One thing that is NOT considered is REFORGER, the fall exercise, is just winding down as the war starts! That means there is a US division on the ground already. Yeah they are 'war torn' and need R&R, but they are still there when the Germans jump.
MOST of the equipment for the divisions filling V, VII, III corps is already IN Europe and the troops come by AIR, not sea. Equivalent of 13 brigades including the ACav regt for III corps come in along with corps artillery. POMCUS was alive and 'well' at that time in V1 at least.
I have participated in the logistics side of FIVE REFORGERS, and must admit the retrograde operations were real clusters, especially when they sent divisions such as the 'hundred and worst' that had NO clue as to how things were done.
Had the wall not come down when it did, ODS would not have gone off as it did, since there is NO way they would have stripped VII corps to go to the gulf.
(note this is my opinion guys, it's up to the HoG to determine how it goes in their game world.)
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