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Old 04-16-2022, 02:31 PM
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Default The US Army's Gap Year (TDM to Summer 1998)

The thing that I'm assuming is a typo in the 184th Infantry Division's writeups raises a larger question for me. The nukes started hitting CONUS in November 1997. The profiles of several units have them converting to infantry and actually starting to take action in summer 1998. From a quick skim of Howling Wilderness, the 78th, 84th, 85th, 91st, 95th, 98th, 100th, 104th, and 108th Infantry Divisions all were redesignated from correspondingly-numbered Training Division (Reserves) on 20 July 1998.

So what were they doing between the TDM and 20 July 1998? Local stability operations that GDW never felt were worth mentioning? Hanging out in Vaults 78, 84, 85, 91, 95, 98, 100, 104, and 108? Training up to full strength (promising to feed the recruits and their dependents) in preparation for enacting President Munson's Triage Plan on 01 July?

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The thing that I'm assuming is a typo in the 184th Infantry Division's writeups raises a larger question for me. The nukes started hitting CONUS in November 1997. The profiles of several units have them converting to infantry and actually starting to take action in summer 1998. From a quick skim of Howling Wilderness, the 78th, 84th, 85th, 91st, 95th, 98th, 100th, 104th, and 108th Infantry Divisions all were redesignated from correspondingly-numbered Training Division (Reserves) on 20 July 1998.

So what were they doing between the TDM and 20 July 1998? Local stability operations that GDW never felt were worth mentioning? Hanging out in Vaults 78, 84, 85, 91, 95, 98, 100, 104, and 108? Training up to full strength (promising to feed the recruits and their dependents) in preparation for enacting President Munson's Triage Plan on 01 July?
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I'd say a combination of 1 (local stability), 3a & b (maintaining their own base area and training replacements for the front). 3b may have become a "lip service only" job in more than one case.
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