8th US Mechanized Division?

[Abbott Shaull]

What would happen to the 8th Mechanized Division after they reached the Baltic States. Were they means to delivered Special Operational units and Intel operatives into the region? Did they stay in place and merge with local militias or maybe joined force with the Soviet Division that had rebelled during the summer near Latvia?

Did they return to rejoin the XI Corps in 2001? Did the Soviet use one of the Guard Tanks Army in Belorus to wipe out the 8th Division. Or did the unit go the way of the 10th Mountain Division in which there were several band operating in the region. None really able to cooperate with the other, but trying each other. Would they enlarge by accepting large number of Soviet troops into their ranks?

I don't remember there was a Soviet Division in the Baltic and I want to say in Riga area or the capital of Latvia where had grown tired of the endless killing of good young comrades and turned against the Stavka. I am not sure if they declared for a free local Baltic State or had declared for NATO or both.

As I remember many of the Soviet Division in the region were like many who had been unwilling to move out due to lack of fuel and spare parts.