That issue of resupply is why my GM had the Med Cruise changed to a DIA operation to get the CivGov troops to come over to MilGov - hey 42nd Division here is a bunch of shells and tank parts and other stuff to get your division back on its feet - and if you announce for MilGov we will send more - and MilGov would have an ability to supply out of Israel whereas you got me where CivGov is getting fuel to even send a single ship to Yugoslavia let alone supplies for three divisions to fill it
And the description of the three divisions is not one of three cutoff divisions out of supplies and out of luck in the US Army Guide and the only canon description of the area - i.e. the Albania Challenge article - its pretty clear that the US force there is still operational. So that means supplies.
By the way there are ways to explain how the three divisions could be still equipped
1) Captured Italian supplies - which would be NATO standard as to shells, ammo, etc..
2) NATO providied equipment, ammo, shells, etc.. that were shipped to Yugoslavia prior to the Italians jumping into the war and being used by the three divisions
3) Re-equipped with enemy equipment to a large extent - i.e. well no more M-16 ammo but there is plenty for all those AK's we captured
Still by the time those divisions were sent CivGov could have made a hell of a lot more political capital sending them to kick the Mexicans in the teeth and retake Texas - I doubty my Oct 1998 one American really gave a rat's butt listening on the radio that our glorious forces were advancing in Yugoslavia to help our allies there when those doing the listening were on the run out of Los Angeles and San Antonio and Phoenix and Santa Fe
much better politics about how they saved Louisiana from the Mexicans or how Dallas is still American because the CivGov led 42nd kept it free of the Mexican scourge
Frankly I think the whole Yugoslavia thing was not thought out well - and that fact that the only thing ever written about the US forces there outside of the US Army Vehicles Guide was that one Albania article pretty much shows that GDW didnt put a lot of brain cells into the idea as a well
Plus there is CENTCOM getting 6000 troops from Europe in December 2000 - well why dont they go after the three divisions sitting in Yugoslavia instead? They have a unified MilGov/CivGov command there - and that is a whole Corps to reinforce them and they are a hell of a lot closer to them than Bremerhaven is - and Israel probably still has the ships to get them - and if not the French sure do - and I bet they would love to have more US troops show up to fight the Russians and keep them from having to do it to support their new Kuwaiti and Saudi and Iraqi allies
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