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The U.S. Army Marketing and Engagement Brigade, located at Fort Knox, Kentucky, serves as USAREC's recruiting support brigade and is tasked with providing both direct and indirect support to the enlisted and medical recruiting brigades through demonstrations, displays, and engagement with the American public to show the skills and benefits of ...
This is a list of current formations of the United States Army, which is constantly changing as the Army changes its structure over time. Due to the nature of those changes, specifically the restructuring of brigades into autonomous modular brigades, debate has arisen as to whether brigades are units or formations; for the purposes of this list, brigades are currently excluded.
The Recruiting Pre-Command Course (PCC) is a two-week leadership course that trains Colonels and Lieutenant Colonels selected for recruiting battalion or brigade command on the history, structure, and functions of Army recruiting. During week two of the course, the officers are joined by their unit's Command Sergeant Major to help develop their ...
Maneuver brigades have transformed into brigade combat teams, generally consisting of three maneuver battalions, a cavalry squadron, a fires battalion, a special troops battalion (with engineers, signals, and military intelligence), and a command sergeant major and a support battalion. Stryker brigade combat teams have a somewhat larger ...
A Combat Sustainment Support Battalion (CSSB) is a combat service support battalion of the United States Army. A CSSB can be attached to a sustainment brigade to support the brigade combat teams and support brigades assigned to a corps with maintenance, transportation, supply, field services, and distribution functions. The CSSB is task ...
Human Resources support to Divisional maneuver brigades was achieved through habitual relationships with supporting Personnel Service Battalions and subordinate detachments. Execution of the modular force concept divested the division structure of its organic or assigned functional battalions and the corps of its separate brigades.
By modern doctrine MEB can control operational areas and are assigned a tactical combat force, usually in the form of a maneuver infantry battalion. A maneuver enhancement brigade’s primary goal is to provide the corps or divisional level commander with a field grade officer led formation that has a large headquarters, capable of controlling ...
Depending on the unit, extra support officers will round out the staff, including a medical officer, Judge Advocate General's Corps (legal) officer, and a battalion chaplain (often collectively referred to as the "special staff"), as well as essential non-commissioned officers and enlisted support personnel in the occupational specialties of the staff sections (S1 through S4 and the S6).