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Old 07-02-2018, 07:01 PM
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Originally Posted by Legbreaker View Post
The troops brought back had nothing but their personal weapons and little else. There were virtually no vehicles and even the heavy weapons such as rockets, automatic grenade launchers, machineguns and the like were handed over to the Germans as payment for the crude oil which gets the ships across the Atlantic.
Upon arrival in the US they land at New Norfolk, a port which had been nuked. Virtually all war stores had already been sent to Europe, the Middle East, Korea and Africa (not to mention desperately needed in Texas and Alaska). There's just nothing left to equip them with - any transport of note is very likely to be civilian in nature and "requisitioned" upon landing.
What Milgov have come December 2000 is upwards of 50,000 hungry mouths, no practical way of moving them, almost no capacity to feed them, and even if they could be moved somehow, nothing to re-equip them with. Demobilisation, in the short term at least, is their only feasible option.
This I did not know, but would still think that the best use of them would be to get them moving on their LPC's and if they are not a viable combat element, send them home to be a home guard and keep the marauders down. This gives them the rest they need, at the same time kind of keeps them in uniform available for call up when/if they can get the heavy gear needed. Now how many would answer that call up I can not say, depends on how long it takes to happen, where you are asking them to go, and all that.
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