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While looking into the REFORGER info, I found these video’s on Youtube

Focused on Exercise Lionheart in 1984, it also features units from the US and German Army. Lot’s of nice period detail here for you painters and modellers. Interesting to see the German units still using the Leopards 1s in ’84 (despite everyone assuming they were all using Leopard 2s by this time)

While looking at REFORGER it was interesting to see pictures of not only M1s, but M60s and even M48s as well (the M48 was a surprise). One of the key features was that the REFORGER units “mirrored” the equipment used in the US at the POMCUS sites (so if a unit was operating M1s, then it had M1s mothballed in Germany). This was to allow the crews to maintain their familiarity with the equipment no matter which continent they were operating on. I’d assume the M48s were from a National Guard unit (as they were still using them in the mid 80’s), as I don’t think any of the “regulars” were still using them.

Still trying to work out which units were using the new M2 Bradley in 1984 and which were using the M113 (it’s easier to find the info on the MBTs, a lot of the ORBATS just list the carrier as an “AFV” 🙁 ).

…and 6mm is the only scale to play moderns (IMHO), that way you get to play with ALL the cool toys that would normally be left as an off table asset. Plus in 6mm collecting a Soviet horde isn’t as impossible as trying to do so in a larger scale 🙂