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Originally Posted by Olefin
It is implied that the Marines picked up various stragglers and remnants from all kinds of units - including armored vehicles as well - considering the chaos of the aftermath of the summer offensive I could easily see Germans who got separated from their units, pro-NATO Poles and Soviets, possibly cut off Danes from the Danish unit that was part of the summer offensive. Add in Ukrainians who may have abandoned their Soviet units as well and you could see why they grew in size (let alone absorbing 5th Division men who managed to get away to the north and join up withe Marines)
As for all the nationalities - even before they started they may have had Norwegians, Finns and Brits who may have joined up with the Marines from when they were in Norway and Finland - makes for one heck of a group.
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This could be a very interesting game to play (being part of this). My first deployment my Army unit got attached to the USMC. They keep sending us tasking for missions that we could not do. Or more specifically could not do them all at once like they wanted, we could do them one at a time. The issue as it turns out is that Army Combat Engineers are outfitted very differently than Marine Combat Engineers, and no matter how many times we told them what equipment and troops we had they keep thinking that we were staffed and equipped the same as a marine unit. It probably did not help that even in the Army they are not all equipped the same. We were a core wheeled support combat engineer unit, so had three platoons of Combat Engineers with three dump trucks each platoon. And one support platoon with bulldozers, graders, front end loaders, and crains. I do not know how Marine engineers are normally outfitted, but when they found out we had equipment they would do things like task us to send our dozers out to six or seven locations at once, we only had two, and when we told them that they said things like I understand but you have four platoons so that is two per right.
So anyway like I said that could be a very interesting game if set in the proper time. The longer it goes the less formal the standards would be, but early one the confusion factor could be played for fun. I think (may be wrong as it is based on hearsay) that the marines run three, three man fire teams per squad. If that is the case it could be something simple as the young marine LT telling one of the other forces have your first fire team flank them, your second provide a base of fire and third assault the objective, or they get told that they are being sent four fire teams for assistance, only to find out that each fire team is six strong.