Looking for Us 5th OOB

[Adm.Lee]

It could be an ad hoc unit formed by a higher command to fill some special need, or to use persons not assigned to a formed unit. Like a spare company commander and a set of captured weapons. Or it's the battalion's unofficial cantonment group, or designated foragers/scroungers, or vehicle maintenance team.

In the pre-1958 Army, G Company would be the 3rd line company of the 2nd battalion of the regiment. So that wouldn't fit for 3-143, it would otherwise be I,K,L, and M companies. Again, if it's unofficial, and you're the GM, go for it. Who knows why the battalion CO wanted to name it Golf Company. Is that the initial of the unit commander

IIRC, attachments to a company creates a "Team," while battalion + attachments is a "Task Force."

[HorseSoldier]

The only true "regiments" in the US military are the Army's Armored Cavalry Regiments, and the Marine Regiments...if you use any other unit then Company D would be about as far as it would go.

The 82nd and 101st both claim to use regiments, but this is more historical than real. Each battalion is lettered starting from A-D.

Sooooooo the chances of a G Coy, 3-143 Infantry would be very slim....

Sorry!

G/143rd Infantry (no battalion assignment, just the regimental) was a LRS Company in Texas that I think had either a III Corps or I Corps wartime mission pre-91. If memory serves me correctly they were enobled from their knuckle dragging infantry status in the 90s by being converted to a light cavalry unit, but the sort of congenital defects that breed succeeding generations of infantrymen down through the ages imposed itself in the mix and somehow The-Powers-That-Be decided what the National Guard really needs is an airborne battalion.

Currently I think they've got a company plus the HQ in Texas, a company in Rhode Island and a company up here in Alaska. (I can only assume someone with a sense of humor thought bracketing Texas' airborne mafia between the biggest and smallest states was witty.)

So, anyway, G/143rd is possibly, though I agree that G/3-143rd is not. You'd just have to explain why a corps recon asset was attached to 5th ID, but it's not like people never, ever get opconned and attached and such.

[Tegyrius]

I summon this thread to arise from the grave.

Ahem.

While bored on a travel layover, I had some idle thoughts about the composition of the U.S. 5th Infantry Division. I went through several sources I've saved over the years - canon, fan-created, and historical documents of varying provenance. The result turned into an incomplete comparison spreadsheet of which maneuver battalions (and selected combat support and combat service support units) were assigned to which version of the prewar 5th ID.

Apparently, one of the ways to tell whose T2k universe you're in is to locate a copy of the 5th ID's 1995 OOB.

- C.

[Homer]

In their defense, GDW wasnt helped by the reflagging fever that swept the US Army as they were writing. For example, 1-40AR moved to Hunter Liggett from Polk after v.1 was published to become an armor test battalion. In the reflagging at polk 3-77 became 4-35AR so that at one point the tank battalions were either 35th or 70th armor and the infantry was all 6th regiment. Much like 4-12 became 3-1CAV. A friend was there for the M3 fielding and recalled the brads and reflagging of the Cav were very close together.