US Army Europe commander defends need for airborne forces

[rangerrebew]

 
US Army Europe commander defends need for airborne forces
By: Jen Judson   1 day ago
 

BEZMER AIR BASE, Bulgaria — Minutes before hundreds of paratroopers landed in a drop zone at Bezmer Air Base in Bulgaria as part of a U.S. annual exercise called Swift Response, Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges, the outgoing U.S. Army Europe commander, defended the need for airborne forces.

“Sometimes people will question: ‘Why do we have airborne forces? We aren’t going to do Normandy again,’ ” Hodges said. “I would challenge them on three different levels.”

http://www.defensenews.com/land/2017/07/24/us-army-europe-commander-defends-need-for-airborne-forces/

[txradioguy]

General Hodges could use a lot more forces than what he has available right now.

Thanks to 8 years of Obama he's got very little in the cupboard.

He'd have to empty out every staff office in USAREUR HQ and that of the three remaining brigades in Germany to get 30K soldiers.

Meanwhile Russia has that many front line troops sitting just across the Ukraine border service as a reserve force to the ones Vlad has already sent in.