Certain Fury 84

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Panzerjägerzug of the German Armed Forces during exercise Certain Fury 84

Certain Fury 84 ( German “Unmistakable Wut” ) / REFORGER 84 was a German - American FTX military maneuver in Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria . It took place in the autumn of 1984 with around 40,000 NATO soldiers. The exercise took place parallel to the major maneuver Spearpoint 84 of the 1st BR Corps in the North German Plain and was part of the Autumn Forge 84 series.

Division of troops

The BLUE exercise force was composed as follows:

In addition, there were the following REFORGER troops BLUE:

  • Headquarters of the 5th US Infantry Division "Red Devils" (Mech.), Fort Polk , Louisiana , 9,000 soldiers
    • 1st brigade
    • 2nd Brigade
  • 224th Engineer Battailon (ARNG - Army National Guard), Iowa
  • 2nd Ranger Battailon / 75th US Infantry Regiment, Fort Louis, Washington
  • 280th Signal Battailon (ARNG), Delaware
  • F Company, 425th Infantry Battailon (ARNG), Michigan
  • 372nd Engineer Group (USAR - US Army Reserve), Iowa
  • 385th Engineer Group
  • 332nd General Hospital (USAR)
  • 38 ARNG units

ORANGE was structured as follows:

The 11th US Aviation Group from Hessental , Territorialkommando Süd and the 2nd / Feldjäger Battalion 750 from Stuttgart were also there. The 8th US Infantry Division provided command and referee service.

scope

Certain Fury 84 took place under the guidance of the VII. US Corps from October 10 to 30, 1984 in the Würzburg , Wertheim , Schwäbisch Hall , Aalen , Ulm , Augsburg , Schrobenhausen , Treuchtlingen and Ansbach areas . A total of 40,000 soldiers and 2,750 tracked vehicles, 1,500 of them main battle tanks, took part. In addition, 470 helicopters were used.

procedure

Mönchengladbach , Giebelstadt , Niederstetten , Rhein-Main Air Base Frankfurt and Brussels served as airports for the REFORGER deployment . For this purpose, 16,000 US soldiers were flown in from the USA and an additional 51,000 tons of material were shipped to European ports. The deployment area was Tauberbischofsheim via the train station, the A81 , Lauda-Königshofen , Boxberg , Bad Mergentheim and Niederstetten. The Taubertalstraße via Rothenburg , Feuchtwangen , Nördlingen and the B290 in the Aalen area served as the deployment route for the exercise troops .

The maneuver center was in the McKee Barracks of Crailsheim . The agglomeration was the area around Schwäbisch Hall , Crailsheim, Rothenburg ob der Tauber , Neu-Ulm and Nördlingen . The march began on September 10th. The official start of the exercise, which had been postponed by one day due to the bad weather conditions, was on September 12th. The exercise ended on September 28 with a combat shooting at the Grafenwoehr military training area ; the march back took place on October 30, 1984. The exercise was based on the AirLand Battle concept with the intention of restoring the intended borderline for BLUE towards the end of the exercise.

Bridges were built across the Danube at Dillingen , Donauwörth , Hochstadt and Marxheim using ribbon pioneer bridges . Air support for the ground offensive was provided as part of Cold Fire 84 . As an innovation, the M2 Bradley was used for the first time. In Bieberehren near Würzburg there was a fatal accident with a tanker truck. Peace activists planned to prevent maneuvers against Certain Fury 84, but only realized a “walk” on the Wildflecken military training area .

Web links

Commons : REFORGER 1984  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

media

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ Field Training Exercise, free-running exercise for the full force
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Certain Fury 84 / REFORGER 84 on M136
  3. ^ NATO autumn. Maneuvers 1984.
  4. ↑ 30 years ago: Disruptive maneuvers in the Fulda Gap. February 11, 2015