Transport helicopter regiment 10

Transport helicopter regiment 10 - TrspHubschrRgt 10 - III
Association badge
Lineup	April 1, 1971 (HFlg Rgt 10) January 1, 2003 (THRgt 10)
Country	Germany
Armed forces	armed forces
Armed forces	army
Branch of service	Army Air Force
Type	Combat support troops
Strength	1200 soldiers, 85 civil servants
Insinuation	Fast forces division
Location	Fassberg , air base
Nickname	"Lüneburger Heide", formerly "Heideflieger"
motto	"We solve all transport problems!"
mascot	Bell UH-1D cartoon character
Awards	Lower Saxony flag ribbon (2011)
commander
Commander of the transport helicopter regiment 10	Colonel Olaf Bölting
Aircraft
Transport aircraft / helicopter	NH90

The Transport Helicopter Regiment 10 (TrspHubschrRgt 10) ("Lüneburger Heide") is an Army Aviation Regiment of the German Armed Forces on the Faßberg Army Airfield in Lower Saxony. It reports to the Rapid Forces Division.

assignment

The main task of the regiment is to support the combat troops with troop and supply transports using transport helicopters of the type NH90. But it also provides disaster and fire extinguishing aid from the air and carries out evacuation missions in an emergency.

history

The regiment was set up on April 1, 1971 as Army Aviation Regiment 10 in Celle - Wietzenbruch ( Lower Saxony ) on the Celle Army Airfield (Immelmann barracks). It was created from parts of Army Aviation Battalions 1, 7 and 11. From February 1980, it was relocated in three phases as part of Army Structure 4 to the Faßberg air base, where it presented itself on September 18, 1981. As part of the “ Army of the Future ” project, it was renamed on January 1, 2003 from Army Aviation Regiment 10 (“Heideflieger”) to the Transport Helicopter Regiment 10 (“Lüneburg Heath”).

In its history, the regiment has participated in numerous relief and rescue missions, for example in the flood disasters on the Oder and Elbe .

The “Heideflieger” had the light transport helicopter Bell UH-1D, also called “Huey”. He could six to eight up to 800 kg as external load and depending on the type of use soldiers carry and could with two 7.62 mm machine guns of the type MG3 as Gunship be converted. The outdated Bell UH-1D should slowly be replaced by the NH90 transport helicopter since July 1, 2009 . However, the regiment received the first NH90s after almost two years of delay in June 2011.

Since May 2011, the Transport Helicopter Regiment 10 has been the lead association for "Forward Air Medical Evacuation " (FwAirMedEvac) - the qualified transport of wounded from the place of the wound to the first medical treatment facility, including escort.

On December 17, 2013 in Fritzlar the airmobile brigade 1 was decommissioned by the brigade commander Colonel Michael Mittelberg. At the same time, the remaining helicopter units of the army, the 10th transport helicopter regiment , the 30th transport helicopter regiment with the NH90 transport helicopter and the 36 combat helicopter regiment in Fritzlar with the support helicopter " Eurocopter Tiger ", were placed under the special operations division in Stadtallendorf. On January 1, 2014, the Special Operations Division was renamed the Rapid Forces Division .

structure

NH 90 TTH

A UH-1D helicopter like the one used by the THRgt 10

These units perform a wide variety of tasks, so only a rough overview of the extensive field of activity can be given here.

• Regimental staff
• 1. / (Staff and supply) squadron: The supply and support squadron provides the regiment with supplies , ammunition and food and supports the staff in the management of the regiment.
• 2. / (flying) Season: use scale . 1
• 3rd / (flying) season: Operational season 2.
• 4th / (technical) squadron: Aircraft technical support squadron, operations management and inspection staff
• 5th / (technical) squadron: Maintenance squadron Control and maintenance of the aircraft.
• 6th / (technical) relay: repair relay maintenance of the helicopters.

Assignments abroad

With the "Operation Kurdenhilfe " in 1991, the Heideflieger began their almost continuous deployment abroad , whether in Iran , Somalia , Bosnia or Kosovo . In 2012 the regiment was selected by the Ministry of Defense to undertake airborne emergency rescue operations in northern Afghanistan. On April 17, 2013, the first of four German NH90s was moved from Leipzig to Afghanistan with an Antonov An-124 transport plane . The core of the NH90 mission in the Hindu Kush is the air-supported rescue of the wounded (Foward Air Medical Evacuation "FAM"). A squad, consisting of an NH90 as a rescue pilot and an NH90 as an armed escort aircraft, will ensure the constant readiness order. Two more NH90 serve as technical reserves on site.

In addition, the on-board security soldiers are regularly deployed on CH53 at Resolute Support.

literature

• Robert Busse: Bell UH-1D HUEY. Motorbuch-Verlag, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 3613031728 .
• Bernd Vetter and Frank Vetter: The German Army Aviators: History, Types and Associations. Motorbuch-Verlag, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3613021463 .
• Fritz Garben: Five decades of army aviators: types, tactics and story (s). Stedinger-Verlag, Lemwerder 2006, ISBN 3927697451 .

Web links

• Website Transport Helicopter Regiment 10 "Lüneburg Heath"
• Helicopter Database - Army Aviation Regiment 10

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Volker Jung: A very good day for the Heideflieger: The NH90 is here. www.deutschesheer.de, June 14, 2011, accessed June 17, 2011 . 
2. ↑ Volker Jung / Jan Rippl: Minister at Army Aviation in the Heath. www.bmvg.de, August 14, 2012, accessed on September 28, 2013 . 
3. ↑ Rene Hinz: The realignment is progressing - Army aviation associations are now subordinated. www.deutschesheer.de, December 18, 2013, accessed December 18, 2013 . 
4. ↑ Knut Klein: First NH90 FAM for rescue operations in Afghanistan. www.sanitaetsdienst-bundeswehr.de, April 18, 2013, accessed on September 28, 2013 . 
5. ↑ Robert Lehmann: Tiger on the jump to Afghanistan. www.bundeswehr.de, November 26, 2012, accessed on September 28, 2013 . 

Coordinates: 52 ° 54 ′ 41.2 "  N , 10 ° 11 ′ 13.5"  E