Marine Infantry Regiment Organization

See also a List of Current Marine Regiments, or Solar Spaceborne Marines

Overview
The strategic goals of the Solar Spaceborne Marines requires its infantry force to be tactically self sufficient at the squad or fire-team level, and logistically self-sufficient at a regimental level, with fire-team level combat tactics, and regimental level combat strategy. As such, the Marine Infantry Regiments have shrunk significantly overtime, from around 1200 marines at its founding, to 636 marines and marines support staff in the contemporary era. The standard regiment is based around the availability of space in a Marine Transport Sh, requiring the organization be very efficient in manpower.

The standard regimentental bayonet strength is 636 marines, of which 486 are combat marines, and 150 auxiliary echelon marines. The regiment is broken up into 9 Combat Companies, 1 HQ Command & Control Company, and 1 Logistic Company.

A Combat Company's bayonet strength is 54 marines, and each Combat Company is further divided into 2 platoons of 25 marines each, each platoon consisting of 2 squads of 11 marines each. A Combat Company's role is to provide direct fire and manuever elements of the regiment.

The HQ C&C Company's bayonet strength is 65 Marines, mainly consisting of specialists and admin-level NCO's and Officers. The HQ's role is to provided accurate intelligence, indirect support and communications for the Combat Companies, as well as serving as a command post for regimental-level Officers and NCO's.

The Logistic Company's has a bayonet strength of 85 personnel, and serves as the primary support element of the regiment, providing medical care, technical, engineering, and logistical support for the the regiment as a whole.

Regimental Organization

 * 9 Combat Companies to a Regiment - 486 combat effective
 * Infantry Company - 54 Marines
 * 4 Marines in Fire-team - 1 member Lance Corporal
 * 2 Fire-teams to a Squad - plus 1 Sergeant 3rd Class, 1 Corporal, 1 Private First Class
 * 2 Squads to a Platoon - plus 1 Sergeant 2nd Class, 1 Combat Medic 3rd Class, 1 2nd Lieutenant
 * 2 Platoons to a Company - plus 1 1st Lieutenant, 1 Sergeant 1st Class, 1 Master Chief Sergeant, and 1 Captain
 * 1 Headquarters Company to a Regiment - 65 Marines
 * Command Section - 35 Marines, plus 1 Colonel, 1 Lt. Colonel, 1 Sergeant Major, 1 Master Chief Sergeant
 * C-1: Personnel - 15 Marines
 * C-2: Communications/Intel - 7 Marines
 * C-3: Operations - 12 Marines
 * Weapons Platoon - 24 Marines, plus 1 Major, 1 Sergeant 1st Class
 * Mortar Section - 13 Marines
 * 3 Marines to a Mortar Team - 1 member Sergeant 3rd Class, 1 member Artillery Specialist 2nd Class, 1 member Private First Class
 * 4 Mortar Teams to a Mortar Section - plus 1 Sergeant 2nd Class
 * Heavy Weapons Squad - 11 Marines
 * 3 Marines to a Battlesuit Team - 2 members Battlesuit Operator 3rd Class, 1 member Battlesuit Operator 2nd Class
 * 3 Battlesuit Teams to a Heavy Weapons Squad - plus 1 Battlesuit Operator 1st Class, 1 Chief Battlesuit Operator, 1 1st Lieutenant
 * Logistics Company - 85 Marine Auxiliary Support Staff
 * 28 Medical Personnel
 * 18 Combat Engineers
 * 9 Tactical Support
 * 12 Technical Specialists
 * 18 Logistical Specialists

Total: 636 Marines

Fireteam
The role of a fireteam in a strategic setting is to create a fire-and-maneuver environment with mobile flexibility, allowing a squad to be strategically capable without support of a larger echelon. Relying on a small number of Marines, the fire-teams are able to out-maneuver an enemy while keeping the them suppressed.

Squad
The squad-level formation is the primary formation of the SSM for Urban and CQC environments. Employing two fire-teams as maneuver elements, and attaching a squad-level designated marksman allows the formation relative versatility in different types of combat ranges and areas.