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Old 07-01-2011, 09:12 AM
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I can see a company-level force for special ops at the division level, although they would most likely be called a Ranger Company or even a Reconnaissance Company. Really doubt that they would be called a Raider Company (Raider is usually considered to be Marine terminology).

As for the layout of the company's themselves, there would be some sort of rear echleon support belonging to the company. The experience with the Ranger or LRRP companies in Korea (and Vietnam confirmed it again), is that a even a independent company needed clerks, cooks and drivers, this was why the Ranger Battalions were formed after Vietnam, their headquarters company is large enough to provide detachments to support independent company operations.
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