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That would bring LRS more in line with what the USMC's Force Recon Companies were: a Fleet Marine Force asset.

I think the Force Recon Companies have since been absorbed by the Division's Recon...

Would the Army have been better off to have had Recon Battalions (in addition to the Cav Squadrons) at division level?

I believe Marine Divisions have both a Recon Battalion and Light Armored...

What is tiny these days? When I was active every battalion had a scout platoon. There was no LRS at divison or brigade level. LRS started to appear during my time in service.



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This was a common feeling on both sides during the War of Northern Aggression.

One account from the war says that there was an unwritten rule that you didn't bother a man when he "goes out to do...

In the '80s the only information we really had to work with, employment wise, was the 9th Infantry Division's Vietnam experience. I never heard an instructor at the XVIII Airborne Corps AMTU school...

For some of the same reasons that crew served weapons are usually kept seperate for training and garrison and attached out as needed. It seems to me that snipers and DMs would better trained under...

It seems that snipers have usually been employed most effectively at battalion level. Having said that, company commanders could most likely use a true sniping capability, not just "designated...

Exactly. And just because artillery forward observers and snipers are both trained, professional observers doesn't mean they belong in the same platoon.