The brigades were "regimentalized" in '85 or '86. In 1st Brigade 2/508 became 3/504 and in 3rd Brigade 1/508 became 3/505.Originally Posted by slapout9
I was B/2-504 didn't even have a 3/504 anything in my day.
It's changed again since then. There are now four brigades of two battlions each, so 1/508 and 2/508 came back as 4th Brigade and the other brigades each lost their third battalion.
Makes zero sense to me. I would have thought that there were always times when two battalions in a brigade were enough and always times when four were needed. Didn't three prove to be a good number to task organize up or down from for a lot of years?
I'd be curious to know how often it's been necessary to deploy one of these new brigades with another battalion opconned to them.
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