🇦🇺 youtu.be/L0Kcw-ocG1g From my recent Corporal+ exclusive video explaining how the Australian Army Rifle Platoon would set up a patrol base in the jungle
🇨🇦 I mean, it’s not the 300-bird, 6-shotgun Pigeon Combat Section, but at least they have bicycles
🇺🇸 The US Marine Parachute Battalion Demolition Squad as of the 1942 T/O. Unlike the US Army, which had 1 Demolition Platoon per Parachute Regiment with 1 section per battalion, the Marines gave a whole platoon to each battalion in theory.
🇦🇺 Australian Vickers MMG Section when part of a Divisional Machine Gun Battalion per the December 1942 war establishment.
🇨🇦 Canadian Army Cipher Section based on the May 1945 war establishment
🇩🇪 German Panzergrenadier Squad when mounted on the Puma infantry fighting vehicle, c. 2025.
The squad has organic Drivers to drive the VTLM Lince. When they are doing light infantry stuff, like an air assault, they just act as Riflemen. Cold weather all-terrain vehicles are crewed externally from a support unit
🇮🇹 The Italian Light Infantry Squad pre-NARP based on my conversations with Alpini
I think the Cannon Company was tbd most interesting thing about the US Infantry Regiment in WW2 because the 3 theaters all did it differently
An example of a state regimental designation (1st Infantry, Maryland NG) on a guidon in a photo someone on my Discord sent
Idea for Kaiserreich (fiction): New York National Guardsman (New England). It uses pre-1917 division designations & assumes state regimental designations are maintained as the US didn't enter in WW1. Anglo-Canadians prop up New England, so he has pouches for Lewis gun pans
If they want to abandon our allies they should just say it instead of using LinkedIn speak like "rightsize", a corpo euphemism for "layoff 5,000 employees for no real reason other than short-term greed"
Just learned East German airborne squads were basically scout group, rifle group, gun group
🇺🇸 When you want to be the linchpin of the Pacific but he hits you with that MacArthur stare. This was the test Rifle Squads of these Divs in early 1944: 10th Light (Pack, Alpine), 71st Light (Pack, Jungle) and 89th Light (Truck). A unique aspect was mission dependent weapons
Units are issuing a variety of optics and aiming lasers alongside the Vortex M157 NGSW-FC. My graphic is meant to depict all of the main ones, but a single squad is highly unlikely to have the variety shown.
🇺🇸 The new U.S. Army Rifle Squad, based on experimental guidelines for the Mobile Brigade Combat Teams and photos of the various units on exercise.
Compare to what was spelled out in the 1967 infantry platoon pam. The F1 SMG wasn't used in this role in Vietnam as they had the M16, but it was initially the logical successor to the Owen Machine Carbine
🇦🇺 The Australian Rifle Section in the middle of their involvement in Vietnam, with notes on unit variations. At this time the M16, M79 and M72 were issued to units when deploying/deployed, so they aren’t actually mentioned in doctrine at the time