Department of the Army - Congressional Budget Office

CBOCHAPTER2 Department of the ArmyOverviewThe Department of the Army includes the Army s active component; the two parts of its reserve component, the Army Reserve and the Army National Guard; and all federal civilians employed by the service. By number of military personnel, the Department of the Army is the biggest of the military departments. It also has the largest operation and support (O&S) Budget . The Army does not have the largest total Budget , however, because it receives significantly less funding to develop and acquire weapon systems than the other military departments Army is responsible for providing the bulk of ground combat forces. To that end, the service is orga-nized primarily around brigade combat teams (BCTs) large combined-arms formations that are designed to contain 4,400 to 4,700 soldiers apiece and include infan-try, artillery, engineering, and other types of The Army has 30 BCTs in the active component and 26 in the National Guard (there are none in the Army Reserve).

logistics.3 Similarly, an infantry battalion has three infan-try companies, a heavy weapons company, and a head-quarters company. That pattern is repeated at lower levels (a company consists of platoons, and platoons consist of squads) and at higher levels (a division consists of brigade combat teams, and a corps consists of divisions), as

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