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THE VOLUNTEER STATE Guard Magazine LAST THE TNNG SAYS FAREWELL TO THE OH-58D KIOWA WARRIOR THE VOLUNTEER STATE guard magazine LAST FLIGHTOF THE OH-58 DELTA VOL. 16, ISSUE 1 1 VSG MAGAZINE VOL.16 | ISSUE 1 THE VOLUNTEER STATE GUARD MAGAZINE VOLUME 16 ISSUE 1 THE COVER Nov. 10, 2015 - A TNNG OH-58-D on its last flight, en route to the boneyard in Arizona. EDITOR-IN-CHIEF MAJ (RET) RANDY HARRIS (Photo by CW2 Caleb ART DIRECTION ROB PENNINGTON Bucy) SENIOR EDITORS MASTER SGT. ROBIN BROWN ROB PENNINGTON PHOTOGRAPHY 1ST LT JEREMIAH GILES CW2 CALEB BUCY MASTER SGT. JERRY HARLAN MASTER SGT. KENDRA OWENBY MASTER SGT. MARVIN PRESTON MASTER SGT. KURT SKOGLUND CONTENTS MASTER SGT. MIKE R. SMITH TECH. SGT. JONATHAN YOUNG SSG WILLIAM JONES SGT ARTURO GUZMAN DAVID MELSON PAGE 8 PAGE 24 DANIEL WOOLFOLK LAST FLIGHT OF THE OH-58 MAJCOM CHALLENGE DELTA The Airmen on the Air National Guard’s Mar- WRITERS MAJ DARRIN HAAS The Tennessee National Guard says Farewell athon Team Earn Second Place at this Year’s MAJ KYLE KEY to the OH-58D Kiowa Warrior. Competition. CPT HEATHER REAL 1ST LT JEREMIAH GILES PAGE 16 PAGE 26 MASTER SGT. ROBIN BROWN NORANDA CORP. SHOWS PURPLE HEARTS TO BE MASTER SGT. MIKE R. SMITH SUPPORT AWARDED SENIOR AIRMAN LEON BUSSEY SSG WILLIAM JONES ESGR Presents a Plaque to Noranda Alumi- Servicemembers Killed in Chattanooga will DAVID LARTER num Holding Corporation for it’s Continued be Awarded Purple Hearts by Department of DAVID MELSON Support of the Guard. Navy. PAGE 17 PAGE 27 CYBERSECURITY THREATS TEC AIRMEN SWEEP Do you know the Top Five Cybersecurity AWARDS Threats? Airmen Sweep Readiness Center Awards in The Volunteer State Guard Magazine is published to provide command and Maryland. public information about Tennessee Guard Soldiers and Airmen throughout PAGE 18 the world. Views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not neces- PAGE 28 sarily reflect the official view of and it is not endorsed by the U.S. Government, THE NEXT SWITCH the Department of Defense or the Departments of the Army and the Air Force. Tech. Sgt. Chalanda Roberts Conquers the ICE CREAM FOR LIFE This publication does not supersede any information presented in any other Broadcast Room. The 164th Wing Supports a Fellow Airman in official Air or Army publication. Articles, photos, artwork and letters are invited Need. and should be addressed to: Editor, The Volunteer State Guard, 3041 Sidco Dr., Attn: TNPAO, Nashville, TN 37204. PAGE 20 COMBINED RESOLVE V PAGE 30 For more information, the staff can be reached by telephone (615) 313-0633, RELAX: JUST A DRILL or by email to [email protected]. The Volunteer State Guard reserves the right Fox Troop, 2nd Squadron, 278th Armored to edit all material. Published works may be reprinted, except where copyright- Cavalry Regiment Collaborate in Overseas Tenn. Guard Chemical Unit Trains at Calsonic ed, provided credit is given to The Volunteer State Guard and the authors. Deployment Training. Arena. Distribution of the The Volunteer State Guard is electronic and can be down- loaded at: http://www.tnmilitary.org PAGE 23 PAGE 31 FIRST AIR GUARD SOCIAL BOOK REVIEW AIDE TNNG Historian MAJ Darrin Haas Reviews An Army at Dawn; The War in North Africa, 1942- Tenn. Airman Appointed First White House 1943, By Rick Atkinson. Social Aide. 2 VSG MAGAZINE VOL.16 | ISSUE 1 3 VSG MAGAZINE VOL.16 | ISSUE 1 WREATHS ACROSS AMERICA TENNESSEE Members of the 278th ACR work with Wreaths Across America on Dec 12, 2015. The SNAPSHOT annual effort is intended to raise funds to place live wreaths on the graves of veterans buried at the three veterans cemeteries in Knox County. PHOTO BY: SGT ART GUZMAN 4 VSG MAGAZINE VOL.16 | ISSUE 1 LAST FLOOR TENNESSEE MCGHEE-TYSON AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, Tenn. - The final exterior wall studs SNAPSHOT went up Dec. 8, 2015, on the third floor of the second dormitory building at the I.G. Brown Training and Education Center’s new classroom and lodging facility. PHOTO BY: MASTER SGT. JERRY HARLAN 5 VSG MAGAZINE VOL.16 | ISSUE 1 PRESIDENT JACKSON WREATH LAYING TENNESSEE Members of the Tenn. National Guard present the colors at the Hermitage, the home SNAPSHOT of former President Andrew Jackson, in a wreath laying ceremony to honor the 201st Anniversary of the Battle of New Orleans, Jan. 8, 2016. PHOTO BY: SSG WILLIAM JONES 6 VSG MAGAZINE VOL.16 | ISSUE 1 AIRMEN HELP OUT SANTA TENNESSEE Members of the 134th Air Refueling Wing’s Security Forces Squadron join Santa to SNAPSHOT spread joy around the East Tennessee Children’s hospital. Members of the Unit do- nate money throughout the year to make this event possible. PHOTO BY: TECH. SGT. JONATHAN YOUNG 7 VSG MAGAZINE VOL.16 | ISSUE 1 THE END OF AN ERA LAST FLIGHTOF THE OH-58 DELTA The rotor blades spun on the last nine of Tennessee’s 30 OH-58D Kiowa Warrior helicopters as they departed their units in Louisville, Tenn. and Jackson, Tenn., for the last time November 30, 2015. A TNNG OH-58-D on its last flight, en route to Arizona. (Photo by CW2 Caleb Bucy) 8 VSG MAGAZINE VOL.16 | ISSUE 1 The Tennessee Army National Guard was the last National Guard unit to have the Kiowas, which were sent to a scrap yard in Arizona as part of the Army’s divest- ment of the airframe. “It’s kind of bittersweet,” said Chief Warrant Officer 3 Peter Neveu, mainte- nance test pilot with the Tennessee Army National Guard’s 1/230th Armored Cav- alry Regiment. “Our main mission has been to keep the bad guys from shooting the good guys and I think the Army is going to miss it.” It took three separate trips during No- vember 2015 to get all of the state’s re- maining aircraft to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group (AMARG), known as the “bone yard,” which adjoins Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, Ariz. AMARG is a joint National Guard. “It has been in service ACR. “It tends to always be available service aerospace storage and mainte- since Vietnam. It’s a great airframe.” when nothing else is,” he added. nance facility managed by the Air Force. Ultimately, the Army wanted to re- The OH-58 is a single-engine, sin- Neveu took part in all three trips. duce the overall number of airframes in gle-rotor military helicopter used pri- “We don’t have to do anything when its inventory. “It was a mathematical de- marily for observation, utility, and direct we drop them off. It’s their helicopter. cision,” explained Haston. fire support. The OH-58D model, also They shake our hand, say thank you, and The OH-58 Kiowa helicopter has been known as the Kiowa Warrior, is mostly we walk away from it,” said Neveu. “It’s a used continuously by the Army since its used as an armed reconnaissance heli- different feeling, kind of painful, know- inception in 1969. In May of that year, copter to support troops fighting on the ing we have flown all of these aircraft in Maj. Gen. John Norton, commanding ground. The Kiowa Warrior is the armed different countries and now see them be- general of the Army Aviation Material version of the OH-58D. ing torn down for storage. It hurts a little Command, received the first OH-58A In October 1960, the Navy began bit.” The aircraft is partially disassembled Kiowa at an official ceremony at Bell accepting proposals, as part of an Ar- for long term storage. Helicopter’s plant in Fort Worth, Texas. my-Navy design competition board, Tennessee’s Kiowa Warriors joined After only two months, the first batch of from several helicopter manufacturers. more than 140 OH-58 helicopters al- helicopters were arriving in Vietnam for In May 1961, Bell was announced as one ready turned in just this year alone, as use in the war. Ultimately, 2,200 would of the winners. The original model Bell well as some C-5 Galaxy and C-130 Her- be built between 1966 and 1989. presented was later rejected by the Army cules aircraft from the Tennessee Air Na- because it lacked cargo space and provid- tional Guard’s 164th Airlift Wing based ed cramped quarters for the aircrew. The in Memphis, Tenn., and the 118th Wing Army then chose a design by the Hughes in Nashville, Tenn. In 2013, there were Development and Tool Co. Aircraft Division, but, in 1967, more than 330 Kiowas in the Army’s in- Operational History the Army reopened the competition for ventory, with 30 of those in the National bids because the company couldn’t meet Guard. the contractual production demands. “The 58-D has been very reliable the en- “The Army made the decision that the Bell resubmitted a redesigned aircraft tire time I’ve flown in it,” said Chief War- OH-58 airframe was going to be taken with more cargo space and a more aes- rant Officer 3 Andrew Farrell, a master out of the inventory,” said Maj. Gen. Max thetic appearance. In the end, Bell un- gunner for the OH-58D with the 1/230th Haston, Adjutant General, Tennessee derbid Hughes and the Bell 206A was 9 VSG MAGAZINE VOL.16 | ISSUE 1 SPECS OH-58D KIOWA WARRIOR CRUISE SPEED Kiowa schematics WITH WEAPONS courtesy flightglobal 95 kts 176 kph RANGE 140 nm 260 km designated the OH-58A “Kiowa” helicopter, copters couldn’t fight very well at night. At following the Army’s naming convention the time, there were only flares to light up SEATING honoring Native American tribes.
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