Centurian42
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Centurian42 reacted to michael Dwyer in Evolution of the US Army infantry squad. Equivalent histories for other nations?
Below is the link ot the dtic.mil download.
http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA293440
http://www.slideshare.net/BrianLucke/the-us-army-squad-foundation-of-the-decisive-force is an interesting slideshare on the current US Army Squad that may cover some of the period you asked about. I think it's interesing that as part of Force XXI they considered reducing the squad to 7 men, with the assumption that technology would help make up the difference. In the end however they stuck with 9 men.
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Centurian42 reacted to Holman in Evolution of the US Army infantry squad. Equivalent histories for other nations?
Actually, the game's Bradley fudges reality slightly. From the manual (pp. 73-74):
"Note: We have artificially increased the passenger capacity of the M2 Bradley to accommodate a full rifle squad. In reality, a full rifle squad cannot fit in a Bradley, so there is a complicated cross-loading routine that results in members of multiple squads mixed together in the platoon HQ Bradley. Needless to say, simulating this is more trouble than it is worth!"
