It may mean airdrops or vertical envelopment to hold key points of terrain.
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The Marines used the term vertical envelopment instead of air mobility or air assault.
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HMX-1 performed its first vertical envelopment from the deck of an aircraft carrier in an exercise in 1949.
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This exercise was the culmination of the Marines'developing strategy of vertical envelopment rather than amphibious assaults on heavily defended beaches.
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Some, most notably the Elysian Drop Troopers and the Harakoni Warhawks, rely on aerial deployment and are experts in vertical envelopment.
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After developing the concept of " vertical envelopment " by helicopter assault in early 1959, she made a Caribbean cruise to Puerto Rico and Cuba.
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Refining the concept for several years, Marines would use the term " vertical envelopment " instead of " air mobility " or " air assault ".
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Operation Deep Water also involved the first units of the United States Marines Corps to participate in a helicopter-borne vertical envelopment / air assault operation during an overseas deployment.
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Among her assignments was qualifying helicopter pilots in landings on ships of her type, and participating in amphibious landing exercises based on the relatively new concept of vertical envelopment.
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"' Fireforce "'is a variant of the military tactic of vertical envelopment of a target by helicopter-borne and parachute infantry developed by the Rhodesian Security Forces during the Rhodesian Bush War.
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