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This week, 32,000 U.S. troops will begin dropping in parachutes or landing in troop-carrier planes on the green hills around Fort Bragg and Camp Mackall, N.C. Jet fighters will whisk overhead, giving them air cover. Cargo planes will fly in with all their supplies, for "Operation Swarmer" is designed to prove that a combat area, e.g., an island base for strategic bombers, can be taken and held by airborne troops entirely supplied...
Operation Swarmer will also demonstrate something more important: the nation's unpreparedness. The simulated attack on a peaceful section of North Carolina will involve just about all the Sunday punch the U.S. can mobilize in the first critical hours after a cold war becomes...
...ground troops in Swarmer will be the 82nd Airborne Division (now at 75% strength), the 11th Airborne Division (down to two regiments), and their headquarters, supply and engineer troops. Opposing them will be one regimental combat team of the partially ready 3rd Infantry Division and a tank battalion...
...Operation Swarmer the Air Force has assembled virtually all the troop-carrier and cargo planes that would be available if the U.S. were attacked this week. Nevertheless, the Air Force's able, 43-year-old Lieut. General Lauris ("Larry") Norstad, in command, has had to tailor his plans to his restricted fleet of aircraft, dropping one regiment at a time on the North Carolina countryside...
...taken the Army and Air Force nearly four months to set up Swarmer. The U.S. has no war headquarters to direct such mock warfare, much less run a real war. Norstad had to borrow his headquarters supply command from the New York Port of Embarkation...