Code named the Night stalkers these are the men and women charged with the responsibility of operating and maintaining Army helicopters the air Calvary is primarily focused on transporting of goods and personnel within and outside Kenya territory.

The army air Calvary can also be tasked with the role of intelligence gathering, providing MEDIVAC and CASEVAC in a battlefield.

The Kenya army air Calvary main headquarters is located at their main base at the 50th Air Calvary in Embakasi also they have forward operating bases FOBs50 in various parts of the country including Nyahururu and wajir.

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A 2nd lieutenant joining the army air Calvary will mostly be trained to be a chopper pilot, a flight officer or an aeronautical engineer training of the pilots and engineers is mostly done at the prestigious joint helicopter training school JHTS while other officers are mostly send to Jordan, South Africa and Egypt for pilot training.

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