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Originally Posted by Olefin
normally I would say yes - but considering how long the war had been going on, how much had been sold to the Chinese and how much had to have been shipped over to Europe and Iran and Korea before the TDM the question is how much anti-armor was left - and with CivGov and MilGov playing at shipping men over to Europe still how much of what was left did they take with them?
normally I would say they had more than enough LAW's and the like to give a good showing - but they werent expecting a Mexican attack - meaning those units along the border may not have been equipped to deal with armor
they were on missions to secure the border against refugees - thats more of a riot control mission - so did they go with their anti-armor equipment left behind at the depots?
consider that transport by then had broken down - given that they may have sent them without a lot of their anti-armor and anti-air weaponry - possibly even without any light armored vehicles they had as well to conserve fuel
now they eventually did get them because they stopped the Mexicans eventually - but could that explain the Mexican success - possibly
after all a bunch of troops with riot gear, light weapons and maybe at most tear gas and stunning grenades arent going to be able to stand up to an armored attack, even if its not a tank heavy one
and with air units restricted due to lack of fuel they may not have even known the Mexicans were building up to attack until it was too late (i.e. sounding the alarm when they are crossing the border into El Paso with Stuarts is way way too late)
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When you deploy you deploy with everything. Every long deployment I have been on the barracks are cleaned out, the troops personal items are picked up by movers, and the buildings turned over to Garrison for issue to another unit.
Your connexes are shipped by truck or rail, ship if necessary. Everything goes because your unit has no buildings or motor pool to call home.
Any rear detachment is working out of temporary offices in your parent battalion or brigade.
Everything goes, every scrap of kit because mission change happens or your shuffled to another larger parent unit.
I have three brigade combat patches for one deployment being shuffled around theater.
There is one caveat.......... All MP units are not equal..... There is three distinct MP company types and then detachments.
Division MP, Corps MP, EPW MP (also rail guards and escort guards) , and then detachments like dog handlers.
There is wide variance in MTOE for these types and equipment not normally on MTOE for that type. Example, 82nd MP is the Division MP company for the 82nd ABN Division... They unlike most MP companies have the FIM92A stinger on their MTOE because the Division Commander requires it.