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Originally Posted by dragoon500ly
The listing below reflects the NG units and their real-life intended missions:
26th Infantry Division, MA-NG
28th Infantry Division, PA-NG
38th Infantry Division, IN/MI-NG
42nd Infantry Division, NY-NG
47th Infantry Division, MN/IA-NG
These were pure infantry outfits with 1 tk, 1 mech and 7 inf battalions. Generally had Korean/Vietnam-era equipment and were considered to be low-readiness divisions. Not intended for service in NATO, not even intended for overseas duties! There were reports that these were intended for Home Defense only.
<snip> There are a couple of articles that the 26th and 47th IDs may have been shipped to Alaska. Considering that these two divisions had little or no aviation support and only 2.5 & 5-ton trucks for transport, they would have been almost immobile in the Alaskan countryside. I would have to stamp that article as a very low probability...
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I was in the 26th ID (again, mid 90s). We had about zero cold weather gear, and I never heard about Alaska at all. Cant speak for the rest of the division (never had any contact with anyone outside the Squadron), but we were fully mechanized Cavalry. We were FOR SURE a low-readiness unit - in the mid 90s we still had M113's, M60 tanks and M16A1's for goodness sake. Overall my experience there was a bit of a joke, compared to my active duty experience - I always thought that if we got called up for anything other than disaster relief we'd be in a world of hurt just from an equipment standpoint, let alone training.