Team Yankee, an average U.S. Army armored team under First Battalion, 4th Armored Division. Captain Sean Bannon is the company commander, First Lieutenant Robert Uleski is the executive officer, and First Sergeant Raymond Harrert is the first sergeant. Team Yankee is composed of First Platoon (Lieutenant Murray Weiss), Second Platoon (Second Lieutenant McAllister), Third Platoon (Second Lieutenant Gerry Garger), and the Mech Platoon (Staff Sergeant Polgar).

Each platoon has four M1 Abrams tanks for a total of ten across the team, as well as five M113 armored personnel carriers, two M901 ITV TOW missile vehicles, an M113A4 AMEV (Armored Medical Evacuation Vehicle), and an M88 Recovery Vehicle.

The Mech Platoon is also equipped for anti-tank warfare, armed with M47 Dragon anti-tank missiles and M72 LAW rocket launchers. When deployed to Germany under brigade commander Colonel Brunn and Major Jordan, Team Yankee is attached to Task Force 3-78 Mechanized Infantry, led by Lieutenant Colonel Reynolds and composed of Team Yankee, mech-heavy (one tank, two mech platoons) Team Bravo, standard infantry C Company (Captain Craven), standard infantry D Company, and an M981 FISTV-equipped artillery team (Second Lieutenant Rodney Unger).