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Originally Posted by Legbreaker
Shorthanded as they are (1000 men) the US 8th ID possesses an OH58, two Blackhawks and an Apache, all grounded (most of the time) by lack of fuel (and parts for at least one of the Blackhawks) but still so valuable as to be dragged around Europe by the Division on trucks.
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The 8th Mechanized, if we are to believe the order of battle, actually has more firepower man per man than a prewar division. I always felt that was insane. I chalked it up to a 60%+ causality rate from a particularly virulent flu after the 2000 assault began. This left the 8th trapped by the volume of equipment they had. I literally spent months trying to build a realistic support structure for the amount of equipment described in the Eastern European sourcebook, to no avail.
I mentioned this in an older thread (unfortunately lost in the great purge before we moved to our new home)