Long Range Scout Company
The Long Range Scout companies are assigned to the Intelligence Battalions of Caledonian Army Corps.
Recruitment, Selection and Training
The Long Range Scout Companies (LRSC) are recruited from among the best infantrymen in each brigade.
Potential recruits must be infantrymen, and be committed to a full term in the LRSC.
One term is the normal term of service; only the top 25% of officers and enlisted men are retained beyond the first term to serve as NCOs and officers; the rest are returned to their original parent regiments, to pass their skills on to the rest of the infantry. The LRSC thus tend to be fairly "young" units.
Duties
The LRSC specialize in long-range close reconnaissance, strategic reconaissance, intelligence-gathering and target-acquisition.
Company Organization
A Long Range Scout Company reports to a Corps Intelligence Battalion, and serves as the Corps' covert reconaissance unit.
An LRSC is organized as follows:
- 4 x Scout Platoons, each with
- Commander (Captain), Platoon Sergeant, Signaller
- 3 x Scout Sections, each with five men: Leader, Signaller, Medic, 2 x Scouts
- Headquarters Detachment
- Major, Sergeant Major, 2x Signalmen