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1st Battalion, 13th Aviation Regiment
"Swift and Deadly"

The mission of the 1st Battalion, 13th Aviation Regiment is to provide command and control, administration, training, logistics, and military justice for all assigned and attached personnel; and to provide the gaining unit commander with a combat-ready aviation soldier who is technically proficient, tactically competent, physically fit, self-disciplined, and highly motivated.

The 1st Battalion, 13th Aviation Regiment manages new recruits fresh out of basic training to receive their military occupational specialty identifier before reporting to their first duty station. The Battalion orchestrates and implements the majority of enlisted training at Fort Rucker, Alabama. The 6th Military Police Detachment and B Company, 46th Engineering Battalion are also assigned to 1-13th Aviation. Fort Rucker's military and civilian firefighters are assigned to the 6th Military Police Detachment.

As of 2000, the Battalion consisted of 4 companies that orchestrated and implement the majority of enlisted training on Fort Rucker. Courses of instruction included Utility Helicopter Repairer 67N, Observation Helicopter Repairer 67V, Air Traffic Control Specialist 93C, and Aviation Operations Specialist 93P. Additionally, the Battalion taught and certified Aviation Life Support Equipment technicans. The curriculum encompassed job skills training, physical training, common task training and military customs and courtesies. Training for the ATC students was further enhanced through vital simulation. The Battalion also provided operational and administrative support for graduate level aviation students returning for advanced aircraft transitions and all international students at Fort Rucker for flight training.

As of 2000, 1-13th Aviation consisted of 4 companies: Headquarters and Headquarters Company, A, C, and D. The Headquarters and Headquarters Company provides command and control, administrative, training, logistics, and military justice support for all Staff, AOTC, MTC, and CSTB personnel. The Headquarters and Headquarters Company also conducted a FTX that reinforced classroom instruction and basic soldier skills. A Company was a training company for 93C, 93P, 67N and 67V IET soldiers and the 93P, 93C, 67N and 67V reclassification soldiers. C Company was responsible for all students in the Aircraft Qualification Course, the Instructor Pilot Course, the Maintenance Test Pilot and Maintenance Manager Course, the Pre Command Course, and the Aviation Life Support Equipment Course. C Company's mission was to provide command and control, administrative, and logistical support to all attached officers enrolled in graduate level aviation training. D Company was responsible for all international students at Fort Rucker. D Company's mission was to provide command and control, administrative and logistical support to all attached International Military Student personnel.

In 2008, with the inactivation of the 1st Battalion, 210th Aviation Regiment, the 6th Military Police Detachment and B Company, 46th Engineer Battalion were attached to the 1st Battalion, 13th Aviation Regiment.

As of 2010, courses of instruction included Utility Helicopter Repairer 15M, Observation Helicopter Repairer 15V, Air Traffic Control Specialist 15Q, Aviation Operations Specialist 15P, and the Aircraft Pneudraulics Systems Repairer Course 15H. Additionally, the Battalion taught and certified aviation life support equipment technicians.

The curriculum encompassed job skills training, physical training, common task training, and military customs and courtesies. Training for the ATC students was further enhanced through virtual simulation. The Battalion also provided operational and administrative support for graduate level aviation students returning for advanced aircraft transitions and all international students here for flight training.

As of 2010, the Battalion's Headquarters and Headquarters Company also managed the Enhanced Tower Simulator (ETOS), then the newest and most advanced air traffic control simulator in the US Army. The ETOS gives ATC students a realistic experience of what it was like inside an ATC tower. As the primary trainer for the tower, 1-13th Aviation trained the Army's ATC personnel.

The ETOS was used to train Soldiers in initial entry training on how to safely and expeditiously move aircraft to, from, and through designated airspace in a simulated, virtual environment. Most of the training used virtual landscape with high fidelity images of aircraft and the airfield, including the runway, hangars, nearby trees, and ground vehicles. The weather system, vehicles, stars, lights, sun, and rain were just like the real thing, and voice recognition software helped students to learn. The ETOS could simulate almost every aircraft in the US military inventory and civilian commercial aircraft. The training at Fort Rucker could apply to ATC operations at military airfields or civilian airports worldwide.