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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.)
 
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.
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Each company has 5 infantry platoons, one heavy weapons platoon, and the company HQ. The total strength of a company is as follows:
 
 
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 captain
 
* 1 commissar
 
* 1 commissar
* 6 lieutenants
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* 7 lieutenants
 
* 29 sergeants
 
* 29 sergeants
* 5 priests
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* 6 priests
* 5 tech priests
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* 6 tech priests
* 614 other ranks (including a medical section of a surgeon and 5 orderlies)
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* 292 other ranks (including a medical section of a surgeon and 5 orderlies)
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342 total
  
661 total
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So while regiments can vary in troop strength depending on how many companies they are composed of, with the largest often having a rank between the colonel and captain to manage multiple companies, each company is of manageable size and capable of autonomous operation if necessary.
  
Company command section includes the following:
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Company command section usually includes the following:
 
* captain
 
* captain
 
* adjutant
 
* adjutant
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* vox operator
 
* vox operator
  
The commissar usually, but not always, accompanies the command section.
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A 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.
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The heavy weapons platoon includes a command section, a mortar squad, an anti-tank squad and a fire support squad.
  
 
Infantry platoons have a command section and 5 infantry squads. The command section has a following composition:
 
Infantry platoons have a command section and 5 infantry squads. The command section has a following composition:
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* 1 special weapon
 
* 1 special weapon
 
* 1 sniper
 
* 1 sniper
* 21 other guards
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* 6 other guards
  
 
===Standard kit===
 
===Standard kit===

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