission ready.

U.S. Army Pvt. Travis McCool, 128th Aviation Brigade, 210th Aviation Regiment, 1st Battalion, Advanced Individual Training student, inspects the tip of an electrical wire on a CH-47 Chinook helicopter simulator at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia, Dec. 15, 2022. Approximately 250 new Soldiers pass though the 128th Aviation Brigade’s aircraft electrician ‘15F’ military occupational specialty course each year. (U.S. Air Force photo by Abraham Essenmacher)

Dec. 21, 2022

JBLE: Where aircraft electricians are made

JOINT BASE LANGLEY-EUSTIS, Va. — Approximately 250 new Soldiers pass though the 128th Aviation Training Brigades aircraft electrician ‘15F’ military occupational specialty course each year, providing the Army a continuous supply of Soldiers to keep its helicopters airborne and operational.

U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Montana Matthew Ellis, Charlie Company, 1-210th Aviation Regiment, 15N Avionics Mechanic Instructor, provides instruction to students during hands-on training class at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia, September 12, 2022. Students assigned to the avionics mechanics schoolhouse learn general subjects, improved basic electronics training, data networking, communications, navigation systems, automatic flight control systems, and aircraft survivability equipment prior to reporting to their first duty assignment. (U.S. Air Force Photo by Abraham Essenmacher)

Sept. 23, 2022

128th Aviation Brigade: Where Avionics Mechanics are made

JOINT BASE LANGLEY-EUSTIS, Va. — Instructors assigned to 1st Battalion, 210th Aviation Regiment, 128th Aviation Brigade at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia, play a critical role in keeping the U.S. Army’s Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters operational, involving training and educating the next generation of avionic mechanics, the 15N military occupational specialty.

July 28, 2022

128th Aviation Brigade: Providing Continuous Education in Aviation

JOINT BASE LANGLEY-EUSTIS, Va. — The U.S. Army’s 128th Aviation Brigade, located at Fort Eustis, Va., provides U.S. Army Soldiers the training and education to repair and maintain some of the Army’s most effective combat helicopters used today.

March 31, 2021

1st Battalion, 210th Aviation Regiment named Army Aviation Battalion of the Year

JOINT BASE LANGLEY-EUSTIS, Va. — Soldiers of the 1st Battalion, 210th Aviation Regiment, 128th Aviation Brigade, received the Lt. Gen. Ellis D. Parker award March 26, 2021, at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia.

Jan. 22, 2021

A bigger, better facility for AIT Soldiers

JOINT BASE LANGLEY-EUSTIS, Va. — A new building is under construction which will improve the educational experience of Advanced Individual Training students assigned to Fort Eustis.

A U.S. Army AIT Soldier carries a rainbow flag during a Pride Observance Month 5K run at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia, June 20, 2020.

June 27, 2020

Soldier hosts 2nd annual Pride run

JOINT BASE LANGLEY-EUSTIS, Va. — The month of June is nationally recognized as the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer or Questioning Pride Observance month to commemorate the Stonewall Riots, which spurred the ongoing fight for equal rights and fair justice for LGBTQ+ community members.

A U.S. Army Advanced Individual Training Soldier jumps over a hurdle during a field training exercise at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia, Jan. 24, 2020.

Jan. 30, 2020

Soldiers take on FTX

JOINT BASE LANGLEY-EUSTIS, Va. — Members assigned to the 128th Aviation Brigade conducted a field training exercise for initial entry training U.S. Army Soldiers at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia, Jan. 22-24, 2020.