[HorseSoldier]

When I first got in ('93) the Cav unit I was in was still running a sort of transitional MTOE with tankers in mid-NETT for M1A1s, 4.2" mortars, and 113 based scout platoons with 3 x M113A3s and 3 x M901s. The thermals were nice but otherwise they were a PITA. For the stuff we were actually doing circa 1993 I think we would have been better off with 6 x 113s or M2 Bradleys running four man dismount teams each, but then the army never asked me about my ideas for fixing MTOE. (Though my unit did eventually do a JRTC rotation as the heavy team element for a brigade where we did go with 6 x M2s instead of M3s per platoon and our 19Ds plussed up with 11Bs to fill all the seats in the back. Since we were running mixed platoons of 2 x M1A1s and 3 x Bradleys, it meant we could also put 18 dismounts on the ground on top of the firepower. Promised to be really solid, except that the OPFOR just avoided us like the plague until the mechanized attack at the end.)