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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A minor aspect of the numbering I haven’t seen mentioned is ancient tradition/superstition (obviously not an official reason anymore).
The Romans used numbers up to 30 for their legions even though they usually didn’t have that many. They considered it a bad omen to reuse the number of a disgraced legion. Most famously 17, 18 and 19 were left untouched after the Teutoburg forest wipe in 9 CE until whenever you place the fall of the empire.
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