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2004-12-30 Home Front: Tech
"Theater Opening Brigades" Created
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Posted by Steve 2004-12-30 9:28:25 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 This looks similar to the "Bellhop, Waiter, and Hooker" brigades the UN sends in prior to one of their deployments.
Posted by tu3031 2004-12-30 9:56:57 AM||   2004-12-30 9:56:57 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 The name "Theatre Opening Brigades" gave me a momentary vision of chorus girls, stagehands, makeup artists, and understudies, all decked out in olive drab, parading up Broadway. "Troops, we've got a show to put on!"

In all seriousness, a good idea. Logistics count, more than most non-military people appreciate.
Posted by Mike  2004-12-30 10:22:27 AM||   2004-12-30 10:22:27 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 This good stuff, without proper resources available, say on the way to Tehran, no force can last too long.

Good Luck Brigade.
Posted by Snath Ebbish7855 2004-12-30 10:28:24 AM||   2004-12-30 10:28:24 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 I suspect this is part of something much larger. It implies that light combat units have arrived and secured an area, which must now be prepped for the arrival of rear area units, supplies, and heavy combat units. These units, in turn, support much more extensive combat operations further afield. The question is: "where?" A single separate brigade would normally support a division group or corps-sized operation. So if you have more than one TOB, you are planning something big.
Posted by Anonymoose 2004-12-30 10:38:45 AM||   2004-12-30 10:38:45 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 In general, for every unit which is ready for deployment or actively engaged, you need one or two more which are not, engaged in recharging and preparing for deployment.

(I had the same mental image as Mike when I first saw the headline here.)
Posted by Steven Den Beste  2004-12-30 11:27:18 AM|| [http://denbeste.nu/Chizumatic/]  2004-12-30 11:27:18 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 "Two on the Dress Circle, please..."
Posted by mojo  2004-12-30 11:50:08 AM||   2004-12-30 11:50:08 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Logistics count, more than most non-military people appreciate.

Absolutely!

Amateurs think of tactics.
Generals think of logistics.
The UN thinks of Lunch.
The Secretary General thinks of Lunch Logistics.
Posted by Shipman 2004-12-30 12:39:10 PM||   2004-12-30 12:39:10 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Sorry about this, but I can't get the image out of my head.

Imagine the marching cadence a "Theatre Opening Brigade" uses:

"O-ver-ture and curtain lights!"
"O-ver-ture and curtain lights!"
"This is it we'll hit the heights!"
"This is it we'll hit the heights!"
"Sound off!"
"One, two!"
"Sound off!"
"Three, four!"
"Curtain's up!"
"One, two, three, four, one, two -- Three four!"
Posted by Mike  2004-12-30 3:41:56 PM||   2004-12-30 3:41:56 PM|| Front Page Top

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