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Originally Posted by Adm.Lee
I wonder if these were fresh-raised battalions, or were they re-assigned from the brigades already assigned to Corps or Armies? Given that the '90s, the US had 8? heavy divisions, that's 16+ new battalions and their brigade HQs, at a time when the Army was being cut back.
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No many of these Battalion were stripped from Combat Engineer Brigades that were Corps level assets. One of the many lessons that the US Army should of learned during WWII but never realized until then, was that the Divisions in combat usually have several Attachments. The last 8 years or so the Army has been re-learning lessons and slowly applying them.