With the Brits having 7-man sections in 1928, 2 rifle/2 Lewis sections per platoon, and 4 platoons per company, nearly although I'd rather have the Lewis guns lol

You've heard of the Pentomic Division, but how about the Hexagonal Platoon? (This sort of historical structure is why the U.S. has sections as a [••] echelon larger the [•] squad, aside from its utility with weapons sections)

🇺🇸 The U.S. Army Infantry Regiment Medical Detachment of June 1944. This provided the infantry with Regimental & Battalion Aid Stations, litter bearers, and aid men (combat medics) for the line platoons and regimental companies.

New gallery for medical units: www.battleorder.org/post/medic

www.battleorder.org/post/new-4-2... New update page with all of the graphics, videos, articles, and archive pages added to my site since January.

Dudes just saying shit

Have you considered getting into other hopeless endeavours such as public transportation in America?

I believe the reason their Platoon Sergeant is described as an Assistant Platoon Commander ranking Staff Sergeant by Sayen is they repurposed the Demolitions NCO in the Battalion HQ (MOS 533 Demo Specialist) who ranked Staff Sergeant. I don't have the original T/O though

🇺🇸 The US Marines centralized its demolition specialists into a battalion-level Assault Platoon officially in 1945 (and unofficially at the unit-level in 1944). This allowed for the more efficient use of demolitions, rockets and flamethrowers against fortifications and refueling

James I think it’s time to pivot from the whole “paying attention to military affairs” thing before we die

Just gotta throw together 11k for 300 and 820 visas and get the other person to pledge allegiance to Albo

I've updated the World War II Platoon Graphics gallery on my website as well: www.battleorder.org/graphics-ww2...

🇺🇸 The U.S. Marine Rifle Platoon's organization as it was reorganized in early/mid-1944. This was the first time the Marine Corps as a whole implemented its longstanding 12-man, 3-fire team structure within squads based on the yeoman work of the Raiders and Paramarines.

U.S. Airborne Rifle Squad (1999) The late 1990s was a key step in the evolution of U.S. Army infantry equipment, as depicted in this graphic of the Airborne (and Air Assault) Infantry Rifle Squad from that period. The current 9-man s...

🇺🇸 www.battleorder.org/post/us-abns... New article on my site that briefly goes over the U.S. Airborne Rifle Squad setup of the late 90s and the new weapons/attachments the 82nd Airborne brought with it to the Balkans in 1999, with reference photos.

With the desert air strip used in the rescue being this close to Isfahan, seems likely JSOC repurposed the one they’d been planning on using for the highly enriched uranium raid if ordered. Safe to say these events drastically decrease the odds of the JSOC HEU mission taking place.

Stuff was shitty before Obama and we liked it!

Despite living in the Bay Area for half my life I’ve only been to the North Bay once lol

California's Nike-Ajax Brigade (1960) During a brief period from mid-1959 to April 1962, all of the California Army National Guard's air defense artillery units were under the administrative control of the 114th Artillery Brigade (Air Def...

I have the text blurbs, links to the sources and the highest quality graphic in article form: www.battleorder.org/post/us-114a...

California's high-level Air Defense units in 1960, including Nike-Ajax surface-to-air missiles and 90mm AAA guns

When I tried Mastodon it'd take like 2 business weeks to upload an image which is kind of my whole shtick

The bajillion-battalion regiment is back, and it's not even the Indian Army

The "4th Battalion" is more or less arbitrary but is meant to signify that even these new gen regiments have lots of battalions affilitated with them. As the DOV Wiki says the UK has like 14 billion people single-battalion regiments are likely extremely rare (I don't decide canon though)

The 7th Green Jackets are inspired by the period before the Green Jackets Regts were amalgamated into the Royal Green Jackets. It was probably the Paramount Regiment initially, later re-titled and transferred to the Green Jackets Brigade so the neo-county (planet) regiments could have some vibes

Inside baseball: If the story of the real British Army is amalgamating into nothing but The Rifles, the DOV British Army's is deamalgamating, actually making new regiments for once, and giving them all hella battalions

The Democratic Republic of Vega inherited many of the experiences & traditions of the old Commonwealth. As a member of the Comintern, it participates in both conventional warfare and peacekeeping across the Orion Arm.

Listing generic interests in your bio is so 2014

The unit that went over to the Philippines was the 1st California Infantry of SF. This was converted into coast arty units in the 1900s, so I believe “First California” would be 250th ADA Regiment if it was active

By 1904 California no longer had a division. Initially it was restructured to 2 brigades splitting 5 regiments, and by 1910 just 3 regiments in 1 brigade (which it remained until 1917). However, coast artillery had grown significantly from 4 batteries to 24 companies

The standard U.S. Army regiment was 12 infantry companies formed into 3 battalions. Battalion staffs were organic to the Regiment's Field, Staff and Band. In California in 1902, only the 7th Infantry had its full 12. All infantry companies were at about 50% manning

The California National Guard as of 1902. Basically 2 regiments for the Bay Area, 1 for Socal, 1 for the Northern Central Valley and 1 for the Southern Central Valley. Four infantry companies had recently been converted to coast artillery

Lmao