Yeah I know that Armies and Corps HQ have several Brigades, Battalions, and Companies assigned. In many cases, the Corps HQ and Armies HQ with these units are as large or much larger than a cookie cutter Armor/Mechanized Division depending on the mission of the Corps or Army.
Take Fort Bragg as example, they Special Operation Army Command, the 82nd Airborne Division, and the XVIII Airborne Corps. In theory the 82nd Airborne Division is integrated unit on base. Yet, with the XVIII Airborne Corps there are several Brigade of various mean (Aviation, Artillery, ADA, MP, Support, Engineer, and others) some are attached to the Corps directly (deploy with the Corps), or indirectly (they can deploy independent of the Corps such as some of the MP and Engineer Brigades). In some cases the Support units assigned to the Corps would deployed in direct support of the 82nd or other units of the Corps too. Then there was the Special Operation Command that again had training course unit and there were couple Special Operations Groups assigned to the post too.
I am sure Fort Hood and Fort Lewis would be a couple bases that were over populated with support for the Corps at those bases, which explains why it was easier on paper for the Divisions at those bases to have round-out units or in the case of 2nd Armor Division while assigned to Fort Hood with the 1st Cavalry to have one Brigade Forward Deployment to Germany to make 'room' for other units. After Desert Shield/Storm there was large reorganization and with base closure many of these bases that were consider too small, suddenly had to find room for other units. It also helped that in the process several other units were deactivated and things were reorganized in the process too.
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