I'm afraid I have to disagree with that. It is a JOINT capability, delivered by the Army - who are actually now operating the aircraft in better and more innovative ways, and improving, so although we all have to live within our manning and provisioning limits, I would say that it is out of date to criticise the way the Army operates Apache.
Back to the Joint capability - we have learnt that it is not very effective always to tie really capable assets like these to a particular battle group or bde - the fact that it is operated by the Army and tasked by the Land component (2 different things), doesn't mean that it isn't of use to other components - in the first Gulf War AH64 was employed in the SEAD role, and it can play a similar role in escorting CSAR, which is arguably an air power role.
This is a good aircraft operated by good people. Shame about the poor support and provisioning but let's not keep beating ourselves with that particular stick.