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In a stryker brigade combat team's (SBCT) infantry rifle companies, one man in each rifle squad fireteam is either the squad anti-armour specialist (RMAT) armed with an FGM-148 Javelin, or the squad designated marksman (DM) who carries an M4 carbine and M14 rifle. In both cases, these two positions replace the basic rifleman of the standard ...
The M27 Infantry Automatic Rifle (IAR) is a 5.56mm, select-fire assault rifle, based on the HK416 by Heckler & Koch. It is used by the United States Marine Corps (USMC) and is intended to be issued to all infantry riflemen as well as automatic riflemen. The USMC initially planned to purchase 6,500 M27s to replace a portion of the M249 light ...
The traditional 12-man squad armed with semi-automatic rifles and an automatic rifle was knocked down to 9 men: The squad leader carried the M16 and AN/PRC-6 radio. He commanded two fire teams of four men apiece (each containing one team leader with M16, grenadier with M16/203, designated automatic rifleman with M16 and bipod, and an anti-tank ...
4th Infantry Division in Afghanistan. Small unit tactics is the application of US Army military doctrine for the combat deployment of platoons and smaller units in a particular strategic and logistic environment. [1][2][3] The composition of a United States Army squad falls into three broad categories: classical, balanced and combined.
A designated marksman (DM), squad advanced marksman (AD) or squad designated marksman (SDM) [1] is a military marksman role in an infantry squad. The term sniper was used in Soviet doctrine although the soldiers using the Dragunov SVD were the first to use a specifically designed designated marksman rifle. The DM's role is to supplement the ...
In the attack (especially if part of the assault echelon) or in a deliberate defense, rifle platoons are usually augmented with a two-man mortar forward observer team and are often reinforced with a seven-man machinegun squad and/or a four-man assault weapons squad from the infantry company's weapons platoon. An infantry rifle company (3 per ...
Weapons company. A weapons company, sometimes called a manoeuvre support company, is a company -sized military unit attached to an infantry battalion to support the rifle companies of the battalion. [1] It usually possesses some combination of machine-guns, mortars, anti-tank missiles, anti-aircraft missiles, reconnaissance vehicles and ...
During the Second World War, the Canadian Army used the r ifle section as its smallest organized formation of combat infantry soldiers. The organization was substantially similar to that of the Australian Army [1] and the British Army [2] with three sections to the platoon and three platoons to the rifle company.