The death of a decorated pilot during a low-profile drill has left Fort Campbell grieving and the Army searching for answers.
A soldier from the 101st Airborne Division died on the evening of June 11, 2025, in a helicopter training crash at the military base, leaving another injured. The Army identified the fallen pilot as Chief Warrant Officer 2 Dustin K. Wright, a 40-year-old from Woodlawn, Tennessee, who had served since 2010.
The incident unfolded before 7 p.m. last Wednesday during an AH-64 Apache training exercise inside the Fort Campbell training area.
Emergency medical teams pronounced Dustin dead on-site at 6:45 p.m., while the other pilot involved was taken to Blanchfield Army Community Hospital with minor injuries and later released the same evening.
Military officials clarified that the exercise was part of a routine attack aviation training mission and not tied to Fort Campbell’s ongoing Week of the Eagles events or the Army’s 250th birthday celebrations. At this time, no further information on what caused the crash has been provided, but an investigation is underway…