Thursday, March 27, 2014

What?

When did we get nine Stryker brigades?

Strategypage writes:

The U.S. Army is disbanding one of its nine Stryker brigades. This is part of a post-war reduction that will see ten combat brigades eliminated and army strength reduced by 80,000 personnel.

We're converting a heavy brigade of 4th Infantry Division to a Stryker brigade, so we'll keep nine.

There's more on the vehicles themselves.

I thought we had 5 or 6 with another in the National Guard. I really need to pay attention more on this.

If we are going to 32 active brigades, does that mean we'll have 9 Stryker brigades, 5 parachute brigades, 4 airmobile brigades, and 14 heavy brigades? (Plus a Ranger regiment and special forces, of course.)