FM 1-100 Our future Aviation units will be modular and deployable. They will provide joint force commanders with a lethal and flexible force to rapidly deploy from the continental United States (CONUS), or abroad, to any theater. Deployment will be by strategic air or sea lift, self-deployment, with a maritime force aboard aircraft carriers, or by any combination of those means. No other force can match Army aviation's ability to rapidly project the force and build combat power in an immature theater. Once on the ground, we become the principal means to protect the force as the other ground forces continue to deploy and flow into the initial lodgement. This is best exemplified by the initial days and weeks of Desert Shield as aviation units quickly deployed to Saudi Arabia and became the principal combat power for the initial covering force.
DesignationFM 1-100
EditionJan 1997
StatusSuperseded
Pages166
FunctionAviation
CollectionRecent Archive
Public domain (U.S. Government work)