The US Army’s Apache helicopters are crashing at a historically high rate amid a widespread problem with the model’s transmission, according to a CNN analysis of military accident data.

The helicopter type has experienced five major crashes since October, and a deadly mishap earlier this month in Texas killed two soldiers, sparked a wildfire and led the Army to temporarily bar Apache pilots from conducting routine training flights. With that crash, fiscal year 2026 is on pace to be the second worst for Apache flight accidents since a new model of the AH-64 was rolled out in 2011.

The Army announced that the pause in training flights, which exempted units deployed to the Middle East, ended Wednesday.

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      America sided with the defense in both world wars and Korea. For much of the 20th Century America was the good guys who defended democracy in other countries. Then Nixon and neoliberalism turn America into what it is today. But the US was good.

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        sided with the defense in both world wars and Korea

        Eh… Defense doesn’t = good guys, especially when considering Korea. The government in South Korea was basically a war crimes machine being driven by an evil dictator.

        Then Nixon and neoliberalism turn America into what it is today. But the US was good.

        So long as you ignore the entirety of the southern hemisphere. It’s hard to claim they really cared about democracy when they overthrew several democracies in Africa and centra/south america just to install fascist dictators.

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        America entered late in both world wars and in both cases only entered to protect US capitalists’ interests. D Day literally only happened because capitalists wanted to occupy Western Europe before the Soviets could liberate everyone.

        In Korea, the US worked to prevent the communists from liberating their country from the hyper capitalists who were oppressing their country. Revolutions don’t happen unless things are very bad, and the US stepped in on the side of very bad.

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        You do realize that Native Americans didn’t have the right to vote until the 1970s right? Even in the 20th century America was not a bastion of democracy, and that’s glossing over the Trail of Tears and the whole slavery thing from the previous centuries…

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          Some people just like eating turds. The america good crowd like eating their turds and they gonna pay for it. for sure

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        Korean intervention was to overturn democracy. WW2 European intervention was only to prevent USSR full takeover of Germany. Domino theory is not about proving that nazi scarcity oligarchist economics are the best, but to diminish any country that might want to escape nazi colonialism.

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        You’ve been fed some horseshit dichotomy of good guy vs bad guy when nothing could be further from the truth. The world doesn’t work on such simple terms, and america is responsible for destabilizing much of central and south american democracies under the pretense of defending against communism since the end of WW2. The US was never good.

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          The book of history never closes no war ever ends. No war but the class war. Reform is a time out so the fascist can regroup and try their tyrannical shit over again. All liberal forms of pascification/reform is meant to get you to let down the gaurd just so they can steam roll your ass later on. There has been no human progress at all and this statement will become real to you once the limp dicked cheese burger king drops a nuke of civilians. Your god means nothing to me. Christains are gross. That is all.

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        Iran contra scandal anyone? Kidnapping the democratically elected Venezuelan president in 2025 anyone? Illegitimate Iraq war anyone? The list is almost endless

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        South Korea was a military junta at that time. Can you explain how you feel that is defending democracy?

        Can you also explain how you feel the world wars were about democracy? Democratic levels on both sides of the wars were roughly even

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        The same fucking familes run things and what is today was a plan from a long time ago. You got gaps son. You got to be some kind of boomer to say some stupid shit like that. Possible a gen X shit eater or a child going through puberty. Not fully developed possibly.

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        side note… You got anymore of those hard drugs. Whatever you smoking is LOUD. You should share. What you said right there is stupid so I am downvoting the shit out of your stupid ass comment. I can tell you don’t read books.