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The 177th Armor Brigade in Southern California which was never mentioned, but had mission to train other brigade as op-for, what happen to it.
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More likely looted for replacement personnel and disbanded than converted into a real maneuver unit, in my opinion, but still a question. Same issue with 1-509th at a JRTC still based at Ft Chaffee?
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I do see the 10th Mountain going to Norway, but not the 6th Infantry Division, they would probably lose one combat Brigade with their Airborne Battalion to the 2nd Infantry Division and use absorb the Alaskan National Guard.
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I don't buy stripping Alaska of a garrison, but if I remember right 6th ID's place was taken by 47th ID.
Another problem with 6th ID is that it's round out reserve component units are already spoken for in the GDW OOB -- they had a USAR round out LIB that got placed in the GDW fictional USAR combat division (forget the #, but it also includes the Iceland Defense Force), plus 5-297th or 6-297th Infantry, AK ARNG, who presumably are part of 2nd Arctic Scout Bde. (I can only assume GDW decided Alaska fielded versions of 207th Infantry Group because on paper the state had six battalions of 297th Infantry on the books back then, even though some were organized as Scout battalions, some as standard light infantry, and some as mechanized infantry.)
That leaves 6th ID with five or six battalions, depending on whether the Airborne battalion in AK back then is part of the division or pulled out to serve as a theater level asset, which was their intended role. When it's all said and done, it might have made more sense to leave 6th ID in Alaska and send one brigade of 47th ID to cover the mission they ended up with in the GDW history.
Another problem I have with the GDW stuff is the presumed ability to just magically spin off new Army and Corps headquarters by magic. Most of those headquarters simply cannot have had any of the usual Army or Corps level assets under their command. Looking at Alaska, specifically, as GDW depicts it, I suspect that after the Soviet invasion "US X Corps" basically amounted to the commander of 10th Mountain taking off a hat with two stars on it from time to time and putting on a three star hat to make decisions involving the AK ARNG units, Canadian units in Alaska and whatever other odds and sods 10th Mountain had backing it up. I don't see where any Corps artillery or other assets would have come from.