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New F-Model Chinooks Deployed In Iraq And Afghanistan

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Friday, March 13th, 2009

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FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla.--The latest version of the Army's heavy-lift helicopter, the CH-47F Chinook,produced by Boeing [BA], is now deployed to meet current operations, according to officials. "Currently, the 47F is in Iraq for about six months now, and an F unit has been in Afghanistan for a couple of months," Lt. Col. Thomas Todd, Army product manager, CH-47F, said at the Association of the United States Army Institute for Land Warfare Winter Seminar here. The Army is completing fielding Chinook…

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