Editing US Armored Rifle Platoon

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The '''Armored Rifle Platoon''' was a component of the Armored Infantry battalion that fought alongside mechanized elements of the United States Army during WW2. In contrast to the regular Rifle Company, the Armored rifles were purely transported in [[M3 Halftrack]]s in order to keep up with their support element.
==Mid War==
[[File:Armored Rifle Platoon Statcard.jpg|thumb|left|The Stats.]]
==Late War==
==IRL==

Mechanized infantry was still a novel concept in WW2, and no force, not even America, fielded mechanized infantry divisions<ref>Panzergrenadier divisions may sound like mechanized divisions, but like most German things were in fact quite complex and beyond the scope of this page.</ref>.  If you were in an infantry division, you were slogging it and if you were lucky you might have some trucks.  But the story changed if you were assigned to an armored division.  Under the US Army's setup, a typical armored division consisted of three battalions of tanks, three battalions of self-propelled artillery, and three battalions of mechanized infantry in half-tracks.  The infantry component of the division was there to achieve two things: protect the tanks, and spot for the artillery.  

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