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Originally Posted by PlasmaKrab
That's also not counting the cross-attached support units from division level (arty, air defense...). As far as I've understood the old FMs, the tank and mech battalions within an armored/mechanized division were rarely used as such and mainly mixed and matched as battalion-sized task forces.
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This also happens in battalion sized actions involving entire individual battalions in the whole of the WWII to the Present history of both the US Army and US Marine Corps. Battalion sized units have often habitually had platoons and companies of specialized troops attached to them, which have been habitually attached from Divisional Units to Brigades and Regiments, and are now an integral part of the Brigade Special Troop Battalions at least in the US Army's new Modular System.
It gets complicated as all hell very quickly. TOEs are a starting place, and can be helpful in organizing purchasable units for OOB construction. For creating "accurate" units for play, it can easily get to a "flavor of the day" kind of situation the more histories you consult.