Unveiling the Army's TRICAP

THE combination of armor, air-mobile infantry, and air cavalry represents "a logical outgrowth of the great advances in Army mobility and the lessons learned in Southeast Asia," Army Chief of Staff, General William Westmoreland, intoned last week at Fort Hood, Texas. The occasion was the unveiling of the Army's first triple-capability (TRICAP) division, an experiment in relating the uses of the helicopter, as refined in Viet Nam, to the Army of the '70s and '80s. Should TRICAP prove out over the next three years, it will employ tanks for shock on the ground, Hueys and CH-47 Chinooks for troop transport, and either Cobra gunships, or the new Lockheed Cheyenne missile platforms for air support. The modernized division will be assigned as part of the U.S. commitment to NATO defensive units in Western Europe.

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