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Were their any plans for US Marines and or US Airborne to deploy via Operation REFORGER if the Cold War got hot in the 1980's?

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Airborne is already in the game....check out the scenario editor.[:'(]

The US XVIIIth AB Corps really wouldn't have gone to central europe, though. Plans had them slated for Scandinavia, Turkey and the Persian Gulf as a sort of stop gap until the fighting in Germany had wound down

Here are the REFORGER units that were earmarked to return to Germany in case of war:

III US Corps, Fort Hood, TX
1st Cavalry Division, Ft. Hood, TX, POMCUS Set at 5 depots in Belgium (Grobbendonk, Zutendaal) and the Netherlands (Brunssum, Eygelshoven) and ammunition depot in Zutendaal in Belgium.
2nd Armored Division, Ft. Hood, TX, POMCUS Set at 4 depots in the Federal Republic of Germany (Mönchengladbach, Straelen) and ammunition depot in Kevelaer.
5th Infantry Division (Mechanized), Fort Polk, LA, POMCUS Set at 6 depots in the Netherlands (Ter Apel, Coevorden, Vriezenveen) and ammunition depot in Coevorden.
212th Field Artillery Brigade, Fort Sill, OK, POMCUS Set at 4 depots in the Federal Republic of Germany (Mönchengladbach) and ammunition depot in Kevelaer.
3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, Fort Bliss, TX, POMCUS Set at 4 depots in the Federal Republic of Germany (Mönchengladbach) and ammunition depot in Kevelaer

V Corps, Frankfurt, FRG
4th Infantry Division (Mechanized), Fort Carson, CO, POMCUS Set at 2 depots at Kaiserslautern.
194th Armored Brigade, Fort Knox, KY, POMCUS Set at 3 depots in the Federal Republic of Germany at Pirmasens
197th Infantry Brigade (Mechanized), Fort Benning, GA, POMCUS Set at 3 depots in the Federal Republic of Germany at Pirmasens

VII Corps, Stuttgart, FRG
1st Infantry Division (Mechanized), Fort Riley, KS, POMCUS Set at 1 depot at Mannheim.


The 82nd Airborne was the US Strategic Reaction unit at the time, I think it still is, and would have been available for immediate redeployment. They would probably have been the first unit to arrive as a reinforcement.

The USMC would have been more problematic. They would have generally been delivered by sea transport and there would be the largest naval war in history going on at this time. Few, if any, transports would be going across the Atlantic Ocean in the early days of the war.

Hope that helps.

Good Hunting.

MR

OOB/TOE for the Norwegian front is next on my list after my current Pentomic project. It will be fun to combine all of the various multi-national forces theoretically aimed there.

Looking forward to more user-generated content.

Well, in that time period, we did have AMF(L). US component was 1-509 ABCT (Airborne Battalion Combat Team), reflagged to 4/325 in 1983. Combat team designation owing to organic Artillery and Engineer units.

Going from memory...
Bn HQ
3 x Rifle Co
1 x 105mm Bty (6 tubes)
1 x CSC:
1 x Combat Engineer Plt
1 x Heavy Engineer Plt (construction type engineers)
2(?) x AT Plt (wheeled TOW)
1 x Recon Plt

I was in HHC 82-85.