{"id":56286,"date":"2014-11-07T08:30:02","date_gmt":"2014-11-07T13:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=56286"},"modified":"2014-11-07T07:09:12","modified_gmt":"2014-11-07T12:09:12","slug":"2ids-1st-abct-to-deactivate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=56286","title":{"rendered":"2ID’s 1st ABCT to deactivate"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reuters<\/a> reports the Army announcement to deactivate the 2d Infantry Division’s 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team in Korea. The mission of the brigade will be assumed by units rotating into the country from some-damn-where;<\/p>\n

Army Col. Steve Warren, a Pentagon spokesman, said the move was long-planned and did not represent a reduction in U.S. commitment to South Korean security. In fact, he said, similarly sized, fully trained units would be rotated into South Korea for nine-month tours.<\/p>\n

Defense officials said the rotation of units that had trained together beforehand, rather than individuals who had to get to know their fellow soldiers upon arrival, could improve unit cohesion and readiness of U.S. forces in South Korea.<\/p>\n

“There’s not loss in capability,” Warren said. “Some would argue that the capability might even be slightly higher because it’s a trained unit that arrives there in Korea.” <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Military Times<\/a> says that the first unit to rotate into the slot will come from Fort Hood, Texas and the 1st Cavalry Division;<\/p>\n

The Army plans to start rotating a BCT into South Korea in late summer 2015.<\/p>\n

The first brigade to go is 2nd BCT, 1st Cavalry Division, of Fort Hood, Texas. About 4,600 soldiers from the unit will deploy in June, the Defense Department announced Thursday.<\/p>\n

The plan is to rotate one BCT at a time into South Korea “like we’ve done in Iraq and Afghanistan for the last 13 years,” Army Chief of Staff Gen. Ray Odierno has said. “There’ll always be a brigade in Korea, but they’ll rotate from the United States.”<\/p>\n

The Army tested its rotational model with battalion-sized units, beginning last fall when 4th Squadron, 6th Cavalry Regiment, from Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington, was sent there for a nine-month tour.<\/p>\n

In February, the Army deployed 1st Battalion, 12th Cavalry Regiment to Korea.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I think the Army did the same thing in the mid-70s in Germany, but they abandoned the plan after a while because of costs involved with moving entire units into the theater, and then the units weren’t as familiar with the AO as units that were stationed there. There was no institutional memory related to the terrain and the mission in a particular area of operations. Everything old is new again.<\/p>\n

Thanks to Andy for the Reuters link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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