Army Aviation Command 2

Army Aviation Command 2 - HFlgKdo 2 -
(did not have an association badge )
active	April 1, 1971 to June 30, 1994
Country	Germany
Armed forces	armed forces
Armed forces	army
Branch of service	Army Air Force
Type	Army Aviation Command
Insinuation	II Corps
last staff seat	Laupheim

The Army Aviation Command 2 was one of the Army Aviation Commands of the Army of the Bundeswehr . The headquarters were last in Laupheim . The command was part of the corps troops of the II Corps .

assignments

The Army Aviation Command bundled the helicopters of the Army Aviation Force at the corps level . The other units subordinate to the corps had no major units of the Army Aviation Troops around 1989 . Only the division troops of each subordinate division had a squadron with Alouette II liaison helicopters in Army Structure IV . To 1989, the disposal commander of Heeresflieger commands using helicopter compound Bo-105M and Alouette II, the transport helicopter LTH UH-1D and MTH CH-53G and anti-tank helicopters Bo-105P . The command supported the divisions and brigades of the corps with logistics and combined arms combat on the battlefield . There they were mainly used for reconnaissance and anti-tank purposes. The commander of the corps could also use the transport helicopter to the the defense case as a reserve imputed paratroopers of the airborne brigades to move quickly to focus . Overall, the size of the Army Aviation Command with about 5600 members corresponded to the strength of one of the brigades of the field army .

structure

Around 1989 the Army Aviation Command was roughly divided into:

• Staff / Staff Squadron Heeresfliegerkommando 2, Laupheim ( Laupheim airfield )
  • Army Airfield Command 201, Laupheim
  • Heeresflugplatzkommandantur 202, Roth ( Heeresflugplatz Roth )
  • Army Airfield Command 203, Neuhausen ob Eck ( Airfield Neuhausen ob Eck )
  • Army Airfield Command 205, Feldkirchen ( Straubing-Mitterharthausen Air Base )
  • Heeresfliegerstaffel 200 ( GerEinh ) , Laupheim
  • Army Aviation Training Squadron 8 / II, Roth
  • Army Aviation Regiment 20, Neuhausen ob Eck
  • Army Aviation Regiment 25 , Laupheim
  • Army Aviation Regiment 26 , Roth

See also : Division of the field army (Bundeswehr, Army Structure 4) #Heeresfliegerkommando 2

history

The Army Aviation Command 1 was set up in Laupheim in 1971 to take over Army Structure III . Corps Army Aviation Commander 2 was called in to set up the staff ; it was planned in Ulm in 1959 and moved from the Boelcke barracks to Laupheim airfield from 1964 .

Army Aviation Command 2 was decommissioned after the end of the Cold War in mid-1994, roughly at the same time as the reclassification of the II Corps to the II German-American Corps. Parts later switched to Air Mechanized Brigade 1 .

Association badge

Internal Badge of the rod / bar Season

The Army Aviation Command did not have its own association badge due to its planning as part of the dependent corps troops . The soldiers therefore wore the association badge of the higher corps .

As a "badge", the internal association badge of the staff and the staff unit " pars pro toto " was sometimes used imprecisely for the entire Army Aviation Command . As a symbol for the Army Aviation Troops, it showed the stylized representation of a rotary wing and the federal eagle, as in the association badge of the II Corps .

See also : List of Association Badges of the Bundeswehr

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} O.W. Dragoons: The Bundeswehr 1989 . Army Office. I. Corps. II Corps. III. Corps. 4th edition. 2.1 - Army, February 2012 ( religte.com [PDF; accessed July 3, 2018]).

Coordinates: 48 ° 13 ′ 30.8 ″  N , 9 ° 54 ′ 19.2 ″  E