Modern Light Infantry Units
- Infantry intended for difficult terrain such as mountains (10th Mountain Division, 86th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Mountain), Alpini, 27ème bataillon de Chasseurs alpins) or jungle (Philippine Army Scout Rangers, Brazilian Army Jungle Infantry Brigades.
- India - Jammu and Kashmir Light Infantry, Sikh Light Infantry, and the Maratha Light Infantry regiments form part of the infantry Orbat.
- 75th Ranger Regiment: a flexible, highly trained, and rapidly deployable airborne light infantry unit, used for special operations.
- Seaborne or ship-based units, such as the United States Marine Corps' MEU (SOC) and Britain's 3 Commando Brigade.
- Internal security or paramilitary troops and police field forces.
- Troops involved in guerrilla or counter-guerrilla warfare.
- Home defense or militia.
Read more about this topic: Light Infantry, Contemporary Light Infantry Forces
Famous quotes containing the words modern, light and/or units:
“I tell you, sir, the only safeguard of order and discipline in the modern world is a standardized worker with interchangeable parts. That would solve the entire problem of management.”
—Jean Giraudoux (1882–1944)
“... by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don’t quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil—widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“Even in harmonious families there is this double life: the group life, which is the one we can observe in our neighbour’s household, and, underneath, another—secret and passionate and intense—which is the real life that stamps the faces and gives character to the voices of our friends. Always in his mind each member of these social units is escaping, running away, trying to break the net which circumstances and his own affections have woven about him.”
—Willa Cather (1873–1947)