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airmobile operation

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An operation in which combat forces and their equipment move about the battlefield by aircraft to engage in ground combat.


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To facilitate the forward movement of the 3d Military Police Company, two platoons from the 511th Military Police Company (Fort Drum, New York), a unit whose equipment was still en route to Kuwait, conducted an airmobile operation to Tallil Air Base with just its rucksacks.
We invented an imaginary army that could do anything--attack, defend, envelop, withdraw, cross rivers, and perform airmobile operations and urban fighting.
There seems to be a good case for examining how force transformation and a shift to longer-range strike and airmobile operations should affect the future of the Marine Corps.
 
 
 
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