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Re: Military FAQ
Posted: 26 Sep 09 4:39 PM
 DavidS wrote
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.


I am going to assume a lot of soldiers assigned to this Task Force!
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