So Rifle Sections of 9 soldiers would work well. I do think the reserves however have a huge role to play in defending airfields, HQs, dockyards, ammo dumps etc etc. So while I like your idea of a standard, basic, modular structure, it seems very typically British in that it appears under-gunned compared to allied nations ? 2019-2023 Battle Order. Indeed, one was carried until the 51 mm was prematurely retired (because the ammunition went out of production). The Table of Organisation and Equipment (TOE) is based on document from the early 80s. This coincided with the U.S. Army's reorganization and implementation of the Brigade Combat Teams (BCT). Each infantry brigade is equipped and capable of air assault operations. Are/were you Guards, Captain Nemo? Id integrate a fourth rifle company from the TA into your battalion too, to train alongside it and to be fully conversant with its people and its methodology. The Anti-tank Platoon typically has 6-8 Javelin ATGM launchers, with each one operated by two soldiers. A battalion is a military unit, typically consisting of 300 to 1,200 soldiers commanded by a lieutenant colonel, and subdivided into a number of companies (usually each commanded by a major or a captain). The way my unit does it is to strip kit down to belt kit and daysack for fighting and then have gonk bag in a canoe bag and a single rocket pouch containing admin kit. In the Canadian Army, the battalion is the standard unit organization for infantry and combat service support and each battalion is divided into one or more sub-units referred to as companies. In a pinch, sure, but routinely just five or six. (just to muddy the waters). The armoured brigade would have Ajax Recce, Chally, Ajax IFV (bye bye Warrior! its principal allies and enemies. They are also Emergency Care Sergeants and can maneuver with either the Company Commander or First Sergeant. Option B creates three sections of 10 soldiers plus a smaller Platoon HQ of 6 soldiers. How can Royal Navy Ship numbers be realistically increased? Jed touched upon it earlier, rekindling Think Defences rather outlandish proposal to create a non-deployable ceremonial unit. 3 x Rifle Sect: eight soldiers. An infantry fire team might include two riflemen, one of whom is the team leader; a grenadier and an automatic rifleman, who is used when small reconnaissance or special missions are required. Four soldiers make up a team a noncommissioned officer and three junior enlisted soldiers. that serves 2 M224 60mm light mortars for indirect fire support. of troops assigned than an infantry company . Various members of the platoon will also carry a 9 mm Glock 17 pistol. This reduces each company by 20 personnel. & Organizations of the Italian Campaign for brief history This set up allows the squad to fire and maneuver at the same time, with one team able to act as a "support" element and the other as an "assault" element. There is a case for a light mortar to be carried by each Platoon HQ. 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Perhaps in Armd/Mech it could even be comverted into a 120mm Mortar Pl, complementing the 81mm which can struggle in the faster-moving and dispersed Armd battle? Mechanised Transport Platoon Increased use of the reserves suggests to me that government wants to underpin our foreign adventures on the cheap and at the expense of the regular army. The Quartermasters Platoon will be comprised of support staff whose job it is to manage and distribute material and other resources to each of the rifle companies. Required fields are marked *. of the two vehicles seem to vary somewhat according to which source you use. This is followed at the brigade level at which point the support scale starts to really kick in. Thisproposal is in-line with what rifle companies already have. I am also a big advocate of platoons having their own medic and signaller. Contrarily, in my experience the Gaaards are very proud of their role and it forms an important part of their ethos, setting them apart from the rest after all, they havent much else to boast about! (b) In principal belongs to the auxiliary service. Ref The mortar section consists of two Mortar Squads, each with a Squad Leader, Gunner and Ammo Bearer.
Germany Army Unit Organization 1942-45 > WW2 Weapons Ill break my reply into a couple of comments. Four section vehicles each having six dismounts with three crew is 36. Significantly, you would reduce the Reserve Infantry from 16 battalions to just 33 rifle coys and so lost not just 15 rifle coys but lost all the support weapons specialists and G1/4/6 troops. Equally, it can be used for vehicles that have a larger carrying capacity than IFVs, e.g. In turn each rifle company consists three platoons. Use tab to navigate through the menu items. In a trentch or a building 5.56mm belt feds are superb. The figures given for the number of soldiers carried, number of dismounts etc. For the rest of reserve infantry I would convert to home defence force non-deployable security force for the UK home base. consists of command and support personnel for the company. Sergeants Mess Staff In my world it would be EAGLE 44 and 66 to have commonality in light and medium protected mobility. Could we not then consider having whole crews staying with the vehicle rather than depleting them when the section has to dismount? The psychological impact of fighting against a platoon with immediate indirect fire capability should not be disregarded nor should the effect of hearing its noise and seeing its explosion. It is worth noting that the current model of the Army Reserve infantry actually achieves the endstate you seek already: generating an additional rifle company as well as generating an additional section per specialist platoon. In Platoon HQs that have 9 soldiers, the same structure would be adopted, providing an additional machine gun and designated marksman rifle. With eachJavelin vehicle requiring a driver and commander, this creates a headcount requirement of 1 officer + 31 other ranks. Combat companies consist of (usually mechanised) infantry, combat engineers, or tanks. Also not every infantry unit would then need an kind of sister tank unit (because of rotation, because of terrain and so on) and so the number of vehicles for the protected mobility units which could at the same time act as independent fighting units seperate from the infantry could be smaller as if every infantry unit would have its own protected vehicles. I agree on the close relationship between regs and reserves, having been in a specialist reserve unit, I have seen it work really well. Reconnaissance Troop, company-size unit Getting rid of minimi/ LMG was a mistake based on the assumption that medium to long range contacts will dominate future conflicts. Tactically, battalions are grouped into brigades. Often these will be stored in vehicles until needed. Moving from the micro to the macro, the organization of the army overall is a little wacky, given the number of infantry battalions youd expect to see simple structures equivalent to ten brigade combat teams, but you dont; Id say this is a worry not just operationally but because it lends itself to questions and to cuts, the fighting and the support units should explain and justify each others existence. A battalion is a military unit with 300 to 1,200 soldiers that usually consists of two to seven companies and is commanded by either a lieutenant colonel or a colonel. 40mm MV is would be an excellent addition to the ammo mix in sections bit there will be some work for the SASCs to update Pams and traces so unlikely to happen. A battle group consists of an infantry battalion or armoured regiment with sub-units detached from other military units acting under the command of the battalion commander. The newer light weight medium/ long range calibres ( eg. I see that you failed to include the Adjutant Generals Regimental Administration Office Platoon with around 20 personel. In actuality, I agree that Ajax IFV replacing Warrior is highly unlikely. Option C Platoon divides the platoon into three groups (or multiples) of 12 soldiers. If a rifleman receives the proper training and is skilled enough, they may be designated a squad designated marksman. Service Nominally, an extra GPMG and DMR are proposed, but a light mortar or multi-role 40 mm AGL could be carried instead. * Each squad is authorized two disposable shoulder-fired munitions (general AT-4s) which would go to the Riflemen. These included air assault, light infantry, infantry, mountain infantry, airborne, and the Rangers. I am not sure I would even attempt to provide reserve reinforcements to Warrior or Boxer based units. firepower and protection yes (which would possibly be over kill), but at the expense of a massive logistical footprint. An infantry battalion, logistical battalion, combat battalion, and the Netherlands Marine Corps all have a battalion structure. The Sniper platoon usually consists of eight sniper pairs or 16 other ranks. This is why the dismount numbers vary a bench seats however many can fit, a seat is for one. As a bonus I thought that a closer relationship with reserves at battalion might serve as a nice middle ground, with regulars perhaps choosing that as way out of the service as well as for reserves finding it a way in. However, your suggestion of four rifle sections will require even greater manpower to maximise effect. Not being Guards and having never done public duties, how would this sound: The United States Navy has construction battalions and navy cargo handling battalions. Total battalion headcount can be determined by considering how many soldiers are needed within each component unit type. @MikeW This would fit the MoD whole fleet management. Automatic 120mm mortars have small crews for high firepower. 07 Personnel summary. By embedding these assets at the battalion and brigade levels these organisations get used to working autonomously and are supported by more CSG as each level moves up. It can also go by different names, depending on the function: Company-sized artillery units are called batteries, while in armor and air cavalry units, they are called troops. The battalion must have a source of re-supply to enable it to sustain operations for more than a few days. The nine regular force infantry battalions each contain three or four rifle companies and one or two support companies. . Battle Order is for informational purposes only. $1.50. endstream
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Ill add defence inflation here, everything costs a fortune and will cost more, all the time do more with less, how much will the reserves get? The organization here has been valid since approximately 2012, although weapon systems have changed over time. This amounts to 1 officer and 38 permanent enlisted personnel, as well as 3 usually attached enlisted personnel.
PDF Organization of the United States Infantry Battalion 1940 to 1945 1 Combat Support battalion. Same for Mech Inf, if you are happy to reduce dismounted infantry mass to 22 (36 + 4). There are pouches hanging off the turret cage. Now that the GPMG has been returned to rifle sections, a separate, fourth fire support platoon is no longer needed.
Current Infantry Battalion TOE | 16th Infantry Regiment Association SVC - For dismounted infantry, the US Army is looking at .338 (8.59 mm) medium weight machine guns to provide increased firepower and range. Public duties are despised and dont help Guards recruitment really? They will win, or loose. While the US army will no doubt eventually start fielding thier new 6.8mm super calibre I think 2 rifle calibres in sections will remain wise. As we begin to look towards autonomous vehicles, REME support across all battalion types will become more important. These mortars can be fired either from anM170 Bipod or by hand. The total then is simply calculated as 18338. CnC can be further rationalised across the whole unarmed force by having a single force structure around 1 HQ, 4 commands, each operating 2 divisions that hold all naval, land, cyber, air, space and command assets assigned to them and having a flatter structure. Ideally infantry should be carried in tracked IFVs or wheeled MIVs, but even light PMVs are preferable to MAN trucks and Land-Rovers that offer no protection. They can range from a few dozen soldiers to up to 200. The support company usually contains anti-tank, machine gun, mortar, pioneer and reconnaissance platoons. One company A battalion in the Indian Army consists of four rifle companies. The UK is likely to do the same, but only a limited number of vehicles will get it presumably Anti-tank and Reconnaissance platoons. Again, organisational structure is important. After all, the Army Reserve is not the job which pays the bills. VFHVe xC=E>wPK gk R$~(k: CQuu9#MN mb)jNE1>SCBC+l 1
And modeling and simulation. and normally have subordinate units that are identified by single letters (BatteryA, CompanyA, TroopA, etc.). This means for the same total numbers as today we have a far more agile and deployable total force. There are apparently 11 demonstration versions of the Warrior being put through their paces in Dorset. The addition of the antitank platoon meant that a BTR battalion at full strength was 525 personnel and 60 BTRs, including three command variants, while a BMP battalion consisted of 497 personnel and 45 BMPs, including three command variants.
Outline Organisation Structure of a Standard Infantry Battalion A company is commanded by a captain with a first sergeant as the assistant.
Organization | The United States Army - Army Contracting Command This creates a requirement for 1 officer + 44 other ranks. equipped with heavy Machine Guns and 81mm Mortars(See chart for For light role battalions the ISTR company with the recon platoon, assault pioneers, sniper platoon, and hopefully a uav plankton. If it did by any chance happen, though, I wonder if UK Land Power could tell me whether it would make a difference to his manning arrangements. 1. The basic building block of military capability is the infantry section. The Warrior has two benches how many can you squeeze on? It offers a range of new ammunition natures from anti-tank rounds to bunker-busting HE. New Zealands cavalry (which would be considered mechanised infantry in the British Army) do this, having 46 soldiers and six NZLAVs per Cav Tp. This would truly maximise the boots on the ground and moreover at the same time the tanks in the open and moreover the overall agility, speed, deployability and so on because of smaller units sizes for both the infantry and the Bronegruppa Tank Units (which are complete seperate independent units) which then can assist them if the need arises.