Keep in mind James that many of the units in the US Army by 2000 would have contingents in them, per canon, of non-US soldiers already- perhaps the 3rd ACR already had so many Germans and Brits and other NATO troops in it that Europe was really its home now and not the US
The excellent article that was posted a few weeks ago on Germany shows how the US troops that were left behind could have reformed themselves under the US HQ units that stayed behind,especially after DIA agents helped bring several of them back over to being under US operational control.
You are right in that we do have different ideas of how bleak it is in Twilight 2000 - and my view by the way is hardly sunny - but its defintiely not as pitch black as Howling Wilderness and Kidnapped portrays it.
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