The status of the Army's 10 active-duty divisions

[Robbien]

-1st Infantry Division: just arrived in Iraq to begin one-year tour.

-1st Armored Division: one-year tour in Iraq extended by three months, to June.

-1st Cavalry Division: just arrived in Iraq.

-4th Infantry Division: just returned from Iraq.

-101st Airborne Division: just returned from Iraq.

-82nd Airborne Division: two of its three brigades just returned from Iraq; other brigade due to return shortly.

-10th Mountain Division: currently in Afghanistan and Iraq.

-2nd Infantry Division: one brigade in Iraq; rest of division in South Korea.

-25th Infantry Division: part of division just arriving in Afghanistan for one-year tour; Stryker brigade preparing for Iraq deployment expected this fall.

-3rd Infantry Division: returned from Iraq last summer; undergoing reorganization; due to go back to Iraq this fall or winter.

Separate combat brigades:

-173rd Airborne Brigade: just returned from Iraq.

-3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment: just returned from Iraq.

-2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment: one-year tour in Iraq extended by three months, to June.

-172nd Infantry Brigade: undergoing reorganization; due to regain warfighting readiness in May 2005.

http://www.independent-media.tv/group.cfm?ffield=source_desc&fvalue=Associated%20Press

[RobertSeattle]

1. Recall the "Big Lie" of 2 Division "Not Ready for Duty Sir"

At the RNC Convention in 2000?

I would assume that any division/brigade that is just returning from an overseas deployment is technically "Not ready for duty Sir" until it gets all its people and equpment back up to snuff.

[htuttle]

2. Given that the total number of troops evacuated for medical reasons...

...is very near 20,000 (I think the Pentagon stated 18,000 a few months ago), they've also basically lost 2 divisions worth of troops in Iraq due to casualties and injuries of one kind or another.

[moondust]

3. Who is peacekeeping in the Balkans? n/t