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The most difficult thing about planning against the Americans, is that they do not read their own doctrine, and they would feel no particular obligtion to follow it if they did. -- Admiral Sergei I. Gorshkov |
Company/Troop/Battery: ?60 to 200 soldiers. ?The Company is a cohesive tactical sized unit that can perform a battlefield function on its own. ?It is capable of receiving and controlling additional combat, combat support or combat service support elements to enhance its mission capability. ?The Company has a small headquarters element to assist the Commander. ?Typically, three to five platoons form a Company, with between 15-25 vehicles. ?For example, an Armor Tank Company is composed of five officers, 57 enlisted soldiers, 14 M1A2/A3 Main Battle Tanks and several wheeled vehicles. ?The Company is normally commanded by a Captain (0-3). ?A First Sergeant (E-8) is the commander?s principal non-commissioned assistant. ?Depending on the type of unit, a Company may be called a Troop or Battery. ?Ground or Air Cavalry units (armor and aviation units specially trained for reconnaissance missions) refer to these elements as Troops. ?Field Artillery and Air Defense Artillery units refer to these elements as Batteries.
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1865:
Confederate General Joseph Johnston officially surrenders his army to General William T. Sherman at Durham Station, North Carolina.
1865: John Wilkes Booth is killed when Union soldiers track him down to a Virginia farm 12 days after he assassinated President Abraham Lincoln. 1865: Joseph E. Johnston surrenders the Army of Tennessee to Sherman. 1937: The ancient Basque town of Guernica in northern Spain is bombed by German planes. 1952: Armistice negotiations are resumed. 1971: The U.S. command in Saigon announces that the U.S. force level in Vietnam is 281,400 men, the lowest since July 1966. 1972: President Nixon, despite the ongoing communist offensive, announces that another 20,000 U.S. troops will be withdrawn from Vietnam in May and June, reducing authorized troop strength to 49,000. |