More on Reserve Mobilization
One of the things that I have been tracking has been the dwell time for US active duty units. This desired dwell time for an active duty unit is twice as long as the deployed combat time. This is not happening, and has not been happening for a while, as combat brigades and divisions are going to Iraq and Aghanistan for twelve months with eleven to fifteen months of dwell time between deployments. I have been projecting that this dwell time will continue to decrease for the next eighteen to twenty four months as there is next to no National Guard deployability left if the Army is determined to maintain twelve or thirteen brigade equivilants in Iraq.However I may be wrong. The Washington Post is reporting that the National Guard brigades that have already made a combat deployment will not get their full dwell time:
Two Army National Guard combat brigades with about 7,000 troops have been identified recently in classified rotational plans for possible special deployment to Iraq, according to senior Army and Pentagon officials, who asked that the specific units not be named. One brigade could be diverted to Iraq next year from another assignment, and the other could be sent there in 2008, a year ahead of schedule.
My guess is that these two brigades are the first brigades that deployed in OIF-1, an infantry brigade from Indiana and another one from Florida. This is a great way to continue to run down the reserves, for it is still using units that are not fully equipped, nor fully rested.
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posted by fester @ 20:16
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