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No kidding! its a small world! i was in 1/61 inf for a while. how about you?

No way the army is going to deploy a NG brigade (the 256 as I recall) untill they have trained and are up to speed. that means a long time at NTC. You might recall this is what happened with the 48th (i think) bde, of the Texas NG during desert storm. They went on intensive training, not sure about NTC, but were never deployed because the war was over so quickly. The mobilization that is going on is for combat support and css, mostly from the reserves i would guess. the exception is aviators.

Hey OldCorps! Good to meet ya!

I was in the 105th MI Bn. I used to have great fun during exercises. Had my own jeep and, um, special radio gear :-)

Very good memory, btw. I had forgotten the 256th designation. I remember one time during an exercise I was tooling down this trail, come around a bend and there is an M60 in flames! Three or four tankers from the 256th were under a tree about 20ft from the tank hacking and coughing. After I coaxed them away from the tank I let them use my radio to call their HQ. Looking back on it, it was quite funny.

You're dead on about the 48th too. I remember the story about them going to NTC to train. Armor, wasn't it?

I know the two NTC rotations we went to from Ft Polk we flew on C141s. When I was in the 101st, we used C141 once and Arrow Air one other time. Heck, does Arrow Air still exist?