2006-08-22 19:25:07 · 7 answers · asked by thepaxilman 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
In mid April 1980. The biggest airlift of troops, and material was conducted since the Vietnam war. An entire Armor Battalion Task Force from the 4th ID Ft Carson CO. Was airlifted to Mountain Home AFB Idaho. This was the first time tanks (M60A1 AOS) as a unit were flown in C5 Galaxy aircraft during training in peacetime. Under the control of XVIII Airborne Corps command. They were met by a Battalion of Airborne troops that jumped in. A joint ARTEP was conducted in the high plains desert of Idaho for 3-4 days. ---- All of this coinsided with the rescue attempt at "Desert 1" in Iran. If the hostages had been rescued. Would President Carter have ordered this Task Force to Iran ? The Soviets re-directed their satellites to watch the troop movement. Possibly how the CH-53 helicopters got into Iran undetected.
2006-08-26 08:38:05 · answer #1 · answered by Sabot7 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jimmy Carter was not the kind of man to "invade" anyplace. -That's one of the reasons why the hostage crisis was such a nightmare for him. He was too nice a guy to stand up to the hostage takers. He was not a man of war.
2006-08-23 02:35:03 · answer #2 · answered by Joseph, II 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jimmy Carter never had any plans to invade Iran.
2006-08-26 18:31:28 · answer #3 · answered by JAMES11A 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A large scale invasion of Iran was never planned as far as I know.
A second rescue attempt was planned but never implemented.
2006-08-23 02:37:37 · answer #4 · answered by abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes
2006-08-23 02:28:12 · answer #5 · answered by I love money 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No he didn't have a plan B. But Reagan did.
2006-08-23 02:30:11 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No it was that he wasnt stupid enough to realize that you cant fight extremism with more extremism.
2006-08-23 03:51:49 · answer #7 · answered by trl_666 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋