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Originally Posted by Adm.Lee
One battalion per division/expeditionary force, so 3 regular and 1 reservist battalions.
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Assuming that we're talking late Cold War/T2Kverse, the Marine Reserves had two tank battalions - 4th and 8th.
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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.
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3rd Tanks moved to Twentynine Palms in 1976. There is a lot more maneuver space in California than in Okinawa or Hawaii.
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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.
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True, though in real life they started getting their own M1A1s around the time of ODS and were scheduled to complete their buy by 1996. In a T2Kverse where the Cold War never ended and Soviet tank development would have continued, I have trouble seeing the USMC buying M1s and not M1A1s.
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IIRC, in real life the Marines had only 1 company of M1 in Desert Storm?
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They borrowed 60 M1A1s from the Army and had 16 of their own. As I understand it, these were used by 2nd Tank Battalion and B/4th and C/4th Tank Battalion. 1st, 3rd, and 8th used the M60A1
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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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Do any of the official materials mention the 8th Tank Battalion at all?