Twenty-two United States Army CH-47A Chinook helicopters participate in the Army's air mobility test exercise, Air Assault II, which took place in North and South Carolina in October 1964. This helicopter armada was capable of transporting on a single mission over 308,000 pounds of cargo or almost 1,000 troops. Taking part in In Air Assault II, a maneuver to evaluate air mobile techniques with a division size unit, were the 11th Air Assault Division and the 82nd Airborne Division. The 82nd Airborne were the "aggressors" and the 11th Air Assault Division repelled their attack and took offensive action using newly devised air mobile tactics.