Military Map Symbology Because someday you might find yourself called to read one.
Antiaircraft Artillery
Armored Command
Army Air Forces
Artillery, except Antiaircraft and Coast Artillery
Cavalry, Horse
Cavalry, Mechanized
Chemical Warfare Service
Coast Artillery
Engineers
Infantry
Medical Corps
Ordnance Department
Quartermaster Corps
Signal Corps
Tank Destroyer
Transportation Corps
Veterinary Corps
NOTE: Airborne units are designated by combining a gull
wing symbol with the arm or service symbol:
Airborne Artillery
Airborne Infantry
Size
Symbology The
following symbols placed either in boundary lines or above
the rectangle, triangle, or circle enclosing the identifying arm
or service symbol indicate the size of military organization:
Squad
Section
Platoon
Company, troop, battery, Air Force flight
Battalion, cavalry squadron, or Air Force
squadron
Regiment or group; combat team (with
abbreviation CT following identifying numeral)
Brigade, Combat Command of Armored Division,
or Air Force Wing
Division or Command of an Air Force
Corps or Air Force
Army
Group of Armies
Weapon Symbols on a Military Map
Machine Gun
Gun
Gun Battery
Howitzer or Mortar
Tank
Self-Propelled Gun
Examples
- Reading a Military Map The
letter or number to the left of the symbol indicates the unit
designation; that to the right, the designation of the parent unit
to which it belongs to. Letters or numbers above or below boundary
lines designate the units separated by the lines
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