I put it down to transport difficulties, after all the logical units to deploy to Europe are heavy units (see notes about difficulties in deploying even light units to the Middle East).
In Europe maybe a Bn was formed from volunteers of units already there? Might be an article in that...
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Originally Posted by James1978
In the context of a general mobilization, I don't disagree. In fact, I find it quite likely.
But the RDF Sourcebook makes it sound like the entire pre-war regiment deployed to CENTCOM with all three battalions. That just strikes me as odd since the US entered the war in Europe before CENTCOM was able to deploy in any strength. You'd think at least a battalion would be handy as a raid force for 7th Army early on.
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