Captioning performed by vitac making sure equipment supplied by the military Assistance Program is properly maintained. There is probably no better example of this than theifieded missile adviser on taiwan. This hot missile site located on one of the islands highest peaks, literally above the clouds much of the time, is an excellent technical decision. However, it is a position which because of extremely high humidity amplifies the problems of missile maintenance. And as with most military equipment on the taiwan island complex, the maintenance problems are compounded by the necessity of keeping ammo and other material in operation readiness at all times rather than in storage. These advisers trained as a package with 40 members of a hot battery at fort bliss, texas. It has resulted in an exceptionally closeknit, smooth running team in both the maintenance and operational phases. At a hercules site crews participate in a practice firing just as if enemy aircraft were approaching, they rush out to man the launches. They are quickly raised for fir firpg. Firin firiniringfiring. Keeping material and personnel at the peak of operational readiness apply to other branches of the Advisory Teams in taiwan. This includes advising chinese army units on such activities as engineer, communications, ammo, quartermaster, logistical, chemical and psychological operations. On taiwan, psychological advisers are not attached to mag but members of taiwan broadcast and visual activity. As an advisory by product many wives conduct english classes full of chinese army personnel. Military advisory groups on taiwan devote attention to all phases of training. At the chinese school, students learn correct landing techniques as the chief airborne adviser shows them how. Soon the jumpers. Inside cabin one, the two u. S. Advisers are ready to lead the way. They jump and the trainees follow. An introductory briefing before exercise sky soldier testifies to the emphasis placed on combined training and forces. U. S. Troopers from okinawa and chinese air unit will combine in a counterattack. The exercise begins as chinese paratroopers ready to take off at the drop zone have their chutes checked by the jumpmaster. The plan for grc and u. S. Troops to jump at widely separated drop zones and counterattack on foot in a pincers movement. Within a few minutes aircraft from the air force arrive at the drop zone. They find the chinese are unusually quick to master jumping techniques. Throughout the exercise island civilians are highly interested spectators. As the grc airborne move out, the heavy drop of equipment is released. Miles away u. S. Aircraft completing their flight from okinawa arrive over the secondary drop zone. They move off the drop zone to carry out their half of the movement. The Main Objective of both forces is to take an aggressorheld bridge. Pinned down at the edge of the drop zone, they receive word the aggressor force is with drawing and move out toward the objective. The aggressors retreat toward the bridge under fire by the advancing u. S. Paratroopers. As they move to the objective u. S. Faces a series of nonmilitary obstacles. Meanwhile the chinese paratroops approach the bridge from the opposite direction. U. S. Advisers accompany them during the entire exercise. As the enemy fights to defend the bridge, the chinese bring up their heavy weapons. F100 saber jets u. S. Air force support an attack on aggressive positions. The invading fours routed, u. S. An grc troops link up. Completed, one successful airborne counterattack. Among positive results of exercise sky soldier are Mutual Respect between u. S. And chinese personnel as well as proof of the feasibility of a combined offense by forces of the two nation nations. About 100 miles across open water from taiwan lies kinmen as well as other Three Islands in kinmen com blocks. On kinmens highest point a radar like atop a fortress like structure symbolizes the importance of the fourisland complex to the free world. Or in addition to the aspects already mentioned. The kinmen complex provides an observation post to keep chinese activities under close surveillance. It also adds to the depth of the overall defense of taiwan. Kinmen proper is about 12 miles long and 5 miles wide at its broadest. Its clifflike terrain with a network of underground placementses, its providentialally broad beaches and taiwan straits is considered by many to be almost impregnable. A land of low rainfall, the island has gently rolling red and white clay farmland on its western coast. Its chief crops are peanuts, sweet potatoes, wheat and mi millet. In recent years the civilian population has become almost selfsustaining. This is the second largest village. In recent years the government has been in a position to eliminate the ancient specters of disease and unemployment and is establishing Better Health and sanitation practices. These bombed out buildings currently used to train chinese soldiers and village fighting were did he tried by artillery fire by the communist mainland in 1958 when half a million rounds blasted the island and an invasion attempt was repelled. Now it protects the population as well as visiting military. The shelling still continues but only with rounds of propaganda materials and only on odd numbered days. Most military establishments are located in tunnels or caves to reduce both casualties and damage to materiel. Especially if Chinese Communist should resume the use of high explosive rounds. Although in recent years, shelling has been restricted to leaflet carrying rounds, anyone in the immediate vicinity can be hit by shell fragments. As a result visits, inspection trips and resupply activities are scheduled for even numbered days. The tunnel through which this jeep is being driven also serves as entrance to the underground office of kinmen defense Advisory Team. Each officer adviser here has taken on two assignments because of the relatively small number of advisory personnel in relation to the large number of activities and installations. You are looking at the interior wall of another office, the caved and closed office of a chinese division. The Division Adviser and counterpart climb the stairs from the intersecting tunnels that lead to the office. Much of the adviser effort here is devoted to training and maintenance of map equipment. Although the troops on kinmen are seasoned and in a tactical situation, training and maintenance are vital in an area so close to an enemy threatening invasi invasion. Behind these curtains are the underground living quarters of operations personnel. Many troops on kinmen live in caves close to their duty stations. For many, reporting for duty each day is to walk through a maze of man made tunnels to daylight. Here in the shadow of another tunnel an aviation adviser and his counterpart, a general, discuss parachute inspection and maintenance. Most Army Aircraft are protec d protected. An adviser oversees with his counterpart. This is in line with allied nationals from the United States for training and maintenance of u. S. Equipment. Deep within another cave a chinese unit set up a signal maintenance shop. There are virtually no activities of military importance on kinmen that are not protected by solid rock. Another typical underground installation is u. S. Armies communications center. It enables members of kinmen Advisory Team to remain in constant communication with army mag in taipei. The activities of a navy medic here illustrate the dedication of u. S. Personnel in keeping with the navys mission of administratively and logistically supporting u. S. Troops on taiwan, his original assignment was solely to administer to the medical needs of u. S. Personnel. However, his energy and skills prove such that at his request the chief of the Advisory Team detailed him to serve as a medical adviser in addition to his regular duties. Resupplying the large number of military personnel on kinmen presented a difficult problem until u. S. Advisers helped to solve it. Faced with the necessity of moving supplies rapidly across soft, broad sand, they designed and set up a system that enabled an lst to beach, unload, and leave on one tide. This permits work crews to unload in a single even numbered day, thus avoiding a conflict with the communist shelling schedule. U. S. Advisers and their counterparts make frequent inspection trips to the other Three Islands of the kinmen complex, which as we have noted stand as close as 2 to 3,000 yards off the communist mainland they visit a psychological post, greeted by two specialists of the chinese army corps. Powerful loud speakers enable them to send propaganda messages across the straits to the mainland. Psychological operations also involve release of balloons carrying scarce items such as soap and toothpaste to the mainland. On little kinmen an adviser inspectors a rifle range which infantrymen fire across a peanut field to hit their targets. An adviser inspectors several outposts which observers keep the coast under constant surveillance. Maps and mockups of the red coast and the harbor and other strategic installations. They can see all is quiet and situation normal along communist coastline. Tralg from the harbor kinmen is the cork in the communist invasion bottle performing much the same role for asia as does berlin in europe. Taiwan and its complex are the furthest outpost of the free worlds pacific defense. In april 1961, lyndon b. Johnson, then Vice President of the United States after a factfinding tour of Southeast Asia reported to president j. F. Kennedy. The battle against communist must be joined in Southeast Asia with strength and determination to achieve success there or the United States inevitably must surrender the pacific and take up our defenses on our own shores. Asian communism is comprised and contained by maintenance of free nations on the subcontinent. Without this influence, the island outpost, philippines, japan, taiwan have no security, and the vast pacific becomes a red sea. 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