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Originally Posted by whdonnelly

National Guard and US Army Reserve units deploy as complete units unless they are split up to fill out other units of the same component and after the mess of the let's mix units in 2003, they don't mingle them together beyond a company working with another company.

Typically USMC Reserve units will "fill in" at about company level. So an active duty battalion that's undermanned will fold it's three companies into two then add a reserve company. The same applies to artillery (at battery level) and air (at squadron level).

This OF COURSE doesn't apply to "technical" (electronic maintenance, crypto, intel, and such) jobs where the reserve personnel will be doled out as needed.

Then there are a handful of units unique to the USMC Reserve, like a field hospital (i.e. the USMC version of MASH) and Civil Affairs.