Army temporarily halts Apache helicopter training missions after Texas crash that killed 2

The U.S. Army temporarily halted all Apache helicopter training missions on Friday after a fatal crash in Texas earlier this week killed two soldiers. The Army said an investigation has just begun and no cause has been released yet. A safety team from the Army Combat Readiness Center at Fort Rucker, Alabama, is working to determine what happened. The “stand-down” will remain in effect until the service understands the root cause. The Army has taken similar steps after previous aviation accidents, though it did not mention stopping Apache combat missions currently deployed in the war in Iran. The victims were Chief Warrant Officer 2 Deontre T. Huey and Warrant Officer Seth L. Olmstead.