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Type of military unit
A
detachment
(from the
French
detachement
[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.
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
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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
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- Geographically Separate Unit
References
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