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From: military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: The Phantom Corps
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Date: 17 Apr 89 02:55:19 GMT
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From: military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker)


A friend of mine gave me another possible insight as to the
source of the name "Phantom Corps."  He suggested that that may
be a US-based unit which stores most of its equipment in Europe;
a division might keep one battalion of its equipment stateside for
training, with the rest overseas.  Hence the term  "phantom".


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