support units
Non-combat military personnel
Support units are military or organizational elements that provide logistical, technical, or administrative assistance rather than direct combat or primary operations.
They handle supplies, communications, medical care, maintenance, or transportation: The support units kept the front lines supplied with ammunition.
In gaming, support units buff allies or debuff enemies rather than dealing damage directly.
- medicsEmergency treatment personnel
- engineersTechnical problem solvers
- field hospitalsTemporary treatment centers near combat
- reservesResources held back
- forward observersPersonnel directing remote strikes
logistics · quartermaster · maintenance crews · legal advisors · mobile clinics · search and rescue · chaplains · auxiliaries · supply line · ammunition · supply chains · supply depot · technicians · buffs · facilities management · military police · healers · mechanics
- armyinfantry, cavalry, soldiers, artillery, officers
- militarysoldiers, army, troops, officers, navy
- auxiliary forcesauxiliaries, colonial troops, native troops, mercenaries, foreign legion
- other military serviceslogistics, supply, transport, signals, medics
- Support Unitsmedical corps, quartermaster, quartermasters, medics, combat medics
- reinforcementsrelief force, reserve team, reinforcement, second wave, replacements
support unitscombat units
Organized military groups
combat troops · infantry units · combat arms · shock troops · strike forces