[1]Operation Big Lift, largest peacetime airlift in our history. Operation Big Lift moved an entire combat division from Texas to Germany for 30 days' intensive training. On the day President Kennedy was killed, the last third of the returning troops were in the air over the United States at the time of the shooting in Dallas.
Here was a combat force, estimated to be a brigade combat team in the air armed with personal weapons which could have been deployed into action anywhere in the nation on very short notice.
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