214th Aviation Regiment (United States)

The 214th Aviation Regiment is a parent aviation regiment of the United States Army, represented by the 1st Battalion, 214th Aviation, part of the 12th Combat Aviation Brigade, United States Army Europe at Lucius D. Clay Kaserne, Wiesbaden.

History

The regiment was constituted on 1 February 1967 as the 214th Aviation Battalion, a Regular Army unit based at Fort Campbell, Kentucky. It fought in the Vietnam War from 1967 to 1972, receiving the Meritorious Unit Commendation for its actions in 1967 and the Republic of Vietnam Gallantry Cross with Palm five times, in addition to the Republic of Vietnam Civil Action Honor Medal.
As part of the 12th Aviation Group (Combat) between 1 February 1967 and 30 April 1967:

As part of the 12th Aviation Group between 1 May 1967 and 31 July 1967:

As part of the 12th Aviation Group between 1 August 1967 and 31 October 1967:

As part of the 12th Aviation Group between 1 November 1967 and 31 January 1968:

Between May and July 1969 the battalion consisted of:

Before being transferred to 164th Aviation Group (Combat).
Inactivated on 22 January 1973 at Fort Stewart, Georgia, the battalion was again activated on 1 July 1981 at Fort Lewis, Washington, with the 9th Infantry Division. It was again inactivated at Fort Polk, Louisiana, on 15 September 1986.

When the United States Army Regimental System was established, it was relieved from its assignment to the 9th Division on 16 August 1987 and became a parent regiment. One of its battalions was the 1st Battalion, which was allotted to the United States Army Reserve and activated at Los Alamitos, California on that date; it traced its lineage back to the 1981 activation of Company A, 214th Aviation Battalion. A battalion of the regiment fought in the Liberation of Kuwait campaign during the Gulf War. The 1st Battalion was inactivated at Los Alamitos on 15 September 1996, and became Company A, 214th Aviation while the rest of the 1st Battalion was disbanded on 16 September 1998, being simultaneously transferred to the Regular Army and activated in Germany. The company was reorganized as a battalion on 16 October 2000.
In March 2013, USAREUR announced that 1-214th Aviation was to be reduced at Clay Kaserne by 190 soldier spaces and at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center by 50 soldier spaces in 2016.
The 1st Battalion donated two new Sikorsky UH-60M Black Hawks to the Croatian Air Force and Air Defence in October 2017.