Quote Originally Posted by gute View Post
Are there enough engineer battalion headquarters to go around to fill all 45 BCTs? The Army must be planning on cutting the number of brigades and consolidating maneuver battalions.
From what I've read, they will covert the existing Special Troops Bn Hqs toan Engineer Bn Hqs (Means an Engineer O5 CMD slot vice MP or Eng or Chem or Signal or MI). Pretty mush as wash for the 73 (45 AC + 28 ARNG) BCTs.

Some work to do for the SBCTs as they don't already have STBs.

The "Arms & Legs" increases (construction and Route clearing) are getting re-programed from EAB (Echelon Above Bde). A shell game.

They did a similar thing back in the 90s to create the Engineer Groups in the heavy divisions. Moved Corps GroupHQs & Bns down into the division.

Good idea? Probably. Increases the level of engineer support at the BCT level and retains an O5 Hqs to potentially be the Rear Area Operations C2 node.