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Military Map Symbols
Because someday you might find yourself called to read one.
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Antiaircraft Artillery
Armored Command
Army Air Forces
Artillery, except Antiaircraft and
Coast Artillery
Cavalry, Horse
Cavalry, Mechanized
Chemical Warfare Service
Coast Artillery
Engineers
Infantry
Medical Corps
Ordnance Department
Quartermaster Corps
Signal Corps
Tank Destroyer
Transportation Corps
Veterinary Corps
NOTE: Airborne units are designated by
combining a gull wing symbol with the
arm or service symbol:
Airborne Artillery
Airborne Infantry
Size Symbology
The following symbols placed either in boundary lines or above the rectangle, triangle,
or circle enclosing the identifying arm or service symbol indicate the size of military
organization:
Squad
Section
Platoon
Company, troop, battery, Air Force flight
Battalion, cavalry squadron, or Air Force squadron
Regiment or group; combat team (with abbreviation CT following identifying
numeral)
Brigade, Combat Command of Armored Division, or Air Force Wing
Division or Command of an Air Force
Corps or Air Force
Army
Group of Armies
Weapon Symbols on a Military Map
Machine Gun
Gun
Gun Battery
Howitzer or Mortar

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Examples - Reading a Military Map
The letter or number to the left of the symbol indicates the unit designation; that to the
right, the designation of the parent unit to which it belongs to. Letters or numbers above
or below boundary lines designate the units separated by the lines
Company A, 137th Infantry
8th Field Artillery Battalion
Combat Command A, 1st Armored Division
Observation Post, 23d Infantry
Command Post, 5th Infantry Division
Boundary between 137th and 138th Infantry

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