The U.S. command saw this as an ideal area to test their newly developed air mobility tactics.
The Americans used air mobility, artillery fire and close air support to accomplish battlefield objectives.
Its air mobility allows it for use by light and rapid reaction forces such as airborne and marine units.
It was a striking demonstration of air mobility.
Sir, when we were fighting Ra's guards, our greatest problem was their air mobility.
With the transition complete, Scott's new primary mission became air mobility.
"But perhaps most impressive of all," he wrote, was "the accomplishment for the first time in military history of a true air mobility on the battlefield."
Initial approaches to air mobility focused on airborne and glider-borne troops.
The Marines used the term vertical envelopment instead of air mobility or air assault.
Later, air mobility was outsourced to Hevilift, which provided two Bell 212 helicopters.