- Reaction score
- 20,348
- Points
- 1,160
That's an interesting structure. Graphically it looks like this in Wikipedia.
There are a few comments I have:
1. The SBCT structures are relatively unchanged since SBCTs haven't gone through a major Transformation in Contact review (That was IBCTs --> MBCTs and currently ABCTs). 1 SBCT has lost its engineer battalion and 2 SBCT have gained an MFRC but that seems to be it.
2. Note that there is no divisional sustainment brigade. Each of the four brigades retain their organic brigade support battalions (BSB) in roughly the same way that three of them retain their own artillery. It makes you wonder if a fires bde and a sustainment brigade will consolidate those in the future and, eventually, a sustainment brigade formed with the addition of a maintenance and logistics battalions and consolidation of the BSBs.
3. IMHO, 1 MDTF should become a fires brigade by retaining all of its own assets and having the two M777 battalions and their respective forward support companies moved over. The current issue may be the limited range of the M777 supporting the mobile Strykers. IMHO the US Army's stalled plan to buy wheeled SPs like Archer or MGS Boxer needs to move forward. Maybe now that GDLS has shown off the GDLS 10x10 MGS Grizzley, it will make sense to the US to buy a few hundred of those for their remaining Stryker brigades. That would provide sufficient mobility for the CS battalions to join the rocket battalion in a proper fires brigade, which function can easily be added in 1 MDTF.
(Not to toot my own horn but you'll have seen structures similar to this one in my own previous napkin forces like this one for an expeditionary armoured division - Note the size of ~11,340 personnel and the absence of the aviation brigade which I consider a corps asset. Note also the inclusion of the 2nd Pan-Domain Regiment (2 PD) - in my 2 Fires Brigade (2 FB). 2 PD is a beefed up version of 7 ID's 1 MDEB.)
There are a few comments I have:
1. The SBCT structures are relatively unchanged since SBCTs haven't gone through a major Transformation in Contact review (That was IBCTs --> MBCTs and currently ABCTs). 1 SBCT has lost its engineer battalion and 2 SBCT have gained an MFRC but that seems to be it.
2. Note that there is no divisional sustainment brigade. Each of the four brigades retain their organic brigade support battalions (BSB) in roughly the same way that three of them retain their own artillery. It makes you wonder if a fires bde and a sustainment brigade will consolidate those in the future and, eventually, a sustainment brigade formed with the addition of a maintenance and logistics battalions and consolidation of the BSBs.
3. IMHO, 1 MDTF should become a fires brigade by retaining all of its own assets and having the two M777 battalions and their respective forward support companies moved over. The current issue may be the limited range of the M777 supporting the mobile Strykers. IMHO the US Army's stalled plan to buy wheeled SPs like Archer or MGS Boxer needs to move forward. Maybe now that GDLS has shown off the GDLS 10x10 MGS Grizzley, it will make sense to the US to buy a few hundred of those for their remaining Stryker brigades. That would provide sufficient mobility for the CS battalions to join the rocket battalion in a proper fires brigade, which function can easily be added in 1 MDTF.
(Not to toot my own horn but you'll have seen structures similar to this one in my own previous napkin forces like this one for an expeditionary armoured division - Note the size of ~11,340 personnel and the absence of the aviation brigade which I consider a corps asset. Note also the inclusion of the 2nd Pan-Domain Regiment (2 PD) - in my 2 Fires Brigade (2 FB). 2 PD is a beefed up version of 7 ID's 1 MDEB.)
