11th ACR 1982-1985
Posted on 03/26/2003 12:35:14 PM PST by Calamari
The mobile 3d Armored Cavalry Regiment, with 5,200 troops, announced at Fort Carson on Tuesday that it had received orders to go.
(Excerpt) Read more at asia.reuters.com ...
11th ACR 1982-1985
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US Forces En Route or Alerted to Iraq.
I wonder why John Robinson doesn't just write some HTML to automatically provide a first reponse to all posts pointing out the fact that the article has been posted previously. Would save a lot of time. Or maybe just include it in a disclaimer at the bottom of the page.
This is a best available listing of the units that have either begun deploying to Southwest Asia, have received a deployment order and have not begun to transit, or have been Alerted to the possibility of a deployment. The list is based primarily off of open-source information gathered from the news media and the military.
The recent increase in deployments has made the task of compiling and identifying units that will be involved in a war with Iraq extremely difficult. The number of National Guard and Reserve activations and deployments are far too many count, though every effort is being made to create as detailed a list as possible. The possibility that a significant number of the Alerteds are false is considerable as the United States is no doubt trying hard to prevent the public and Iraq from determining just how many forces are involved.
The total number of personnel that have either been ordered to deploy or that are on Alerted is roughly 87,500. Currently there are roughly 70,000 Soldiers that have either been ordered to deploy or that are in the process of deploying. There are roughly 3,000 Marines en route to the Persian Gulf aboard 3 major task forces. Finally there are roughly 14,500 Sailors and aviators attached to the various Carrier Battle Groups and Amphibious Task Forces that are either en route to the region, on standby, or that are on surge status. These forces include some 100 aircraft of all types, 16 US Naval Vessels, 41 sealift or cargo vessels, and 597 VLS launch tubes carrying nearly 300 cruise missiles.
These numbers do not include the British or Coalition contributions.
Air Force |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wing | Squadron | Aircraft | Personnel | Status |
| TOTAL | ||||
| U/I Fighter Sq | ? - F-117 | |||
| 11th Reconnaissance Sq | ? - RQ-1A | |||
| 160th Fighter Sq | ? - F-16 CD | To Deploy | ||
| 58th Rescue Sq | ||||
| 167th Airlift Wing | ~ | Alerted | ||
| 182nd Airlift Wing | ~ | Alerted | ||
| 103rd Fighter Wing | ~ | Deploying | ||
| 347th Rescue Wing | ~ | Alerted | ||
| 57th Wing | ~ | Alerted | ||
| 403rd Wing | ~ | Alerted | ||
Naval Forces |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Location | Unit | Troops | Equipment | Status | |
| TOTAL PERSONNEL | |||||
| Ashore | |||||
| Port Security Unit 305 | |||||
| Port Securty Unit 309 | |||||
| Harbor Defense Command Unit 206 | |||||
| Naval Mobile Construction BN 4 | ~ 650 | ||||
| Naval Mobile Construction BN 133 | ~ 500 | ||||
| Naval Construction Support Unit 2 | |||||
| Marines | |||||
| TOTAL | ~ 1,500 | ||||
| element, Marine Wing Support Squadron 471 | 250 | To Deploy | |||
| element, HHC, 4th Marine Division | 250 | To Deploy | |||
| 1st Radio BN | en route - W. Pacific | ||||
| 2nd BN, 23rd Marine RGT | 1,000 | ||||
| 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit | 1,500 | ||||
| 1st BN, 8th Marines | |||||
| MEU Service Support Group 26 | |||||
| Amphibious Task Group [UK] | |||||
| 3 Commando BDE | |||||
| 40 Commando Royal Marines | |||||
| 42 Commando Royal Marines | |||||
| Afloat Naval Aviation | |||||
| Location | Unit | Squadron | Aircraft | Personnel | Status |
| TOTAL | 70 | 3,200 | |||
| CVN 68 Nimitz | |||||
| Carrier Air Wing 11 | 70 | 2,500 | Surge | ||
| VFA-14 Tophatters | 12 - F/A-18 | ||||
| VFA-41 Black Aces | 12 - F/A-18 | ||||
| VFA-94 Mighty Shrikes | 12 - F/A-18 | ||||
| VFA-97 Warhawks | 12 - F/A-18 | ||||
| VAW-117 Wallbangers | 4 - E-2C | ||||
| VAQ-135 Black Ravens | 4 - EA-6B | ||||
| VS-29 Dragonfires | 8 - S-3B | ||||
| VRC-30 Providers Det | 2 - C-2A | ||||
| HS-6 Indians | 4 - SH-60F 2- HH-60H |
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| LHD 7 Iwo Jima | |||||
| HMM-264 | 12 - CH-46 4 - CH-53E 3 - UH-1N 4 - AH-1W 6 - AV-8 |
700 | |||
| Afloat Warships | |||||
| Group | Ship | Class | Crew | VLS Cells | Status |
| TOTAL | ~ 11,500 | 597 | |||
| WHEC 716 Dallas | WHEC 378' | 167 | -0- | En route | |
| Nimitz Battle Group | 5,936 | 507 | Surge | ||
| CVN 68 Nimitz | CVN 68 | 3100 | -0- | ||
| CG 59 Normandy | CG 47 | 364 | 127 | ||
| CG 65 Chosin | CG 47 | 364 | 127 | ||
| DDG 62 Fitzgerald | DDG 51 | 323 | 90 | ||
| DDG 65 Benfold | DDG 51 | 323 | 90 | ||
| DD 972 Oldendorf | DD 968 | 382 | 61 | ||
| FFG 60 Rodney M. Davis | FFG 7 | 300 | -0- | ||
| AOE 10 Bridge | AOE 6 | 650 | -0- | ||
| SSN 752 Pasadena | SSN 688 | 130 | 12 | ||
| Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group | 1,872 | ||||
| LHD 7 Iwo Jima | LHA 1 | 1,100 | -0- | ||
| LPD 13 Nashville | LPD 4 | 420 | -0- | ||
| LSD 50 Carter Hall | LSD 49 | 352 | -0- | ||
| Mine Countermeasures | en route - W. Atlantic | ||||
| MCM 3 Sentry | MCM 1 | 84 | -0- | ||
| MCM 6 Devastator | MCM 1 | 84 | -0- | ||
| MCM 8 Scout | MCM 1 | 84 | -0- | ||
| MCM 14 Chief | MCM 1 | 84 | -0- | ||
| Sealift | Deploying | ||||
| T-AKR 5051 Cape Ducato | Cape D | -0- | |||
| T-AKR 5052 Cape Douglas | Cape D | -0- | |||
| T-AKR 5053 Cape Domingo | Cape D | -0- | |||
| T-AKR 5054 Cape Decision | Cape D | -0- | |||
| T-AKR 5055 Cape Diamond | Cape D | -0- | |||
| T-AKR 5069 Cape Edmont | Cape E | -0- | |||
| T-AKR 5051 Cape Gibson | Cape G | -0- | |||
| T-AKR 5066 Cape Hudson | Cape H | -0- | |||
| T-AKR 5067 Cape Henry | Cape H | -0- | |||
| T-AKR 5068 Cape Horn | Cape H | -0- | |||
| T-AKR 10 Cape Island | Cape I | -0- | |||
| T-AKR 11 Cape Intrepid | Cape I | -0- | |||
| T-AKR 5062 Cape Isabel | Cape I | -0- | |||
| T-AKR 5076 Cape Inscription | Cape I | -0- | |||
| T-AKR 5022 Cape John | Cape J | -0- | |||
| T-AKR 5075 Cape Johnson | Cape J | -0- | |||
| T-AKR 5082 Cape Knox | Cape K | -0- | |||
| T-AKR 5083 Cape Kennedy | Cape K | -0- | |||
| T-AKR 2044 Cape Orlando | Cape O | -0- | |||
| T-AKR 1001 Adm. William M. Callaghan | Cape O | -0- | |||
| T-AKR 9960 Cape Race | Cape R | -0- | |||
| T-AKR 9679 Cape Ray | Cape R | -0- | |||
| T-AKR 9678 Cape Rise | Cape R | -0- | |||
| T-AKR 113 Cape Taylor | Cape T | -0- | |||
| T-AKR 112 Cape Texas | Cape T | -0- | |||
| T-AKR 9711 Cape Trinity | Cape T | -0- | |||
| T-AKR 9701 Cape Victory | Cape V | -0- | |||
| T-AKR 9666 Cape Vincent | Cape V | -0- | |||
| T-AKR 9961 Cape Washington | Cape W | -0- | |||
| T-AKR 9962 Cape Wrath | Cape W | -0- | |||
| T-AKR 290 Pollux | T-AKR 287 | 42 | -0- | ||
| T-AKR 294 Antares | T-AKR 287 | 42 | -0- | ||
| T-AKR 287 Algol | T-AKR 287 | 42 | -0- | ||
| T-AVB 4 Curtiss | T-AVB 3 | ~ 41 | -0- | ||
| T-AVB 3 Wright | T-AVB 3 | ~ 41 | -0- | ||
| T-AKR 301 Fisher | T-AKR 300 | 26 | -0- | ||
| T-AKR 313 Red Cloud | T-AKR 300 | 26 | -0- | ||
| T-AKR 296 Gordon | T-AKR 296 | 26 | -0- | ||
| MV Tellus | Faust | -0- | |||
| T-AKR 289 Denebola | T-AKR 287 | 42 | -0- | ||
| T-AKR 292 Regulus | T-AKR 287 | 42 | -0- | ||
| Coalition Vessels | |||||
| Operation Bastille [Royal Australian Navy] | en route | ||||
| LPA Kanimbla | LPA | -0- | |||
It is truly amazing watching what an Armored Cav. regiment does (CNN is with the 7th Armored Cav.). The only drawback is that my wife and mother in law get very upset and nervous when they see an armored cav. unit in a fight. Not because they don't beleive in the mission, but rather because they can see what he is getting into.
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