Howze Board
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The Howze Board was the informal name given to the Tactical Mobility Requirements Board created at the direct request of Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara in 1962 to review and test new concepts in
OV-1 Mohawk
CV-2 Caribou (RAAF version)
General Hamilton Howze, the president of the board
The UH-1 "Huey" - key to many of the airmobile concepts produced by the board
The Johnson-McConnell agreement of 1966 was an agreement between United States Army Chief of Staff General Harold K. Johnson and United States Air Force Chief of Staff General John P. McConnell on 6 A
Howze Board
…placed on arming such aircraft. The Air Force focused its objections on Army fixed wing aircraft (the OV-1 Mohawk and CV-2 Caribou), and the Caribou was transferred to the Air Force in 1966. Before the Howze Board "the Caribou and the Mohawk were the two major symbols of Army-Air Force disagreement and more time was devoted to these systems…
General John P. McConnell, USAF Chief of Staff
General Harold K. Johnson, U.S. Army Chief of Staff