Word: lifting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ahead of Schedule. Exactly 63 hr. 5 min. after the first Big Lift plane left Texas, a C-130 Hercules touched down at Sembach with the last 60 men of the 2nd Armored, nearly nine hours ahead of schedule. With the last arrivals on hand, the scattered units of the 2nd Armored began assembling for week-long maneuvers at Fulda Gap, a classical invasion route just across the border from Communist East Germany...
...logistical exercise, Big Lift was a triumph. Despite occasionally impenetrable ground fog in Germany and Hurricane Ginny's winds off the Southeastern U.S., the Air Force flew 236 missions, toted 459.6 tons of combat gear, logged 13,000 flying hours and burned up 6,500,000 gallons of fuel-all without mishap...
These words were underlined by the widely heralded "Operation Big Lift," which hauled the entire 2nd Armored Division from Texas to West Germany, in a dramatic demonstration of the U.S.'s capability to keep troops at home but fly them swiftly to theaters of threatening...
...reassure Erhard and the rest of West Germany, a rapid series of "clarifications" flowed in from Washington. U.S. Army Secretary Cyrus Vance, in Frankfurt to observe Big Lift, declared flatly: "We have no intention of withdrawing any of our six division equivalents that are here." Secretary of State Dean Rusk, in Germany to dedicate a monument to the late George Marshall, conferred with Erhard and West German Foreign Minister Gerhard Schröder, added some pointed sentences to a scheduled speech...
...Armored Cavalry Regiment from Germany, the Bonn government reacted frantically. The Pentagon intends to reduce the U.S.'s Germany contingent by still more troops, most of them noncombat types. But to soothe jangled German nerves, the withdrawals were suspended until last week's Big Lift exercise demonstrated just how swiftly the U.S. troops could be returned in case of trouble...