Mobile officials in Fort Benning, Georgia, are considering reorganizing future ground combat forces, including possible changes to the size of the infantry squad.
In the past three years, the U.S. Army has been busy perfecting new advanced weapons and other complex combat technologies to prepare for large-scale operations against potential opponents. At a military exercise meeting in Fort Benning, Georgia, the exercise officials said that they would support the military-directed "squad study. This is the first time in decades to determine the optimal size of the infantry squad that uses next-generation capabilities." Rivera Espada said.
He said: "As we move forward, I think this will arouse a lot of people's interest." He also described how Benning's field experiment department will conduct field experiments in fiscal 2021 to support research on the new army. Z2z
Army Infantry School Commander Army Brigadier General Donahoe said that the team research to be conducted by the Soldier Lethality Cross-Functional Team and the Mobile Capability Development and Integration Council is “obsolete,” but he warned that the team is unlikely to shrink to 9. Less than people.
Donahoe said in a statement: "From our initial experimental results, we know that reducing the number of infantry squads to less than 9 is not a good idea, and we do not recommend reducing the number of existing infantry squads."
This research will consider the impact of equipment and other "next-generation capabilities," the army's next-generation lineup weapons, a 6.8mm weapon system designed to replace the M4A1 carbine and M249 squad machine guns and integrated vision enhancement system, a system was developed to be equipped with soldiers A heads-up display to display maps and other key tactical information.
"However, even if experiments show that an 11-person team is ideal, this may not lead to an adjustment to the size of the team, taking into account several factors-troop structure constraints, personnel costs, and even vehicle design constraints," he wrote Tao. The vehicle design restrictions mentioned by Donahoe refer to the next-generation combat vehicle. The next-generation combat vehicle that the Army is designing can carry 9 soldiers to replace the Bradley combat vehicle.
The U.S. Marine Corps tried to change the size of some 12-person infantry units to 15 persons. This was an attempt initiated in 2018 by the former commander, Admiral Robert Neller.
In 2018, Naylor also reduced the size of all infantry units from 13 Marines to 12, and reorganized them into a three-person firepower unit, in addition to a unit system operator, assistant squad leader and Monitor. Z2z
Major Donahoe said at the mock acting meeting that in preparing for future wars, the Army may also shift from a brigade combat team-focused structure to a division-focused structure.
Donahoe said: "As far as our organization is concerned, I think the U.S. Army is about to declare this division as a combat unit." He said: "We know that large-scale operations are no longer brigade-centric combat. Brigade There will not be enough combat power. The brigade will not be able to synchronize all elements of combat power, which will require fighting and winning large-scale combat operations."
In the early days of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, the army moved to a division-centric structure to be able to create The deployable unit package provides back-to-back combat rotation based on the preparedness of each army center. It is not uncommon for airborne divisions and mountain divisions to use together. The
army, these two "may be small", must enhance the level of support with other units, such as artillery and reconnaissance departments. This will be the "landing place" and other new autonomous system robotic combat vehicles, which are designed for commanders The choice to send an unmanned vehicle must first face the enemy's formation. Z2z
Donahoe said: "The combat brigade is still the center of our work. It is a fully functional joint weapons brigade that can approach and destroy the enemy in close combat. This is still extremely important."
