general military question

[ksmith]

who pilots Apache and Blackhawk choppers?

army/navy/air force/marines

or all of the above?

thanks p-)

God Bless our Troops!!!

[Mal3]

Someone else is no doubt better suited to answering this, but I think all US Apaches belong to the Army.

There are a lot of Black Hawk versions, most are probably Army but the Air Force also has quite a few. Don't know about the Coast Guard but the Navy's Hawks are mostly of the Sea Hawk variety.

[JKD]

All of them except the Marines. I think the Navy variant is called the Sea Hawk.

[JKD]

Whoops! Forgot you asked about the Apache. That's only Army.

[Trigger]

Army flies AH64 Apache, RAH66 Comanche, Blackhawk (UH-60 variants), KH58 Kiowa, AH-6 Little Bird, MH46 Chinook...I think that's it.
Navy flies SH60 Seahawk (like a Blackhawk, but modified for Anti-submarine warfare etc.)
Air Force flies HH60 Pave Hawk and MH53 Pave Low for rescue/insert/extract special ops personnel.
that's the quick and dirty version. I'm sure others will fill in where I've made errors.

[ksmith]

thanks, that's all i needed to know!