To: wolf24
yeah.
All MOS's (job types) are grouped into set units... but in order for any combat unit to function they need x amount of different MOS's.so for example in the 3rd ID lets say 1/7 field artillery is attached to 3/7 infantry...infantry can't work without artillery and vice versa. and then medic units get attached and armor units get attached, commo units get attached,...it's not just single soldiers getting attached. That fragger wasn't just some random engineer they borrowed for a day...he's always with that unit, always attached to 101st cav....
there are 10,000 soldiers in one unit, that gets broken down into batteries, those get broken down in platoons....so they need enough engineers, or medics, or whatever for each platoon...so thats why they get entire units of engineers (or whatever)
and yes, I always talk this much.
To: SoldiersGirl
and yes, I always talk this much. Naaw, I enjoyed reading.
Prairie
107 posted on
03/22/2003 9:29:13 PM PST by
prairiebreeze
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