[Homer]

Great post as always!

Good to see Relaxin’ Jackson in there! I guess the stress cards were done away with when the war started?

I wonder if we’ll see Cutler get pulled in to the 5th Squad organization there. The bust happened at Lee, and Lee gets its BCT grads mainly from Jackson…

Interesting to see how the CFC counteroffensive plays out. IRL 2ID was one of the last units in the Active Army to keep the M728 CEV because they needed the demo gun to clear obstacles. It wasn’t until the obstacle reducing round for the M1A1 came out that they got rid of them. Going north requires breaching two sets of obstacles: the rock drops, blocks, craters, and mines the CFC has put in and then the NK system. Add in the DMZ is probably the most mined place on earth- most of the mines aren’t even registered anymore because they’ve moved around so much in floods or freeze/thaw cycles. It can be done, especially with the T2K model force which benefitted from continued defense spending and training. But it may well slow up the tempo of the offensive. The ROKs may want to go faster, but at this stage they were still dependent on US long range fires and engineering for their counterattack/reunification plan.

One of the reasons 2ID had a unique force structure in the late 80s and 90s was it’s role as the centerpiece of a CFC counteroffensive. They were supported by enough CH47 lift to conduct a brigade sized air assault in support of a river crossing. They had either 2 tank/2 mech or later 4 tank/3 mech for defensive ops or to provide a heavy counterattack force. Most of the USFK assets (bridging, lift, etc) were geared toward supporting the counteroffensive mission.