Recently reading the headlines about Band of Brothers coming from HBO tho Netflix and it got me thinking:
– how does the US military divide up it’s soldiers? (Eg regiment vs troop vs platoon vs squadron)
– are there different rules for each branch of the military?
– I’ve only ever heard of the 101st airborne division but not other ones… Was there a 100th division? 99th division, etc? Why is the 101st so famous?
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Other people have gone into great detail on the organization. The numbers are non-sequential in order to conceal how many of each type of unit we have.
At some point in history, somebody realized that if your opponent is able to capture people from the First, Second, and Third Divisions, they’ll quickly figure out that you only have three. If they capture people from the 101st, the 82nd, and the 11th, they won’t be able to tell how many you have. Meanwhile, you’re sending messages (intended to be intercepted) to units that don’t actually exist.
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