Quite correct Leg by 2000 every unit was pretty had to be self-efficient. I am talking about in 1998 and 1999 when the larger Commands were still using stocks to supply lower echelon units. It would be well into 1999 when many units commanders would get the hint that they were more or less be responsible for supplying the needs of their troops. It isn't one thing Higher ups would be to willingly to openly broadcast so as to keep discipline with the units under them. It one of the reasons why many of the Pact Division more or less gave their Army, Front, and higher HQ the bird and sat still. They had only started to get their areas of responsibility into shape to where the unit could exist. Leave that and with lack of steady re-supply from higher HQs is the reason many stayed put. As in the "Band of Brothers" where the unit was at some river and Germans were on the other-side, each side put up with the few mortars and artillery rounds that would be shot each other. As the Sgt told the new Lt. paraphrased a bit,"We both have shelter on our respective side, why ruin a good thing." Especially the members of the 506th it was the best they had been in since Dec., and they were in no hurry to go and destroy what limited shelter from the elements they had there.....
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