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Originally Posted by Legbreaker
It's possible the Osprey book got it wrong (it was written during the cold war) and they mistook an existing unit which had been temporarily deployed there, or they just made an assumption based on what they thought should be there using similar situations elsewhere as a template.
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Possible, yes, but multiple other, current sources do list a brigade (not a cadre/training unit- that was listed separately) as being in the Black Sea Fleet OOB.
But, in the T2k writers' defense, neither source ('85 Opsrey) or Global Security.org, et al was available when they were writing the various T2k OOBs and campaign/unit histories.
Or, they misplaced it. There were four RL Naval Infantry brigades and the SVG lists
four Naval Infantry Regiments so they may have mis-labeled the Black Sea Fleet one and forgotten to fix it. It was a huge project, and minor errors were bound to happen. There are lots of little mistakes like that throughout canon (numbers transposed, units listed as being in two places at the same time- that sort of thing).
Anyway, I'm a big fan of missing units (ie RL units that aren't mentioned in the SVG), so I'm totally cool with it. Missing units allows an aspiring source book author to expand a bit on canon without departing from it. For example, I found two Far East TVD units that the T2k authors missed (or didn't know about, more likely) and, with Marc Miller's permission, incorporated them in Soviet Forces Korea in the KPSB.
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Originally Posted by Legbreaker
As for the 63rd in Korea, it's quite likely there was only limited transportation and escorts available (after all, the last major fleet in being had just been destroyed off Norway), so it's quite likely the 63rd were reassigned to Korea when it became apparent that not only could they not be lifted to Alaska, but the Soviets were having trouble supplying the units they'd already sent. Additionally, it appears they were needed as reinforcements against the US/UN offensive.
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That sounds more than reasonable. Good call.