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Originally Posted by cavtroop
I'd like to see a breakdown by the whole force, not just one theater.
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That will probably jack it up a bit. I remember reading about the 1:10 T3R (love that acronym!) before. One needs to remember that the Cold War US Army (and other services) maintained a higher "overhead" than other armies for at least two reasons. One is to keep the possibility of disciplined expansion in the case of WW3 (learned some lessons from the chaos of WW1); and the other is to be able to project and support forces on other continents. Others include the need to maintain modern weapons and provide comforts to peacetime levels.
Heck, if air forces consider only their aircrew as "teeth," their T3R is way high!
I have some stuff on the '80s Army TO&Es, I will see if I can dig up the engineer battalion things.