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The whole COHORT Manning system is supposed to be coming back into play. It was actualy a far better system in my opinion than having an almost constant changeover. It did have its drawbacks in regards to advancement and schools but otherwise the benefits outwieghed that.
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Mortar Platoon, HHC, 3rd Bat 66th Armor, 2nd AD was a COHRT platoon straight from Benning. They came in around Dec 86 and brought the platoon up to 100% manning. I was offered a slot to stay but they were shipping out to Germany for three years in the spring and I said no thanks. That was the last I heard about the COHORT program.
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AC, my reading is it's not quite the COHORT concept in that they are not going to group them in training. Units will rotate overseas with other units.
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Ok, stupid question time. Since I'm not 11 series, I don't know the answer. What exactly is a COHORT unit? 
"Do you know against what type of men you'll have to fight? We who dine on sharpened swords and drink down blazing tourches as our wine. Then for dessert they bring us broken Cretan darts and splintered pike shafts. Our pillows are shields and breastplates and beside our feet lie bows and slings. We crown ourselves with catapult wreaths." - Mnesimachus, Macedonian playwrite- 350 BC.
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It was something they tried back in the early 80's were a company would take its OSUT and jumpschool (for the Airborne types) together and then go to its permanent-party unit as a company. In the case of the first COHORT, they went to the 82nd and became a company in the 2/325. I think it was one of those things that sound good in theory, but didn't quite work out in a practical sense (though by all accounts the COHORT companies, at least those in the 82nd, were excellent units). I think the main issue was it was just too disruptive to the parent units.
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In my opinion it was an excellent concept. I served in COHORT III from day 1 along with ABNCRAZY (Bob) and it was an outstanding unit. We all always new what the other one was doing. The only down side to it was that at the end of the 3 years you look up one day and 50% of your company is gone. We were a tight group, as a matter of fact just last month 45 of us got together for a reunion, and after 17 years we never missed a beat. Picked up right where we left off. 
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Damned Straight we did Joel! That re-union was unreal, it was like the previous 17 years had only been a few months (other than the bigger guts, grey hair and lack there of on some:hehe
It was amaing how tight we we were back then and even more so how tight we were so many years later!!
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I can agree..Being in a COHORT unit was unreal. I was the NBC NCO for COHORT 1 and it was a blast. We've had 2 rerunions and our 3rd is set for Reno during the convention this year. ALL Paratroopers are welcome to stop by our party room - especially you "other" COHORTers!!!
COHORT 1 1983-1985
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