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corps worth of equipment throughthe lines of communication.”Movement of the materiel fromposts in Germany would not havebeen possible without the helpof the German government. Forexample, shipping ammunitionto Saudi Arabia became a theaterteam effort with handling unitsfrom the Bundeswehr and theBundesbahn helping USAREURpersonnel. American soldiers andGerman workers loaded munitionsonto 1,276 trucks and 2,300 railcarsat four railheads and three ports.During the peak of this operation,more tons of ammunition weremoved in one day than the theaterGeneral Franksnormally shipped in one year.While waiting their turn toleave, the heavy divisions continued training and readied their equipmentand themselves for war. The VII Corps units, collectively consideringthemselves to be the U.S. Army’s most flexible corps, readjusted theirtraining to concentrate on a more active defense and on offensiveoperations. Tankers and Bradley crewmen fired crew-level gunnery atthe Seventh Army Training Center at Grafenwöhr; maneuvered at theHohenfels Combat Maneuver Training Center; trained on computersimulators at their home bases; and drilled extensively with chemicalprotection equipment.Many soldiers learned to work with new faces. Because of the forcereductions in Europe and other factors, Army planners and commandersassembled complete divisions using battalions and brigades borrowedfrom other divisions and support components that consisted in part ofReserve and National Guard units from the United States and Germany.Corps-level combat support and combat service support organizationsalso mixed regular and reserve units under a single headquarters. Forexample, military police from three regular brigades and two reservebattalions deployed under the VII Corps’ 14th Military Police Brigadeheadquarters. The 2d Corps Support Command swelled from its peacetimestrength of nearly eight thousand to twenty-five thousand throughreserve augmentation.21