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An echelon formation (/ ˈ ɛ ʃ əl ɒ n, ˈ eɪ ʃ l ɒ̃ /) [1] is a (usually military) formation in which its units are arranged diagonally. Each unit is stationed behind and to the right (a "right echelon"), or behind and to the left ("left echelon"), of the unit ahead.
After retiring from the Navy, Willink co-founded the leadership consulting firm Echelon Front along with Leif Babin, who served with him in the SEAL Teams. [11] The firm hosts conferences and seminars to teach leadership skills. [12] He and Babin also co-authored the leadership manual Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy Seals Lead and Win. [13]
Front operation formation (1942): 4–6 armies spread across a front stretching 250–450 km wide and up to 150 km deep, with each army given 2 defensive bands. In the second echelon, a reserve army with rifle divisions, 1–2 Cavalry corps and 1–2 Tank corps. An air army is based in the rear
In the second echelon were Dmitry Gusev's 21st Army and Ivan Korovnikov's 59th Army. The front mobile group consisted of Dmitry Lelyushenko's 4th Tank Army and Pavel Rybalko's 3rd Guards Tank Army. The 1st Guards Cavalry and 7th Guards Mechanized Corps were part of the reserve. Air support for the front was provided by Stepan Krasovsky's 2nd ...
ECHELON, originally a secret government code name, is a surveillance program (signals intelligence/SIGINT collection and analysis network) operated by the five signatory states to the UKUSA Security Agreement: [1] Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States, also known as the Five Eyes.
Some historians view the intervals as primarily useful in manoeuvre. Before the legionaries closed with the enemy, each echelon would form a solid line to engage. If things went badly for the first line, it would retreat through the gaps and the second echelon moved up, again forming a continuous front.
[1] This front line can be a local or tactical front, or it can range to a theater. An example of the latter was the Western Front in France and Belgium in World War I. Relatedly, front can refer to the direction of the enemy or, in the absence of combat, the direction towards which a military unit is facing. [1]
Even in World War II, while the Western Allies used these terms, they were not universal. A Soviet army was roughly equivalent to a US or Commonwealth corps, with a front roughly equivalent to an army group. Japanese armies were also equivalent to US or Commonwealth corps, an area army to a western field army, and a general army to a theater.