The day-watch platoon commander, Lt. Rinker, was calling out the beat assignments, but Matson couldn't make the names mean anything.

Of course importance is a matter of perspective ; what is important to a divisional commander is rarely the same as what is important to an infantry platoon commander.

As a 22-year-old platoon commander in the 1st Battalion Irish Guards, he served in the British Expeditionary Force ( BEF ) in 1914.

Upon completion of The Basic School at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia, in October 1967, he was ordered to the Republic of Vietnam, where he served as a platoon and company commander with Golf Company, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marines.

In 1948, Rehavam Ze ' evi was a platoon commander in the IDF.

He served as an infantry platoon leader and company commander in the Phillipines during the Philippine – American War and several other guerrilla uprisings.

He served briefly in the desert campaign as a platoon commander with the Rifle Brigade during World War II.

Thiệu started as the commander of an infantry platoon fighting against the Việt Minh.

He served as a platoon leader and company commander in the Marine 2nd Infantry Division, and after satisfying his two year Reserve Officer commitment was discharged from the Corps as a first lieutenant in 1957.

He is eventually promoted to platoon commander.

The commander organizes the reconnaissance platoon based on: 1 ) mission, 2 ) enemy, 3 ) terrain, 4 ) troops and support available, ( 5 ) time available, ( 6 ) and civil considerations.

The commander analyzes the mission to determine whether the platoon will conduct these types of reconnaissance separately or in conjunction with each other.

A platoon is typically the smallest military unit led by a commissioned officer — the platoon leader or platoon commander, usually a lieutenant.

In the Australian Army, a platoon has twenty-four soldiers organized into three eight-man sections plus a lieutenant as platoon commander and a sergeant as platoon second in command, accompanied by a platoon radioman and medic ( full strength of twenty-eight men ).

In the British Army, a rifle platoon from an infantry company consists of three sections of eight men, plus a signaller ( radio operator ), a platoon sergeant, the platoon commander ( either a second lieutenant or lieutenant ) and a mortar man operating a light mortar ( full strength of 27 men and one officer ).

An officer was referred to as " platoon commander " while a WO III in the same position was called a " Platoon Sergeant Major " or PSM.

In practice, usually a Second Lieutenant is appointed the platoon commander, and will eventually be promoted to this rank.

His command positions included: commanding officer of a platoon and two rifle companies during two tours of duty in Vietnam ; commanding officer of Special Training Branch and Recruit Series at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego, California ( 1966 – 1968 ); commanding officer of Counter-Guerilla Warfare School, Northern Training Area on Okinawa ( 1970 ), Company officer at the United States Naval Academy ( 1970 – 1973 ); commanding officer of the Marine Barracks at Naval Air Station North Island, California ( 1973 – 1976 ), and commanding officer, 3rd Battalion 3rd Marines ( 1983 – 1985 ).

For the Red Guards, the military hierarchy and implementation of orders functioned effectively only at company and platoon level ; even there, leadership and authority were weak, as most company and platoon commanders were chosen by the vote of the troopers.

In July 1976, Tureaud's platoon sergeant punished him by giving him the detail of chopping down trees during training camp at Fort McCoy in Wisconsin, but did not tell him how many trees, so Tureaud single-handedly chopped down over seventy trees from 6: 30 am to 10: 00 am, until a shocked major superseded the sergeant's orders.

A specialty platoon of the 3rd US Infantry Regiment ( The Old Guard ), the Presidential Salute Battery is based at Fort Myer, Virginia.

The platoon maintains its battery of ten ceremonially-modified World War II-vintage M-5 anti-tank guns at the Old Guard regimental motor pool.

After officer training at Quantico, he eventually went on to serve as a platoon leader.

Despite Prewitt's AWOL status, his platoon sergeant carries him " present " for three days at Warden's direction.

Rose then remained at Fort Knox to assist the sergeant in training the next platoon and to help another sergeant train the Fort's baseball team.

The platoon leader was 1st Lieutenant William T. Ryder, who made the first paratroop jump for the US Military on August 13, 1940 at Lawson Field, Fort Benning, GA from a B-18 Bomber.

While 26 U. S. soldiers were initially charged with criminal offenses for their actions at Mỹ Lai, only Second Lieutenant William Calley, a platoon leader in Charlie Company, was convicted.

We intend to demonstrate that My Lai was no unusual occurrence, other than, perhaps, the number of victims killed all in one place, all at one time, all by one platoon of us.

The training provided at OTU Scheyville was specifically designed to turn out officers capable of leading a platoon in Vietnam.

Eventually, the audience sees that the garden club meeting is merely an illusion and the platoon is actually at a meeting of Russian and Chinese officials in Manchuria.

In his book Rebels Against the Future, Kirkpatrick Sale describes how a large army platoon was stationed at Huddersfield to deal with Luddites ; at its peak, there were around a thousand soldiers in Huddersfield and only ten thousand civilians.

The only existing antiaircraft defenses were a single battery of guns and a searchlight platoon at Fort Wint at the entrance to Subic Bay.

One battery, with a platoon of searchlights, was located at Fort Wint, in Subic Bay.

Kravitz was named after his uncle, Private First Class Leonard Kravitz, who was killed in action in the Korean War at the age of 20, while defending against a Chinese attack and saving most of his platoon ; he was posthumously awarded the Distinguished Service Cross.

The platoon may also have three MAG 58 general-purpose machine guns, one M2 Browning heavy machine gun or a Mk 19 grenade launcher at its disposal.

He went to boot camp at Parris Island, South Carolina, where he was promoted to platoon guide.

Afterward, the siege lifted, Kinnie leads the survivors of the platoon toward the rear for a well-earned rest.

Barth had participated in the Oradour-sur-Glane massacre as a platoon leader in the " Der Führer " regiment, in charge of 45 soldiers.

A captain ( Hauptmann ) is the platoon leader, assisted by a first lieutenant and each squad has a second lieutenant or a master sergeant in charge, often supported by a long-service sergeant or skilled senior corporal.

In a combat arms role, Sergeant First Class is typically in charge of anywhere from 18 soldiers and 4 tanks in an armor platoon to 40 soldiers in a rifle platoon.

" I probably was one of the last people who saw the Amber Room ", said Leonid Arinshtein, a literature expert with the nongovernmental Russian Culture Foundation, who was a Red Army lieutenant in charge of a rifle platoon in Königsberg in 1945.

During its attempts to secure its objectives, the regiment also gained a third Medal of Honor for the division when Private First Class Stuart S. Stryker posthumously received the award after leading a charge against a German machine gun nest, creating a distraction to allow the rest of his platoon to capture the fortified position the machine gun was situated in.

The player is put in the position of a main battle tank platoon commander in charge of four U. S. M1 Abrams tanks in a fictional campaign of battles against the Soviet Army in Central Europe.

Although holding command in the same sense as others officers the individual in charge of a platoon, the smallest unit of soldiers led by a commissioned officer, typically a second lieutenant, is referred to as the platoon leader not the platoon commander.

During its attempts to secure its objectives, the regiment also gained a third Medal of Honor for the division when Private First Class Stuart S. Stryker posthumously received the award after leading a charge against a German machine-gun nest, creating a distraction to allow the rest of his platoon to capture the fortified position in which the machine-gun was situated.

With the platoon commander dead, Buick took charge of 11 Platoon, directing the artillery through Stanley.

Initially he served as a platoon leader in charge of 2nd Platoon, but later, in October 1942, he was promoted to first lieutenant and became the acting company executive officer, although this was not made official until May 1943.

His action inspired the platoon to charge and capture the five remaining posts.

During the period 24 / 27 May 1943 in the Chin Hills, Burma ( now Myanmar ), Havildar Gaje Ghale was in charge of a platoon of young soldiers engaged in attacking a strong Japanese position.

This functional platoon, composed of civil engineer officers from the GREF and army civil engineers, is in charge of activities such as formation cutting, surfacing, and safety mechanisms to maintain correct road geometry.

* Fire Platoon Chief who is in charge of smaller team or platoon of firefighters at a fire scene

The charge of 125 against batteries was joined by Niegolewski's platoon returning from reconnaissance.

Lawrence is scornfully perceived as afraid when he splits up the platoon and puts team executive officer Lt. Klinger in charge of a diversion to the more dangerous beach, where the main landing is scheduled.

The security of Mowbray Station is overseen by a platoon who is also in charge of registering and detaining suspects and offenders of military crimes in holding cells.