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Originally Posted by dragoon500ly
The listing below reflects the NG units and their real-life intended missions:
47th Infantry Division, MN/IA-NG
These were pure infantry outfits with 1 tk, 1 mech and 7 inf battalions. Generally had Korean/Vietnam-era equipment and were considered to be low-readiness divisions. Not intended for service in NATO, not even intended for overseas duties! There were reports that these were intended for Home Defense only.
There are a couple of articles that the 26th and 47th IDs may have been shipped to Alaska. Considering that these two divisions had little or no aviation support and only 2.5 & 5-ton trucks for transport, they would have been almost immobile in the Alaskan countryside. I would have to stamp that article as a very low probability...
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Not sure when the 47th reverted to 34th ID, but I do know that there was at least a brigade that was training for possible deployment to Norway as early as the mid-late 70s. They even had some troops training in Norwegian language and had some folks that spoke it brokenly. We ARE talking Minnesota after all.