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PAGE SIXTEEN THE PILOT—Southern Pines, North Carolina THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24,1964 EXFRCISE to be concurrent with 'AIR ASSAULT IF 'Cherokee Trail' Maneuver Slated North Carolina’s Uwharrie Na-' tional Forest and its environs will again be the scene of the U. S. Army Special Warfare School’s October 4 through 15, it has been announced at Fort Bragg. The training exercise, dubbed Cher okee Trail IV, will be the ninth in the school’s series of guerrilla- counterguerrilla maneuvers and the fourth to be held in the Uwharrie area. TTie maneuver area, as in for mer exercises, includes the north western corner and the western third of Moore County. Hereto fore maneuver activity has been confined, in Moore County, to near the north and west boun daries, in the Eagle Springs and other nearby areas. The bulk of the area is in Montgomery, Ran dolph and Richmond Counties. The October maneuver will es sentially be unchanged from its predecessors. The Cherokee Trail exercises are “controlled maneu vers” with neither side winning or losing. They are designed spe cifically to test proficiency of Speciai Warfare School students ■and culminate their 12-week course of instruction in one of the three phases of special war- fare-counterinsurgency, psychol ogical operations and unconven tional (guerrilla) warefare. As a by-product, valuable training in special warfare is afforded con ventional Army units which take part. Mythical Republic The scenario of Cherokee Trail places the action in the mythical republic of Pineland, where a po litical malcontent, David Paton, is attempting to overthrow the nation’s legitimate government with the assistance of the neigh boring country of SatiUa. When Paton’s guerrillas, advised by Satillan Special Forces troops, step up insurgent activities in Pineland, that nation asks for and receives the military assist ance of the United States. Against this background, the Cherokee Trail IV war will be waged. A chief difference from previous maneuvers will be the participation of troops from in stallations other than Fort Bragg. In the past, non-student partici pants have been from the 82nd Airborne Division, the 5th Log istical Command, XVIII Air borne Corps Artillery and Special Forces groups at the U. S. Army John F. Kennedy Center for Special Warfare. Playing the part of the loyalist Pineland Army in the coming exercise, however, will be ele ments of the 2nd Infantry Divi sion from Ft. Benning, Ga. Guer rilla forces will be supplied by the 101st Airborne Division at Fort Campbell, Ky. Once more, air support will be provided by the Special Air War fare Center, Elgin AFB, Fla., and aviation elements of the Ken nedy Center. Acting as advisors to both sides in the maneuvers will be members of the 6th Spe cial forces Group (Airborne) at Fort Bragg. Some 2,800 troops will be involved. The men of the 2nd Division will be no strangers to the man euver area since they recently completed a preparatory exer cise, Highland Fox, there. 'Air Assault II', Alsq Cherokee Trail IV will be con ducted concurrently with, but in dependently from. Exercise Air Assault II, a test of the Army’s air mobility concept being held in the same area from Septem ber 20 to November 15. 'The more extensive Air Assault II will take place in North and South Carolina and Georgia and in cludes the Cherokee Trail area. Activity in the Uwharries will be scheduled however, so that the two elements will not interfere with each other. As in past school exercises, civ ilian residents will play an im portant part in lending to real ism. Citizens will be called on to choose sides and support one of the opposing forces. Again, civic action will be practiced to a great extent by Pineland forces, who have assisted maneuver area communities in the past by build' ing and renovating playgrounds and parks and giving military demonstrations. Special Warfare School stu- dents will perform the actual jobs they are being trained for here. Those in counterinsurgency will act as advisors to the Pineland forces, while their guerrilla counterparts will be students of the Special Forces Officers Course of the school’s Unconven tional Warfare Department. Psy chological operations students will perform propaganda func tions on both sides. Some 235 US officer students and 47 allied for eign officers will take part. Heavier Trafific Roads and highways in the military maneuver areas of North and South Carolina can be expected to have heavier than normal traffic from now until the middle of November during exercise Air Assault II, accord ing to Army spokesman at Exer cise Director Headquarters now at Fort Jackson, S. C. Most of the increase in military traffic in this area will be caused by the vehicles of the 82nd Air borne Division under Maj. Gen. Robert H. York operating out of North Carolina as “aggressors" for the exercise. Caution should be exercised while driving on all roads north from Columbia to Monroe and Albemarle, N. C. Motorists will meet military vehicles on US Routes 1, 21, and 321; South Car olina highways 12 and 262; and North Carolina highways 24, 27, and 200. All roads heading southwest from the vicinity of Fort Bragg, the support base for the 82nd Air borne Division, also will have more military traffic than usual. Particular care should be exer cised while driving US Routes 1, 15, 401, and 501; North Carolina highways 38, 79, and 211; and State highway 177 in South Car olina. The Pee Dee River will be a focal area for the operations which will cover some 4.5 mil lion acres of privately-owned land. 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