Building Brigades

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The Army has begun reorganizing into 43 brigade combat teams. The Army anticipates 19 of these brigades will be heavy armor units, with M1A1 Abrams tanks and Bradley troop carriers; 18 will be light infantry units; and six will be medium-weight units with wheeled Stryker combat vehicles. They will have a standard design, which includes the following major elements:

. Heavy Brigades
(3,700 soldiers) 		Medium Stryker Brigades
(3,900 soldiers) 		Light Infantry Brigades
(3,300 soldiers)
Headquarters
  • Command and control
  • Psychological operations/civil affairs
  • Aviation and air defense
  • Security platoon
  • Military police platoon
  • Communications/ network operations
  • Command and control
  • Psychological operations/civil affairs
  • Aviation and air defense
  • Signal company
  • Command and control
  • Special operations/civil affairs coordination
  • Aviation and air defense
  • Security platoon
  • Military police platoon
  • Signal company
  • Engineer company
Intelligence and Surveillance
  • Military intelligence company
  • Tactical unmanned aerial vehicles
  • Multisensor unit
  • Military intelligence company
  • Unmanned aerial vehicles
  • Sensor unit
  • Military intelligence company
  • Tactical unmanned aerial vehicle platoon
Combat Maneuver and Reconnaissance
  • 4 tank companies (over 55 M1A1 Abrams tanks)
  • 4 mechanized companies (over 85 Bradley and Scout Infantry Fighting Vehicles)
  • 2 sniper sections
  • 9 infantry companies
    (over 127 infantry carrier vehicles)
  • 9 mobile gun system platoons
    (27 mobile gun systems)
  • 9 mortar sections
    (30 120mm mortar carriers)
  • 3 scout platoons
  • 3 sniper sections
  • 53 reconnaissance and fire vehicles with long-range advanced scout surveillance system
  • Mortar platoon
  • 3 chemical reconnaissance vehicles
  • Multisensor platoon
  • 6 infantry companies
  • 6 motorized assault platoons
  • 2 scout platoons
  • 2 mortar platoons
  • 2 sniper sections
  • Motorized reconnaissance troops
  • Dismounted reconnaissance troops
  • Humvees with long-range advanced scout surveillance system
Anti-Tank .
  • 9 Stryker anti-tank vehicles
.
Fires Battalion
  • 3 joint tactical air control teams
  • 2 Howitzer batteries
  • 5 joint tactical air control parties
  • 3 Howitzer batteries
  • 3 joint tactical air control teams
Support Battalion
  • Maintenance company
  • Distribution company
  • Medical company
  • 4 forward support companies
  • Maintenance company
  • Distribution company
  • Medical company
  • 2 Howitzer batteries
  • Maintenance company
  • Distribution company
  • Medical company
Protection
  • Chemical reconnaissance vehicles
  • 2 engineer companies
.
  • 4 forward support companies
Engineer .
  • 9 engineer squads
  • 3 mobility squads (various equipment)
.
Target Acquisition
  • Target acquisition platoon
  • Counterfire and countermortar radars
  • Target acquisition platoon
  • Counterfire and countermortar radars
  • Target acquisition platoon
  • Counterfire and countermortar radars

Source: U.S. Army

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