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Originally Posted by Adm.Lee
One battalion per division/expeditionary force, so 3 regular and 1 reservist battalions. There's usually at least a platoon deployed with each expeditionary unit (reinforced battalion afloat). Numbered like the divisions, 1st is on the West Coast, 2nd is East Coast, 3rd is in Hawaii and Okinawa.
Battalion organization is similar the US Army's.
Equipment is older than the Army's. It's not cast-offs, but the Army units in Germany historically got 1st call on the new gear, so the Marines in T2k are just getting M1s while deploying M60A4. IIRC, in real life the Marines had only 1 company of M1 in Desert Storm?
In v1 US vehicle guide, the 3 regular tank battalions (1st-3rd) had M1, and the reservist/wartime battalions (4th-6th) had M60A4.
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Yes... and no.
The 8th Tank Battalion has a company in SC - during the 90's it was based in Columbia SC. At the time of the gulf war they had M1's, and in 95 they upgraded to M1A1's.
How, you might ask, did they have them when some active duty marine units didn't?
South Carolina's Patron Saint, Sen. Strom Thurmond. Every time a Procurement bill came through, they had to pay him off to vote for it by ensuring that all reserve and national guard formations had the *latest* equipment. For instance, the SC ANG had Longbow Apache's before the regular army did...
Ya'll have no idea how much that fact - that SC's state troops was better and more lavishly equipped than regular formations - pissed off the Air Force (The SCNG had higher block F16's than most Air Force Units), the Army, and the Marines. Strom joked that when the south stepped up to teach the northerners a lesson again, they would be better equipped than the last time.