Chapter 8 Summary

In this short chapter, there is a meeting at the Pentagon concerning the staffing of the 11th Air Assault Division. There are many charts showing the staffing with changes to become effective July 1, 1965. Most of the positions had already been decided but not all of them. They discuss the assignment of Colonel Lowell who is slotted to be Deputy Assistant G-3. Howard disagrees with the assignment and wants Lowell assigned to the 11th Air Assault Division. If they didn't appoint Lowell, Howard would do it himself.

Chapter 8 Analysis

Howard's work on transport produced the new Airmobile division. There was a meeting of the brass on the staffing of the 11th Air Assault Division, since it was no longer a test program. Howard disagrees with the assignment that Lowell is slated for and appoints him to a command position in the new division.