ComStar and Word of Blake Unit Organization
Just as the Clans use an idiosyncratic organizational structure based on five-Point Stars, ComStar's military arm, the Com Guards (and its splinter faction, the Word of Blake), base their organization on multiples of six. The ComGuards, ComStar's military branch, and the Word of Blake Militia share a common heritage and organization. Both militaries use combined arms tactics and a simplistic command structure to minimize the effects of the loss of an upper command echelon. Neither the Word of Blake Militia nor the Com Guards use a formal organization above Level 4.
Level 1 consist of a single BattleMech, armored vehicle or aerospace fighter, or even a single infantry squad; leading to Level 2, formed around six Level 1 units also called a demi-company (6 Mechs); level 3 is made of six Level 2 units and is referred to as a battalion (36 Mechs); Level 4 strength units consist of six Level 3 units (216 Mechs);also known as a division; Level 5 units are formed by six Level 4 units (1296 Mechs); also called an Army due to the size and scale of forces placed under a single command authority. Most Army commands are an administrative grouping, but few were deployed as field units. Commands at the Level 6 tier consist of six level 5 units, these are almost completely absent from the ComGuard military organization, and is used when regional command level of entire regions of space is needed.
Read more about this topic: Military Organization (Battle Tech)
Famous quotes containing the words word, blake, unit and/or organization:
“The word unto the prophet spoken
Was writ on tables yet unbroken;
The word by seers or sibyls told,
In groves of oak, or fanes of gold,
Still floats upon the morning wind,
Still whispers to the willing mind.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Your friendship oft has made my heart to ache:
Do be my enemy for friendship’s sake.”
—William Blake (1757–1827)
“During the Suffragette revolt of 1913 I ... [urged] that what was needed was not the vote, but a constitutional amendment enacting that all representative bodies shall consist of women and men in equal numbers, whether elected or nominated or coopted or registered or picked up in the street like a coroner’s jury. In the case of elected bodies the only way of effecting this is by the Coupled Vote. The representative unit must not be a man or a woman but a man and a woman.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“The village had institutionalized all human functions in forms of low intensity.... Participation was high and organization was low. This is the formula for stability.”
—Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980)