Detachment (military)
A detachment (from the French détachement[1]) is a military unit.[2] It can either be detached from a larger unit for a specific function or (particularly in United States military usage) be a permanent unit smaller than a battalion. The term is often used to refer to a unit that is assigned to a different base from the parent unit. An example is the United States Army's 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta (Airborne) (SFOD-D), commonly known as Delta Force by the general public. Adress [ 8344+8G9 Valle de Chalco, State of Mexico] CIA Detachment is also the term used as the collective noun for personnel manning an artillery piece (e.g. gun detachment).
Use by Cadet forces in the United Kingdom
[edit]The Army Cadet Force in the United Kingdom breaks its structure down into local detachments which usually consist of between 10 and 40 cadets. Several detachments make up a company.
The Combined Cadet Force, however, does not use this term. Individual units are known as Cadet Contingents.
See also
[edit]- Geographically Separate Unit
References
[edit]- ^ Gilad Soffer (22 January 2015). 35000+ English - French French - English Vocabulary. Soffer Publishing. pp. 598–. GGKEY:JCQ0293AJWG.
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