European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 18, 1963, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Ups is asks by Bem Pricia staff Wriler ii Khz Nick shaky. It kill Uii i taif Ami  in re tin it the hide and seek War of guerrillas the Hunt pm often have o operate far fro Home base. To keep the far ranging  it teams on the ground supplied the air commando pilots learn to Fly about three feet above the ground while special air Hook devices song ground Linos and Nynka much 01 12,000 pounds of cargo out of rent loading doors. The fighter and cargo plane pilots Learnt do All these thing no night. They Irani to Fly Daylight missions at so feet above the tree tops. At night they go High 200feet, this sort of flying u generally viewed a premature introduction to the Angel Gabriel. All the pilots nov Ignator an plane Crews Are volunteers. In Brief at the Center the air Romman Dos receive instruction in the kill and cur techniques simultaneously. Both involve the application of air mobility and Power. An Experiment is under Way in Latina Erica today for example based on the premise that the armed forces contain huge Reservoir of untapped skill and re sources which can be used to build the economies of underdeveloped nations end thu prevent or cure communism. Fth he Experiment i routing about s8 Al million. It la directed toward helping nations which want to help themselves. The Experiment u a Small part of the two year old Alliance for Progress pro Gram under which the United states plans to spend $1 billion n year on economic Aid to la America Over the next 10 years. At experts n comm tin Lent tans and a operating in and out of Small airfields hacked from the Jungles the air Comman Dos feel they have a special role in opening up the Back Yonders of Many latin nations and knitting the people More tightly into the fabric of a averment m. The commandos Are also experts  War Are and heir Origi Nal assignment in latin America was to make their military skills available to the governments requesting this Type train . In june of it in a the air com Mando  was i pm Iii d. In tend of training Only for hot wars they were to teach join a Force How their Kuln might Kur mini il"1. Roni Lute or Iriner could Ork a Diu inc los. Improving Sanita Tion building dams and irrigation projects to hello the air Futro could to used to tie the nation Dorothi a in a communications network and to deliver Fencher suppl fear i do dvrs and doctors to Remote Rondle Spirn sex. In inn Hon ton. Maj Gen a Nile Gough air Faroe director of operations explained the rom Mitolo Mission we nut Only Hnyp to develop a Caa Bill Ity for  operations we have got to ice h to Che Guys to take gov Cromi it bpm fluent government to the  the moment the air Force is working on program to Tonko government to the hinterlands to Panama Cost Rica and Guatemala. Other programs have been approved in Bolivia son Salvador the dominican lie Public and Colombia. While there u no Quick easy Way to cure communal to in uie troubled areas of the world the special air warfare Cen Ter is constantly striving to find More it i Dent  of killing common let guerrillas where a to be. Basic soup onto in the air War against communal Guerri Lini Ore training planes known us t21u, equipped with machine guns rockets Hanoi grenades and napalm jellied gasoline world War ii b20 bombers and ancient dc3�, which can carry cargoes parachutists or Parachute hares the of Caslon  Gen Gilbert u Pritchard Center commander said in an interview there in t great Deal of difference Between world War ii and Korea the same missions apply but we have to do indifferently. We have Learned in Viet nun that the Only thing which will Ball out Village under attack is counterattack by air. By the time ground troops arrive the ene my the Viet Cong Are gone. Only air a the necessary Short reaction time so Why do the plane in Viet Nam Fly at Treetop level the Vyrl Cong have Learned to dig concave holes about four feet deep and Nix Fri Jhoss. These holes act an hound rom a Nihalani. A Man crouching in one of this holes can pick up the sound of narc gift Long before the sound rent he � Man standing above the ground. The higher the aircraft files the More Advance warning the Viet Cong  Bon h. King a Veteran of the Viet Nemese or War. Is chief of the Center combat applications group. In discussing the  nor War King said to me fighting a completely different Type of War rom world War ii and Korea. When i any we 1 mean the South vietnamese air Force. We act Only As tech Nical  have no such thing As accurate intelligence. We have to depend on the Viet namese intelligence which i unreal Lable at Best. There is no Way to Tell a to thong from a Loyal vietnamese except to assume guilt by  identification therefore remain solely the responsibility of the  u is these air strikes which have pro Elded the Viet Cong with considerable anti american  propaganda especially when the charge can be mad that women and children have been killed. The air commandos were organized i april 1961 with an initial strength of 1,000 men. In january the department of defense authorized a Force level of 3,000men. The expansion came about when it be came Clear that the communists Hod embarked on what the Fly called wars of liberation Firmin the world and some mean had Lobo found to combat these insurgent operations. One of Tho premises underlying the air commando o a jillion u that to is cheaper to prevent communism in the first place Bun to kill communists at the mime time the at Foi Cut con elude the rum Mandos must be prepared to kill them where they Rusu and to teach other to i the a Tiv. 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