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 FLEXIBLE RESPONSE $44$ Msg, DA to CG, CONARC, 889661, 6 Dee 68, sub: Public Announcement-Reforger 1, and Ltr, TAG to CG, CONARC, and other addresses, 28 May 69, sub: After Action Report, Exercise Reforger 1, AGAM-P (23 May 69) FOR OT UT 69E001, both Reforger file, DAMH-HSO.

$45$ Ltr, TAG to CG, Third U.S. Army, 23 May 66, sub: Inactivation of the 2d Battalion, 29th Infantry, AGSD-C (M) (3 May 66), 197th Inf Bde file, DAMH-HSO; Telephone or Verbal Conversation Record, Mrs Stubbs and Lt Col Derhay, 11 Jun 67, sub: An Armored Brigade for Ft Knox, and Ltr, TAG to CG, U.S. Army Combat Developments Command, 24 Jan 68, sub: Reorganization of Unit, AGSD-C (M) ACSFOR, both 194th Armd Bde file, Ltr, TAG to CG, US Army, Alaska, 10 Jul 67, ADSD-C (M) (3 Jul 67) ACSFOR, 171st Inf Bde file, and GO 70, U.S. Forces Southern Command, 1968, 3d Bn, 5th Inf file, all DAMH-HSO.

$46$ Msg. OCINFO DA to CG, CONARC, and CinC, USARPAC 870873, 3 Jul 68, sub: Decision by the Secretary of Defense not to Activate the 6th Infantry Division, and Ltr, TAG to CG, CONARC, and CinC, USARPAC, 18 Noy 68, sub: Change in Status of Units, AGSD-C (M) (31 Jul 68) ACSFOR, both 6th Inf Div file, DAMH-HSO; Ltr, TAG to CG, CONARC, 7 Noy 68, sub: Change in Status of Units, AGSD-C (M) (10 Oct 68) ACSFOR, 4th Bde, 82d Abn Div, file, and Ed Gerhardt, Unit History of the 69th Infantry Brigade (Mechanized) 1963–1978, 15 Feb 79, Ms, pp. 10–21, 69th Bde, 35th Inf Div, file.

$47$ Memo for Record, See of the General Staff, sub: Meeting with VCSA on Re-examination of Reduction of Forces in Europe and Reconstitution of the 6th Division (2 Brigades), 23 Aug 68, and OPS Form 28, ACSFOR to CofS, 30 Sep 67, sub: Activation of Division Headquarters and a Brigade size Force of the 6th Infantry Division (Show the Flag Concept), FOR PP FP, 6th Inf Div file, DAMH-HSO.

$48$ Chief of Information, DA, Why Merge (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1965), Ltr, TAG to CinC, USAREUR, and other addresses, 14 Jun 67, sub: Reserve Component Reorganization, AGAM-P (M) (13 Jun 67) ORC-OPT-OP, Ltr, TAG to CinC, USAREUR, and other addresses, 20 Jul 67, same subject, AGAM-P (M) (20 Jul 67) ORC-OPT-OP, and News Release, 27 Nov 67, Army Reserve Components Will Commence Reorganization, all Army Reserve file, DAMH-HSO; "The President Reports to the 89th General Conference," National Guardsman, 21 (Oct 1967): inside front cover and pp. 36–39; "Division Command Rotation Plan Set Aside," National Guardsman, 22 (Mar 1968): 16; James F. Cantwell, "A Salute to the 'Lost' Divisions," National Guardsman, 22 (Feb 1968): inside front cover. The Guard wanted the maneuver element mix for mechanized infantry and armored divisions to be the same as the prototype divisions under the 1966 tables of organization, but for infantry divisions it desired eight infantry, two mechanized infantry, and two armor battalions; thus the infantry division would have been larger than Regular Army divisions.

$49$ 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.

$50$ Office of Reserve Components, "Annual Historical Summary, 1 Jul 67–30 Jun 68," p. 4, DAMH-HSR; Historical Data Cards, 157th, 187th, 191st, and 205th Inf Bdes, DAMH-HSO.

$51$ Ltr, TAG to CinC, USAREUR, 25 Apr 68, sub, SRF II Troop List, AGAM-P (M) (16 Nov 67) ORC-OPT-OP, Army Reserve file, DAMH-HSO; "CONARC Report on US Army Reserve 68," Army Reserve Magazine 25 (Mar 1968): 4–5; "SRF Born 27 September 1965; Died September 1969," National Guardsman 23 (Sep 1969): 12–16; Department of the Army Historical Summary, 1970, p. 70.<section end="Note51" />

$52$ <section begin="Note52" />TOE 29–7T–3, Division (Training), 1966 "Things to Come: CONARC Present Plans for the New Year," Army Reserve Magazine 13 (Dec 1967); 8–9; Notes, "Training Division Reorganization, 1967–1968," Division General files, DAMH-HSO.<section end="Note52" />

$53$ <section begin="Note53" />Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, Richard Nixon, 1969 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1971), p. 443.<section end="Note53" />

$54$ <section begin="Note54" />Westmoreland, A Soldier Reports, p. 381; GO 236, Fifth US Army, 23 Jul 1969; Ltr, TAG to CinC, USARPAC, and other addresses, undated. sub: Letter of Instruction for Redeployment of US Army Forces from RVN (U), AGAM-P (21 Jul 69) OPS OD FE, Vietnam Redeployment file, Msg, <section end="Note54" />