See photo gallery of the
171st CASB departure
in December 2003

The Georgia Army Guard's 171st Combat Aviation Support Battalion is back on home soil and is processing off active duty after a year deployed. The 225-member unit arrived at Hunter Army Air Field earlier this week and the Soldiers will return to home station at Dobbins ARB this weekend. The unit, which flies UH-60 Black Hawks, was assigned to two air fields in Kuwait and flew more than 3,800 accident-free hours throughout Kuwait and southern Iraq. In addition to the unit's organic Black Hawks, the 171st CACB had command and control of CH-47 Chinooks along with UC-35 and C-12 fixed wing aircraft in direct support of the combined force land component commander (CFLCC).