These are awesome ideas gentlemen. Made me think of a few small unit encounters and in most of the games I ran "most" of the encounters fit that description.
PC's encounter a small "pioneer unit" collecting firewood. This is especially good for later in the war when things have stagnated a bit and it's a cold winter I imagine 4-6 men with small arms, and maybe a farm tractor or improvised "skidder" (which is a home made buggy for hauling tree length logs) Or UAZ hauling a trailer with cut logs in the back. Maybe even a couple draft horses depending on how rough things have gotten.
Another option is a 2-4 man unit with small arms and a larger 4-10 man contingent made up of unarmed prisoners which could be old men and boys taken from a local village and forced to chop down dead trees. This way the party doesn't have to actually fight too many well armed soldiers.
Also if 2 guys with 8 old men and boys get jumped by 4-6 guys with small arms they may surrender pretty quickly. The Pc's might even let take all the stuff the armed soldiers have and then let the prisoners do whatever they want with there captors ( like chop them up with axes)
or If you wanted to make it a larger group of soldiers say 6-8 and more unique vehicle (maybe earlier in the war) you could have the Pioneer unit rolling a old PTS-4 Amphib...that would be an excellent log hauler and it could carry all the wood cutting crew so they wouldn't have to walk back to the village. Also it might be a unique vehicle for the PC's to commandeer.
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