If they're out of Ft. Hood, they may be infantry, but they're a heavy Mech Inf division. Heavy on the M1's and Bradleys.
This is crying over spilled milk, but i repeat that the moment Turkey hinted at denial of passage the 4ID should have immediately been routed to Kuwait.Playing these diplomatic games has cost time and it may cost lives.1st MEF is as fine a light infantry division as exists, but to ask it to do the same job as 3ID is very poor strategy.Perhaps it would have been better to exchange 1st MEF with the Brits. Add the 82nd's brigade to the Brits as extra infantry and that would have put two heavy divisions in line aon the road to Baghdad. Or give 1st MEF some Challengers to augment their limited Abrams units.. This is armchair posturing, but I find it frustrating tosee us go to war living on the edge.
While I'm venting does anyon else have a sense of deja vu to LBJ' micromanaging of the air campaign in Nam? We have no attack zones, no attack locations etc. Didn't we learn anything from the days we risked planes and crew to attack truck parks while ships unloaded military supplies in Haiphong without so much as an air raid warning.?
The interesting thing is the line about being the Army's only "fully digitized" division. It will be interesting to see how they perform.