As the Association of the US Army (AUSA) hosted an annual aviation symposium on 13-14 January, army aviation leaders bluntly called attention to the branch's future predicament.
Col Randolph Rotte,
aviation division chief on the army's headquarters staff, issued a call
for immediate action. There is currently no strategy to replace the Boeing CH-47 Chinook, one of which is seen below operating in Afghanistan, as well as Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk and Boeing AH-64D Apache. Read more...
(Photo: ISAF)
http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?166977-Mi-26T-resucing-Chinook-in-Afghanistan/page3
http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/helicopters/q0284.shtml
http://cr4.globalspec.com/blogentry/11904/Heavy-Lift-Helicopters
It is not quite clear how many distinct "liftout" mission
for defunct chinooks have been done in Afghanistan.
Looks like two or three.