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FM 71-101 1980

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Infantry, Airborne, and Air Assault Division Operations Me FM 71-101 / cu “FM 71-101 Field Manual HEADQUARTERS No. 71-101 DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY Washington, DC, 26 March 1980 INFANTRY, AIRBORNE, AND AIR ASSAULT DIVISION OPERATIONS PREFACE ‘The division is the largest U.S. Army organization that trains and fights as a team. A division is organized with varying numbers and types of combat, combat support, and combat service support units. Five types of divisions exist in the force structure: armored, mechanized, infantry, airborne, and air assault. The division is a self-sustaining force capable of independent operations, even for long periods of time. A division usually fights as part of a larger force, most often a corps. Divisions, however, are the backbone of the Army, and the land battle is won or lost by their battalions. ww This manual is organized in two parts. Part One describes how the infantry division is organized and employed. It also discusses those aspects of division combat which are generally common to infantry, airborne, and air assault division operations. Part Two is devoted to the organization and employment of the airborne and air assault divisions and the aspects of combat operations which apply specifically to these divisions. Because the maneuver bat- talions of the infantry, airborne, and air assault divisions normally fight as part of a brigade, the way brigades fight is described in sufficient detail to understand division operations. A detailed description of how infantry brigades fight is contained in FM 7—30, Infantry, Airborne, and Air Assault Brigade Operations. FM 71-100, Armored and Mechanized Division Operations, describes how armored and mechanized divisions fight. “This publication, together with FM 71-100, 29 September 1978, supersedes FM 61-100, 15 November 1968.

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