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Originally Posted by DRG
Can someone who may have actually served in CFV Bradley's confirm this quote please
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A1007650
A cavalry section in a Bradley unit will consist of two Bradley Cavalry Fighting Vehicles.
The senior Bradley commander on the two Bradley's is the section leader. There are three sections in a Cavalry platoon.
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in this case I would highly prefer first hand info not something else dug off the 'net
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According to FKSM 71-8, Armor/Cavalry Reference Data, Brigade Combat Teams, dated November 2005, the Cavalry Platoon, Cavalry Troop, Cavalry Battalion (TOE 17-207) assigned to Heavy Brigade Combat Teams, has 5 HMMWVs and 3 M3 CFVs. The Scout Platoon, Headquarters and Headquarters Company, Combined Arms Battalion has 3 Scout Sections each with 3 M3 CFVs and 3 HMMWVs.
In 2003, when that article was written the 2 vehicle sections might have been the case for units that had not converted yet to the modular force structure. The Fort Knox Supplemental Manual itself might be dated or inaccurate. The information from the FKSM was, however, taken straight from the applicable TOEs at that time.