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(hoppers Pass 'Police War Test
Result: New Air Assault Division
By COL. RAY CROMLEY
WASHINGTON (NEA)-Behind
the U.S. . Army's experimental
Air Assault Division are yean of
fighting and dying by the men
of a half-dozen nations in the;
''jiorice actions" of the Cold War.
-This is the story of the pres
sures and the experiences that
produced this radical shift in tra
ditional military organization.
When U.S. troop commanders
hit Korea in 1950 they discovered
the hard hitting, rapid - maneu
vering tactics tested in European
battles wouldn't work in mountain
ous Asian terrain. Tanks, trucks
and artillery were roadbound; the
enemy was not. The Heds moved
with light weapons, infiltrated
over the hills.
In Viet Nam, the situation was
worse. By the time troops arrived
the enemy had vanished. Trucks
we're ambushed. Tanks and major
artillery were useless; they
wouldn t arrive in time.
Defense planners studied British
experience in Malaya, French ex
perience in North Indo China
Batista's experience In Cuba
against Castro. They even went
back to U.S. experience in the
19th Century Indian wars.
On thing was clear. Tanks, self
propelled artillery, tracked troop
carriers would do the job in
Europe. The fancy weapons would
bog down in Asia.
The Army began experimenting
with helicopters and small, slow
planes that could take off from
small, crude fields and fly over
forests and jungles. Experimental
Jetty-rigged helicopter units were
tried out in Korean maneuvers.
The-' result, as one company com
mander put it: .
''If we'd had helicopters in the
Korean war, we wouldn't have
gotten caught flat-footed by the
Chinese at the Yalu.
In Viet Nam, the helicopter was
tried in force. The Army foundl
i: workable; losses were fewer i
than expected. The new mobility
and air "artillery worked bet
ter than predicted. This was des-
v. V
;PI VISION CHIEF Brig.
Gen. Harry Kinnard is the
pead of.the new air assault
division.
Working Relatives Of Congressmen
pose Problem In Legislative Ethics
: WASHINGTON (UPD-In Con-
Sress, Caesar's wife is a much
iscussed lady.
The 535 lawmakers in House
and Senate are agreed that they,
too, should be above suspicion.
But they can't agree on what
sometimes makes a congressman
Suspect.
I .Should a legislator hire his
brother-in-law to work in his of
fice? Is it ethical to spend the
hjv payers' money in a Paris
nightclub?
Some legislators would answer
"ro" to both questions. Others
might say "yes." Still others
would answer "yes and no."
' Congress, says Rep. Edith
Green, D-Ore., has reached the
plateau where it needs a police
man to tell it right from wrong.
To back up her opinion, she
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troops.
pite the fact that few of the hell
copters had proper armament
and many were obsolescent. Pro
tective , tactics hadn't been well
developed. So officers who worked
with the choppers swore by them
and at Washington for not hav
ing come up with choppers de
signed for the job.
Thus, tile Air Assault Division,
now being developed.
Hie division will carry its troops'
by helicopter; armed choppers
will ride shotgun.
The division will carry its own
air artillery, SS-11 anti-tank mis-
siles and 2.75 rockets mounted on1
choppers. Other helicopters will
sling-carry Little John rockets.
105mm howitzers and icon-mount
ed 106mm rccoilless rifles. The
helicopters will also carry ma
chine guns.
Air cavalry units will have light
observation helicopters and light
Mohawk planes equipped with
side-viewing radar for reconnais
sance. There will be skyborne en-:
gineers and signal units.
Altogether the division will have
400 helicopters and light aircraft
About 110 to 135 probably will be
light observation craft and about!
325 to 350 Iroquois helicopters for
carrying troops, cargo and artil
lery. The division will be backed up
by an Air Transport Brigade with
80, 32-man, fi.OOO . ton cargo
capacity Caribous and probably
about 50, 32-man Chinook helicon-
tors. ,
The Air Assault Division could
fight alongside more conventional
divisions. It could he held in re
serve and thrown quickly into a
tight spot. It could be used as
lank devisions were used in Eu
rope for a quick breakthrough fol
lowed by an attack .on the cncm.'r
rear.
The Air Assault Division could
leapfrog strong points and leave
dropped a legislative reform
package into the hopper, includ
ing a proposal to set up a 15-
member Commission on Congres
sional Ethics. The commission
would study conflicts of interest
and outside income of House and
Senate members.
Mrs. Green said bluntly that
"major surgery" is needed to
keep Congress honest.
A focal point for much of the
recent uproar over congressional
honesty is Rep. Adam Clayton
Powell, D-N. Y. The Negro leg
islator triggered a barrage of
critieism when he left in the
midst of a congressional session
for a month-long lour of five
European nations. Powell is
chairman of the imnorlaiit House
Education and Labor Committee.
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them to wither on the vine as
U.S. troops did in the Paoific is
lands of World War II.
Elements of the Air Assault
Division would act as sky caval
ry to gather intelligence or to
harass the enemy's flank or rear,
or to slow down reserve troops
or supplies coming to bolster ene
my units at the front much as
horse cavalry operated in the Civ-
War.
Units of an Air Assault Division
could be quickly moved 50 or
100 miles to smash guerrilla con
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He said the purpose of the trip
was to gather facts on the Eur
opean Common Market.
However, while most of his fel
low lawmakers were trying to get
Congress adjourned. Powell was
reported mixing his information
gathering with nightclub visits
and sunbathing. Along the way
lie spent $1.H3. Two female aides
who accompanied him spent
$2,428. Neither figure included
transporalion costs, according to
congressional record.
Answering his critics, Powell
said they were using a pot-calling-kettle-black
type of logic. "1 will
always do what every other con
gressman has done, is doing, and
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centrations in a South Viet Nam
type war.
Even with the new Air Assault
Divisions, if they develop as ex
petted, the Army will depend on
the Air Force for attaining air
superiority on hte battlefield and
for close bombing-strafing support
of ground troops. The Air Force
would; as at present, deliver sup
plies to Army level. But in the new
concept, supplies would move for
ward to corps and division by
plane where necessary instead of
by truck.
Att
will do," he said. And as far as
junketing goes, Powell had a lot
u congressional bedfellows.
In 1W2, 101 lavrmakcrs and
nearly as many aides toured the
world. They reported to the
House Administration Committee
that they spent a total of $257,514.
If junketing is controversial
nepotism is none the less so. In
the current 88th Congress, payroll
records show wives, daughters,
sons, brothers and in-laws all
working for congressmen.
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Piscatorial Appetites
Tickled By Polly's Flies
(Continued from Page 1)
visits from fishermen passing
through Oregon or who come to
iish our famous rivers.
When he finds lime, Polly is
usually happv to take some of
these fishermen to his favorite
waters to display the catching
qualities of his flies.
"I began to meet a great num
ber of people over the last 10 In
15 years who would come up to
fish with me and who were very
well educated." Pollv. said.
"These people were both in-
teresling and stimulating and it
was at this point in my life that
1 decided I would begin to broad
en myself." he said candidly.
Polly took his self education se
riously and in his spare time he
pores through philosophy, devours
two newspapers daily and turns
an ear to a growing stock of
classical music.
Not the least of his interests!
is the fascinating search for rare
minerals and precious stones and
Polly and a rock hounding friend
take many three and four-day
trips in hot pursuit (if something
that will cut and polish, or sell
as a mineral.
Polly might also be considered a
professional miner since he has
half interest in a mine on
Quartz Mountain.
Bay Of Pigs Disaster
Recalled 2 Years Later
WASHINGTON (UPD - In thel
early morning hours of April 17,
1061, a force of 1,500 men in com-
bat uniforms stormed ashore in a
remote and swampy section of
Cuba facing a body of water
tailed the Bay of Pigs.
As Brigade 2505 slugged inland
with high hopes, a Madison Ave
nue public relations firm in far-
off New York issued a communi-
que in the name of the Cuban
Revolutionary Council.
"Before dawn," it said with un
justified optimism, "Cuban patri
ots in the cities and the hills be
gan the battle to4 liberate our
homeland from the despotic rule
of Fidel Castro and rid Cuba of
international cruelty and oppres
sion."
In the early morning hours of
April 20, just three days later,
Havana radio also had a com
mumque. mo the world and the
Cuban people it announced:
'The mercenary army which
occupied Cuban territory for less
than 72 hours has been crushed
the government disclosed at 2:30
a m.) today in communique No
4."
Castro Still There
Brigade 2505 set out to destroy
Castro, but Castro Is still there.
The invasion was launched
from a sea of errors and en
gulfed in a tidal wave of confu
sion: but this in itself was an ex
perience that became a teacher.
Lessons learned in April. 1962,
were not forgotten by the Kenne
dy administration in the American-Soviet
missile showdown last
October.
Because the Bay of Pigs was
such a fiasco as well as a trage
dy for the men Involved, and be
cause it was such a glaring fail
lire of U. S. policy, it will re
main a controversy for years to
come.
The adventure beaan. on the
oight of April 16. with a poem.
"Alert alert look well as the
rainbow.
The fish will be 'running very
soon
Chico is at home visit him
The sky is blue
But notice on tree
Tree is green and brown. . ."
Broadcast by a clandestine ra
practice. The House pavroll rec
ords are all open to public view-
Some congressmen even go out of
their way to tell their constitu
ents thev have a relative on the
payroll. But not all of them think
the practice is ethical and have
moved to curtail it.
As part of this drive, the House
Administration Committee recent
ly approved a proposal to prohib
it use of federal hinds to pay any
memher of a congressman's staff
who doesn't work m Washington
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Talking about his interest in
minerals and gems, Polly said.
"Fly tying is hard on the eyes
and when I get older and my
e)es fail me, I'll have to find
something "to make a living at."
At 60, Polly looks ageless and
if it's trekking through the snow
at Diamond Lake Pas that keeps
him hail and hearty it's hard to
believe that he won't be tying
flies for another 60 years.
When he got tired of tying this
inter he took a trip to the Dia
mond Lake area and trapped
marten. He also took his an
nual limit of beaver from his trap
line on the Williamson this year.
When Polly ' does retire, how
ever, he said he'd probably make
New, Zealand his home, with its
temperate climate, hot springs.
and above all, still virgin trout
fishing.
One of his overriding ambitions
is to some day put his 40 years
of fishing experiences, and the
knowledge of fishing and f I y
tying techniques he has devel
oped, into a book.
Polly has done some writing
for outdoor and rock hounding
magazines, but his big story is
still untold. When he does un
leash his vast store of piscatorial
knowledge the conservation de
partments better be ready with
a big stocking program.
dio starting before midnight, the
poem appeared to be beamed at
the Cuban underground to alert.it
that the "fish" were at that very
moment approaching the Cuban:
shores. It is an old trick, hiding
a message in verse, and was a
method employed by the Allies to
alert the French underground on
the eve of D-Day.
Although melodramatic and ex
citing, this poem alerted virtual
ly no one. It was merely symbol
ic of futility. The anti-Castro nn
derground was very much in e.x
istence. Some of its members
heard the verses on short - wave
radios and with agony realized
they Had no instructions to un
lock the code of the fish, Chico
or the rainbow; no prepared
plans to blow up bridges, block
trains, or delay Castro's 300,000
man militia..
CIA Ignores Underground
Behind this lack of knowledge
was simple fact. The Central In
telligence Agency (CIA) planners
who oiiganizcd and directed the
Bay of Pigs expedition had decid
ed to all but ignore the under
ground, which they did not total
ly trust, and concentrate instead
on a one-shot landing of 1,500
men with no local support.
In the penetrating light of hind-
forged another link in the chain
sight, it was a blunder that
of destruction which was to crush
the whole operation and badly
damage American prestige.
For nearly three months Amer
ican and exile personnel had
trained the assault forces, most
ly at a remote camp in Guate
mala. , To provide sufficient aerial
firepower to protect the invasion
forces; American planes would
have been needed. But Kennedy
firmly ruled out any U.S.
participation. Four Americans
did. in fact, fly planes provided
to the exiles, and vanished under
attack from Cuban jets. But the
four had been hired presuma
bly by the CIA for the sole
purpose of aiding the exiles.
Here To Stay
April 17, the day of the land
ings. From the diary of Manuel
Penabaz, one of the invading ex
iles: "We are entrenched on Cu
ban soil, and here we will stay."
On April 1!) it was all over.
Pounded relentlessly by jelr and
Castro's tanks, deprived of sup
plies that were destroyed when
ships were sunk, alone with no
air cover, lacking any internal
uprising that would have divert
ed the militia, the brigade floun
jdered and then quit.
For 10 months its members suf
fered in Cuban prisons before
New York aattorney .lames Don
ovan, aided quietly by the Ken
nedy administration and openly
by the American Red Cross, ob
tained tlieir release.
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Ring Takes Long Trip
HAYS, Kan. (UPD - It's a
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ring made it.
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