If you live in the Kansas City area, you might have noticed an unusual sight in the sky on Sunday. Eleven CH-47 Chinook helicopters took off from New Century AirCenter near Gardner, Kansas, in a final formation flight.

An Army Transformation Initiative ordered the Army Reserve Aviation Command to inactivate its rotary-wing units and assets. The initiative decommissions New Century AirCenter.

You never forget the sound of a Chinook, according to veteran Rose Youngs.

"This is like a huge part of us, it's just going in the grave," she said.

Both Rose and her husband, Robert, were part of Bravo Company 7-158th GSAB at the air base.

"We got married here on a Chinook back in 1987," Robert Youngs said.

The couple said their eyes were filled with tears as they drove to New Century AirCenter

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