Repository: UIHistories Project: Convocation - 1942 Winter-Spring [PAGE 22]

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In each ami or service the Company (Troop, or Battery in tl Cavalr) and Artillery or Squadron in the Air For is tl basic unit. It contains all the agencies required for subsistence, intei >nomy, and administration. It is where the soldier slee] i and fights or works in other words, it is his army home It is where he m< ts and iss ciates most closely with some one to tw hundn I other m usually where the stron] st tie< i friendship are made The battalion or similar unit is the basic tactical unit. It is com1 sed oi a small headquarters and tw -r more companies. I mally has m administrative or housekeeping functions. The n iment ordinarily c nsists of a h< [quarters with a he 1quarters and service company and two or more bat ilions. It is the unit >und wh :h s nuch sentiment is generally ; tached in later vears a around which the histories of its smaller units arc centen . Brig ire :al organizations comp s 1 oi tw )r more regi< n: the same m t gether with a h< [quarters com; or similar operating unit. The Dh sion is the basic large unit oi the c mbined arms. It prises a In Iqi rters. troops f the basic arm—that is, infantry, avail r rmored as the case may be—held artillery, and certain ps oi other arms and services - organized and e [uipp< 1 as to make it and adminis itively a self-coi lined unit, c tnsiderable extent oi inde lent n. A Corps is a c mbinat m of two r m re divis ns and an Arm n: s vai ible numl i C - plus a few extra dh is ns. h \rm\ and C rps has its own headqi ers with cer s i 1 organic - s as trtillery, obs< I a\ ition, e ig r n 1 s gnal S, and - vice units The In itry Division is the s organi ar field New- dis tch uently mention th< r im livis ns 1 g the I si \\ rid \\ .11 ur [n tntry Divis s wen ms th ne the ' - in li\ s n. AH X 1 ire s 1 thus 1 g I, r the s w I : trvii ut the sa tiled tgular" \ i \ much nbl n dh isi( >nal The i\ n s the brigade org i 1 the in tn nent ns stii In tl ir di\ is n. :i t n 1 mi n. Tl e in - and 1

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