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Shiver me timbers
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Some additional information about this particular task force I was given this morning
The Voltigeur are the eyes and ears of the French army, inheriting a tradition of mobility and precision dating back to Napoleon. They are often deployed to screen friendly heavier elements, absorbing and shaping the enemy’s initial attacks.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKJS... 🇨🇦 New video on how a Canadian mechanized infantry combat team was task organized during a deployment to Latvia in 2022, as well as how their forward combat logistics are echeloned.
ACAB includes people who work at private couriers
caseamber.com/index.php/Vi... New Vignette: USAF Battery Blue's 🇲🇽 Mexican Marine exchange officer heads out on a routine patrol on the lunar surface, but is caught off guard when interceptors start firing
youtu.be/_Xw81ICvfQs 🇳🇱 New video that goes into the Dutch Army's G-Wagen gun truck platoons that support their Boxer and Air Assault Infantry with anti-tank missiles and heavy machine guns. It goes over squad-level weapons and structure and how it fits into their battalions
Rifle Squadery really peaked here and it's been downhill ever since (WIP)
Maybe if I get over a month ahead there will be more than one video a week occasionally
Dude they say they are grateful to be liberated by ICE. They hated the Democrats. They think it's wicked cool that there's guys in masks on the streets.
We did it broski
Proof drones ruined war
youtu.be/OVohl7wLiHM 🇫🇷 New video on a Hunter-Killer Drone or "Drone de Chasse" Squadron the French Marine Cavalry (1er RIMa) are testing. It goes in-depth with their current and planned equipped, structure, and employment during a recent exercise in Estonia.
youtu.be/1Q87VUudfcU 🇸🇪 New video on Sweden's Lvkv 90 platoons. The Lvkv 90 is a self-propelled anti-aircraft gun variant of the CV90 and they provide close-in, organic air defense to Sweden's mechanized battalions
But how can I monetize that activity? With a podcast.
youtu.be/RIbNwlGEBss New video on recent structure changes to the 25th Infantry Division's Artillery Brigade (DIVARTY), particularly how it seems to be a pilot for adding a HIMARS rocket artillery battalion to light divisions
Bros will see an air defense post and be like “but have they considered the air threat?”
The moment “multifunctional” left the domain of being just about sustainment companies that mixed disciplines that were previously in pure companies is when the US Army lost the plot
The conversion off of M777s won’t be inmediate. Alpha and Bravo Battery conversion to HIMARS is immediate tho
I am told 2-11 FAR is keeping its Charlie Battery (M777 battery in light cannon battalions), but a decision has not been made on what to do with it.
Haven’t you seen Ukraine, digging in is so back
Ur my 13th reason
EDIT: Fixed an error in captioning The 25th Infantry Division Artillery is converting one of its howitzer battalions (2-11 FAR) into a 2x8 HIMARS bn, condensing some howitzers into the remaining battalion (3-7 FAR), and reorganizing the 125th IEW Bn into a multi-domain fires bn
A variant of the Soviet Universal Carrier APC Squad, this one as a component of the Tank Brigade HQ Company's Recon Platoon. The Soviets received about 2,000-2,300 British & Canadian Univerals as Lend-Lease and used them heavily in certain times of recon formation.
A supermajority seem to be using it instead of regular online research, and over half use it to come up with ideas. However, I am wondering if the people they asked would be unwilling to state that they were using AI to generate their words given people are paying them for their writing
Women really carrying the concept of writing
These are completely believable statistics (from an e-mail I got from Substack)
🇳🇱 Before we had MRZR we had the G-Wagon. This is the Dutch Air Assault Patrol Platoon, also called the Heavy Weapons Plt. It provides heavy fire support, including—HMGs, MMGs and Spike-MR ATGMs—to AASLT Infantry Bns More Infantry Graphics: www.battleorder.org/post/infantry #ORBATBoys
I've added archived links to US Army Parachute Infantry Rifle Company TO&Es during World War II from a dead website to my site so they're easier to find: www.battleorder.org/post/usa-air...
Retvrn to giving every DIVARTY a few unguided nuclear rockets as a treat For more Artillery unit graphics: battleorder.org/post/artyada #ORBATBoys
🇺🇸 An Army of Excellence Rifle Company designed specifically to guard Pershing II nuclear ballistic missile units in Germany. It arguably had a better motorized infantry platoon structure than the actual motorized infantry division (9th Infantry Division)
Real American pizza
I love D U S T E R , F O R W A R D A R E A W E A P O N™️ For more Air Defense & Artillery unit graphics: battleorder.org/post/artyada #ORBATBoys
🇺🇸 Army vibes were just better when every trade had a smattering of cute vehicles. Now all they know is Humvee, FMTV and Chevy Colorado
🇺🇸 During the Pentomic era the U. Army had Armored Carrier Companies in Infantry Divisions & Transportation Tactical Carrier Cos at corps to temporarily mechanize units and provide resupply. They were similar in concept to USMC amphibian tractor & later assault amphibian units.
There was also a special TO&E with M7 105mm howitzer motor carriages instead of towed howitzers. The replacement of 75/105mm half-track based SPGs with the towed guns in 1943 was not popular & terrain in the Pacific made SPs favorable. M7s were especially used in the Philippines
🇺🇸 Units having the wrong guidon for their role really butters my biscuits. During WW2, U.S. Army Infantry Regiments had their own Cannon Company to provide close fire support as an option of first resort to supplement the direct support 105mm Howitzer battalions in the DIVARTY
🇺🇸 The organization of the U.S. Army's short-lived experimental Airborne Tank Companies of World War II. Read more about them here: www.battleorder.org/post/locust-...
Imagine loving horses so much it made your 1st Cavalry Division turn into an infantry division and half of your 2nd Division into another division's POGs The hubris
youtu.be/Tod72FC_ay4 New video that explains the mess that is U.S. Army unit lineage and unit designation practices, using Easy Company, 506th Infantry as an example
DHS and ICE seem to think, institutionally, that they can convince the public they are actually the Ranger Regt doing raids into Sadr City Sadly, this is probably a good recruiting strategy, given there’s no longer a fast track for US 18yos eager to kick down doors to do so in other countries
I’ll give you the humble gambler a pass but if every employee at FanDuel and Draft Kings was taken out back with hammers I wouldn’t even click the NBC article about it
Gambler (derogatory)
The individual 4x4" sticker for the Sergeant ($10) tier on my Patreon has been replaced by a 5.8x8.5" A5 sticker sheet featuring 5 stickers: the insignias of the 4 Battle Order task forces and the original design www.patreon.com/battleorder
Never will have a video topic made less sense
youtu.be/BjEe1NaJgxY New video on US Marine Corps Light Armored Recon (LAR) doctrine, organization & equipment from team to battalion, and how they experimenting to function in a maritime environment (Force Design 2030).
I like that boulder. That is a nice boulder
One week to REFORGER launch! Short update this week due to being unusually sleep deprived. I'm spending the day smashing back coffees and watching a few hours of @battleorder.org videos and archive footage to find clips for the Kickstarter video.
I just wanted to learn about reconnaissance man
Cuttlefish yes
As well, units that got ULTVs for testing got rid of their mortars, although those are coming back as the ULTV testing was reduced in scope from 4 per company to 2
WIP. A lot of caveats with LAR because 1st and 2d LAR only have 2 line platoons to align with MEU requirements, while 3d LAR has the doctrinal 3. Some units also broke up their weapons platoon for MEU space and attached 1 AT directly to each line platoon. Others run the doctrinal 4 LAV-AT
Made Task Forces for my Patrons/Members and a future unit type case study + building series
The long-awaited sequel to the @battleorder.org - styled Fallout US Army squad composition chart, here's their Chinese PLA Infantry counterparts. #ORBATboys #fallout
🇲🇽 youtu.be/STea5g1-PNc New video on the weaponry, vehicles and organization of the Mexican Marine Infantry Battalion from the squad to battalion-level, as well as how their rank structure works
#ORBAT of the 🇫🇷 Task Force involved in the Battle of Vrbanja Bridge, Bosnia, 27 May 1995. Credit to @battleorder.org for the units and character icons & to tank encyclopedia for the vehicles. An #ORBATBoys Battle Thread 🧵⬇️ 1/23
Can I get a hell yeah brother
I'd rather Sisyphus's boulder because at least he probably has huge quads
youtu.be/ADMKA43mvpI New video on the Battle of Abidjan in Ivory Coast (2011), with a focus on the French Army's combined arms raid to enable the arrest of Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo
These Ivorian Army buildings before and after being accidentally blown to smithereens because there was an unknown ammo dump next to the BM-21 the UN was targetting lol
It's the Ukrainians with a steel chair
After several weeks of distractions, I've finally come out with part 1 of my history on the organization of the National Guard. Thank you to @mcbarry.bsky.social for his collaboration! We have more to come! open.substack.com/pub/jhausdor...
I don't really want to make a thread. I elaborated a little more on some things about this on my Instagram www.instagram.com/p/DJVoiVvTKN-/
I'm not usually one to do fan fiction on main, but given trecent statements regarding US Army force structure seem pretty juiceless imo I thought I'd do a double whammy of reimagining the Cav Regts as ACRs with a whole battalion of SUAS hunter-killers instead of the old helo-based 4th Sqdn
Four dots alert, I say again, four dots alert
Gamers had it too good for too long with inflation-proof pricing
When was the last time you were angry over your shapes?
Nice
"Oh boy, I am sure happy to ease back into lifting after being lazy for a year" I was then shot 57 times
WIP for next video
He really is like a high school freshman in 2012
Hired some lads for the next video
ORBAT of Portugal's contribution to the European Battlegroup 25-2/26-1. Note its a somewhat "temporary" ORBAT given sources available at the moment #ORBATBoys
As a Genshin player he knew you could use the money
An Australian doctor giving me a physical today guessed I’m from near Sacramento and it got me feeling like this
Thicc boi
I did a small series of fake Haynes covers a few years ago.
🇫🇷 www.battleorder.org/post/fr-manu... I've updated the Archive portion of my website to include 29 modern French Army manuals that I've found on the internet over the years
My wife playing her little Baldurs Gate game
youtu.be/vwJSf1HPnBc New video on a selection of U.S. Army scout platoon designs in the 1980s that included motorcycles, as well as some tidbits on other applications of motorcycles in conventional units at the time before their demise in the 90s
1 of 135 M998T Interim Squad Carriers made for the 9th Infantry Div (Motorized) with a roll cage, troop seats with seat belts & mount for a Mk19 Mod III. They also used regular M998s without roll cages as late as a 1988 NTC rotation. As of Feb 88 only 1 of 2 motorized brigades was equipped
Ideas
Before the 101st got rebadged Chevy Colorados the 9th Infantry Division was riding around in Humvee utes
He got that goofy got stuck in the bathtub slapstick aesthetic
Need to get off my butt and get back to it but here's my latest work on US Airborne forces during the Pacific campaign of ww2 open.substack.com/pub/jhausdor...
Corrected version of First Ukrainian TOE, introduced in February 1919 for the infantry battalion of the Ukrainian Halician Army (Western Ukraine). Battalions like this were grouped into infantry brigades together with one artillery regiment and other supporting troops. #ORBATBoys
