Survival of the US 5th ID (M)

[HorseSoldier]

Originally Posted by Legbreaker

The last couple of days of the 5th were chaotic to say the least with it seems, nobody getting anywhere near enough sleep and far too much to do.
It doesn't seem to me as if there'd be near enough time to convert vehicles to captured fuel, and then back again, even if enough fuel was captured.
Also, would the 124th really have had their fuel reserves traveling up front where the combat was to take place?

Yeah, for it to work it seems like 124th would pretty much have to gift wrap their combat trains for 5th ID(M) and then everyone would have to agree to hand the division some time after that to get themselves set for the breakout.

As it was, they were stranded, with pressure growing from multiple directions and even if 124th just rolled their fuel supply up to whatever passed for 5th ID DISCOM with a hand receipt asking for a signature, the division would have been very hard pressed just to get the fuel distributed to its scattered elements and get the vehicles converted to run on gas before the final attack rolled in.