New member, oddly specific question

[tanksoldier]

So you don't have to look through the whole thing, here's the bit on 1-40 MIB:.

Thanks for that. It matches my head canon.

I always assumed that everybody who wanted to redeploy to the US would have gone with the division HQ.

It sounds like 40th ID is a mostly-blank slate, ready for a detailed fan treatment.

My last campaign was centered around a “patrol platoon” stationed in Obertrum, a crossroads town about 20km north of Salzburg.

The patrol platoon is essentially how we ended up operating in Iraq years later: a tank platoon re-equipped with armored Hummers and assigned a dismount infantry squad.

I still have the background write up for the campaign. Maybe I’ll clean it up and post it.

[chico20854]

Welcome Tanksoldier! At that time I would have been driving around the rear area of the 28th ID in a 5-ton tanker truck. Can anyone say "ambush bait"?

I wrote up a more detailed history of Operation Advent Crown, the 1997 NATO Invasion of Poland, a few years back. The thread is here. While not canon by any means, I did have 40th ID as a major portion of the US contribution to the siege of Warsaw. I also did a history of the 1998 summer campaign, here, where I have 40th ID down to just 1st Bde assigned to XXIII Corps, which drives southeast into Czechoslovakia from a starting position on the East German-Czech border south of Dresden.

Feel free to use those if it helps!

[mcchordsage]

Originally Posted by tanksoldier

Thanks for that. It matches my head canon.

I always assumed that everybody who wanted to redeploy to the US would have gone with the division HQ.



My last campaign was centered around a “patrol platoon” stationed in Obertrum, a crossroads town about 20km north of Salzburg.

The patrol platoon is essentially how we ended up operating in Iraq years later: a tank platoon re-equipped with armored Hummers and assigned a dismount infantry squad.

I still have the background write up for the campaign. Maybe I’ll clean it up and post it.

Sounds interesting tanksoldier, hope you do post it!