FYI
Mentioning Fort Polk had me look up some units and where they were located in canon - and realized why the writers used Camp Beauregard as the rally point in LA as opposed to Polk after I looked at some dates.
You would think that the home of the 5th Mechanized Division would have been the better place because the JRTC was there as well. However when you look at the dates the canon was written you can see why the JRTC isnt a factor in what is going on in the canon - it didnt go to Chafee in Arkansas until 1987 (after most of the original canon had been written) and not to Polk until 1993.
However you wonder if the JRTC would have been moved there with the 5th still there. In reality the 5th was deactivated in 1992 and thus the base was available for the JRTC to be moved there.
So given the 5th still being a going concern at the start of the war, would the JRTC still be at Fort Chafee? If so I dont see MilGov or CivGov (i.e. the 108th Division) pulling out of Arkansas as was mentioned in the canon - not with the JRTC and the men and equipment there still being in place
Last edited by Olefin; 09-30-2015 at 08:07 AM.
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