ARMY AL&T
Developments in Mission Planning
and Network Communications LTC James Bamburg and Michael Chandler
A
rmy aviation tactics evolved dramatically in the 1960s, as the use of helicopters in the Vietnam conflict forever changed the American doctrine of tactical warfare. But for all the advances
of the decade, there was no concept of digitization or interoperability. Army aviation conducted missions quite differently from today’s aviators. American combat units were able to conduct tactical airmobile missions, including insertions and extraction of ground forces, aerial reconnais- sance, downed aviator recovery, and support with aerial weapons. Units planned with pencil and paper in their tactical operations centers and carried graphics hand-drawn on clear plastic overlays to the company command posts. Aviators talked over unsecure radios using “Hollywood” call signs. Frequency Modulation (FM), Very High Frequency (VHF), and Ultra HF (UHF) radios were in use with no ability to speak securely or to frequency hop. Secure HF radios were only daydreams.
An Army CH-47 Chinook departs from Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, Dec. 27, 2009. (U.S. Air Force photo by TSgt Francisco V. Govea II.)
For Army Aviation, Dramatic
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