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===Composition===

The regiment, led by the colonel, is composed of infantry companies.

Each company is led by a captain. Captains and lower ranking officers generally share the colonel’s leadership style. (They can all be considered Mavericks.)

Caleans consider 5 to be a holy number, so the regiment has 5 battalions of 5 companies of 5 platoons of 5 squads. Each squad is composed of 5 fire teams of 5 troopers. The total numbers are 25 companies, 125 platoons, and 625 squads, and 15 625 troopers. Additional command section troops and support specialists such as priests and tech priests bring the number closer to 16 000.

This makes 1st Calean Rifles above average in size among Imperial Guard regiments. That is why they have some additional ranks not common among smaller regiments. Each  battalion is led by a major, who assist the colonel in keeping the regiment organised. And the squads, being significantly larger than usually, have corporals in charge of fire teams, in addition to the sergeant leading the squad as a whole.

Each company has 5 platoons - four infantry and one heavy weapons platoon - and the company HQ. The total strength of a company is as follows:
* 1 captain
* 1 commissar
* 6 lieutenants
* 29 sergeants
* 5 priests
* 5 tech priests
* 614 other ranks (including a medical section of a surgeon and 5 orderlies)

661 total

Company command section includes the following:
* captain
* adjutant
* signalstrooper
* senior sergeant
* standard bearer
* forward observer
* vox operator

The commissar usually, but not always, accompanies the command section.

The heavy weapons platoon includes a command section, a mortar squad, two anti-tank squads and two fire support squads.

Infantry platoons have a command section and 5 infantry squads. The command section has a following composition:
* 1 lieutenant
* 1 vox operator
* 1 medic
* 1 gunner
* 1 assistant
* 1 missile launcher

And the infantry squads have the following composition:
* 1 sergeant
* 1 vox operator
* 1 special weapon
* 1 sniper
* 21 other guards