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 ).

A section comprises eight men led by a corporal with a lance corporal as second in command, similar to the British Army platoon.

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 ).

Three Züge make up a company ( Kompanie ), with the first platoon usually commanded by a company-grade officer ( Kompanieoffizier ), usually a first ( Oberleutnant ) or second lieutenant ( Leutnant ), who is also the company's second-in-command.

In the first platoon a master sergeant is assistant to the platoon leader, with this role filled by a sergeant ( Feldwebel ) in the second and third platoons.

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.

During the Invasion of Poland, he acted as the leader of the light column during the initial operations, before transferring to a platoon command in the Abteilung's second company.

Sergeants serve as squad leaders in an infantry company while staff sergeants serve in the billet of " platoon sergeant " in rifle platoons and " section leader " in weapons platoons ( i. e., machine guns, mortars, anti-tank / assault weapons ) with gunnery sergeants as " platoon sergeants ", supervising squad leaders and the platoon as a whole, and are second in command under the platoon commander.

One platoon opened fire on the sentry and threw grenades into a concrete bunker believed to hold the triggering equipment for the bridge demolition charges, a second platoon began to assault a number of trenches and gun-pits on the eastern bank of the canal, and a third began moving towards the bridge.

Prince was second in command of his rifle platoon, and shortly after arrival in Korea he led an eight-man evening " snatch patrol " into an enemy encampment.

Although the initial moves were easily beaten back by automatic fire and mortars, a second Chinese assault an hour later succeeded in overrunning the right forward platoon.

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.

She was married to Edward, first by proxy, when Edward dispatched the Bishop of Coventry " to marry her in his name " in Valenciennes ( second city in importance of the county of Hainaut ) in October 1327.

To add to the realism, all in-game characters, terrorists, hostages and Rainbow operatives, can be wounded or dispatched in just fractions of a second.

As the situation worsened, a second international force of 2, 000 sailors and marines under the command of the British Vice-Admiral Edward Seymour, the largest contingent being British, was dispatched from Dagu to Beijing on June 10.

Fire / EMS calls are processed and dispatched at a second PSAP ( Public Safety Answering Point ) called Prospect that is located at a fire station in Bellingham.

Although the Allied attack on Fontenoy had failed, the commander of the second line of the French center had dispatched much of this line to support the brigade in Fontenoy so there was now no support infantry line behind the part of the line formerely held by the Gardes Françaises and the British Guards advanced deep into this gap.

The second season of the TV series revealed that much of Earth's population fled the planet in the wake of the atomic war and founded colonies in deep space ; the Earth ship Searcher is dispatched to investigate.

She rallied from a set and a break down to defeat Monica Seles to reach the semis for the second consecutive year, where she dispatched World No. 2 Davenport 6 – 3, 6 – 4.

In the Australian Open, Dokic easily dispatched Czech Zuzana Ondrášková 6 – 3, 6 – 2 in the first round, but fell to Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová 6 – 7, 1 – 6 in the second round.

In the quarterfinals, Dokic faced Swede Johanna Larsson whom she dispatched 7 – 6, 6 – 4, setting up a semi-final berth against Romina Oprandi, who had upset World No. 2 Kim Clijsters in the second round.

King Gojong dispatched Yi Jun, Yi Sang-Seol and Yi Wi-Jong as envoys to the second peace conference, to argue that Eulsa Treaty was unjust and ask for help from the international society to recover Korea ’ s diplomatic sovereignty.

The second leg took place on 27 August at St. Jakob-Park where Valentin Stocker gave Basel an early lead on 11 minutes before João Alves was fouled in the penalty area by François Marque and João Fajardo dispatched the spot-kick, just four minutes later to draw Vitória level.

Afterwards a second party was dispatched up Turnagain Arm and it too returned to report only a river lay ahead.

The east was far more predictable as Tampa Bay's youth showed when playing the grizzled veterans of the New Jersey Devils and the Ottawa Senators dispatched a tired Flyers team for the second year in a row.

The cockpit crew removed the light assembly and second officer Repo was dispatched into the avionics bay beneath the flight deck to check visually if the gear was down through a small viewing window.

On journeys from the terminus cars were dispatched in two groups: the first group of four cars for the three most distant stations ( the terminus stations, as the most important, received two cars per trip ) and the second group destined for the three nearest.

After receiving a bye to the second round, she dispatched Patty Schnyder 6 – 3, 5 – 7, 6 – 4, and then Shuai Peng 6 – 1, 7 – 5, before losing in the fourth round to second seed Caroline Wozniacki 6 – 3, 3 – 6, 6 – 0.

A second assassination squad was dispatched to London in March 1921, but was forced to flee Liverpool Street Station when the police learned of their plans.

In November 1873, a second expedition consisting of 13, 000 troops led by General Jan van Swieten was dispatched to Aceh.

Then-Surgeon General Walter Wyman dispatched Blue twice to oversee rat eradication and urban sanitation programs after bubonic plague struck San Francisco, once in April 1902 during the San Francisco plague of 1900 – 1904, and again in August 1907 during a second series which followed the 1906 earthquake and fires.

His second fight was on the same day in the semi-final, a first round defeat against Danny McAlinden, who dispatched all three of his opponents in under three rounds to win the competition.

Regarding the death date of Seongdeok, as period Chinese histories record that in the second month of 737 a Tang envoy was dispatched to confer investiture upon Seongdeok's successor ( later King Hyoseong ) as King of Silla, it has been posited that King Seongdeok in fact died in 736.

From 1892-96 he served in French Indochina commanding the second military division of the territory, before being dispatched to Madagascar, where he served as governor until 1905.

The next season, the Field House would host its final two NCAA tournament games as RPI dispatched Lake Superior State on their way to their second NCAA championship.

The framing scenes, on the other hand, both take place in the late Spring of 1940, just at the moment of the defeat of France in the second great world conflict.

It was evident that a second transfer had to be effected, and that it had to take place between the time the fille finished the doctor's room and the time she began Alex's.

But in the second subtype, which I take to be the one more frequently applied, only the operating expenses and not the `` cost of capital '' or `` fair return '' are apportioned directly among the various classes of service.

Although a large number of coatings systems, particularly at low thicknesses fail cohesively by the cutting mechanism, frequently a second type of cohesive failure may also take place.

General Hershey's draft and Doc Eddyman and Cap were responsible for his first eminence, but Fearless Freddy Bryan could take credit, if he cared to ( and he did ), for the second time.

England managed to stay in contention until the deciding final Test at The Oval, but yet another double hundred by Bradman, and 7 / 92 by Percy Hornibrook in England's second innings, enabled Australia to win by an innings and take the series 2 – 1.

He was also a powerful and consistent supporter of Skanderbeg, whom he decided to take under his protection as a vassal in 1451, shortly after the latter had scored his second victory against Murad II.

One side-effect of the timing is that, as Alan was awarded a knighthood a few months before the divorce, both his first and second wife are entitled to take the title of Lady Ayckbourn.

By lowering the activation energy, the enzyme speeds up that reaction by a rate of 10 < sup > 11 </ sup > or more: a reaction that would normally take over 3, 000 years to complete spontaneously might take less than a second with an enzyme.

The events take place in the second half of the 5th century BC, and together with the Book of Ezra, it represents the final chapter in the historical narrative of the Hebrew Bible

The first was the late 7th century Deuteronomistic reform of official Judean religion under king Josiah, who banned many elements of the old polytheistic cult from the Temple, and the sudden collapse of Assyria and the rise of Babylon to take its place ; the second was exile of the royal court, the priests and other members of the ruling elite following the Babylonian destruction of Jerusalem c. 586 BCE.

For the second exam, called the Principles and Practices, Part 2, or the Professional Engineering exam, candidates may select a particular engineering discipline's content to be tested on ; there is currently not an option for BME with this, meaning that any biomedical engineers seeking a license must prepare to take this examination in another category ( which does not affect the actual license, since most jurisdictions do not recognize discipline specialties anyway ).

A large number of athletes who are unable to turn professional take a second job or even sometimes abandon their athletic aspirations in order to make ends meet.

Many of them take second jobs on the side or even venture into other occupations within the field of sports such as coaching, general management, refereeing or recruiting and scouting up and coming athletes.

The second major technique is for costume designers, production designers, prop masters, and make-up artists to take instant photographs of actors and sets at the beginning and end of each day's shooting ( once made possible by Polaroid cameras, now done with digital cameras and cell phones as well ).

Accordingly, “ moved by the same purposes ” the fathers “ apportioned equal prerogatives to the most holy see of new Rome ” because “ the city which is honored by the imperial power and senate and enjoying privileges equaling older imperial Rome should also be elevated to her level in ecclesiastical affairs and take second place after her .” The framework for allocating ecclesiastical authority advocated by the council fathers mirrored the allocation of imperial authority in the later period of the Roman Empire.

Significant industrialisation in second half of the 19th century brought steel to Trenton, Nova Scotia, and subsequent creation of a widespread industrial base to take advantage of the region's large underground coal deposits.

First, that the " sword shall never depart from your house " ( 2 Samuel 12: 10 ) second, that " Before your very eyes I will take your wives and give them to one who is close to you, and he will sleep with your wives in broad daylight.

If in the third identity we take H = G, we get that the set of commutators is stable under any endomorphism of G. This is in fact a generalization of the second identity, since we can take f to be the conjugation automorphism.

If Pierre takes a second bite, it is not caused by his pleasure from the first ; If Pierre says, " That was good, so I will take another bite ", his speech act is not caused by the preceding pleasure.

The chemical decomposition of an explosive may take years, days, hours, or a fraction of a second.

In a homogeneous system only reversible processes can take place so the second law of thermodynamics gives δQ = TdS with T the absolute temperature of the system.

The second digit indicates if the transaction must be sent online for authorization always or if transactions that are below floor limit can take place without authorization.