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Originally Posted by dragoon500ly
The whole point is that these brigades would have been assigned to various corps, not grouped into an ad-hoc division.
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Honestly, I suspect it was purely an administrative decision on GDW's part to reduce the work load and length of USAVG. It makes for kind of a dogs breakfast -- besides the SIBs and SABs intended for action as independent units, they also misdirected some round out brigades (10th Mtn/27th Inf Bde) and ignored some wartime missions entirely (one of the USAR combat brigades was supposed to garrison Iceland).
Though it could be worse -- they omitted the entire Bundeswehr reserve component . . .
(Entertaining bit of trivia -- way back when I first enlisted on the reserve side of things, I was assigned to the unit that USAVG identifies as being reflagged during the war as E/44th Cavalry Squadron (Composite). So USAVG depicts one of "our" LAV-25s -- I always thought the Confederate battle flag was likely, and spent more time than was appropriate speculating on which TC would have earned the "Rusty Butt" nickname . . .).