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03-17-2010, 05:31 PM
Tanksmasher
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True. You could say the same thing for large-scale airborne operations in general. There have been less than 50 combat jumps in US military history (with the majority of them made during World War II), and of the ones conducted after the Second World War (during the Korean War and Operations Urgent Fury and Just Cause) most military historians would probably agree that there isn't any strong evidence that the employment of airborne insertion was any more advantageous than more conventional approaches such as the use of fast, light wheeled vehicles or boats (and the argument could be made that parachuting exposed the soldiers and sailors to unnecessary risks).
I guess with the changing landscape of combat, with the move away from the firmly established lines of battle of World War II, military commanders' view of the risk-benefit ratio of airborne operations has changed as well.
Speaking of HALO jumps it was interesting to learn in Plaster's book about SOG that the first combat HALO jumps were conducted in Vietnam when they were still learning about them. They made several HALO jumps at night because it got to the point that every time they inserted a recon team, the enemy made contact with them due to the fact that helicopters are so noisy and mostly because the enemy had "moles" who knew when and where the teams were going. But SOG was able to keep the HALO jumps secret and it was a very stealthy form of insertion. However, there were many accidents from getting caught up in trees or twisting ankles, some jumpers got separated from their teammates, and one jumper was injured when a "toe-popper" (small anti-personnel mine) exploded in his ruck due to the change in barometric pressure as they descended. It was also hard to see at night but once they finally got the kinks worked out, they finally had a perfect, undetected insertion.
HALO as a form of stealthy insertion for small teams makes sense but massive amounts of guys hanging in chutes while the enemy patiently waits for you to get into rifle range seems almost suicidal.
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