🇦🇺 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

rikukaigun.org update. Updated and expanded Jeff Donahoo's data base on the IJN personnel of the IJN administrative, land combat, land support and land training formations/units: rikukaigun.org/JeffD/0-Intr...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDmf... This video looks at the experimental organization of the U.S. Army's Rifle Company for the new Mobile Brigade Combat Team (MBCT), how the MBCT differs from the IBCT, and the purpose of the Infantry Squad Vehicle it's based on.

Following combat experience in North Africa, the U.S. Army made minor updates to its Rifle Platoons. The July 1943 update is when Basic Privates were moved to the Company HQ, the M1903A4 sniper rifle was made a platoon weapon, and Bazookas were added to supplement the Grenadiers

After the US entered World War II, the Army updated its Rifle Platoons to an organization that would only see minor updates throughout the war. They went back to an organic BAR in the squad, plus an M1903 for grenade launching before the M7 launcher for the Garand was adopted.

As the U.S. was mobilizing in 1940, the Army issued new T/Os. In Rifle Cos the large HQ Platoon (which was really an HQ + Weapons Platoon combo) had a new Weapons Platoon split off. Further, BARs were transferred back to the Rifle Platoons in the form of an AR Squad

The next step in the US Army platoon evolution: no more sections, the larger 12-man squad of WW2, Sergeants as squad leaders in wartime, and a brief confusion over where the BAR should be (in 1938 it was in a company-level section, later in 1940 it'd be a platoon-level squad)

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.

🇺🇸 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

🇺🇸 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.

🇺🇸 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.

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

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.

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

My work's closest crapper was the crapper Weird Al recorded "My Bologna" and gotta say, could use a renovation

Centauri’s professional soldiers were shaped by the Solar Wars, earning a reputation for the disciplined execution of complex & effective orbital assaults. Though rarely deployed beyond the Solar Subcluster, Centauri peacekeepers participate in LoN missions across the Orion Arm

Me when I go downstairs to grab my Ubereats order

Me standing on the balcony watching the postman take my package out of his van

WIP

Woke 2

Bombing all of Iran's electrical infrastructure should surely compel them to capitulate in an existential conflict. I, too, remember the great Ukrainian surrender of 2022.

Afternoon craft

A single platoon

A take from my wife: the Northern Alliance would’ve gotten Osama at Tora Bora if they had Fetty Wap on the JBL

I wouldn’t have sieged the Strait of Hormuz. I would have taken it immediately,

🇦🇺 Putting an M8 Scott turret on an LVT and a bunch of the same 4.5” beach barrage rockets on its butt is peak contraption. 🇦🇺 This is the Australian Amphibious Armoured Squadron from around the time of its establishment in November 1944. Basically floating fire support

>Seizes the littoral in the enemy’s weapon engagement zone >Isn’t an MLR >mfw

Welcome back Coastal Artillery Corps, ADA was an unworthy successor

If anyone asks, these videos have been rehomed on my 2nd channel. From now on, videos on fictional militaries & unit lineages/conversion timelines will go on the 2nd channel. When Patreon exclusives go public the slideshow-based ones will go there too. www.youtube.com/@BattleOrder2

People been making DCS content in the Strait of Hormuz for like a decade. Imagine having less strategic acumen than pre-COVID Growling Sidewinder

Worldbuilding: Some Napoleonic era uniforms

🇫🇷 The French Infantry Squad (groupe de combat de la section des grenadiers-voltigeurs) as it is described in their 1986 infantry platoon manual when mounted on the VAB armored personnel carrier.

Source: (CUI) Quizlet flashcards

We were not made for monitoring so many situations at once

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.

Crazy video of 20 Tomahawks flying through the Iraqi Kurdish mountains near Sulaymaniyah (filmed by someone standing *above* them), seemingly fired from Navy vessels in the Mediterranean

When reading Army journal articles on anything that isn't an announcement of something actually happening or a lessons learned report, you realize a lot of it is 25-35 year old guys without much authority just saying stuff

Too many doggone trucks

That one OSINTer selling their account to a gambling site and now people bet on war is the field’s purest form

🇺🇸 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

⬛️⬜️🟥 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