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Old 04-02-2011, 11:56 PM
Abbott Shaull Abbott Shaull is offline
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Okay after looking I found there some Companies and Platoon that were cohorts that served in the 82nd Airborne and 101st Air Assault. I know a lot of these units went to the 10th Mountain since it had only been recently reformed. I also know there were plenty of cohorts that went the 6th, 7th, and 25th Division as they were in states of rebuilding to as the US Army attempted to reorganize the 7th and 25th from Heavy formation to Light. The 10th was total being built from the ground up, and the 6th was being reorganized from Brigade size force already in Alaska into a Division.

In addition I know there were plenty who went to Germany since at the time it was three year tour. Not sure if any went to Korea. Pretty sure the 177th Armor Brigade and 9th Motorized Division were probably the only two Brigade/Division size unit that didn't get many Cohorts due to their unique missions, one experience OpFor force and test bed unit, both needed to have troops that needed to know their stuff. With what I have read probably not any in the Armor Cavalry Regiment either due to the high state of readiness they had to have. One of the lesson that they seemed to have learned the hard way with the Cohort Companies and Platoon sent to the 82nd Airborne Division in which a few missed their first DRF rotation due to lack of having time to get train and complete certification. Explains why also some of the 82nd Airborne Battalion were hodge-podge during Grenada too.

Thanks Web for answering so quickly.
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