Army Seeks Additional CAB to Reach Goal

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Army Seeks Additional CAB to Reach Goal
January 07, 2010
Army News Service|by C. Todd Lopez

In order to meet the Army's dwell-time goal, the service will add a new combat aviation brigade.

"That's coming out of resources we already have; we are still wrestling with where that's going to go, where that's going to stand up," said Maj. Gen. James O. Barclay III, commanding general of the Aviation Center of Excellence and Fort Rucker, Ala.

"That will help some in the fight," he said. "That's one of the small steps we are taking as we are trying to align and ensure with all (components) that we can meet and try to get at what General Casey's goal is: one to two."

Barclay spoke to an audience of Army aviation and defense aviation industry professionals during the Association of the United States Army's Institute of Land Warfare Army Aviation Symposium and Exposition, Jan. 5-7 in Arlington, Va.

The Army now has 11 active-duty CABs and the reserve components have eight. Barclay said meeting Chief of Staff of the Army Gen. George W. Casey's goal of 24 months home for every 12 months deployed is difficult with the current number of CABs, and the current demand for eight CABs to support Iraq and Afghanistan.


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