The ideal infantryman physique is actually slightly malnourished so they can get their strava following up
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The ideal infantryman physique is actually slightly malnourished so they can get their strava following up
Being super jacked in fact suggests pog
🇺🇸 youtu.be/1X8PZjD9_0Y This new video covers experimental Armored Brigade Combat Team designs that the US 3rd Infantry Division is testing this year. It goes into the planned task org, new equipment to be integrated and another concept from early 2025 reported by T&P
A list of WW2 German organizational documents
⬛️⬜️🟥 battleorder.org/post/de-toe-ww2 New archive page for WW2 Germany that includes links to the most commonly cited NARA rolls of captured German KStNs (TO&Es) and links to the best websites to learn more about WW2 German unit organization
🇯🇵 My site now has backups of 7 Cold War Japanese manuals, including on infantry squad/company organization, armor units, basic training, and the Type 62 light machine gun www.battleorder.org/post/jp-manu...
Before CCB of the 10th Armored arrived on scene, Combat Command Reserve of the 9th Armored was already located in the Ardennes as VIII Corps Reserve. For between 36-48 hours they were all that stood between several Panzer Divisions and Bastogne and were assigned the mission to die whilst buying time
🇺🇸 youtu.be/EYPY3NjWXeA In this video I go over the last 10+ years of developments in the realm of U.S. Marine Rifle Squads and their small arms and small arms accessories, from the status quo of 2014 to today. I cover both the squad as fielded and the numerous experimental Rifle Squad organizations
This is the first part of several Orbats I will be putting together related to Combat Command organizations during specific battles. Starting off with Combat Command B of the 10th Armored DIvision prior to the arrival of the 101st Airborne Division at Bastogne.
A list of different Mexican Army manuals, including infantry and military police tactics
🇲🇽 www.battleorder.org/post/mx-toe New Archive page for Modern Mexican military, including 15 Army manuals, 1 Marine manual, 1 Marine battalion TO&E (2022) and 3 naval documents including full Marine, Navy and Naval Aviation orders of battle down to the battalion/separate coy (2022-25)
The USMC Amphibious Recon Battalion of WW2 is the forerunner of their modern-day Recon and Force Recon Battalions. The images below are how they would have looked as a company and battalion from late 1943 to the end of the war. Neat fact is that 21st Commandant James Jones father commanded them!
Three US and Indian infantry squad grpahics
My website now has a "What's New?" section that will have the major additions to the site over a period of time in one place, including the high resolution versions of graphics, videos, archival material and articles. www.battleorder.org/post/new-1-2...
They not only have primary sources, but also links to websites that do a lot of digitization/recopying of TO&Es. For WW2 in particular those sites have about as much TO&E and ORBAT information as you could possibly want
I have 3 new archive pages with tons of TO&E and ORBAT information:
U.S. Army & Marines during the Cold War www.battleorder.org/post/us-toe-...
U.S. Army & Marines during WW2
www.battleorder.org/post/us-toe-...
British Army during the Cold War
www.battleorder.org/post/uk-manu...
In cavalry units yes
A 7 man horse mounted squad serving 2 M1922 machine rifles
🇺🇸 The U.S. Army Cavalry’s Machine Rifle squad of the early 1930. Each Rifle Troop had a Machine Rifle Platoon with enough squads to give each Rifle Platoon one as an attachment (4 in wartime, 3 in peacetime). They used a modified variant of the BAR, the M1922 Machine Rifle
A challenge with force design is you have to index on a scenario to grade the design; this does not mean you have to design against a lone scenario, but it does mean you have to balance tradeoffs between your design and different scenarios
You can't just gesture broadly at the ~future of war~
Shot/shot/shot/chaser
6 Youtube thumbnails where the left side of the thumbnail is black, with the flag of the country in question and subject matter, separated from a photo on the right by a yellow line
Trying out a simpler thumbnail style
Marines underdoing mitosis
This is REAL science, done by REAL scientists
US Army MOS during WW2: BARBER (MOS 022) Beautician Cuts and shampoos hair of military personnel. ' Gives shaves and trims mustaches. Shapes neckline with comb and scissors and shaves neck. Trims hair to proper length. May give permanent waves, marcels^ and finger waves.
We won WW2 with "Beautician" as a billet
Snippets
Still amazing that AI can’t perform basic arithmetic but I’m expected to believe this is the glorious future
"Long-Range Scouts, 100 Miles Behind Enemy Lines" with a US Army soldier looking through binoculars. Another soldier can be seen in the outwards facing lens of the binos
New Patreon video on US Army Long-Range Surveillance doctrine, structure and use on exercise during the late 1980s. They were the successors to the LRRPs/Rangers of Vietnam and provided division and corps commanders with intel gathering in the deep area www.patreon.com/collection/1...
A map of the Pacific theater showing where 5 specific US Army tank battalions fought
The 27th Infantry Division has one of the hardest insignias
An additional mission was assigned the 4th Marines on 5 January when the Commandant directed the Commanding Gen-eral, Fleet Marine Force, Pacific, to test the feasibility of increasing the infantry component of a Marine division by modifying the regiment to include three battalions of four rifle companies each, or four battalions of three rifle companies each. To examine the practicality of both these organizations, Company K was added to the 3d Battalion and a new 4th Battalion with three rifle companies was organized.® This quadrangular organization was the first major change proposed from the combat-tested regimental setup perfected in World War II. Only minor differences existed between the 4th Marines of Guam and Okinawa and the strength and organization authorized for the regiment in the fall of 1952. Total authorized strength of the World War II regiment was 3,218 officers and men, and of the 1952 regiment 3,901. Accounting
Apparently when the 4th Marines was reactivated in 1952 they added a 4th rifle company to its 3rd Bn (K/3/4) and a whole new 4th Battalion to test quadrangular structures at the battalion- and regimental-levels (but had to reverse it when it deployed to Japan under 3MARDIV)
youtu.be/icw2nZevooI 🇫🇷 New video released from the backlog covering a peculiar era of French Infantry Weapons Platoons.
Breakin Bad scene, "You just had to blow it up. You. And your pride and your ego"
Me when the Army didn't get Cavalry Divisions (Mechanized) partially because the Chief of Cavalry wouldn't let horse regiments be converted for that purpose, so the Army had no choice but to create a separate Armored Force. Literally gave nothing and lost everything
A timeline of unit redesignations when the US Army was building its armored force. Notably both the numbers 67 and 69 are on it
Millennials and Gen Alpha both represented
It's self-evident
youtu.be/vS06jcCUju4 🇹🇭 New video on the organization, weaponry and vehicles of Thai Reconnaissance Cavalry Companies and Platoons. Towards the end it goes into doctrinal options for task organization and some examples of tactical situations where those options may be applied.