Berk Kutay Gokmen<\/p>\n
15 August 2026\u2022Update: 15 August 2026<\/p>\n
The US Army has temporarily suspended all Apache helicopter training flights following a crash earlier this week near Fort Hood, Texas, that claimed the lives of two soldiers.<\/p>\n
\u201cArmy leaders directed a temporary stand-down of AH64 Apache training flight operations,\u201d the army said in a statement. \u201cThe stand-down will remain in effect until we have a better understanding of the root cause of the accident.\u201d<\/p>\n
Investigators with the Army Combat Readiness Center arrived at the crash site Thursday and will oversee the investigation.<\/p>\n
The AH-64 Apache is an attack helicopter designed to carry two crew members, with the pilot seated in the rear and the co-pilot and gunner positioned in the front, according to the army.<\/p>\n
Chief Warrant Officer 2 Deontre Huey, 34, and Warrant Officer Seth Olmstead, 25, died in the crash, according to a statement from Fort Hood.<\/p>\n
The soldiers were assigned to Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 227th Aviation Regiment, 1st Air Cavalry Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division at the base.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Berk Kutay Gokmen 15 August 2026\u2022Update: 15 August 2026 The US Army has temporarily suspended all Apache helicopter…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407283,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[108312,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-407282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-sitekeywords","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}