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A fireteam or fire team is a small modern military subordinated element of infantry designed to ... platoons, and squads), similar in size to those employed by the ...
The fireteam concept was intended to introduce an element of flexibility, [46] and consequently two other section groupings were devised; an assault team/support team grouping where the Delta fireteam (consisting of the section 2IC, a rifleman, and both section gunners) was responsible for covering the Charlie fireteam (consisting of the ...
A fire team, is the basic element of the GCE. It consists of four Marines: the team leader, corporal (E-4) (M4/M16 with attached M203 ), one rifleman, rank of Pvt/E-1 (M4/M16), one assistant automatic rifleman, rank of PFC/E-2 ( M4 / M16 ), and one automatic rifleman, rank of LCpl/E-3 ( M27 Infantry Automatic Rifle or M249 light machine gun ).
The squad leader is a staff sergeant (E-6) and the two fire team leaders are sergeants (E-5). Mechanized infantry and Stryker infantry units are equipped with M2A3 Bradley infantry fighting vehicles and M1126 Stryker infantry carrier vehicles, respectively.
The fire team is composed of two personnel; one carrying a machine gun and the other porting its ammunition. The sniper team consists of one or two persons, one deploying the weapon, often a semi-automatic designated marksman rifle as opposed to a true sniper rifle , and the other acting as spotter and providing close protection.
Each fireteam (also called a "brick" by Australian soldiers) has one soldier with an F89 Minimi LSW and the other three armed with F88 Steyr assault rifles. One rifle per fireteam has an attached 40 mm grenade launcher; one of the grenadiers is the lance corporal. Fireteam bravo has a HK417 7.62mm for the designated marksman role.
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A fireteam (pooljagu) is a small military unit led by a senior soldier that is subordinate to an infantry squad. The fireteam is bigger than a fire and maneuver team (lahingpaar) but smaller than a squad (jagu). A fireteam is one of the smallest military formation among the Estonian Ground Force infantry units. [4]