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Sky Troopers: 1st Cavalry Division, Air Mobile - 1965

"The 1st Cavalry Division is one of the oldest units in the US Army, with regimental histories going back to 1855, participating in all major conflicts since then through several incarnations. This film covers the development of the "1st Air Cavalry Division, Air Mobile," from it's constitution and operational field testing in in the Fall of 1964 as the 11th Air Assault Division, through 1st Cavalry divisional activation at Fort Benning in July, 1965, to rapid deployment to Vietnam in October of the same year." Zeno, Zeno's Warbird Video Drive-In. See this video and more on our "Air Mobile Vietnam" DVD: http://bit.ly/SexfJl (Includes 430 page Huey helicopter manual.) The film focuses on the development and first deployment of of this revolutionary organization, including mission and tactics, the first truly independent "air mobile" division. 1st Cav could have all it's components, including command and control, supply, logistics, communications, infantry and light artillery air transported and fully deployed by it's own helicopters and supported by it's own gunships . The Division was developed largely with the Vietnam War in mind, where complete air superiority made it possible to seek out and destroy carefully concealed and rapidly launched enemy operations spread over a vast area without conventional battle lines. In late November 1st Air Cav was already engaged in large scale a airborne search and destroy ops against a corps size force of North Vietnamese regulars operating in the Central Highlands of Vietnam, which was besieging the strategically important Special Forces base near Plemei. "Operation X-Ray" culminated in a costly victory, the intense "Battle of the Ia Drang Valley." After that, 1st Air Cav was very active in the Vietnam War until it's withdraw in 1971, subsequently to be reconstituted in Europe as a "Tricap" division, with a new emphasis on more traditional armored and assault helicopter capabilities. The Division was an active participant in "Operation Desert Storm" in Iraq, Bosnian peace keeping operations, "Operation Iraqi Freedom," and "Operation Enduring Freedom" in Afghanistan where it is deployed as of this writing.