Combat team

A combat team is temporary grouping of military organizations of differing types to accomplish a defined mission or objective.

A square combat team is the combination of both an infantry company and an armoured squadron with supporting elements attached.

[18] Through the Second World War, the US Army would form Regimental Combat Teams, consisting of an infantry regiment with additional attached combat and support elements tailored to a specific mission, whenever there was a requirement for an independent infantry formation smaller than division.

[20] The regimental combat team continued to be used by the US Army through the Korean War and until the adoption of the pentomic division in 1957.

[24] In Commonwealth nations, the term brigade group is generally used to describe a similar organization.

A combat team comprising infantry of Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry and tanks of the Lord Strathcona's Horse (Royal Canadians) train at the Canadian Manoeuvre Training Center, Wainwright(click to enlarge)
Infantry of 116th Cavalry Brigade Combat Team (CBCT) train at the National Training Center, Fort Irwin (click to enlarge)