Formations of the United Earth Army

The United Earth Army employes a wide range of different military formations.

## Field army

Before 2444, field armies used to be the largest peacetime formation. Field armies used to consist of three to five divisions and commanded by a lieutenant general. After the 2444 Defence & Equipment reforms, the field army was turned into a regional administration formation and the number of field armies was downgraded from # to #.

### Before 2444 reforms

* Third Army
* Fifth Army
* Seventh Army

## Corps

Corps in the UEA come in three types.

1. Administrative corps: An administrative corps responsibility is to group personnel with a common function. Administrative corps are usually lead by a general officer that is between a lieutenant general and brigadier general but can sometimes be lead by a colonel.
2. Collective corps: A collective corps has the same responsibility of an administrative corps, that is to group personnel with a command function. However, the main difference is that a collective corp has no definitive leader.
3. Deployable headquarters corps: A deployable headquarters corps (DHC) is the newest corps type. A DHC responsibility is to lead military formations that are deployed on combat, peacekeeping, and disaster relief operations. A DHC can be a field army or brigade-level formation.

## Regiment

Under the Regimental Combat System, regiments or ordnance/engineer wings are administrative formations that consist of one or more battalions.

Regiments, that are either part of a collective corps or individual standing units, are expected to have a distinct parade uniform, traditions, and recruitment standards to provide an individual soldier with a feeling of *esprit de corps*. For this to be possible, due to the massive size of the UEA, each regiment (except for support and logistics regiments) has a regimental administration battalion.

Regiment recruitment is different than that of normal recruitment as regiments recruit soldiers that have completed their advanced training. Certain regiments can recruit soldiers that come from specific regions (e.g Royal British Regiment), an ethnic group (e.g Gurkhas), or soldiers that are trained in certain functions (e.g Iron Demi-Brigades for mechanised and armoured infantry).

While regiments can have a different number of regiments regardless of when they were first raised, the general limit of battalions a regiment can have during peacetime is 40 battalions.

## Battalion

A UEA battalion is composed of a battalion headquarters platoon (BHP) and two to five companies, batteries, squadrons, or troops. They are identified by an ordinal number and formation type (e.g, 1st (type) Battalion) and if under a regiment an ordinal number slash regiment name (e.g 1/5th Foot). Battalions are tactical and administrative organisations that are normally organic components of a brigade.

Currently, the UEA's manoeuvre battalions are organised into such:

* Light/Mechanised Infantry battalion
	+ Battalion headquarters platoon (BHP)
	+ Infantry company (x3)
		- Company headquarters
		- Infantry platoon (x3)
	+ Weapons company
		- Company headquarters
		- Light/heavy mortar platoon
		- Anti-tank platoon
		- Air defence platoon
* Armoured Infantry battalion
	+ Battalion headquarters platoon (BHP)
	+ Infantry company (x3)
		- Company headquarters
		- Infantry platoon (x3)
	+ Tank company
		- Company headquarters
		- Tank platoon (x2)
		- Air defence platoon
* Light/Mechanised Cavalry battalion
	+ Battalion headquarters troop (BHT)
	+ Cavalry squadron (x3)
		- Squadron headquarters
		- Cavalry troop (x3)
	+ Weapons squadron
		- Squadron headquarters
		- Light/heavy mortar troop
		- Anti-tank troop
		- Air defence troop
* Armoured cavalry battalion
	+ Battalion headquarters troop (BHT)
	+ Cavalry squadron (x2)
		- Squadron headquarters
		- Cavalry troop (x3)
	+ Tank squadron
		- Squadron headquarters
		- Tank troop (x2)
		- Air defence troop
* Tank battalion
	+ Battalion headquarters troop (BHT)
	+ Tank squadron
		- Squadron headquarters
		- Tank troop (x3)
	+ Infantry squadron
		- Squadron headquarters
		- Infantry troop (x2)
		- Air defence troop

A manoeuvre battalion has a total of 336 to 438 soldiers.