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Originally Posted by castlebravo92
What's the tooth to tail ratio of units in 2000 and 2001, and are the logistics and support personnel accounted for in unit strengths? If not, then a division of 4,000 personnel might have the equivalent combat power of 2-4 full strength companies (at best).
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... that, using a Marine regiment of about 2900-3100 personnel as an example (the organic element as well as RCT components), about 75-80 percent are combat arms infantry (riflemen, machine gunners, mortarmen, and the like) and supporting arms (artillery, light armor, combat engineers, and things like that), with the remaining personnel being service support types...
You'd have to strip the supporting personnel away from seven such regiments and put them together just to get to the 4,000 marker, and assume zero casualties on top of that.
Army brigades are set up somewhat differently, but in deployable format aren't THAT different. The numbers ain't numberin'.
You'd have to have assume complete, all-hands manpower to start with, and then every combat arms and supporting arms hand killed practically to a man, and further with zero casualties among anyone in support and staff roles to even begin making sense with those number scaled to a division, whether Marine or Army.