I remember spending five months in South Carolina in 1964 with Exercise Hawk Blade/Air Assault II which involved a large number of troops - large expanses of South Carolina and North Carolina were designated as maneuver areas. Great experience!
I was in “Swift Strike III” and ran all over South Carolina at the Georgia border. Had great times in those little beer bars in the small towns out in the middle of the bean fields. Great People!! Troops had greater times with the ladies! Especially those that headed for the sharecropper abodes.
Wasn’t HAWK BLADE the test for the airmobile concept and the 1st CAV?