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Old December 7th, 2020, 05:25 PM

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Default Re: Jets & Planes but no UAV's here.

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Originally Posted by whdonnelly View Post
Many of our escort units in Afghanistan were US Army Reserve units activated for 6 months at a time. Some of these guys identified as Guard also, not sure if there is some sort of dual membership option for the ones that want to deploy. They did the training as a unit before leaving the US.
In this case they had their personal equipment but fell in on things like MRAPs or up-armored SUVs that never left theater.
6 months for reserves? Yeah, haven't seen that 9 to 12 months for the Reserves, less for the Guard.

After 2007 units fell in on in-theater equipment, the only things they brought were weapons, gear, and special need items for the mission. Then again unless the fighting is initial day one, units will fall in on equipment already there, unless they need to bring forward new items like Strykers or whatever the new wonder toy of the day is.

National Guard and US Army Reserve units deploy as complete units unless they are split up to fill out other units of the same component and after the mess of the let's mix units in 2003, they don't mingle them together beyond a company working with another company.
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