He wants those units to be well-prepared for the next kind of fight they could encounter with a major military power.

"When you look at the [2018] National Defense Strategy and competition among near-peer competitors, peer competitors -- that great power competition, there is a potential for large-scale combat operations ... [and] it could actually be division level fights," Hokanson said in an interview Thursday ahead of the Guard's planned announcement Saturday. Currently, 335 women -- 97 officers and 238 enlisted sailors -- are serving on submarines.

The open letter, published Thursday morning by National Security Leaders for Biden, contains 489 names. "When you go out on the playground and everyone picks players and you just go versus having a team, and you may only practice once a month and two weeks over the summer, but over the course of months and years you know your strengths and weaknesses, you've worked together and as a team, you would play much better together," Hokanson said. For the last two decades, the Army has focused on its smaller brigade combat teams as its primary fighting elements for counterterrorism operations and deployments focused on assisting the forces of other nations.

"We never want to fight," he said. When Tony Pellino watched a veteran with one leg stand up on a board, it left an impression on him. "That's what we're looking at with this.". The increase to 18 complete Army divisions comes at a time when service officials believe a major conflict with a near-peer rival -- namely Russia or China -- would require the employment of full divisions, he said. This list of United States Army divisions is divided into three eras: 1911–1917, 1917–1941, and 1941–present.

The Army, in general, is the land military force of a nation or state. © Copyright 2020 Stars and Stripes. But if that fight does come, he wants the Army Guard soldiers ready to deploy as a full division that has spent time working together, instead of having to piece together a division at the last minute. He said he hopes to have all the National Guard divisions established in the coming months and reach initial operating capability -- meaning they have trained enough together to be certified as minimally effective to deploy and fight as a unit -- by Oct. 1, 2021. Can Spouses Be Buried in Veterans Cemeteries?

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