1st Battalion, 131st Aviation Regiment (United States)

The 1st Battalion, 131st Aviation Regiment is an U.S. Army helicopter battalion. It deployed to Iraq in September 2006 as a subordinate unit of Task Force Mustang to be a part of the US military Operation Iraqi Freedom. The battalion currently flies UH-60 Blackhawk aircraft. They are home based at Dannelly Field, Alabama, and Mobile, Alabama as part of the Alabama Army National Guard 131st Aviation Brigade.

Current units

 * HHC – Headquarters and Headquarters Company
 * A Company – "Death's Angels" – UH-60 Blackhawk – Flight Company – Montgomery, AL
 * B Company – "Bama Air" – UH-60 Blackhawk - Flight Company – Mobile, AL
 * C Company – "Killdevils" – UH-60 Blackhawk - Flight Company, (North Carolina Army National Guard).
 * D Company – "Ghostriders" – Aviation Maintenance Company – Montgomery, AL
 * E Company –
 * F Company –

History
The 1/131st flew the CH-47 Chinook and UH-60 Blackhawk helicopters in the late 1990s.

After several months of Theater Immersion Training at Fort Hood, Texas and Fort Sill, Oklahoma, they were certified "Fit to Fight" by Lt. Gen. Russel L. Honoré, commanding general, First U.S. Army, on 30 July 2006. The unit shipped to Kuwait in late summer 2006, completed "boots on the ground" training at Camp Buehring, and entered Iraq in September as one of five battalions of Task Force Mustang in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. The battalion principally flies out of Balad Air Base](AKA)[Camp Anaconda) and flies missions all over Iraq.

The current formation of the 1/131st (as a unit of Task Force Mustang) consists primarily of Alabama Army National Guard personnel, but also includes Army aviation guard personnel from additional states including an entire company from Arkansas.

Whilst in Iraq their command chain included Combat Aviation Brigade, 36th Infantry Division 4th Infantry Division III Corps (United States).