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MANEUVER AND FIREPOWER

TABLE 30

National Guard Divisions and Brigades, 1968

Unit Location
26th Infantry Division Massachusetts and Connecticut
28th Infantry Division Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia
30th Armored Division Alabama, Mississippi, and Tennessee
30th Infantry Division (M)* North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia
38th Infantry Division Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio
42d Infantry Division New York and Pennsylvania
47th Infantry Division Illinois, Iowa, and Minnesota
50th Armored Division New Jersey, New York, and Vermont
29th Infantry Brigade Hawaii and California
32d Infantry Brigade Wisconsin
33d Infantry Brigade Illinois
36th Infantry Brigade Texas
39th Infantry Brigade Arkansas
40th Armored Brigade California
40th Infantry Brigade California
41st Infantry Brigade Oregon
45th Infantry Brigade Oklahoma
49th Infantry Brigade California
53d Infantry Brigade Florida
67th Infantry Brigade (M)* Nebraska
69th Infantry Brigade Kansas
7Ist Airborne Brigade Texas
72d Infantry Brigade (M)* Texas
8Ist Infantry Brigade Washington
92d Infantry Brigade Puerto Rico
256th Infantry Brigade Louisiana
*Mechanized.

ed of the maneuver elements, an artillery battalion, an engineer company, a medical company, a forward support maintenance company, and an administrative section. The remainder of each division was located in the state with the division base. Infantry divisions had ten maneuver battalions, as did the mechanized infantry divisions, except the 47th, which had eleven. The 30th and 50th Armored Divisions had ten and eleven maneuver battalions, respectively. A single state maintained each of the eighteen separate brigades, except for the 29th (Hawaii), which had elements in the continental United States.[1]

The Army Reserve brigades also felt McNamara's axe. Initially the Defense Department planned no combat forces for the Army Reserve, but congressional

  1. Report of the Chief, National Guard Bureau, 1968, pp. 33–34; Keith E. McWilliams, "Divisions or Brigades for the National Guard," Military Review 51 (Jan 1971): 37; also NG-AROTO 1002–I letters 1967–1968, copies in CMH.