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Old 12-30-2010, 08:41 PM
Abbott Shaull Abbott Shaull is offline
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Originally Posted by Adm.Lee View Post
This is one big reason that some generals advocated smaller airborne forces, assigned further down the chain of command. IIRC, Patton suggested a regiment per field army, for short-range operations like bridge-grabbing. The planning was assumed to be less time-consuming.

To drag this back towards T2k, Soviet Fronts and Tank Armies each have a desant (air-assault) brigade assigned, for just this kind of thing.
Yeah I was about to say that the Soviet at certain command levels were suppose to have an assigned Air Assault Brigade. While in each Motorized Rifle Division in theory one of the Rifle Regiments was suppose to be a Airmobile trained...
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