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Most U.S. Army units can be operationally divided into the following components from largest to smallest: Field army: Formerly consisted of an army headquarters battalion, two corps, army troops (including army field artillery and army air defense artillery groups and brigades, an armored cavalry regiment, army aviation, military intelligence ...
This category classifies military units and formations by the "size" of the unit. Please see the category guidelines for more information. Subcategories.
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.
Military organization or military organisation is the structuring of the armed forces of a state so as to offer such military capability as a national defense policy may require. Formal military organization tends to use hierarchical forms (see Modern hierarchy for terminology and approximate troop strength per hierarchical unit).
A MAGTF varies in size from the smallest, a Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), based around a reinforced infantry battalion and a composite squadron, up to the largest, a Marine Expeditionary Force (MEF), which ties together a Division, an Air Wing, and a Logistics Group under a MEF Headquarters Group. The three Marine Expeditionary Forces are:
Military units and formations of the United States Army by size (15 C) B. Battalions of the United States (3 C) Brigades of the United States (4 C) C.
The U.S. Armed Forces is the world's third largest military by active personnel, after the Chinese People's Liberation Army and the Indian Armed Forces, consisting of 1,359,685 servicemembers in the regular armed forces with an additional 799,845 servicemembers in the reserves as of 28 February 2019. [240] [needs update]
First United States Army—U.S. Army Training, Readiness, and Mobilization command formation; Second United States Army—United States Army Cyber Command; Third United States Army—United States Army Central command formation; Fourth United States Army; Fifth United States Army—United States Army North command formation