The US Army Aviation Center of Excellence at Fort Rucker Novosel, AL, may have had as much as $130 million of its $140 million training budget taken away, resulting in the cancellation of training for US helicopter pilots for the foreseeable future. Why did this happen? If the source is to be believed, and as I show later, there is no reason to doubt the source, DOD directed that training for Army helicopter pilots cease so the money could fill gaps in the recently passed Israel-Taiwan-Ukraine foreign aid package.
The story broke from two sources. On “X,” formerly known as Twitter, a training team leader posted an email to his(?) team giving them the bad news.
Team,
BLUF (short for “bottom line up front”): Funds have been pulled from our flying Hour Program, we will be without funds to continue flying FSXXI as soon as 01May. Our funds have been pulled by DOD for allocation to…
