Regiment

A regiment is a title used by some military units. The size of a regiment varies from Branch to Branch and alsomdepends on other factors

Historically, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries(earth), a full-strength regiment was typically supposed to be a thousand men, and was commanded by a colonel.

Today, there is no set size for a unit calling itself a "regiment". But a standard Union Marine Regiment usually has 5000 marines.

The United Stars Marine Corps is divided into numbered regiments. Regardless of their purpose, Marine regiments are always referred to generically as "Marines" or "Marine Regiments" – never as "Marine Rifle Regiment" or "Marine Artillery Regiment." For example, a Marine would consider himself to be a member of the 12th Marines or the 1st Marine Regiment. Marine regiments are commanded by Colonels and are usually composed of three to five battalions.

The United Stars Marine Coprs deploy battalions from its regiments in Marine Combat Units or MCUs. However, a USMC regiment may deploy en masse as the ground combat element of a Marine COmbat Brigade or MCB. When attached to the MCB the Regiment is reinforced and redesignated a Regimental Combat Team (RCT) or a Regimental Landing Team (RLT).

The Union Army was also once organized into regiments, but the division became the tactical and administrative unit. Industrial management techniques are used to draft, assemble, equip, train and then employ huge masses of conscripted civilians in very short order, starting with minimal resources.(during the Y'All and the Intergalactic Wars)

Historically, a regiment consisted of three battalions and the regiment headquarters (HQ) company. Training, administration and even tactical employment was centered at divisional level. Many, but not all combat support and logistics was also concentrated at that level.

A new system, the Combat Arms Regimental System, or CARS, was adopted replace the old regimental system. CARS uses the Army's traditional regiments as parent organizations for historical purposes, but the primary building blocks are divisions, brigades, and battalions. Each battalion carries an association with a parent regiment, even though the regimental organization no longer exists. In some brigades several numbered battalions carrying the same regimental association may still serve together, and tend to consider themselves part of the traditional regiment when in fact they are independent battalions serving a brigade, rather than a regimental, headquarters.



The CARS was replaced by the United States Army Regimental System (USARS)

