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Old 02-13-2020, 18:24   #1
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U.S. Army resurrects V Corps

Anybody else here serve in West Germany during the Cold War?

The new headquarters is launching at the same time the Army is preparing to kick-start Defender Europe 2020 this spring, which will be a division sized deployment from the U.S. mainland to continental Europe as part of the largest such movement in more than 25 years.

https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-...olster-europe/
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Old 02-14-2020, 07:59   #2
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More tail, less teeth.

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Old 02-14-2020, 08:36   #3
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Yes. I was in 3rd I.D. ; but that was VII Corps. Lots of fun times back then!
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Old 02-14-2020, 10:44   #4
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More G.O. positions...
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Old 02-16-2020, 10:22   #5
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They will probably will ask for more general officer slots
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Old 02-17-2020, 00:00   #6
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If I remember correctly you need at least two divisions to make a Corps. We don't even have one division in Germany or all of Europe. Just more GO and officer billets.


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Old 02-17-2020, 07:57   #7
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Sounds like just a landlord force to handle rotations (customers) in & out.
I was in the Corps-MAIN signal company to the CG '73-77 over there when the HQ was in the IG Farben Bldg., later renamed Abrams Bldg. That was a Corps - it had Divisions (INF and Armored), separate Arty & Cav assets, and all the other ash & trash. Hell, the number of people they're talking about would've just been the HQ element in downtown Frankfurt. The Corps itself was scattered all over creation.

Hey Army:
Quit making all these damn GO's you can quit having to find places to put them.
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Old 02-17-2020, 09:39   #8
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If I remember correctly you need at least two divisions to make a Corps. We don't even have one division in Germany or all of Europe. Just more GO and officer billets.


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They will just apportion units in the USA to them in time of war. We’re repeating the old 1930s ways again. Ghost organizations with a lot of O-6s and GOs...
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They will just apportion units in the USA to them in time of war. We’re repeating the old 1930s ways again. Ghost organizations with a lot of O-6s and GOs...
Yep. 1 3-star with a 2-star deputy and a full corpse (sp!) staff all headed by 1-stars except the S3 which is a 2-star as well as a CoS as a 2-star. Don’t forget the 2 Division 2-star Cdrs. And let’s talk about the COLs... 🤯

Yep, more O6s and GOs than SFCs.
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Yep. 1 3-star with a 2-star deputy and a full corpse (sp!) staff all headed by 1-stars except the S3 which is a 2-star as well as a CoS as a 2-star. Don’t forget the 2 Division 2-star Cdrs. And let’s talk about the COLs... 🤯

Yep, more O6s and GOs than SFCs.
If'n you ain't O6(P) you are coffee boy.
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