Some notes on the border guards
Formation 28: Border Guard Co
I would suggest it being restructured with a scout section (unit 450) in slot 2 and a MG section (formation 215) in slot 5. Final availability date would be 4/2003.
Only formation 48 Border Guard Pl would be left after that date. During the Saddam era border guards were occasionally put together in large units for frontline combat against the kurdish insurrections and the iranians but after 2003 they would be deployed in platoon size strenght only.
Unit 506: Border Guards
Initial availability date should be pushed back to 1/1986
Unit 507-508: Border Guards
They should be either deleted or rearmed, there would not have been BG-15 grenade launchers for them.
One squad should be armed with AK-47/RPK/grenades
Availability date 1/1986-12/2020
Sources:
Iraq's Ground Forces: An Assessment
http://www.foia.cia.gov
Fleet Marine Force Reference Publication (FMFRP) 3-203, Lessons
Learned: The Iran-Iraq War, Vol . I
Re: Iraqi errors report - Part 2
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