Medium Transport Helicopter Regiment 25

In the aftermath of the Friuli earthquake in May 1976 Medium Transport Helicopter Regiment 25 took part in the airlift operation to fly supplies into the Northern Italian disaster area.

In 1985, members of the regiment were on voluntary work deployment for the German War Graves Commission in La Valbonne, France.

[7] Following the Gulf War Army Aviation Regiment 25 provided humanitarian aid to Kurdish refugees in northern Iraq from April until the end of May 1991.

[9] In 1994, after a restructuring of the German Armed Forces, during which a large number of bases were closed, Army Aviation Regiment 25 was given the honorary name Oberschwaben (i.e. Upper Swabia).

During an outbreak of wildfire in Greece in 1998, Army Aviation Regiment 25 flew fire extinguishing missions from Tanagra, Boetia.

From 1999 to November 2003, Army Aviation Regiment 25 was part of the German contingent of the NATO-led international peacekeeping force in Kosovo, KFOR.

Since April 2002 Army Aviation Regiment 25 has been involved in ISAF, the NATO-led security mission in Afghanistan.

The same year, the regiment provided disaster relief when the river Elbe and its tributaries burst its bank and caused widespread flooding.

In the wake of the 2005 Kashmir earthquake, Medium Transport Helicopter Regiment 25 provided disaster relief to the stricken areas from October 2005 until April 2006.

[13] Following a series of massive forest fires in Greece in August 2007, three helicopters from Medium Transport Helicopter Regiment 25[14] as well as personnel from Rheine Air Base and Veitshöchheim flew numerous missions, distributing 1.3 million litres of extinguishing water in order to quench the fires.

Entrance to Laupheim Air Base
German Sikorsky H-34
German CH-53G
CH-53G during NATO exercise in 1986
Kurdish refugee children run toward a CH-53G helicopter in Northern Iraq in 1991
CH-53G picking up a "Smokey"
In Kosovo, 2001
In Afghanistan, 2011
In 2012