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Army plans 9-month deployments for armored brigades in Europe

The U.S. Army in Europe will have a permanent footprint of three fully manned brigades on the continent by next February, defense officials announced Wednesday. The Army will begin continuous rotations of U.S.-based armored brigade combat teams on nine-month deployments to train with Eastern European allies, officials said. via www.armytimes.com The incredible drawdown of US…

The U.S. Army in Europe will have a permanent footprint of three fully manned brigades on the continent by next February, defense officials announced Wednesday.

The Army will begin continuous rotations of U.S.-based armored brigade combat teams on nine-month deployments to train with Eastern European allies, officials said.

via www.armytimes.com

The incredible drawdown of US forces from Europe in the post Cold War era was stunning, and we should have grasped sooner that the collapse of the Soviet Union would eventually see the rise of other power in the region, either in Russia itself, or some other nations. Nature abhors a vacuum.

So the Army is looking to maintain one Armored, one Stryker, and one Airborne Brigade Combat Team in Europe for the forseeable future.

When I arrived in Germany in 1989, my division alone had three armored brigades, and was one of four divisions in Germany, along with two separate armored brigades, and two big cavalry regiments.

Oh, and there's this:

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Responses to “Army plans 9-month deployments for armored brigades in Europe”

  1. Old AF Sarge

    Dang, scary times on the Continent have returned.
    Maybe someday the Western Europeans will defend themselves.

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  2. Trevor Thralls

    And then there is this from Foxnews. A whole divisions worth of equipment. It’s a start, I guess. http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/03/30/pentagon-reportedly-lays-out-plan-for-increased-us-presence-in-eastern-europe.html?intcmp=hplnws

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  3. RetRsvMike

    Lariat Advance..
    Allons!

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  4. SFC Dunlap 173d RVN

    Wouldn’t the Airborne contingent be the 173d Abn. Bde. currently in Vicensa, Italy? It’s all so Reforger-ish.

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  5. Esli

    To clarify, what is happening is that the airborne brigade at Vicenza and the Stryker Regiment at Vilsrck are being joined by a Armor BCT that will bring their own equipment be stationed forward in eastern Europe for nine months. The current plan is that a CONUS-based ABCT has parts of the brigade rotating in and out of the theater for nine months. When they are here (I say here because i am currently stationed in Germany), they draw vehicles from the European Activities Set. Putting the new ABCT in with their own fleet will free up the EAS fleet to be available for a second ABCT to come at short notice.

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