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Originally Posted by raketenjagdpanzer
What is the decision process that goes in to that? 101st airborne division...well, there weren't 100 airborne divisions that preceded it, were there?
394th Tank Guards, 5th armored (actually we did used to have 5 armored...excuse me, ANY armored divisions), 344th TFW -
what's the pattern here? Or is there none? Does someone just come up with a unit composition and stick a number to it, whatever sounds good that day? "Hey, have we used 199th? No? 199th it is."
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The Divisions and Regiments are numbered sequentially from creation. Most Divisions are de-activated, the Colors furled, and the Lineage and Honors recorded. The type of Division has always me adaptable. The 82nd was an Infantry Division before it was Airborne. The Armor and Cavalry are low numbers as they were not often created as whole Divisions centered on that concept. Armor and Cavalry units were mainly created in the Regimental systems and part of an Infantry Divisions organization.