 Okay, move out. That in city's course in West Berlin. And the ready-fighting men of a reserve brigade. All in this issue of your army reports. The Cheyenne helicopter made its first public flight. Reverse thrust from the thrusting propeller. He's not using brakes. He now will show you some flexibility by reversing again putting the thrusting propeller in the rear in the reverse position. It turns on the ground now. Turning to the left. The rising aircraft has ever flown before. But again demonstrates the high stability and versatile handling qualities of the Cheyenne. Stability is a requirement for the aircraft to put a tremendous firepower on the target. Using the thrusting propeller as he is doing now, he's applying reverse thrust to the propeller and you notice the nose-low attitude that the vehicle attains. This gives it an increase in the aiming angle for the fixed guns and rockets. He can get to 17 degrees nose-low and approximately 20 degrees nose-up using this technique. This is going to be a medium speed run about 100 miles an hour using the pressure propeller and watch her go up. Right up to its service ceiling of 26,000 feet. This will be a relatively low speed pass about 110 miles an hour. Army officials on hand at the Cheyenne's first public flight stated that they were impressed and pleased with the new helicopter's performance. Adding that the Cheyenne will make a valuable addition to the Army's fire support capability. They also stated that the Cheyenne helicopter is scheduled to enter the Army's inventory on all weather, day or night, fire support system in the near future. East German soldiers man sentry posts which keep close watch on American forces training in the western sector, nearby throughout the year while United States troops assigned to West Berlin. East German soldiers observe the training exercises. Although the ammunition used is harmless, the training is otherwise carried out in the most realistic combat manner during these simulated attacks. One of the troops in the mock battles, as in the real thing, is to close with and kill or capture the enemy who are blamed by other U.S. soldiers acting with aggressiveness from its surroundings by ceasing key positions, overtaking enemy fortifications. Managed points overlooking fields of fire are important objectives during the exercise for added realistic effect. Limited mobility and restricted communications within built-up areas places increased responsibility on the initiative of a small unit leader whose judgment must be relied upon. Grappling hooks with ropes and scaling ladders are methods used to enter higher floors of a building. Pieces of white cloth are thrown over the windowsill as a signal for shockwave troops to advance. To move out to conduct a house-to-house search, flushing the aggressor forces hiding within these buildings points overlooking sniper positions. To securing one building, the troops move on to the next under protective fire cover using their house-to-house search of the mock city. The exercise comes to a successful conclusion with its many valuable lessons learned. Within view of East German sentry posts, continuous realistic training of the U.S. soldier in the combat in cities course in West Berlin ensures that our forces will remain on the alert, combat ready to meet and defeat any act of aggression, any time and at any place. 100 Fifth Brigade arrives at Capicoy from 28 cities in Minnesota, Iowa and Wisconsin. Its units range from the oldest in the United States Army to the newest. The old guard is here and the 14th artillery, the 17th infantry, the 409th and the 410th. The 33rd armor and the 4th cab are represented. There are engineers to build bridges, search-like companies to light them, smoke companies to conceal them. There are military police, military intelligence and military public information units. An aviation company to fly to choppers and the gunships. A support battalion to link them all together. The brigade brings with it the battle-hardened veteran, the decorated officer, the army-wise sergeant and the raw recruits. The immediate mission will be to weld these units and these men into a cohesive, mobile, self-supported striking force. To one man, the mission is paramount. For he must prove his unit's worth. Barber, Arnold T. Brigadier General, commanding. The mission of this brigade is to move from our assembly area at this point and move into a mobile defense with preparation of launching attack for the intelligence. We have this information at this time. We have two mechanized battalions to our front. They're located generally in these two areas. We have two tank battalions that have been reported moving down this highway here. Lights burn through the night. Orders are on the way. The mission, Jack Pine 1. In the war room at core headquarters, each unit of the brigade becomes a box or circle or flag or pin on the huge situation map. Radio's crackle-urgent command nerves tingle. The pulse pounds. The brigade brings. The garage will go to the field. It will turn twisted method into functional parts. In the motor pool, routine maintenance is now top priority. Emergency aid packs, plasma, bandages, information tags, and medications are moving down a hasty production line in the medical company. The materiel, the men, the machine are moving on the mission. Field rations, generators, communications wires, and crated ammunition. Reaching a rendezvous at dawn. Second platoon, Charlie Company. Fourth battalion, 33rd armor. Commanded by Lieutenant Dale John Worth. A 26-year-old officer trained at Fort Knox and rising through the ranks to a commission. Like many armor officers or tank commanders, Worth teaches tactics, which take advantage of the tank's mobility, firepower, and brawn. A tank has actual and psychological powers. Worth will use all of them in his mission. The artillery, speed, and power. One, one, zero. Bravo site, plus four. Bravo site, plus four. Deflection, two, seven, three, two. Quadrant, two, eight, seven. Center one round, battery one round in effect. Back instantly. Crews receive a mission. Pull off the road. Train the howitzers on a target, perhaps seven miles away. Umpires and evaluators mark score sheets, leading to the pressure. Three rounds will be fired for record. The air attacks have finished. The shelling has died away. The infantry will take the high ground. The infantry waits, wet, warm, weary, in the midst of dawn. The infantry feels its belly churn in the moments before attack. The infantry moves on foot in the driving rain or in the treacherous quiet of the sun-dappled wood. He is called a dog face. He carries his home upon his back, marches through three pair of boots, lives off the land, sleeps where he can, eats from a brown box, labeled meal combat. He is bare target from the concealed bunker, the long-range guns, the mortars, and from the sky behind the hill. The separate infantry brigade has infinite capabilities. It can launch an armor spearhead, command artillery, feed and clothe itself, establish its own communications, and through its powerful generators light an entire city. Combat engineers build bridges of every description. Their bridges carry tanks, trucks, equipment, supplies, and men. The infantry is on the move. Raw firepower is not enough. It must be mobile. The 106 millimeter recoilless rifle meets such requirements. It is jeep mounted. It packs an armor piercing punch from 8,500 yards. The weapon is a massive 4.2 inch mortar, mounted on the carrier, or fired from the ground. It will hurl its shell 6,000 yards with pinpoint accuracy. Number two, deflection. 0, 7, 9, or 5. In its role as a self-supporting force, the brigade must care for itself on the attack, on the defense, and in grim moments of tragedy. It replies with intensively trained professionals in its medical company. It responds to the urgent call with ambulance and helicopter. Time is precious. The skilled corpsman will waste none of it. Their techniques are far advanced from those used in World War II and in Korea. And to the rear, the surgeons are ready. They will complete the business of saving lives. Pity and Burley, he commands a recon platoon. Shiblin, William J, first lieutenant, third infantry, 26, Ranger, paratrooper. His specialty is an old one, forged behind rock walls and hedge roads, sharpened in countless gullies, and along a thousand dusty roads, home in the jungles of Vietnam. Bill Schiebler's specialty is the quick skill. Ambush. The citizen soldiers are going home, and with them ratings which range from excellent to superior. The combat veterans, the decorated officers, the army-wise sergeants, and the raw recruits are moving with a purpose. Conquered bridge. They carry on the rich and hard-won traditions of Breeds Hill and Red Beach One, of cow pens and bellow wood, of Utah and Hill 609, of the Han and of the Rhine. And months that follow, they will continue to train. For if they are called again, they must be ready. These men of the brigade.