The 82nd Airborne and Light Infantry Divisions should lead the Army's Pacific policy.

The 82nd Airborne Division.

An Elite outfit.

Trained in rapid deployment,  and historically operated in "Little Groups of Paratroops" (LGOP)...they were doing distributed operations before distributed operations were cool.  If the question is who should lead the charge into the Pacific then the answer is the the 82nd Airborne Division.

Why?  Because they would fit in perfectly with the "Air" in Air-Sea Battle.  Because they would bring something to the table that the Marine Corps does not which is what the Joint Service concept is truly suppose to be about.  Because it would put one of our three forms of forcible entry into a region that has been deemed of national importance.

Alot of the benefits that the 82nd would bring are obvious -- besides being rapidly deployable they are co-located with USAF transport at the nearby Pope AFB and they train jointly with the USMC and foreign militaries.

My suggestion is simple.  The US Army should provide heavy forces for the Pacific under the umbrella of US Army Forces Korea and it should have Light Fighters led by the 82nd having a forward deployed Brigade colocated with USAF transports in Guam.

If this suggestion is followed then you would have a medium weight force capable of responding to crisis in the USMC MEU's....a light weight force that could arrive within hours of that crisis in the form of battalions from the 82nd and if it goes all crazy then you have forward deployed Army units out of Korea.

This makes sense, its builds on the capabilities already in the region, it allows the Army to plug one of its units into the Air Sea Battle concept and it gives the Army skin in the game.  Below is an old video on the 82nd.  Gone are the light tanks...and I don't know if the USAF still does LAPES but it gives a primer on their capabilities.