173rd Airborne Brigade Sky Soldiers: M113 Gavins in Combat in Vietnam 1/3

This rare, revealing documentary, The Sky Soldier details the Vietnam exploits of the 173rd Airborne Brigade which has a direct lineage back to the WW2 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment that jumped several times in the Pacific war against the Japanese at Nadzab, New Guinea under an aerial smokescreen

http://www.combatreform.org/smokescreen.htm

and several times to retake the Philippines with the assault on Corregidor island fortress:

http://www.combatreform.org/airbornewarfare.htm

The 173rd Airborne Brigade of the 1960s was better than the current force structure by being a completely self-contained, combined-arms force with its own company of M113A1 Gavin light tracked, infantry-carrying tanks to mount as needed a company of its own infantry to effect cross-country, armored maneuver in conjunction with dismounted infantry movements with great success in Vietnam. This is yet more proof that even light infantry narcissists can and should employ simple, light tracked, high-technology M113A3 and A4 Gavin tanks today embedded down to each infantry battalion by replacing the current vulnerable, immobile Humvee trucks in the Delta Weapons companies

http://www.combatreform.org/itmaneuversabattalion.htm

Had todays 173rd parachute jumped into northern Iraq with its own M113A3 Gavins in 2003 and fanned out immediately to block Saddam Husseins escape from Baghdad to Tikrit instead of waiting for 1st Infantry Division (M) Gavins to slowly airland, the rebellion that has cost us so far 4, 236+ dead and 26, 000+ wounded and $1 TRILLION could have been avoided

Here's an U.S. Army Command & General Staff College School of Advanced Military Studies (SAMS) report by Infantry officer, Major William Sutey on the need for cross-country MOBILITY (XCM) from M113 Gavin light tracked tanks to improve LIGHT INFANTRY FORCE mobility, protection and firepower. READ IT.

http://www.combatreform.org/M113GAVINSforLIGHTINFANTRYmajorsutey1993.pdf

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• paratroopers
• 173rd
• sky
• soldiers
• m113
• gavins
• tanks
• apc

[Gustaviruz]

Matem aqueles malditos amarelos!!!

[dynmicpara]

@Gustaviruz English translation: "Amarelos mathematical accursed!"

[DuConDiMeHoChoMinh]

Bất hiếu: Tên tuổi cha mẹ đặt cho Nguyễn Sinh Cung thì không giữ, đi lấy tên họ Hồ của người khác. Đã vậy, khi sắp chết Hồ chó còn viết di chúc nói là sẽ đi gặp hai thằng da trắng mũi lõ là Các Mác và Lê Nin chứ không nhắc nhở gì đến cha mẹ ông bà tổ tiên mình

Thằng hồ chí minh chơi vợ cuả thằng lê hồng phong

nà con mẹ nguyễn thị minh khai

Nhưng chó hồ vẫn còn "trinh"

[dynmicpara]

Translation?

Real name: names parents set for Nguyen Sinh Cung does not hold, go get someone else's name Lake. Was that, when dying They also wrote a will that says to take two months having white nose-plate and the road was Lenin, not something to remind parents their ancestors

Ho Chi Minh Thằng play the wife of Le Hong Phong thằng

nà the mother Nguyen Thi Minh Khai

But let them still "process"

[VailSongs1]

Hero's every one of them

[TechnoMan985]

my grandpa was in vietnam. he got cancer from agent orange

[kenntracie]

my grandpa pa was in brigade operation HUNK 173rd airborne he still has his airborn tatoo lol but its all faded because of his wrinkles god bless all the veterans

my grandpa was one of the few survivors of the 30 people and all the 1200 men that came down he was lifted out of the battle zone huey 173rd

[SsgMercerTD]

paratroopers are second too none, there are only the real warriors and then there are the fuckin wanna be's, we r the best fighting soldiers in the world..!!! everyone else is fuckin support... God bless these warriors! death from above

[drfan2004]

Notice how the c-130's are appropriately coloured rather then the modern day green.