Posted on Oct 18, 2018
What defines a company size element in the Army?
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I am deployed in a Finance Detachment of 25 soldiers. We have a CPT as a commander. This question is in regards to SSI-FWTS. AR 670-1 19-17 2c, "When echelons below company level (such as teams or squads) deploy, members of these units will wear the SSI of the lowest echelon deployed Army unit (company or higher) in the deployed chain of command".
I have been told since we have a CPT as a commander we are a company sized element and I have been told we are company sized element due to our DoDAAC. What is the correct answer and what are the references?
P.S. I don't mind wearing either SSI, mostly just looking for the right answer here.
I have been told since we have a CPT as a commander we are a company sized element and I have been told we are company sized element due to our DoDAAC. What is the correct answer and what are the references?
P.S. I don't mind wearing either SSI, mostly just looking for the right answer here.
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Not sure what the book answer is, but I can tell you what my experience is. I was deployed in 2010 as part of a Preventive Medicine Detachment which consisted of 13 people. We had our own UIC, our own DoDaaC. We were authorized to wear either our unit patch as our SSI-FWTS or our next higher up, the 261st MMB. Our choosing.
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For HR and finance they are formed into detachments that fall under a company commander. The actual company commander (Major) with assumption of command orders remains the only company commander. Unless you are deployed with him you are just a subordinate Detachment Derivative UIC.
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I can't answer your question, I deployed to Afghanistan in 2014 with a liason team, I had a LTC for a commander, we had a Mjr, Lt and CWO3, plus 7 NCO's but our paper work had us wear the patch of the command we reported to. I think the called it the leaning $h!t house, they were out of Bragg.
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That's it, being a liason team, we sort of reported to about 3 different commands in theater, but that is the patch we were told to wear.
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