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Posted on 02/12/2020 8:03:03 AM PST by RitchieAprile
The Army announced on Tuesday the activation of V Corps (or Fifth Corps), the latest development in the U.S. military's push to build up capabilities in Europe in the face of great power competition with Russia.
V Corps will be based out of Fort Knox, Kentucky, per Tuesday's Army press release. It will be made up of 635 soldiers, 200 of which "will support an operational command post in Europe on a rotational basis."
It's expected to be operational by this fall.
"The activation of an additional Corps headquarters provides the needed level of command and control focused on synchronizing U.S. Army, allied, and partner nation tactical formations operating in Europe," Gen. James McConville, Army Chief of Staff, said in the press release. "It will enhance U.S. Army Europe and U.S. European Command as they work alongside allies and partners to promote regional stability and security."
According to the Wall Street Journal, Defense Secretary Mark Esper is planning to discuss where the new command will be based with his Eastern European counterparts while at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization meeting in Brussels this week.
When the V Corps went inactive in 2013, then-commander Lt. Gen. James Terry called it a "bittersweet occasion," per Stars and Stripes. It was the first time since 1951 that Europe was without a corps headquarters.
The V Corps was first activated in 1918 to fight in France during World War I, per the Army release. In World War II, the V Corps participated in the D-Day invasion and the liberation of Europe.
V Corps will be the fourth Army corps, joining I Corps, at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington; III Corps, at Fort Hood, Texas; and XVIII Airborne Corps, at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
The Army has been heavily focusing on security in Europe since the National Defense Strategy made building up forces to counter Russia and China primary objectives "now and in the future."
This month, the Army will start moving equipment into Europe for the largest military exercise since the Cold War: Defender Europe 2020.
The exercise will last through July this year and include around 37,000 service members total.
“the latest development in the U.S. military’s push to build up capabilities in Europe in the face of great power competition with Russia.”
The great power competition. The Russian army is 10% of what it was in 1989. They would like NATO not to roll right up to their border, and would like to get shown the slightest amount of national sovereignty from the globalists and that’s about it.
But the new cold war needs cash. It’s retarded to prattle on about Russia as a menace to Europe when the middle east and africa are flooding in. A woman has to be very careful walking down the street in Germany, Sweden is a rapefest and bombs go off daily. In France mass shooting happen, in London stay off the sidewalk so you don’t get plowed down....but yeah, muh, Russia.
Good post. And about German tanks, I fail to see why I should worry about their well-being more than they do.
And bingo, communism is a treat here at home. Globalism is a threat inside our Army.
Excellent book by John Hackett: "The Third World War, August 1985" covers this pretty well.
I read that book during the 80s. Hackett was with British 1st Airborne Division at Arnhem.
Are you really that ignorant, or are you just trying to be funny? Those numbers apply to the Corps headquarters, those who provide the command and control of assigned units. The corps will have any units assigned to it, including divisions, separate brigades, artillery groups, logistics units, etc. This unit will control units assigned and deployed to Europe including the rotational units that will be found in Poland and other Eastern Europe nations.
Reactivation of V Corps headquarters at Ft. Knox.
The IG Farben Building, aka Abrams Building, is still standing in Frankfurt. It currently serves as the main building of the West End Campus of the University of Frankfurt.
This is the corps headquarters, not a full corps of combat and support units.
There is currently no corps headquarters in Germany, only 7th Army/USAREUR HQ.
According to this article, the German Army has about 850 Leopard II tanks.
http://www.armedforces.co.uk/Europeandefence/edcountries/countrygermany.htm
Rotflol!
And they list 101 as operational. Maybe they have to share tracks and engines....
Is that the book involving East Germany, Czechoslovakia, the Soviet Union, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Narnia and Liliput? :-)
Fire teams of one are a little weak on teamwork.
An Army Corp is not a TO&E unit. It can load up with 2 or 3 maneuver Divisions (15000 soldiers each), Combat air units, Artillary (which is nuke capable) and thousands of other support units.
I wonder if the European CP will even be in Germany any more?
Poland has been talking about paying to host some US Military.
When the Corp was sent to Saudi, we didn't go with them. Our Bn Commander refused to answer the phone call.
Another USAR MI Bn was activated and went in our place.
Yes, that LTC was relieved of command.
Delta Company 1/11 ACR, V Corps Fulda Gap 82-85.
Call sign: Delta 21
You shoulda seen my primary firing position.
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A huge win for “more” unnecessary government bureaucracy... IMHO...
Does it still have the paternoster, the ever running elevator?
How many tank chassis they have is one thing; how many are in a good enough state of repair to go into battle and be effective for more than a few minutes is another.
I read only about 4-6 months ago that the Krauts had about 200 operationally-capable tanks, and unless there is a really compelling reason, something like that doesn’t get fixed that quickly. Maintanence and repairs of any vehicle isn’t very politically sexy, and I don’t see that being a huge priority in a nation that is just fine with hundreds of thousands of Moslems coming in at any old time, getting on welfare and raping dozens or more German girls and women each week.
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