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Roman RE:Brigades and Regiments 10/8/2004 8:42:57 AM

Can a brigade have multiple regiments as sub-units?

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Sam RE:Brigades and Regiments 10/8/2004 9:14:15 PM

Roman I can only give you the USMC answer. And very generic because Brigades will be tasked org. A Regiment (infantry) consist of 3 infantry Battalions and a HQ Company. A Brigade consist of A Command element an Infantry Regt, reinforced with tanks, amtracks, artillery,LAR, recon and other things. Commonly called a Regt Landing Team (RLT) A Marine Air Wing element consisting of fixed (F/A-18 and/or AV-8s)and rotary wing (CH46/53, UH-1 and AH-1) Called a Marine Air Group (MAG) Maybe wrong on the designation. Never did Swing with the Wing! A Combat Service Support Detachment. Doing that beans, bullets bandages, 3d echelon maint thing. (CSSD)

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Sam RE:Brigades and Regiments 10/8/2004 10:01:46 PM

Yes Brigades may have more than 1 regt assigned. But once you reach 3 they want to call it a Division or MEF (Marine Expeditionary Force). Which can include mult brigades or division size units. MEF being the largest level of command element. (3 Star at least)

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Ehran RE:Brigades and Regiments 10/11/2004 5:36:03 PM

in the british descended armies regiments are admin organizations which provide battalions to form brigades which do the fighting. the regiment's primary role is to train troops to keep the battalions ranks filled.

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Roman RE:Brigades and Regiments 10/11/2004 11:28:53 PM

Thanks guys - your explanations were very helpful! :)

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Roman RE:Brigades and Regiments 10/11/2004 11:31:27 PM

So basically a brigade is a reinforced, more independent and better supported regiment, but it can actually contain more than 1 regiment. As such, I would guess it can have perhaps 16,000 or maybe even up to 20,000 personnel when all the attachments are included.

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mike_golf RE:Brigades and Regiments 10/11/2004 11:54:26 PM

Roman, You got answers that are a bit too specific for what I think you are asking. In general a brigade is the smallest unit at the operational level as opposed to the tactical. In general a regiment is still a tactical unit. A unit can't really act at the operational level without organic logistics, artillery, etc. The US Armored Cavalry Regiment is unique in this. It is an operational level unit, not tactical. The appellation of regiment is kept for reasons of tradition.

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Roman RE:Brigades and Regiments 10/12/2004 12:00:33 AM

Aha, thanks mike_golf! So brigade is essentially a regiment with attachments that make it capable of independent operations at an operational level. Thanks again!

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mike_golf RE:Brigades and Regiments 10/12/2004 12:40:59 AM

Yes, correct. Just to throw a monkey wrench in the works, there was a time in the American Army where brigades had multiple regiments. And in some armies a regiment is about the equivalent in combat power of an American battalion. In the Soviet Army a Brigade was an independent formation assigned at the Army or Army Group level. It had nearly the combat power of a Red Army division and was used for operational actions, especially pursuit and exploitation. It would typically spearhead the Operational Manuever Group, which would consist of an independent brigade and one or more divisions. Hehe, just wanted to confuse things a bit now that I clarified them.

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Roman RE:Brigades and Regiments 10/12/2004 1:04:34 AM

Very interesting info on differences between countries. Now I see why U.S. divisions in WWI had 40,000+ troops - they had brigades as sub-units, which in turn had regiments as subunits. In effect, U.S. brigades were the equivalent to everybody else's divisions!

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