Units just eaten?

[Mantis]

I keep careful track of all my airborne units as the Axis. (Don't we all?) For some time, I've been unable to locate the Brandenburg regt in the Bonus Units formation. Attached is a pic of what happens when i go look into the formation report. The Brandenburg unit does not appear in the list, and I seem to get the feeling that there are a couple other units that went poof! without having been destroyed/disbanded, etc.

I'm going to go over this formation, and I'd appreciate a few things: tell me what units are missing (in the blank space?), and what do I need to do to activate the 'event' units? I've captured Baku, Maikop and Grozny, and won the BoB. Everything in the theatre is under Axis control except the central part of the Soviet union, the UK/Ireland, Sweden, Murmansk and Arkhangelsk.

Bonus formation (in order):

blank
blank
tigers event?
blank
blank
motorcycle recc. good
SS pzkps Wotan good
I 88 Flak good
II 88 Flak good
Halftrack Flak good
FJ Supp good
Heavy AT event?
Assult Gun Div good (typo there, Mark, but this is v1.5)
AT brg good
II AT brg good
III AT brg good
II Art Br good
II Art Br good (why is this unit named the same as last?)
II Pz Korps event?
III Art Br event?
IV Art Br Turn 180
Static Art event? (Sigfreid line?)
Mot Art good
Mot Cav Brig good
SS Rocket Art good (and sweet...)
Dora RR Guns Turn 180
SS FliegerKorps good
Machine Gun Brg good
GD PZ Armee good
Jap Marine Div event (US entry?)
Marine Div good
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All help is appreciated!

[Dan Neely]

the 4 blank spaces are respectively
Fall of France
Baku Bonus
Grozny
Maikop

all of which are disbanded when the respective objective is taken. Tigers will be disbanded XXX turns after the start of barbarossa. The reason you can't find the Brandenburg unit in our game is that It wasn't introduced until 1.7. Prior to that the axis got a machinegun brigade instead.

[Mantis]

I could have sworn that I had another paratrooper somewhere in there.

Thanks for the info on the blanks, I never considered the empty spaces left by the 'supply' units disbanding; I've never encountered it before this.

[Dan Neely]

2 regular german in the FJ oob
1 SS in the bonus
1 italian somewhere in the mess of their oob.

[Mantis]

And a 3-2 FJ support unit in the bonus formation as well.

[Dan Neely]

I forgot that one. With only a single move it's really not that useful because it takes forever to get back to an airbase to drop again.

[Mantis]

True. That's why I either save that one for drops right close to airbases/rail, or use it in the drops where I think I might just get kicked, such as into blind spots (!) and high risk encirclements.

[Mark Stevens]

Theory is it's the paratroop unit with all the heavy kit, so it wouldn't be very mobile after it dropped (or was landed by gliders).

[Chuck?]

What is the Brandenburg unit?

[Dan Neely]

A bonus paratrooper unit added in v 1.7. It's made of recon rifle squads with no replacements so it gets attrited away rather rapidly if used for anything other than blocking the retreat of a unit to allow other forces to evaporate it.