Posted on 02/12/2020 8:03:03 AM PST by RitchieAprile
I have no idea if the paternoster is still there. I can only state that it was still operating when I last visited the Abrams building in 1986.
I was there in 1994/5. It was there, then.
I could write a book on REFORGER stories. Like the time a SMLM vehicle almost ran over our shop officer while he was peeing next to the autobahan outside of Mannheim.
“Like the time a SMLM vehicle almost ran over our shop officer while he was peeing next to the autobahan outside of Mannheim.”
FTXs can he hazardous to your health.
You know it’s serious business when you pee and it freezes when it hits the ground.
5.56mm
Does a Lieutenant General get the “honor” of commanding this HQ unit of 635 soldiers?
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That’s battalion size or smaller. That’s hardly LTC, let alone LTG.
Good luck with that.
The “neocons” will not allowed that.
We pray, but the G is silent...
U really believe Russia wants to attack US?
You guys never give up your hate against Russia, why is that?
I would really, really want to get to the bottom of it.
China good, Russia bad. explain, please.
I do not comprehend...
EU population: > 500 MM
EU GDP: $19.39 trillion
Russia Population: 144 MM
Russia GDP: $1.6 trillion
How does it affect you? Does it make your life better or worse?
+. Easy, China spends a large amount of cash cultivating their image here in the US.
That much is obvious. I don't think you quite understand what's going on in this thread, eh?
The 635 number is for the corps headquarters battalion only. This includes personnel to deploy, man, and secure up to three command posts (forward, main, rear).
It also includes the corps staff— which typically includes the G1, (personnel), G2 (intelligence). G3 (operations), G4 (sustainment), G5 (plans), G6 (Signal/communications), G7 (training), G8 (Resourcing/Finance), plus public affairs, chaplain, provost marshal, corps engineer etc....
The number of troops under the corps is directly dependent upon the assigned mission. It can go from 15K up to 100K.
For perspective, our Army, when you add up the Regular Army, National Guard, and Army Reserve, is currently just over 1,000,000 soldiers.
The three current corps HQs have been stretched to meet Army requirements. They are each are partly responsible for overseeing operations/training for a portion of the Army’s 18 (10 active, 8 National Guard divisions), plus the dozens of active, reserve, and national guard separate brigades. There are dedicated training commands, but the corps, as operational/tactical headquarters, have a role too.
Then each corps also has had to rotate overseas to oversee the counter-ISIS fight.
V Corps will now oversee the Army’s tactical units in Europe, and will probably get an oversight role for a share of active, reserve, and guard units in the U.S
Who said anything about effing China?
Why is that? I am sure you have an explanation. To your own mind set...
Patton's Third Army OrBat:
III Corps
V Corps
VIII Corps
XII Corps
XV Corps
XX Corps
Divisions:
1st Ind Div
2nd Inf Div
4th Inf Div
5th Inf Div
8th Inf Div
26th Inf Div
28th Inf Div
29th Inf Div
35th Inf Div
42th Inf Div
65th Inf Div
69th Inf Div
70th Inf Div
71st Inf Div
76th Inf Div
79th Inf Div
80th Inf Div
83rd Inf Div
86th Inf Div
87th Inf Div
89th Inf Div
90th Inf Div
94th Inf Div
97th Inf Div
99th Inf Div
4th Armd Div
5th Armd Div
6th Armd Div
7th Armd Div
8th Armd Div
9th Armd Div
10th Armd Div
11th Armd Div
12th Armd Div
13th Armd Div
14th Armd Div
16th Armd Div
20th Armd Div
17th Airborne Div
101st Airborne Div
2nd French Div
6th Cavalry Group
The strength of the Third Army as of 19 December 1944, the date the bridgehead occupation was completed, was 9,638 officers and 221,070 enlisted men, about one-fifth of the size of the present-day Army. Patton did it all, running things wearing four stars.
Thank you, Georgie.
Target! Cease fire.
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