An alternate New World Order: beta

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Well, just by looking at the numbers most states will have more units than required to fill out the Bde. That's not too much off from reality now, as most states have "spare" units. So to speak.

If the Guard is the same size as the current active army, then it'll be ultimately around the same size as it was in 1989. This is what is making me reluctant to delete whole battalions. I've re-tasked and re-designated several already. I'll have the lose odds and ends (the spare engineer, MP, medical, and occasional combat arms unit) report directly to their state's area command.
 
http://usacac.leavenworth.army.mil/CAC/milreview/download/English/MayJun04/krumm.pdf

For what we were talking about with your design, here's a division-based Army force rotation plan from shortly before the UA-BCT design.

Each division has four brigades that rotate through a two-year cycle with six-month reset-training-ready-deployed cycle so that units have 3:1 dwell time. If each division has a habitual relationship with two National Guard brigades, a three-brigade division can keep up that cycle.

I admit I've given little thought to the cycle of ready units in my design. I'm thinking there would be 2 CC(H), 3 CC(M), and 1 CC(L) available at any given time using a four-phase cycle instead of a three-phase one. I'd also like to avoid using the National Guard as an operational reserve.
 
Well, just by looking at the numbers most states will have more units than required to fill out the Bde. That's not too much off from reality now, as most states have "spare" units. So to speak.

If the Guard is the same size as the current active army, then it'll be ultimately around the same size as it was in 1989. This is what is making me reluctant to delete whole battalions. I've re-tasked and re-designated several already. I'll have the lose odds and ends (the spare engineer, MP, medical, and occasional combat arms unit) report directly to their state's area command.

I haven't looked at National Guard units yet, but keep in mind that the infantry battalion is significantly bigger than the Division 86 one.
I'd like to maintain state integrity more than OTL, so it would be better to have, say, a spare MP battalion attached to a state area support group than to an MP brigade in another state.
 
Ah, okay. I was going to assume since the Bde use the ROAD or Division 86 organization then they would for the battalions as well. I'm a big fan of maintaining state integrity. I believe that's part of the reason why the State Area Commands exist IOTL, the allow the misc units that report to a higher in another state to still have a state chain of command. We can use them more to fit a lot of the individual battalions that will be floating around. There's like... a million engineer units out there, and surprisingly, field artillery units (I guess the states like em because FA units have both a lot of man power from the gun crews, and trucks that are used as prime movers).
 
Ah, okay. I was going to assume since the Bde use the ROAD or Division 86 organization then they would for the battalions as well. I'm a big fan of maintaining state integrity. I believe that's part of the reason why the State Area Commands exist IOTL, the allow the misc units that report to a higher in another state to still have a state chain of command. We can use them more to fit a lot of the individual battalions that will be floating around. There's like... a million engineer units out there, and surprisingly, field artillery units (I guess the states like em because FA units have both a lot of man power from the gun crews, and trucks that are used as prime movers).

I'm thinking that outside of the previously mentioned brigades and recon groups, the National Guard will have six Strike Commands, six Force Support Commands, and six AVCOMs. Something like six-eight Fires Groups, six-ten service support groups, and roughly the OTL number of MP and Engineer units would be about right.

EDIT: Though the group/battalion distinction isn't really important for fires and service support units. Only need a group headquarters if there's multiple related battalions in the same state, ie a Maneuver Support Group with an NBC Battalion and an MP battalion
 
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