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 | | And by April, when the 82d was chosen to participate in OPERATION POWER PACK, the Army had changed from Pentomic or Battle Groups to ROAD (Reorganization Objective Army Divisions), which, with its brigaded battalions, was a much more flexible tool to counter communist aggression in various third-world nations. |
 | | POWER PACK, as the first real deployment under the ROAD concept of tailoring a force for its mission, STRICOM mobility and Flexible Response, demonstrated that the United States could move rapidly, and forcefully when it believed its national or hemispheric interests were in jeopardy. |
 | | This operation would also establish patterns and uncover common problems for future contingency operations that would prove to be disastrous if left unheeded or uncorrected in the areas of joint interoperability, communications, intelligence collection, and, in particular, civil-military end states. |
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