That is one of the things, National Guard and Reserve units would have a lot of troops with various skill set that would be useful in the T2K world. I know there has been debate that these units would still have their local flavor still by 2000.
One of the things one has to remember, as far as, the Soviets were still sending conscripts to units and many of the Pact forces would still be recruiting conscripts on much smaller scale than before the war. Even though many of the US Reserve and National Guard or even the Regular US Force wouldn't be quite the Elite troops that we think when we speak of Special Forces units. With maybe the exception of those troops in the Southwest and Northwest US and Balkan, many of these troop would be better off than their overall Pact counterparts.
Even with some Soviet Division still fielding 3000 or more, one has to wonder how many of these troops are conscripts, that would be of little use in combat. Many of them would be cannon fodder, for the local Divisional Commander.
Another thing one has to remember is before the outbreak of the war, in the Pact Forces many of the task that NATO NCO Corps did in their respective organization were done by the Junior Officers in the Pact Forces. Many of the NCOs in Pact Force were conscripts who deemed smart enough to take some limited leadership. In most cases the NCOs in the Soviet couldn't read maps or land navigate. In some cases, they had very little control of their squads, the squad already had natural leader who the NCO had to work with in many cases to keep discipline within the squad. By 2000 for a large part the NCOs of the Pact Forces would be taking on some of the responsibilities due to OTJ. The fact that many Officers who were working in position of greater responsibility, and they needed to rely on their NCOs to perform jobs, that they previously were responsible for. Even though many of these NCOs weren't trained to do such before the war.
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