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Salado Apache Helicopter Crash — What Families of Soldiers Killed in Military Training Accidents Need to Know About Their Legal Rights The phone call that changes a military family’s life arrives the same way whether it is noon in Killeen or three in the morning in Belton. Someone in uniform speaks carefully. An AH-64 Apache went down in a grassy field near Salado. Two soldiers from Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 227th Aviation Regiment — the 1st Air Cavalry Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division — did not survive. And then the call ends, and you are alone with a question that no one on that line answered: what are we supposed to do now? If you are reading this page, you are likely the spouse, the parent, the sibling, or the child of a soldier who died in that aircraft on August 12, 2026. You may have already spoken with a casualty assistance officer. You may have been told about benefits. You may have been told, in careful language, that there is nothing to sue for. And some of that may be true — but not all of it, and not in the way you may have been led to believe. We…