American Army or American army?

[Olgar Shiverstone]

I response to Clashmore Dave's reference to sub-divisions being called armies. Yes there are sub units of the US Army refered to as an army, though in my experience they were refered to as a Corp. Unless things have greatly changed when i was in the Army back in '91, the US Army divided itself into the following units (smallest to largest): Firing Team, Squad, Platoon, Company (some US Cavalry units use the term Troop here), Battalion (some US Cav units use the term Squadron here), Brigade (some US Cav units use the term Regiment here), Division and finally Corp. It generally takes a minimal of two or more of a smaller unit to make up the next larger sized unit to the best of my knowledge, thus not all units of the same name are necessarily equal in manpower.

That would actually be Corps, not Corp. (as the Army is not a Corporation, US Air Force desires not withstanding). And Army still exists as a formation larger that Corps, though today the numbered Army is primarily an administrative organization that helps to organize and train Reserve Component formations. 1st Army, for example, is responsible for the Northeastern US. The exception is 3rd Army, which is the Land Component of the US Central Command (also known as ARCENT).

During World War II, we used an even larger formation, the Army Group, that included multiple numbered Armies. Our smaller organizations also include the terms Section (for specific types of organizations, larger than a fire team, but smaller than a platoon), Battery (for a company-sized formation of Field Artillery or Air Defense units), and Group (typically a brigade-sized formation of Engineer, Special Forces, or logistical units).

And I can attest to the internal requirement to capitalize Soldier in all of our correspondence, both as a title (the only acceptable form of address for trainees is now "Soldier" or "Private" -- "&*$^*&" is not longer in vogue, much to the chagrin of many drill sergeants) and to "emphasize the importance of Soldiers in everything the Army does."

And to make it a bit more confusing: even though the Army and the USMC use the same officer ranks, we use different abbreviations (for example, Army LTC vs. USMC Lt. Col.).

I don't makes 'em up, I jest follows 'em!

 

[Hypersmurf]

Actually, knowing Hyp., I'd quantum to walk the planck.

I've Born such Dirac-t attacks in the past, but they're starting to Bohr me... I'd appreciate an a-Pauli-gy!

You need to duality-le bit of damage control here. This sort of insult can't be dismissed with a hand-wave... particlelarly since eigenstate with confidence that I shall not rest mass-elf until honour is satisfied!

-Hyp.

 

[Piratecat]

I think I love you.

 

[Hypersmurf]

I think I love you.

The path of the paronomasiac is a har-Schrödinger-uelling conditions, but it has its rewards...

-Hyp.

 

[Darth K'Trava]

Clearly they have a lack of self esteem. I don't capitalize such names out of respect for their lack of self esteem.

Or too lazy to use proper capitalization. All it takes is extra use of the pinky finger. Or an extra finger if you type two-fingered. I have a friend (and DM) who has this weird thing of typing with just his two middle fingers. So, he's giving the keyboard "The Finger" everytime he types.

I usually end up capitalizing people's usernames even when they're not capitalized. Just too used to doing it, I guess....

 

[Darth K'Trava]

... says the man who can't spell 'favour'

-Hyp.

He can spell it better than you can.

 

[Hypersmurf]

He can spell it better than you can.

You Americans are so cute sometimes.

-Hyp.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Well, we ARE the puppies of the world community!

 

[Infiniti2000]

Danny, the word is "mutt":

We're all very different people. We're not Watusi, we're not Spartans, we're Americans. With a capital "A", huh? And you know what that means? Do you? That means that our forefathers were kicked out of every decent country in the world. We are the wretched refuse. We're the underdog. We're mutts.

 

[Dog Moon]

Danny, the word is "mutt":

Puppies sounds better.