My thoughts on what happened to the troops who came home from Omega in my campaign universe - which by the way is where any sourcebooks (like East Africa) or others things I do submit here will be set
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US Army Reorganization after Omega in Olefins Twilight 2000 Universe
MilGov began segregation of the units that reported for Omega in Bremerhaven and elsewhere in Europe (Great Britain, Norway, etc.) where the units reported.
In addition to Army units there were Air Force, USN and USMC personnel involved in the evacuation as well.
Upon arrival in Norfolk the units that had maintained their unit cohesion were reassembled and readied for deployment in the US. Non-US citizens who had joined these units were offered US citizenship if they stayed with the units and almost all of the men and women took the offer.
In addition to these troops several formations had arrived as mobs of men, with almost no unit cohesion. These personnel were offered a chance to join CENTCOM prior to embarking and some 5000 Army personnel plus another 500 US Air Force and USN personnel and 500 USMC personnel volunteered for duty with CENTCOM.
One unit, the 2nd Brigade of the 2nd Armored volunteered as a unit for duty in Kenya. The remaining US Army units that had arrived with no unit cohesion were disbanded and their personnel made available for reinforcement of the units that remained. These units that were disbanded included the 44th Armored Division, the 1st, 35th and 36th Mechanized Divisions, the 2nd ACR, and the 1st Cavalry Division.
Upon arrival at Norfolk all soldiers and officers were informed that the US was still in a state of war with foreign soldiers still on US soil and that until the state of war was lifted they were in it for the duration and that desertion during time of war was a capital crime. While some men were allowed to leave the military due to wounds or disability, they represented only a small fraction of those that returned.
The following forces were stood to on December 1, 2000 at Norfolk ready for re-assignment in the US:
7th Army HQ
1st Corps HQ
3rd Mechanized Division 5000 men
6th Infantry Division 2000 men
38th Infantry Division 3500 men
278th Armored Cavalry Regiment 400 men
V Corps HQ
3rd Armored Division 5000 men
28th Infantry Division 1000 men
4th Mechanized Division 1000 men
Unattached units
1st Armored Division 4000 men
43rd Infantry Division 1000 men
5th Mechanized Division 400 men (grouping of all known survivors that made it back to Bremerhaven in time)
Reinforcement Pool:
9000 personnel of the disbanded units
Equipment
The units were reissued their personal weapons that they had turned in at Bremerhaven. In addition they were issued 50 caliber MG, mortars, light anti-aircraft missiles and artillery pieces that had been installed on the ships as defensive weapons in order to avoid turning them in to the Germans as well as anti-tank missiles, mortars and other equipment that was at Norfolk.
MilGov had also managed to obtain some transport and light vehicles as well, mostly Hummers and various armored cars, to equip the units as well as a small amount of LAV-25 and M113 vehicles.
The only armor available was culled from a variety of sources including reconditioned museum pieces, repaired vehicles from a shipment of recovered vehicles that had arrived in early 1999 and never gone further south after that as well as a small shipment of armor that arrived in the late summer of 1999 that sat in the Norfolk area due to a lack of shipping and a need to use them for local area defense. In addition a few armored vehicles had been loaded onto one ship at Bremerhaven that arrived there in the late summer of 2000 with a final shipment of ammunition and spare parts from MilGov and had fuel for a return trip already.
The following were available to be issued:
4 M1Abrams
3 M1A1 Abrams
3 M1A2 Abrams
4 M60A4
12 M551 Sheridan
18 M48A5 Patton
6 LAV-75
4 Stingray
4 M47 Chaffee
A total of 58 tanks as well as 7 SPG and 6 Bradleys were available in total.
Plan to use the evacuated 7th Army to attack into Texas and restore the US position there and drive the Mexicans and Soviets out of the country in concert with MilGov forces already there and resistance forces as well as destroy the Texian Legion. If successful, to then restore the areas in Arizona and New Mexico to US control and finally California.
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