Posted on Jan 30, 2016
Anyone know what the outlook is for Guard units with ready years of 2017?
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Our Brigade has gone through Warfighter training, XCTC, and our Bn is going to NTC this year. We are a combined arms Bn, myself belonging to a mechanized infantry company (BFVs). We have seen many MUTA 6's/8's and beyond while keeping a very high Op Tempo. It seems like the Army is spending a lot of money and time on us to not do something worthwhile with us in 2017.
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11M: Mechanized Infantryman
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Not sure you are going to get an answer to this on RP sir. Anyone who knows isn't going to post it on here (and shouldn't). Gotta love the ARFORGEN cycle. If you do all the awesome year 4 and 5 training then don't go anywhere it certainly seems like a let down. Only thing you can be guaranteed of is more training. Enjoy NTC.
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MAJ (Join to see)
True. It's amazing how in the dark we still are on it all. SFC Riviere and I are just ecstatic about NTC...
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COIN instead of NTC now we are getting back to getting units ready again after over 10 years of COIN.
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Any use by the military in 2017 and beyond will be the decision of a new President, so it is impractical to think that there any plans right now that are set but are unknown. Units train all the time. In terms of "training a lot without doing something worthwhile"... Training itself is worthwhile. The best deterrent to a war is being prepared for a war.
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COL Robert Davies
Whoever is in the oval office would have a hard time turning off rotation into theater in the first days of his presidency. If we were talking FY 18 maybe. We are already into the 2 year window so I would see very little changing. Mech Inf can go almost anywhere in the world.
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LTC Yinon Weiss
COL Robert Davies - Yes, regular rotations would probably not be turned off. However, I believe the question was asking about the "bigger picture", since regular rotations are well known already (hence why the question?). It's probably safe to say that of all people, President Obama is not planning some large scale secret war that he plans to hand off in secret on his way out the door.
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A-10 Warthog Hits ISIS Before Kurdish Peshmerga Assault
Kurdish Peshmerga assault on ISIL held ground near Mosul. Western coalition A-10 Thunderbolt softens targets before offensive.
LTC Yinon Weiss - true..just like he never thought Operation New DAWN would be welcome back A10s 5 years later with a half dozen countries and the Kurds trying to contain the near sightedness of the 'Peace Dividend' of leaving IRAQ and no SOFA and no 10k man QRF. Now limited NATO and Iraq and Iranian forces have ISIL in a stalemate but no clear victory with no boots on the ground to speak of aside from trainers.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_izdXSIWEg
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COL Robert Davies
LTC Yinon Weiss - My world view and reality check maybe a little warped. While at NTC I would see rotation schedules at least a year out and usually 2 years out. I worked fairly closely with FORSCOM so I would catch glimpses of patch charts. I was a Reserve Component Integrator so I was doing back-fills on the team level throughout 2 regions.
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Great questions that won't get an answer to on here! In all seriousness, getting sourced for a mission may not be decided at this point. With the current EUCOM security situation and BCT rotations to Korea, the COCOMs might kit be making any annoucements. Big Army might just want to have a BCT on a short string, "just in case."
Or there could be decision made, but not being announced. OPSEC is funny like that.
Nonetheless, keep up the good work. I'm sure you guys are making the ARNG look good!!
Or there could be decision made, but not being announced. OPSEC is funny like that.
Nonetheless, keep up the good work. I'm sure you guys are making the ARNG look good!!
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