In the East Africa Sourcebook you can see an example of three units that got reactivated that I saw as very likely to have occurred given the length of the war - i.e. long enough to have put together some units but not long enough to make whole new division size units
The 173rd Airborne Brigade was stood up in late 1995 using a combination of two existing Airborne battalions, one new battalion of parachute infantry that was raised during the war and a battalion of the 73rd Armored Regiment. It was ready in time to be deployed to Kenya in 1997.
They attempted to reactivate the 106th Infantry Division as well but only managed to get one infantry regiment, the 422nd, and two batteries of field artillery trained and ready before the nuclear attack on the US put a stop to the attempt to reform the division. It eventually went to both Liberia and Kenya.
You also have the 2nd Battalion, 3rd Infantry Regiment reactivated and brought back to life using new recruits as well for Kenya.
And the Marines put together a new Marine Regiment by using basically the drill instructors and trainers at Camp Lejeune and Parris Island, the last classes being trained there as well as security detachments from African embassies that had been withdrawn to Kenya and troops withdrawn from Guantanamo for Africa.
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