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  • New Brigade Combat Team Locations

    This is a follow up to an earlier post outlining the US Army's reorganization.

    BCT Locations

  • #2
    Is it a good idea in the long run to place emphasis on independent brigades instead of divisions? Wouldn't modular brigade concept fare less well against a more potent enemy than those of the WOT?

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    • #3
      Using the brigade as the building block is better than the division for several reasons:

      1) The new design pushes combined arms assets down further by design, meaning that units will be better able to train as they fight (as opposed to the old school method, where you might not see your divisional asset until NTC, JRTC, ODS, OIF, etc.).

      2) Under the divisional structure, you had a brigade that was training, a brigade that was ready for deployment, and a brigade that was recovering from training/deployment prep and covering post wide details and taskings that guts unit of their manpower, preventing training. Thus, when you deployed a division, you had brigades at varying levels of readiness.

      Under the BCT structure, you can put together brigades from varying posts, all at the highest level of readiness. Furthermore, by managing brigades, those brigades that are in a red cycle (recover, details, taskings, etc.) can PCS personnel to other duty stations, receive PCS personnel from other duty stations, and receive new soldiers who have graduated training, meaning that the unit will stablize and be intact when its time for the intensive training cycle and deployment readiness cycle.

      3) The reorganization has allowed the Army to rebalance MOSs (less artillery, air defense, more MPs, civil affairs) and add needed units to the brigade (HUMINT capabilities, more reconnaissance capabilities).
      "So little pains do the vulgar take in the investigation of truth, accepting readily the first story that comes to hand." Thucydides 1.20.3

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      • #4
        I really wasn't going for a debate on the brigade centric structure again but more towards a discussion on the decisions on where to base the new BCTs.

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        • #5
          It's interesting to note that the 2nd ID will now have 3 SBCTs, the 25th ID will have 2 and the 2nd ACR will get the sixth. the 172nd SBCT is apparently reflagging somewhere, I think to 1/25th ID and the current 1/25th ID is reflagging to 2nd ID. Does anyone know if the PA NG brigade is stil going to a SBCT or will all SBCTs be active duty now?

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