5th Division locations

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Originally Posted by Adm.Lee

When did the division's infantry battalions reflag to the 6th Regiment, as opposed to the 10th and 11th regiments that were cited in Death of a Division?

3-10th Inf reflagged as 4-6th and the 3-11th Inf reflagged as 3-6th on 8/1/1984
The 1-61st Inf reflagged as 5-6th on 6/16/1989
4-12th Cavalry was reflagged 3-1st sometime in 1990
2-21st FA was reflagged 4-1 in 1988
3-19th FA was reflagged 5-1 in 1988
3-21st FA became the C Btry/21st FA (MLRS)
K Btry/ 29th FA became H Btry/ 25th FA (TA)
1-40th Armor was reflagged 1-70th Armor

Originally Posted by alexei

According to this doc (Page 18) about roundout brigades the 256th was transitioning to Bradleys during Desert Shield/Desert Storm. I have another doc that confirms that, but I was unable to get the second one to upload.

Weirdly enought the 5th hadn't fully converted to Bradleys at that point.