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From: fmrco!curt@uunet.UU.NET (Curt Fennell)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Marines get M1s
Message-ID: <1990Dec21.030546.11678@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 21 Dec 90 03:05:46 GMT
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From: fmrco!curt@uunet.UU.NET (Curt Fennell)
In article <1990Dec11.021100.28328@cbnews.att.com> bcstec!shuksan!major@uunet.UU.NET (Mike Schmitt) writes:
> Question:  What's the TO/E for a marine tank battalion?  36?
>            The TO/E for an Army M60A3 tank battalion was 54 tanks (5 tanks
>            to a platoon.)  What's the current TO/E for an M1 tanks
>            battalion (4 tanks to a platoon?).
>
The TO/E for a Marine Tank Battalion is 4 tank companies of 17 tanks each, plus
2 HQ tanks for 70 tanks.   Each company has 3 platoons of 5 tanks each and a 
HQ section with 2 tanks (1 for the CO and a blade tank for the XO) and one
M88 tank recovery vehicle. Also, a truck and a jeep are common.
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