CDF Land Service
The Land Service of the Community Defence Forces is the army of Sober Thought. It is closely integrated with the Civil Guard, the latter of which provides an increasing amount of troops for the nine field divisions.
The CDF uses symbols similar to their counterparts in NATO or U.S. Army, e.g., an "X" indicates infantry, a small rectangle with rounded corners in the centre armoured, an small circle in the centre artillery, an "E" on the left engineering, etc. The symbols are cumulative, so an X with a rounded rectangle indicates armoured infantry, i.e., infantry soldiers transported in armoured vehicles who fight dismounted.
The marines, comprised of one consecutively numbered Marine Division per hundred million national population, are under permanent operational control of the Naval Service. Each division consists of 1274 marines permanently stationed on warships ranging in size from frigates to cruisers, three battalions of light infantry (one permanently stationed on the aircraft carrier), three battalions of armour and three battalions of armoured infantry (two thirds of whom are permamently stationed on the nine landing ships), plus divisional artillery, support and engineering brigades on land.
The Land Force operates the following major armoured vehicles: a main battle tank armed with a 100 mm gun, a light tank armed with a 60 mm gun, a family of fully tracked armoured vehicles (including armoured personnel carrier, armoured infantry combat, armoured reconnaissance, armoured command and armoured recovery vehicle variants) and a family of wheeled armoured vehicles (same variants except for the ARV).
Major small arms are: a 9 mm pistol for officers and some technical staff, a submachine gun firing the same ammunition for some techical staff and close quarters combat soldiers, a 7 mm long arms family (including carbine, assault rifle, sniper rifle and light machine gun variants) and a family of heavier machine guns (including one firing 7 mm long arms ammunition and another firing 12 mm).
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