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America's 'elite' troops (For You depleting Hackworth fans)
The Guardian ^ | 10/29/01 | Marcus Scriven

Posted on 12/30/2002 6:59:48 PM PST by paltz

Colonel David H Hackworth, America's most decorated soldier, does not mince his words. "I would be reluctant to jump into a battle zone with any conventional American unit. I would hate to take them into battle - they ain't ready, they are not 'good to go'."

With British and American ground troops poised to take the war against the Taliban into a new, perilous phase, Hackworth's appraisal of the army he once served will do little to calm nerves in the corridors of power. And his verdict on "crack" American troops such as those likely to be deployed in Afghanistan, is scarcely more complimentary. The soldiers of the vaunted 82nd Airborne are only "a little better" than ordinary infantry. And of the supposedly fearsome 10th Mountain Division, he says, "I hear a lot of rhetoric about the famous 10th Mountain Division. In World War II it was unquestionably America's finest unit - trained for three years, made up with men from Colorado, Montana, Idaho, really tough men, experts in mountain fighting. What we have now in the 10th Mountain Division is a bunch of kids that are better qualified to play computer games than they are to fight in that kind of terrain."

Confronted by the sudden prospect of putting their training to the test in Afghanistan, more than a handful of American soldiers show signs of agreeing with Hackworth's dismal assessment. "A large number of them have been submitting release from active duty requests, feigning that they're conscientious objectors, which is exactly what we went through in Vietnam," he says.

It is difficult to envisage anyone now emulating Hackworth's record even if they took on the Taliban during an extended campaign. After lying about his age, he managed to enlist, aged 15, in the second world war, "winding up on the Morgan Line around Trieste, trying to keep the Yugoslavs and the Italians from wasting each other".

Thereafter, in Korea and Vietnam, he was awarded a brace of Distinguished Service Crosses, 10 Silver Stars, four Legions of Merit, the Distinguished Flying Cross and a remarkable eight Purple Hearts - meaning that he was wounded, on average, in each of the (almost) eight years that he was in combat.

Commissioned in the field in Korea, he became the army's youngest captain; less than 20 years later, as its youngest colonel, he condemned America's involvement in Vietnam. It was, he said, "a bad war... it can't be won. We need to get out." He also predicted that the North Vietnamese flag would fly over Saigon within four years - a prediction made no more palatable to his superiors by being right.

Hackworth's critics might like to dismiss him as a battlefield dinosaur; most are wise enough not to try. After his public denunciation of the Vietnam war, he left the army and headed to Australia, where he gave his medals away to a class of 12-year-olds, burned his uniform, lived under the stars and smoked - and inhaled - a little dope. Nearly 20 years later, after making himself a fistful of money by selling a Brisbane restaurant and starting Australia's first Peking Duck farm, he returned to the US.

During his years of self-imposed exile, he had become an anti-nuclear campaigner but that proved no bar to re-establishing contacts with friends in the army, who were invaluable allies in his next career as a war reporter.

He discovered that - with some admirable exceptions - most of his new colleagues "wouldn't know a tank from a Range Rover or a B-52 bomber from a Valujet". During the Gulf war, he sensed that it was "almost as if frightened reporters who knew nothing about military realities wanted to inflate the war to inflate themselves". He decided on a new mission: to educate and inform his countrymen about those "military realities". Several years before he had co-authored the Vietnam Primer, which became a classic. On his return from Australia, he wrote About Face, a chronicle of his war experiences. It became a best-seller, as did three further books, the profits from the last two of which have been ploughed into Soldiers For The Truth, Hackworth's non-profit foundation dedicated to military reform.

But that reform, he says, will only come after America has suffered "a terrible performance in battle. Then we'll see maximum attention to re-establishing discipline and getting standards up". This, though, will come too late to make a difference in Afghanistan. Hackworth recently watched three weeks of basic training at Fort Jackson and left "appalled at the lack of discipline, the lack of hard training". The American military, he argues, is undermined by twin evils - a culture of grotesquely profligate, misdirected expenditure and by a toadying, self-serving caste of senior officers interested only in securing their own advancement.

But most corrosive of all, he says, has been the almost comic absurdity of making the forces politically correct. "There is now something called 'Consideration for Others' training," says Hackworth. "That's where Joe and Jane will get along and live in harmony. One, Joe and Jane shouldn't be in the foxhole together; two, harmony is not the name of the game; the name of the game is killing your enemy." (He is kinder about their British counterparts. "The Brits that I have found - the units that I've seen as a reporter in ex-Yugoslavia and so on - are not suffering as badly as the Americans from political correctness. It seems that your standards haven't been so lowered.")

Such idiocies, argues Hackworth, could have been prevented "if the top brass had opposed the politically correct leadership which was engendered and supported by Bill Clinton". "Do you think Clinton would have appointed any leader that would say, 'We've lowered the standard, we're not training our people hard enough or fierce enough'? No: the guys who get promoted are the guys who go along to get along. They are the Perfumed Princes."

But the "perfumed princes" are in for an unsettling ride, he says. "We are in round one - which is not even over - in a 30-round fight. I think my grandkids, who are five and eight, will be in college before we're in round 30. It's going to be a very long war, not like a war we've fought before. We will win, as long as everybody realises that it is not going to be a Desert Storm, wham-bam, thank you mam."

Last August, Hackworth made another prediction. Outlining three scenarios of future terror, he described a terrorist gas attack at the Indianapolis sports arena, killing 4,000. Hackworth set the date at June 4 2005; the terrorist responsible? Osama bin Laden. He concluded: "The chances are eight out of 10 that we will see a devastating terrorist attack from abroad within the next 10 years. Up to now we've been relatively lucky. But this kind of luck can't last... This dude [Bin Laden] ain't gonna give up. Neither will a thousand fanatics like him. It's a mistake to believe you can stop a terrorist movement by taking out its leader. You can cut off the head, but the body will still live on."

Consequently, Hackworth does not get overly excited by Bin Laden's fate. "He's got many, many fall-back positions, but he's a hard guy to hide. He's going to come in, in his Mercedes or his four-wheel drive; if people in the local village know he's there, the word is going to go out. He's got 30m bucks on his head; if you're an Afghan or Yemeni and you're making a dollar a week, $30m is a hell of an enticement. I wouldn't want to be in his sandals. But he's more the figurehead than the principal military planner; it's like getting rid of Saddam Hussein - there are other rattlesnakes that are even worse."

Hackworth has yet to get to Afghanistan to see the situation for himself; in the meantime, he is urging people to read a paper written by Richard Kidd, a West Point graduate who spent two years in Afghanistan working in the UN's mine clearance programme. Kidd argues in favour of giving the Northern Alliance "a big wad of cash so that they can buy off a chunk of the Taliban army before winter. Second, also with this cash I would pay some guys to kill some of the Taliban leadership, making it look like an inside job to spread distrust. Third, I would support the Northern Alliance with military assets, but not take it over or adopt so high a profile as to undermine its legitimacy."

Hackworth urges people to "burn [Kidd's] words and advice into your brain". He believes that they have been heeded in the White House, which he praises for its handling of the campaign so far. Hackworth says Washington should leave the fighting to groups like the Northern Alliance, confining British and American troops to an advisory role. As for the tens of thousands of American troops wondering if they could soon find themselves face to face with the Taliban, Hackworth suggests they should not expect to experience real combat any time soon. "I see them only in a defensive, perimeter role, because that's what they've got experience doing in Haiti, Bosnia, Kosovo: standing behind a wall of sandbags and peering out into the darkness. That's what they're very good at."


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To: paltz
The lefty Brits just love Hack!
21 posted on 12/30/2002 8:17:01 PM PST by dennisw
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To: paltz
Reading thru the posts it seems more & more FReeper types are turning on my man Hack. Let me say this in no uncertain terms, Hack has killed more Chicoms, North Koreans and VC in hand to hand combat than most of you dweebs have years on this planet. Hack is privy to a great deal of feedback coming from military types who respect his honesty in calling attention to the many discrepancies that exist in todays military. One branch of the service he has always had a high regard for is the Marine Corps, my alma mater ... for good reason, the Corps has maintained a rigorous standard which has not been compromised. Semper Fi to an outstanding soldier ... Colonel Hackworth.
22 posted on 12/30/2002 8:20:13 PM PST by BluH2o
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To: paltz
Has this man gone friggin crazy? Maybe I missed something but he seems to have done a major flip-flop from a few years ago. I used to overlook the feminine type voice as just the way he talks...but lately I am not so sure?

The guy is starting to give me the creeps!!

I even heard him take up for Clinton on Hannity & Butthead one night.
23 posted on 12/30/2002 8:21:38 PM PST by jgoode
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To: paltz
Most decorated soldier?
Hello, remember that Audie Murphy guy?
24 posted on 12/30/2002 8:21:55 PM PST by Saturnalia
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To: BluH2o
Sorry, but Hack is now more interested in the disease syndromes supposedely encountered by the military in Desert Storm. He is devoted to the cause.
25 posted on 12/30/2002 8:23:32 PM PST by Conservababe
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To: Saturnalia
I remember Audie Murphy. And yes, indeed, he holds the title even yet.

I will never forget an interview of him in which he said that he was not a hero. When the interviewer asked him why, he said that he had always kept his union railroad dues up to date because he feared the movie industry and his fame.
26 posted on 12/30/2002 8:30:35 PM PST by Conservababe
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To: Conservababe
Must I remind you that it was mostly RESERVES that won Desert Storm.

That's news to me. I do know that the reserves played a large part in transporting men and machines to the Gulf, but the professionals (read active duty) fought that war.

27 posted on 12/30/2002 8:33:04 PM PST by arm958
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To: arm958
but the professionals (read active duty) fought that war.

Are you going to seriously, on a public board, say that only active duty military were engaged in combat? LOL

28 posted on 12/30/2002 8:37:56 PM PST by Conservababe
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To: Conservababe
Are you going to seriously, on a public board, say that only active duty military were engaged in combat? LOL

Of course not, but the overwhelming majority of the combat forces certainly were active duty. That would tend to conflict with your claim that it was mostly reserves that won Desert Storm. It's a free country, so I suppose it is your right to attempt to rewrite history.

29 posted on 12/30/2002 8:57:02 PM PST by arm958
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To: arm958
So what percentage is "overwhelming"? I am laughing so hard, really.
30 posted on 12/30/2002 9:01:00 PM PST by Conservababe
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To: All
The proof is going to be in the pudding, now isn't it, boys and girls? Either Rumsfield or Hackworth is right.

We know that Rumsfield did an end-run around a bunch of the generals who didn't want to do the war in Afganistan his way. They are the disgruntled types who are feeding Hackworth, the NY Times and the Washington Post info, that frankly, as a former USAF guy, I find treasonous.

I'll put my money on Rumsfield.

31 posted on 12/30/2002 9:04:15 PM PST by Jolly Green
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To: BluH2o
Right on Marine! Couldn't have said it any better myself!
32 posted on 12/30/2002 9:08:35 PM PST by navyblue
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To: Conservababe
So what percentage is "overwhelming"? I am laughing so hard, really.

All right, if it's a history lesson you want, it's a history lesson you'll get. The following is a list of all of the major U.S. ground combat forces that fought in Desert Storm: 1st Cavalry Division, 1st Infantry Division (Mechanized), 1st Armored Division, 1st Marine Division, 2nd Marine Division, 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Armored Division, 24th Infantry Division (Mechanized), 82nd Airborne Division, 101st Airborne Division, and the U.S. Army Special Forces.

Hmmm, not a Reserve or Guard unit in the bunch. Still laughing?

33 posted on 12/30/2002 9:16:26 PM PST by arm958
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To: navyblue
Hackworth is just a worthless hack.
34 posted on 12/30/2002 9:17:04 PM PST by anchorclankor
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To: arm958
It looks like of the 540,000 troops deployed. Approximately 228,000 were reserve or IRR units.
35 posted on 12/30/2002 9:27:34 PM PST by jbstrick
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To: BluH2o
Richard Marcinko can boast about just as much of a record but doesn't poo poo our guys during war time.
36 posted on 12/30/2002 9:29:44 PM PST by paltz
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To: paltz
This was the exact same crap thrown out by arm chair generals before the Iraq War - they said the US Air Force and Navy/Marine pilots didn't have combat experience so they wouldn't be effective - they said the M1 Tank couldn't frive hundreds of miles accross the sand dunes - they said Saddam would be toast within months after we kicked his ass !

All wrong !

As for Hack he keeps trying to compare war hardened comanders, Generals and NCO's from a time when we had many deadly wars. It's not a fair comparasion and the one thing that will make our troops as good is real live battle !

37 posted on 12/30/2002 9:30:23 PM PST by Crossbow Eel
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To: Jolly Green
We know that Rumsfield did an end-run around a bunch of the generals who didn't want to do the war in Afganistan his way. They are the disgruntled types who are feeding Hackworth, the NY Times and the Washington Post info, that frankly, as a former USAF guy, I find treasonous.
Then Hack is serving a good role -- he's highlighting that a lot of the military 'leaders' are just Clinton-era suckups and Rumsfield's cleaned their clocks.
38 posted on 12/30/2002 9:31:13 PM PST by lelio
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To: arm958
Army Guard and Reserve Units
activated as part of
Operation Desert Shield/Storm
Major Combat Units

1st Bn, 108th Armor Georgia

1st Bn, 121st Infantry (Mechanized) Georgia

1st Bn, 141st Field Artillery Louisiana

1st Bn, 156th Armor Louisiana

1st Bn, 198th Armor Mississippi

1st Bn, 230th Field Artillery Georgia

2nd Bn, 121st Infantry (Mechanized) Georgia

2nd Bn, 156th Infantry (Mechanized) Louisiana

2nd Bn, 198th Armor Mississippi

3rd Bn, 141st Infantry (Mechanized) Texas

3rd Bn, 156th Infantry (Mechanized) Louisiana

48th Infantry Brigade (Mechanized) Georgia

1st Bn, 142 Field Artillery Bde. Arkansas

2nd Bn, 142 Field Artillery Bde. Arkansas

142d Field Artillery Brigade Arkansas

148th PAD Idaho

152d Armored Bn Alabama

155th Armored Brigade Mississippi

256th Infantry Brigade (Mechanized) Louisiana

E Troop, 348 Armored Cavalry Regiment Georgia

Other Units



Alabama

1241 Adjutant General Co. Guard

1207th Quartermaster Co. Guard

1207th U.S. Army Hospital Reserve

314th Public Affairs Det. Reserve

322nd Mil. History Det. Reserve

318th Chemical Co. Reserve

907th Chemical Det. Reserve

123rd Combat Support Co. Guard

715th Combat Support Co. Guard

1208th Quartermaster Co. Guard

1659th Transportation Det. Guard

490th Chemical Det. Reserve

851st Combat Support Group Reserve

173rd JAG Det. Reserve

81st Transportation Det. Reserve

287th Transportation Co. Reserve

1167th Transportation Det. Guard

731st Combat Support Bn. Guard

226th Combat Support Co. Guard

778th Combat Support Co. Guard

638th Ordinance Co. Guard

1128th Transportation Co. Guard

377th QM Co (POL OPS) USAR AL

781st TRANS Co USAR AL

1208th QM Co (Water Pur) NGR Lineville, AL

129th Clearing Co. Guard


109th Evacuation Hospital Guard


440th Ordinance BN Guard (disbanded)


1135th QM Supply Company Guard




Arkansas

148th Evacuation Hospital Guard

299th Engineer Co. Reserve

296th Medical Co. Guard

374th Medical Co. Reserve

1122nd Transportation Co. Guard





Arizona

348th Transportation Co. Reserve

2221st Quartermaster Co. Guard

2220th Transportation Co. Guard

855th MP Company Guard


222 Transportation Co Guard


2222 Transportation Co. Guard


403rd Combat Support Hospital Reserve


California



419th Quartermaster Bn. Reserve

316th Quartermaster Co. Reserve

2668th Transportation Co. Guard

224th Transportation Det. Guard

1113th Transportation Co. Guard


343rd Medical Detachment (RA) Reserve


270th M.P. Company Guard



Colorado



1157th Transportation Det. Guard

1158th Transportation Det. Guard

HHC 43rd CSG Ft. Carson ,Co.


517th Medical Company Guard


759th M.P. Battalion Ft. Carson



Connecticut

142nd Medical Company Guard

344th Military Police Co. Reserve

1205th Railroad Unit Reserve

District of Columbia

207th JAG Det. Reserve

547th Transportation Co. Guard

380th Combat Support Co. Guard

372nd Military Police Bn. Guard

Delaware

736th Supply Services Battalion HQ Guard



Florida

3220th U.S. Army Garrison Reserve

337th Ml. Bn. Reserve

160th Military Police Bn. Reserve

351st Military Police Co. Reserve

810th Military Police Co. Reserve

351st Adjutant General Co. Reserve

320th Military Police Co. Reserve

146th Transportation Det. Reserve

322nd Quartermaster Det. Reserve

138th Aerial Surveillance Co. Reserve

743rd Combat Support Co. Guard

325th Combat Support Co. Guard

325th Combat Support Co. Guard

873rd Quartermaster Det. Reserve

347th Medical Det. Reserve


348th Med Det Reserve



Georgia



461st Adjutant General Co. Reserve

3299th Dental Det. Reserve

Operations Center Augmentation Reserve

3297th Army Hospital Reserve

433rd Chemical Det. Reserve

337th Ml Bn. Reserve

1015th Combat Support Co. Reserve

145th Medical Det. Reserve

190th Military Police Co. Guard

1148th Transportation Co. Guard

988th Combat Support Co. Reserve

Third U.S. Army Reserve

165th Quartermaster Co. Guard

48th Armored Brigade Guard



Illinois


1138th Military Police Co. Guard

419th Transportation Det. Reserve

416th Engineer Command Det. Reserve

300th Adjutant General Det. Reserve

1544th Transportation Co. Guard

339th Transportation Det. Reserve

1244th Transportation Co. Guard

724th Transportation Co. Reserve

387th QM BN (POL TERM OPS) USAR Danville, ILL

1644th Transportation Co. Guard

Indiana

838th Transportation Det. Guard

209th Combat Support Co. Reserve

209th Combat Support Co. Reserve

Iowa

1133rd Transportation Co. Guard

4249th Military Police Det. Reserve

915th Transportation Co. Reserve

209th Medical Company (Clearing) Guard

134th Medical Company (Ambulance) Guard

134th S&S Company Guard

Kansas

170th Heavy Equip. Maint. Co. Gaurd

13th Quartermaster Det. Reserve

129th Transportation Co. Reserve



842nd Quartermaster Co. Reserve

475th Engineer Det. Reserve

467th Engineer Det. Reserve

410th Evac Hospital(now deactivated) Reserve



Kentucky



3346th Dental Det. Reserve

137th Transportation Det. Guard

217th Quartermaster Det. Guard

2123 Transportation Det. Guard

133d (Mobile) Public Affairs Detachment Guard

807th Surgical Hospital (MA) Reserve


1st Bn 623d FA 8" SP Guard


76th Heavy Equipment Co ???



Louisiana



1086th Transportation Co. Guard

872nd Medical Det. Reserve

1190th Deployment Control Reserve

1191st Transportation Terminal Reserve

1192 Transportation Terminal Reserve

1090th Transportation Det. Guard

1093rd Transportation Co. Guard

321st Logistics Center Reserve

1083rd Transportation Co. Guard

3673rd Comp. Service Co. Guard

256th Infantry Brigade Guard

Company A 527th Engineering Battalion Gaurd

527th EN BN (Cbt Hvy) Guard

258th Military Police Co Ft Polk.

433rd Military Police Company Reserve

344th Combat Support Co. Reserve


Maine

619th Transportation Co. Reserve

3620th Transportation Det. Guard



Maryland

372nd Military Police Co. Reserve

352nd Civil Affiars Command Fort Meade

417th Transportation Det. Reserve

1176th Transportation Terminal Reserve

200th Military Police Co. Guard

290th Military Police Co. Guard

400th Military Police Bn. Reserve

200th Transportation Det. Reserve

202nd Transportation Det. Reserve




Massachusetts



46th JAG Det. Reserve

704th Transportation Det. Guard

324th Adjutant General Reserve

1058th Transportation Co. Guard


972 Military Police Company Guard


91 OPCON 1st ID Guard


772nd Military Police Company Guard


181 Engineer Company Guard




Michigan



5064th U.S. Army Garrison Guard

460th Combat Support Co. Guard

1009th Transportation Det. Guard

1461st Transportation Co. Guard

180th Transportation Co. Reserve

144th Military Police Co. Guard

210th Military Police BN Guard

1776th Military Police Co. Guard


1073rd Maintenance Co Guard


146th MP Bn Guard



Minnesota

109th Combat Support Co. Guard

70th M.P. Company Reserve

Mississippi



1181st Transportation Terminal Reserve

114th Military Police Co. Guard

365th Combat Support Det. Reserve

479th Ordinance Co. Reserve

193rd Transportation Bn. Guard

162nd Military Police Co. Guard

112th Military Police Bn. Guard

386th Transportation Co. Reserve

296th Transportation Co. Reserve

173rd QM Co (POL OPS) USAR Greenwood

786th TRANS Co NGR Greenwood


Missouri



624th Engineer Det. Reserve

858th Combat Support Det. Reserve

1138th Military Police Co. Guard

93rd Evacuation Hospital Ft. Leonard Wood


1221st Trans. Co. Guard



Montana



370th Quartermaster Bn. Reserve


159th Command Support Group Reserve



Nebraska



1012th Combat Support Co. Reserve

172nd Transportation Co. Reserve

561st Support Group Reserve

403 MP PW Camp Reserve



New Jersey



253rd Transportation Co. Guard

328th Transportation Det. Guard

144th Supply Company ?

404th Civil Affairs Battalion Reserve



New Mexico



281st Transportation Co. Reserve

52nd Engineer Battalion. Reserve



New York



211th Military Intel. Co. Reserve

1302nd Military Police Det. Reserve

10th Transportation Det. Guard

139th Transportation Det. Reserve

142nd Transportation Det. Reserve

423th Medical Det. Reserve

318th Transportation Agency Reserve

401st Civil Affairs Co. Reserve

414th Civil Affairs Co. Reserve

719th Transportation Co. Guard

623rd Transportation Co. Reserve

134th Maint. Co. Guard

145th Maint. Co. Guard

102nd Maint. Co. Guard

206th MP Co. Guard

365th Evac

107th MP Co. Guard



800th Military Police Brigade Reserve

401st Civil Affairs Company Reserve

North Carolina



991st Transportation Co. Reserve

1450th Transportation Co. Guard

540th Quartermaster Det. Guard

121st Transportation Det. Guard

1454 Transportation Co. Guard

431st Quartermaster Det. Reserve

805th Military Police co. Reserve

211th Military Police Co. Guard

398th Combat Support Co. Guard

385th Transportation Det. Reserve

315th Quartermaster Det. Reserve

210th Military Police Co. Guard

171st Combat Support Co. Reserve

337th Ml Bn. Reserve

382nd Public Affairs Det. Guard

3274th Army Hospital Reserve

29th Transportation Det. Reserve

95th RAOC Guard

319th PAD Reserve


805th MP Company Reserve



North Dakota

132nd Quartermaster Co. Guard

134th Quartermaster Det. Guard

131st Quartermaster Det. Guard

308th Engineer Det. Reserve


311th Evacuation Hospital Reserve



Ohio

2361 Mobile Signal Comm. Center Reserve

79th Quartermaster Det. Reserve

1001st Combat Support Co. Reserve

758th Combat Support Co. Reserve

828th Combat Support Co. Reserve

837th Combat Support Det. Reserve

870th Combat Support Det. Reserve

342nd Military Police co. Reserve

1487th Trans Company Ohio Guard

350th Evacuation Hospital Reserve


838th M.P. Company Guard


324th M.P. Company Guard


251 TT Co. ???


656th Trans Co. Reserve





Oklahoma




2120th Combat Support Co. Guard

1245th Transportation Guard

1345th Transportation Guard

1st BN 158 FA Guard


120th Med Bn Guard


445th Military Police Company Guard


44th Evac Hospital Reserve





Oregon



206th Transportation Det. Guard

2186th Light Equipment Maintenance Co. ?



Pennsylvania



1185th Transportation Terminal Reserve

442nd Combat Support Co. Reserve

635th Quartermaster Det. Reserve

298th Transportation Co. Reserve

228th Transportation Det. Guard

475th Quartermaster Det. Reserve

347th Quartermaster Co. Reserve

121st Transportation Co. Guard

131st Transportation Co. Guard

14th Quartermaster Det. Reserve

3623rd Maintenence Co. Guard

300th Field Hospital ?

304th Civil Affairs Group Reserve

402nd MP PW CP Reserve



Puerto Rico



394th Quartermaster Bn. Reserve

311th Quartermaster Co. Reserve

219th Quartermaster Det. Guard

276th Combat Support Co. Reserve

430th Combat Support Co. Reserve



Rhode Island



443th Civil Affiars Co. Reserve

115th MP Company Guard

119th MP Company Guard

118th MP Battalion Guard

South Carolina



265th Quartermaster Det. Guard

596th Transportation Det. Reserve

3271st Army Hospital Reserve

3273rd Army Hospital Reserve

413th Chemical Co. Reserve

187th JAG Det. Reserve

32nd Military Police Co. Guard

747th Transportation Det. Guard

371st Chemical Co. Reserve

450th Ordinance Co. Reserve

941st Transportation Co. Reserve

120th Rear Area Operation Center Reserve

941st Trans Co USAR So. Carolina


251st Evacuation Hospital Guard


1st Battalion 263d Armor Guard



South Dakota



57th Transportation Det. Guard

747th Transportation Det. Guard

452 Ordnance Co. Reserve

323 Chemical Company Reserve


740th Transportation Company Guard


1742nd Transportation Company Guard


109th Engineer Group Guard


730 Medical Company Guard


Tennessee



130th Combat Support Ctr. Guard

176th Combat Support Det. Guard

3397th Army Garrison Reserve

776th Combat Support Co. Guard

251st Combat Support Co. Guard

1175th Quartermaster Co. Guard

360th Quartermaster Det. Reserve

212th Engineer Co. Guard

382 Medical Det. Reserve

1032d Trans Co NGR Bristol, TN

332nd Medical Brigade Reserve

1174th Transportation (MTP) Guard

401st MP Camp Reserve

844th Engineer Battalion (CBT HVY) Reserve

155th Engineers Guard


1st Bn 181st FA 8" SP Guard


176th Mt. Bn, HHD Guard


377th Combat Support Hospital Reserve

118th Public Affairs Detachment Guard

Texas

4005th Army Hospital Reserve

327th Chemical Co. Reserve

302nd Military Police Co. Reserve

601st Transportation Det. Reserve

541st Transportation Det. Reserve

1104th Transportation Det. Guard

340th Combat Support Co. Reserve

383rd Quartermaster Co. Reserve

149th Adjutant General Co. Guard

15th Quartermaster Det. Reserve

644th Transportation Co. Reserve

217 Evac. Hosp. Guard

114th Medic Hosp. Reserve

89th Military Police Brigade Guard


Utah


120th Quartermaster Det. Guard

142nd Military Intel. Bn. Guard



Vermont

131st Engineer (CSE) CO. Guard



Virginia

91st Transportation Det. Reserve

145th Transportation Det. Reserve

986th Medical Det. Guard

1033rd Transportation Co. Guard

229th Military Police Company Guard

363 Military Police Company ???

Washington

144th Transportation Det. Guard

907th Engineer Platoon Reserve

50th General Hospital [1000 beds] Reserve

513th Transportation Company

22nd Transportation Detachment

497th Transportation Company

80th Ordnance Battalion, HHC

542nd Maintenance Company






West Virginia



328th Quartermaster Det. Reserve

313th Military Police Det. Reserve

646th Quartermaster Co. Reserve

388th Quartermaster Det. Reserve



Wisconsin

432nd Civil Affairs Group eserve

304th Transportation Det. Reserve

343rd Transportation Det. Reserve

826th Ordnance Co. Reserve

107th Combat Support Co. Guard

340th Transportation Det. Reserve

1122nd Transportation Det. Guard

890th Transportation Co. Reserve

12th Medical Det (Prev Med) Reserve

32d Military Police

395th ORD CO DS/GS(WSNBAA)
39 posted on 12/30/2002 9:31:40 PM PST by jbstrick
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To: texson66
LOL
40 posted on 12/30/2002 9:32:35 PM PST by eternity
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