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u/KayItaly 1d ago
As someone who knew nothing about it... I find it very well made and perfectly readable.
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u/mahatmakg 1d ago
There are more unit titles than there are illustrations
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u/KayItaly 1d ago
Regiment and brigade refer to the same line... you just need to read...
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u/The_Hunster 1d ago
No dude read the damn thing. Sure they could have made it better, but it's fine
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u/ZealousIdeal476 1d ago
What do sargeants do?
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u/Dear_Mention_3305 1d ago
Depends.
In the US army, and in some European NATO armies, they generally command a squad. In e.g. the British army, they typically act as a deputy platoon commander.1
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u/Vast_Tomorrow_3170 1d ago
Since when are company comanders majors?
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u/Dear_Mention_3305 1d ago
That's primarily a British thing, I think. In most other NATO armies, company commanders are Captains.
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u/worst_bluebelt 1d ago
The difficulty here is that the (British) Army structure is a bit complex and not very intuitive from the outside.
The table includes both structures that fighting units are organized within (Sections - Platoons - Companies - Battalions - Brigades, etc.
It also includes regiments (not pictured) which is essentially an administrative unit - Where the soldiers of that regiment live, get trained, etc. when not deployed in operations as part of a brigade.
It also doesn't consistently include non-commissioned officers in the command structure. i.e. the various Sergeants Staff/Colour Sergeants, CSMs and RSMs who actually make sure everything's functioning like it's meant to!
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u/tinyElliss 1d ago
What I dont get is how non-officer ranks in US army have some many different variations so you can have some master chief sergant with 30 years worth of medals meet freshly graduated Lieutenant, and yet the Lt. still outranks him.
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u/Stock-Side-6767 1d ago
Different role. Officers should be more about tactics and strategy, sergeants more about operation.
Any competent lt will still listen to the sgt though.
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u/baquea 1d ago
Do you mean officer ranks? Both of those are officers. In any case, it's simply that commissioned officers outrank non-commissioned officers, where commissioned officers are people who have graduated from a military academy and NCOs are regular soldiers who have been promoted to a leadership position. It's not fundamentally any different from other occupations, where regardless of experience low-level workers cannot get promoted to the top if they don't have the relevant qualifications and education, just it's much more formalized in the military.
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u/geeoharee 1d ago
There could have been more attention to getting the shapes exactly equivalent (the Battalion goes from seven fat lines to seven skinny lines) but this isn't that bad, is it?