Battalion - Knowledge

584: 399: 604: 644: 664: 624: 658: 638: 618: 598: 578: 1925:, an infantry or cavalry battalion was an ad hoc grouping of companies from the parent regiment (which had ten companies, A through K, minus J as described below), except for certain regular infantry regiments, which were formally organized into three battalions of six companies each (numbered 1–6 per battalion vice sequential letter designations). After 1882, cavalry battalions were renamed squadrons and cavalry companies were renamed troops. Artillery battalions typically comprised four or more batteries, although this number fluctuated considerably. 1061: 2025:(battery). A battalion usually contains two to five organic companies (batteries in the artillery), with a total of 500 to 1,200 Marines in the battalion. A regiment consists of a regimental headquarters, a headquarters company (or battery) and two to five organic battalions (Marine infantry regiments – three battalions of infantry; Marine artillery regiments – three to five battalions of artillery; Marine combat logistics regiments – one to three combat logistics battalions). In the U.S. Marine Corps, the brigade designation is used only in " 1530: 1648: 3123: 1991:(CABs). Tank battalions and mechanised infantry battalions no longer exist. These new combined arms battalions are modular units, each consisting of a headquarters company, two mechanized infantry companies, two tank companies and a forward support company attached from the battalion's parent brigade support battalion. This new structure eliminated the need to task-organize companies between battalions; each combined arms battalion was organically composed of the requisite companies. At a higher level, each 1899:, a battalion is a unit composed of a headquarters and two to six batteries, companies, or troops. They are normally identified by ordinal numbers (1st Battalion, 2nd Squadron, etc.) and normally have subordinate units that are identified by single letters (Battery A, Company A, Troop A, etc.). Battalions are tactical and administrative organizations with a limited capability to plan and conduct independent operations and are normally organic components of brigades, groups, or regiments. 411: 1607: 1598:; BTR units on high-readiness status sometimes had six missile launchers and three recoilless guns. Both featured the same support units as well, with a signal platoon, supply platoon, repair workshop and medical aid station. 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. 1162:(LAD) of the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (REME) to perform field repairs on vehicles and equipment. A British battalion in theatre during World War II had around 845 men; as of 2012, a British battalion had around 650 soldiers. With successive rounds of cutbacks after the war, many infantry regiments were reduced to a single battalion (others were amalgamated to form large regiments that maintained multiple battalions, e.g., the 1685: 2107: 2053:

companies do not receive a letter designation. Marine infantry regiments use battalion and company designations as described above under World War II, with company letters D, H and M not normally used but rather held in reserve for use in augmenting a fourth rifle company into each battalion as needed.

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As of January 2024, most battalions/regiments of the army are reported to have less than 150 men. Within these battalions only around 80 men are fit for actual combat. Due to such manpower shortages, the army has been reportedly drawing out 30,000 men from combat support service battalions as of

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In the U.S. Marine Corps, an infantry or "rifle" battalion typically consists of a headquarters and service company, three rifle or "line" companies (designated alphabetically A through M depending upon which battalion of the parent regiment to which they are attached) and a weapons company. Weapons

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sections. Beginning in the early 1980s, some elements of the combat support companies (the mortar and scout platoons) were merged into the headquarters company with the staff and support elements, others were moved to their parent type organisation (ground surveillance radar and air defence), and in

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and a platoon each of tanks, amphibious assault vehicles, light armoured reconnaissance vehicles, reconnaissance Marines and combat engineers. The battalion structure is designed to readily expand to include a fourth rifle company, if required, as described above under battalion organisation. Often

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The commander's staff coordinates and plans operations. A battalion's subordinate companies and their platoons are dependent upon the battalion headquarters for command, control, communications and intelligence, and the battalion's service and support structure. The battalion is usually part of a

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Even though authorised strength of the structure changed, the core of the battalion structure remains roughly the same with Battalion/Regimental HQ housing command elements (OC, 2IC, Adjutant, Quartermaster, RSM, RQMS, R.P Sergeant and etc.), HQ Company (Support Platoons like Engineer, Signal,

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A Swedish battalion during the mid 17th century up to the mid 18th century was the smallest tactical unit in combat. The 600 man unit was formed, temporarily, at the inception of a battle by joining four foot companies from a foot regiment of eight companies. The commander of the regiment, an

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According to some observers, the average manpower of the battalions has substantially declined: from 670 plus in 1988, 350 plus in 1998, and 250 plus in 2008. A leaked document reported in the international media revealed that in late 2006, the Tatmadaw had 284 battalions with fewer than 200

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During World War II, most infantry regiments consisted of three battalions (1st, 2nd and 3rd) with each battalion consisting of three rifle companies and a heavy weapons company. That is, rifle companies A, B, C along with heavy weapons Company D were part of the 1st battalion, rifle

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that include an operationally ready, field-deployable component of approximately a half-company apiece. The nine regular force infantry battalions each contain three or four rifle companies and one or two support companies. Canadian battalions are generally commanded by

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Medical and etc.) and 4 Rifle Companies. 4 Rifle Companies (No. (1) Rifle Company, No. (2) Rifle Company, No. (3) Rifle Company and No. (4) Rifle Company) and HQ Company are combat troops whereas Battalion/Regimental HQ is for command elements.

1394:, a mechanised infantry battalion usually consists of one command- and medical company, three mechanised infantry companies and one support company, which has three platoons with heavy mortars and three platoons with anti-tank missiles ( 2975:၂၀၂၁ ခုနှစ်က ပျမ်းမျှ စစ်ထွက်အင်အား ၁၅၀ ခန့်ရှိသေးသော်လည်း ၂၀၂၂ ခုနှစ် နှစ်လည်ပိုင်းမှစ၍ အချို့တပ်များ စစ်ထွက်အင်အား ၈၅ ယောက်ပင် မပြည့်တော့ပေ။ ပြန်လည်၍ မဖြည့်တင်းနိုင်ခဲ့ရာ စစ်ထွက်အင်အား ၈၅ ယောက် အနည်းဆုံးရှိရန် ညွှန်ကြားနေသည်ကို တွေ့ရ၏ 1358:. An infantry battle group will typically be commanded by the commander of the core infantry battalion around which it is formed and can range in size from 300 to 1,500 or more soldiers, depending on the nature of the mission assigned. 2753:

After World War I the "square" infantry battalion of four companies was superseded by the "triangular" battalion of World War II and the Korean War, usually composed of three rifle companies, a heavy-weapons company and a headquarters

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A Soviet artillery battalion in the late 1980s consisted of a battalion headquarters, a headquarters platoon, a maintenance and supply platoon and three firing batteries, each with six artillery pieces, whether the self-propelled

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infantry battalions the heavy anti-tank missile platoon was organized as a separate company (E Company). In the late 1980s, there was a fourth "line" company added (D Company) in most infantry and tank battalions.

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looked alike and were therefore easily confused with one another. It was common for a battalion to become temporarily attached to a different regiment. For example, during the confusion and high casualty rates of both the

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tanks had 31 or 40 additional enlisted personnel. However, forces in Eastern Europe began to standardise to a smaller formation with 135 personnel and 31 tanks total, with each tank company consisting of 10 tanks total.

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companies E, F, G and heavy weapons Company H constituted the 2nd battalion, and rifle companies I, K, L and heavy weapons Company M were in the 3rd. There was no J Company: the letter

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NATO defines a battalion as being "larger than a company, but smaller than a regiment" while "consisting of two or more company-, battery-, or troop-sized units along with a headquarters." The standard

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abandoned the old regimental system and adopted a combat team approach centred on battalions as the building blocks of mission-oriented task forces. Battalion sizes vary between branches.

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The battalion must have a source of resupply to enable it to sustain operations for more than a few days. This is because a battalion's complement of ammunition, expendable weapons (e.g.,

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In the early 21st century the typical U.S. Army battalion was a unit of between 500 and 600 officers and enlisted personnel divided into a headquarters company and three rifle companies.

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tanks each, along with a battalion headquarters mounted in a command tank and a headquarters and service platoon, for a total of 165 personnel and 40 tanks; battalions using the older

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symbol for a battalion represented by a pair of vertical lines above a framed unit icon. Member nations have specified the various names they will use for organisations of this size.

542:), water, rations, fuel, lubricants, replacement parts, batteries, and medical supplies normally consists of only what the battalion's soldiers and the battalion's vehicles can carry. 3001:တပ်တွင်း သတင်းအရင်းအမြစ်များ အဆိုအရ ၂၀၂၃ ခုနှစ် နှစ်ဆန်းပိုင်းမှစ၍ လက်ရုံးတပ်များမှ တပ်အင်အား ၃ သောင်းခန့်ထုတ်နုတ်ပြီး တိုက်ခိုက်ရေးတပ်ရင်းများသို့ ဖြည့်တင်းရန် စီစဉ်နေသည်ဟု သိရပါသည်။ 2977:[In 2021, while there were around 150 men per battalion, most of them were fit for combat whereas since late 2022, each battalion had less than 85 men that are fit for combat] 1980:

In this older structure, U.S. Army mechanised infantry battalions and tank battalions, for tactical purposes, task-organised companies to each other, forming a battalion-sized

2779:လက်ရှိ မြန်မာ၏ တိုက်ခိုက်ရေးအင်အားကို တွက်ချက်ပါက အခြေခံအားဖြင့် မြေပြင်စစ်ဆင်ရေးတာဝန်ယူရသည့် ကြည်းတပ်၏ ခြေလျင်၊ ခြေမြန်တပ်ရင်းများ၏ စစ်အင်အားကို အဓိကထား၍ တွက်ချက်လေ့ရှိကြ၏။ 511:

A battalion comprises two or more primary mission companies, which are often of a common type (e.g., infantry, tank, or maintenance), although there are exceptions, such as

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7. 51 Signal Units (including battalions and specialised companies as well as advanced signal battalions specialised for intercepting radio frequencies and messages)

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Under Than Shwe's regime, the authorised strength was changed again as 31 officers and 826 other ranks under the organisional structure name of ကဖ ၇၀ ဆ ၂၀၀၁]

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As for structure, an Infantry Battalion was structured with 27 Officers and 750 other ranks back in 1966 under a structure organisation named of

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Tactically, the Canadian battalion forms the core of the infantry battle group, which also includes various supporting elements such as armour,

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In Myanmar (Army, People's Defence Force and various EAOs), battalions (or Regiments), called Tat Yinn (တပ်ရင်း), are the main maneuver units.

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United States Marine Corps infantry battalions are task organised into Battalion Landing Teams (BLTs) as the ground combat element (GCE) of a

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battalion includes the battalion headquarters, consisting of the commanding officer (usually a lieutenant colonel, sometimes a colonel), an

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battalions in the U.S. Army. In addition to the primary mission companies, a battalion typically includes a headquarters staff and

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of infantry, which is organised, as a general rule, of a number of battalions and the regimental centre battalion.

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Battalions of other corps are given separate cardinal numbers within their corps (e.g., 101 Battalion REME).

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could focus on the operations of his regiment and first battalion, command of his company was delegated to a

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From the 1960s through the early 1980s, a typical maneuver (infantry or tank) battalion had five companies:

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with sub-units detached from other military units acting under the command of the battalion commander.

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was traditionally not used because in 18th- and 19th-century old-style type, the capital letters

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and the executive staff (S-1 through S-4 and S-6). The battalion headquarters is supported by a

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Starting in 2005–2006, the U.S. Army's mechanised and tank battalions were reorganised into

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and each battalion is divided into one or more sub-units referred to as companies. In the

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to attach to infantry divisions during World War II in order to give them fire support.

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Prior to the late 1980s, Soviet tank battalions consisted of three tank companies of 13

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An infantry battalion is numbered ordinarily within its regiment (e.g., 1st Battalion,

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Regimental quartermaster sergeant (technical) (RQMS(T)) (warrant officer class 2)

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all have a battalion structure. Each battalion usually consists of the following:

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Murray, James A. H.; Bradley, Henry; Craigie, W. A.; Onions, C. T., eds. (1933).

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The word "battalion" came into the English language in the 16th century from the

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Battalion: Consists of 4–6 companies and can include up to about 1,000 soldiers.

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and one headquarters company. In some countries, battalions are exclusively

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consists of four rifle companies. In turn each rifle company consists three

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The Netherlands have four battalions that are permanently reserved for the

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launchers. The BTR battalion also featured an anti-tank platoon with four

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10. 36 Supply and Transport Units (Battalions and specialised companies)

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8. 59 Medical Units (including Field Medical Battalions and Hospitals)

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An infantry battalion, logistical battalion, combat battalion and the

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personnel, and 220 battalions with between 200 and 300 personnel.

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2. 17 Military Security Affair Battalions (military intelligence)

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late 2023 (signal, supply and transport battalions for example).

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