To: All of you admitted Journalists and Journalist bashers.. .. .If you really want to know the history of the Apache I would strongly suggest that you contact the US Government Printing Office in Washington DC and request a copy of the following report which was commissioned by the United States General Accounting Office (GAO) at the request of two US Congressmen.. .. .The report was written in 1990 reflecting the problems associated with the fielding of the Apache. Granted some of the problems have been solved in the interim but not all of them. Many of the problems that were associated with the A models are still there in the D models. The D model is made up of many state of the art systems that are installed in an airframe and dynamic system design that was initiated in the 1970s.. .. .The report is:. .. .APACHE HELICOPTER. .Serious Logistical Support Problems Must Be Solved to Realize Combat Potential. . .. .Since that report was written many new problems have manifested themselves. The report number is GAO/NSIAD-90-294