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- ORGANIZATION AND EQUIPMENT
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- Abbreviations and Acronyms
- (A):
Active duty unit
- APC: Armoured
personnel carrier
- (A/R): Unit with both
active and reserve components
- Bn: Battalion
(usually w/ 3-5 coy/bty/sqn)
- Bn=: Equivalent
in size and function to a bn
- Bty: Battery
(i.e., artillery coy= usually w/ 6-8 guns/weapon systems)
- BW: Brigade
Wotanberg
- Coy: Company
(usually w/ 3-5 plt/tp; see bty & sqn)
- Coy=: Equivalent
in size and function to a coy/bty/sqn
- FLT: Flight (air
force unit usually w/ 3-5 aircraft or 20-30 soldiers)
- FPT: Full Protection
Team, w/ 5-7 soldiers and 1-2 light armored vehicle
- GDA: Grand-Ducal
Artillery
- GDAC: Grand-Ducal Aero
Cavalry
- GDAS: Grand-Ducal Airship
- GDD: Grand-Ducal
Dragoons
- GDF: Grand-Ducal
Foot
- GDGB: Grand-Ducal
Gun Boat
- GDH: Grand-Ducal
Horse
- GHQ: General
Headquarters
- HOT: French-built
wire-guided anti-tank missile system
- HT: Household
Troops
- HQ:
Headquarters
- LW: Landwehr
Wotanberg
- MLRS: Multiple Launch
Rocket System
- NBC: Nuclear/Biological/Chemical
- Plt:
Platoon (infantry: usually w/ 20-30 soldiers; anti-tank: usually
w/ 2-3 missile systems;
- see
tp)
- Plt=: Equivalent
in size and function to a plt
- (R): Reserve
unit (available within 24 hours)
- Recce: Reconnaissance (pronounced
"recky")
- Regt: Regiment
(the administrative
& "traditional" home for
- assigned
units and soldiers, but not necessarily a
tactical
headquarters)
- Sec: Section
(usually w/ 10-15 soldiers)
- Sqn: Squadron
(i.e., a cavalry/engineer coy= usually w/ 10-15 tanks, armoured
cars or
helicopters
or an air force unit usually with 3-5 flt)
- SR: Support
Regiment
- STOF: Sir Trevor's Own Foot
- TOW: U.S.-built wire-guided
anti-tank missile system
- Tp:
Troop (i.e., cavalry/artillery plt= usually w/ 2-4 tanks, armoured
cars,
helicopters,
or guns/weapon systems)
- WEB: Wotanberger
Expeditionary Battlegroup