Thread by @noclador

Ahem... I have to correct General Hertling on the organization of US Army divisions:

• since 6 June there are 11 active US Army divisions (not 10).
• DIVARTY has no battalions. Artillery battalions are now organic to the Brigade Combat Teams. Today DIVARTY is responsible
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https://twitter.com/MarkHertling/status/1536474288261414913

for fire support coordination of a division's brigades' artillery battalions.
• since 2013 all brigade howitzer battalions have 18x howitzers (Armored: 18x M109A6/A7, Stryker: 18x M777A2, Infantry: 12x M119A3 and 6x M777A2); before 2013
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battalions had 2x batteries of 8x howitzers. 24x howitzers was the Cold War era complement of artillery battalions.
• divisions don't have rocket artillery anymore. Divisional rocket artillery batteries of 9x M270 were phased out after the Cold War.
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• all US Army rocket artillery (M270A1 and M142) is assigned to battalions in 6x active and 8x Army National Guard Field Artillery brigades (currently 16x per battalions, but this will increase to 27x per battalion)
• the 11 active US divisions field 198x M109A6/A7,
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162x M777A2, and 144x M119A3 - a total of 504x howitzers (and not 240x) and they field 0 rocket systems.
• 108x M777 are exactly 6x field artillery battalions (and not "almost 5").
• DISCOMs were reflagged as Sustainment Brigades in 2004-2007 or inactivated.

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As I do all the graphics on wikipedia relating to military organizations and wrote all the Cold War era military organization articles I kinda know exactly how NATO and EU armies were and are organized.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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