Editing Motor Rifle Company (section)

===IRL===
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Soviet Motor Rifle infantry, known as Motostrelki, were the bread and butter of the Soviet Armed Forces since the reformation of the Red Army into the Soviet Armed Forces in 1946. As the name implies Motorstrelki, or MR as they're abbreviated to, were all motorized infantry who were to act as the main Soviet force in any conventional or unconventional conflict. Their job would to act tactically as motorized infantry, and on what the Soviets dubbed the 'operational' level, a level of warfare between the strategic and tactical levels, help in the exploitation, reinforcement, and line holding duties, alongside supplementing tank units, their all motorized nature allowing them to keep up with the extremely high tempo warfare they had planned on.

Their use in battle was to dismount from their BMP, BTR, and MT-LB vehicles at a few hundred meters from their targets, and advance with their attached tanks at roughly equal pace which should, at least in theory, allow for infantry to keep pace with the tanks, allowing the tanks to cover the infantry, and vice versa with targets being pointed out to the tanks through the use of tracers the Motostrelki are given.

By the time of Team Yankee the Russians have replaced their 7.62x39 AKMs with 5.45x39 AK-74s. This tweaked copy of 5.56 NATO gives lighter, longer range ammo with less recoil in exchange for less barrier penetration. The AKM remains in use for rear line units. 

Bears mentioning that Group of Soviet Forces in Germany was creme de la creme of the Red Army, supplied and trained to a highest standards. Simply being enlisted there was considered very prestigious, as every candidate had to show both physical (or professional) qualities and unshakable loyalty to the Party not to defect to the Westerners (and let's not forget that a lot of western stuff could be bought there, and salaries for conscripted soldiers and NCOs were paid in East German marks). Many officers had families there, as one could call GSFG a state within a state.
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