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Can someone provide the general organization of 19 Combat Service Support Battalion found in 19 Light Brigade?  I thought it was to be a composite battalion with a brigade logistics squadron, a maintenance company and a medical squadron.  Is this correct?  The official British Army website shows...

Agreed.  So maybe they should just re-evaluate the MCV variant.  Maybe the MCV should be much heavier than all the other variants.  The Leopard 1 weighed 40-42 tonnes when it was arguably the best tank in NATO during the Cold War.  The Leopard 2A6M weighs 62 tonnes.  Would a MCV variant weighing...

I've been following the FCS program pretty closely.  From everything that I've read the weight of Manned Ground Vehicles was to be 24-28 tons.  They gave up the hope of transporting them in C-130 Hercules and chose to up the armour a little.  You also have to remember that some of the reduced...

That would have been great.  I hate to burst your bubble but Defence Secretary Robert Gates just made a press release on the future budget.  FCS manned ground vehicles have been cancelled and they are rethinking the concept.  There is a post on this site, it was in the current events yesterday. ...

I don't blame you for being cautious.  I was just meaning lets be realistic about what is OPSEC.  When the Canadian Army doctrine manuals are published on an open site, saying its OPSEC how a platoon is organized is useless. 

This is just for discussion purposes.  But maybe someday units will be full strength (dreaming?  yes).  I'm sure sections are at full strength at some point on operational deployments.  IThis was one of the problems the US Army Stryker platoons had in Iraq.  They actually had more people after...

This answer always cracks me up.  I belong to a few different forums and read many more from various countries.  This is the only one that people constantly bring up OPSEC all the time.  Most of the time the information in question is posted on public sites, usually the DND/CF website.  Is there...

In the US Army's Future Combat System Combined Arms Battalion the mechanized infantry platoon has been reorganized with 5 vehicles rather than the normal 4.  The 5th vehicle is for the weapons squad, which is also organized as a full squad.  Platoon Headquarters - FCS ICV (platoon command...

This thread is pretty old, but I re-read it and have a basic question.  One of the key arguments against the RWS is situational awareness and the gunner/vehicle commander not being able to do both at the same time.  If he's busy firing at targets how does he effectively command the vehicle? ...

Only one field battery per brigade???  With the proposed order of 30-some more M777s I hate to believe there would only be three field batteries Army wide?  Shouldn't they wait and see how the Optimal Battle Group experiment goes?  Are artillery regiments going to be around in the future or will...

This was basically what I proposed in another topic and it didn't go over so good.  In a true combined arms approach a brigade would have numbered comined arms battalions (regiments, battle groups, whatever you want to call them).  1 Combined Arms Battalion would then have all LAV crews being...

Point taken.  As I said I don't have the experience to back up my theory so I'll have to believe you folks that do.  I agree with the cop analogy, that I do have the experience to backup.  I was thinking more along the line of specific job functions such as "driving a LAV/Coyote" rather than the...

I would think so as well.  I thought I read a post a few months back on that topic.  I thought armour/infantry drivers were going to drive the Bison Ambulances for a Roto to Afghanistan?  Guess not.

Fair enough.  Obviously I don't have the practical experience to know that.  So let me ask you a few questions?  Would career transition from a LAV-III Crew Commander to a Coyote Crew Commander (or visa versa) be easier than from an LAV-III Crew Commander MCpl. to a dismounted section commander...

Exactly.  The US Army Combined Arms Battalion also adds a Combat Engineer Company with two combat engineer platoons (field troops) and an assault & barrier platoon (close support troop).  As well as mortar, recce and medical platoons in the Headquarters Company.  It also has an attached Forward...

That's where I go back to my previous post from months ago abot how to name these new battle groups.  Why not make them mini-brigade groups so to speak?  Identity wise I mean. Then the regimental traditions are maintained by sub-units and the battle group headquarters consist of officers and...

What does this have to do with an Optimal or Affiliated Battle Group?

Holy crap.  I'm lost on that post too.  I couldn't even follow what he was trying to say.  Engineers, specialist, special forces, brigade-level, company-level.  I couldn't even follow it.

It has whatever you want it to have.  This is just for discussion, put what you want in it.  I was thinking something like: Section Commander (Sgt) - C7A2 2 x Fire Team Leader (Cpl) - C7A2 & M203 2 x Light Machine Gunner (Pte) - C9A2 2 or 4 x Rifleman (Pte) - C7A2

I'll pose another question for discussion's sake.  If room in the LAV-III and PYs weren't a factor would you prefer an even dismounted section of 8 with two 4-man groups, or an odd section with 7 or 9 allowing the section commander to be independent of the two groups?  This was the topic of the...