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Admiral Link
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Military FAQ
Posted: 22 Sep 09 1:39 AM
Whats the difference between battalion and corps? What is the term used for a huge group of soldiers say 5000000? Can you give me a list of terms used for soldiers in groups from smallest to biggest?
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Re: Military FAQ
Posted: 23 Sep 09 5:36 PM
Fire team
Squad
Platoon
Company
Battalion
Regiment
Division
Corps
Army
Field Army.

Numbers vary between the Marines and the army, even within the army. Other nations have units of different sizes--eg. an infantry squad can be anywhere from seven to fourteen men, depending on the particular army (or Marine Corps). I'll let somebody else fill in the numbers.
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Re: Military FAQ
Posted: 24 Sep 09 1:41 AM
 DavidS wrote
Fire team
Squad
Platoon
Company
Battalion
Regiment
Division
Corps
Army
Field Army.

Numbers vary between the Marines and the army, even within the army. Other nations have units of different sizes--eg. an infantry squad can be anywhere from seven to fourteen men, depending on the particular army (or Marine Corps). I'll let somebody else fill in the numbers.


If soldiers are sent for recon missions or search and destroy then the soldiers are sent in squads only?
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Re: Military FAQ
Posted: 24 Sep 09 5:41 PM
They're sent in elements.

Each mission will have different man-power requirements. It could be a two man team,  squad, a squad plus (a squad "plus" a few extra bodies), a platoon, two teams et cetera. Everything is always dependent on the situation.
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Re: Military FAQ
Posted: 26 Sep 09 10:59 AM Modified By DavidS on 9/26/2009 11:02:21 AM)
In my list of unit types, smallest to largest, I left out a couple.

One is "section." A section will normally have two or more squads, and be part of a platoon. The best example I know is the weapons platoon in a Marine infantry rifle company, which has a machine gun section and a mortar section.

Then there's the brigade. A brigade means different things to different armed forces:

To the US Army, a brigade is a regiment-size combined arms unit. An army brigade might have, for example, one infantry battalion, one armored battalion, and one artillery battalion. I don't know if any army brigades are configured exactly that way, but that's the idea. An army brigade is commanded by a colonel, and has probably 3,000 troops.

To the Marines, a brigade is a combined arms unit centered around an infantry regimental landing team (google it). It has an air group (what the Marines call an air group is the same as what the navy and air force call an air wing). And a Marine brigade has a combat service and support group (one of you current or recent Leathernecks please give the correct name, we had a different arrangement in my day). A Marine brigade has about 10,000 Marines and is commanded by a brigadier general.

I won't further confuse you by bringing in the MAGTF (pronounced Mag-Tuff)--Marine Air-Ground Task Force. Again, google it.
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