Platoons were the smallest units of soldiers.

In the 3rd Armored Division in Germany in the 1960s many Davy Crockett Sections ( all of which were in the Heavy Mortar Platoons, in Headquarters Companies of Infantry or Armor Maneuver Battalions ) received what became a mix of M28 & M29 launchers one of each per D / C section.

" A Special " Platoons were fully mobile using a Ford car for the officer in charge, two armoured cars and four Crossley Tenders ( one for each of the sections ).

Platoons were isolated and destroyed by interlocked machine gun fire.

Early in the war long range reconnaissance patrols were performed by a limited number of infantry battalion Recon Platoons.

The martial-law-era ZOMO members were equipped with various police and military vehicles ( including BTR-60 armoured personnel carriers in the Special Platoons ) and various firearms ( including shotguns, submachine guns and automatic rifles ) as well as various types of riot equipment ( such as batons, tear gas grenades, water cannon trucks, rubber bullets, metal and plastic riot shields and visored helmets ).

The 1st and 2nd Combat Reconnaissance Platoons were placed at the northern and southern perimeters respectively, about 200 meters apart.

As a consequence 10 and 11 Platoons were each forced to fight their own battles, and despite the weight of the indirect fire increasingly becoming available to support the Australian infantry, the Viet Cong were able to apply superior fire power as they attacked each platoon in turn.

The main attacks came from the east, south-east and south, falling mainly on 10 and 12 Platoons, while smaller attacks were also carried out around the rest of the perimeter.

In 1944 they were renamed Assault Pioneer Platoons and had two Assault Sections plus one Pioneer Section.

2 EPR Platoons were sent to Courtchandpur while a company was posted at Jhenida.

However, they fell back only a few miles to a point where Templeton — now commanding a force of some 60 men drawn from 11 and 12 Platoons and some soldiers from the PIB — set up an ambush with two Lewis guns for a force of about 500 Japanese that were advancing along the banks of the Gorari Creek, before moving back to Kokoda to brief the 39th Battalion's commanding officer, Lieutenant Colonel William Owen, who had flown in to take command of ' B ' Company in order to personally direct their defence.

1st and 2nd Platoons from B Co. inserted into blocking positions on the terraced farm fields surrounding Aranas.

4, and 5 Platoons, and 29 Commando Regiment began pounding the mountain from Mount Kent, after which a left flanking attack was put in.

Under heavy fire, the remnants of 4 and 5 Platoons under Lieutenant Mark Cox advanced upon their objective of Full Back, taking some casualties from Casteñeda's platoon as they did so.

New tactics ( embodied in SS 135, Instructions for the Training of Divisions for Offensive Action and SS. 143 Instructions for the Training of Platoons for Offensive Action ) and the equipment to exploit them, with the platoon becoming the principal tactical unit, in four sections: Lewis gun, rifle grenade, bomber and rifle ; with the creeping barrage, the graze fuse and counter-battery fire had been used, particularly in the first phase and had demonstrated that set-piece assaults against heavily fortified positions could be successful.

In 1985 the Battalion was replaced by a reinforced company of, an AMF Company with two Recce Platoons and an Anti-Tank Platoon, a Forward Air Control team, a National Support Element for logistics and a Medical Support element.

All companies are now associated with The Royal Welsh except for Prestatyn Platoon which is cap-badged ' REME ', Llandudno Platoon and Bangor Platoon which are cap-badged ' Royal Artillery ', Mold and Porthmadog Platoons which are cap-badges ' Queens Dragoon Guards ( QDG )', and Bradley and Benllech platoons which are cap-badged ' Welsh Guards '.

In February 1917, the British General Staff released a training pamphlet titled SS 143 Instructions for the Training of Platoons for Offensive Action, espousing the return to the pre-war emphasis on fire and movement tactics and the use of the platoon as a self-contained tactical unit.

Drafted into the Navy in 1944, Charles was assigned to Hunter College, where he created an entire new music library for the WAVE choruses and trained the " Singing Platoons ", three choruses of 80 WAVES each, on six week training cycles that sang on the radio, bond rallies and at local veterans hospitals.

They had one son, Iain Dalzel-Job, who served as a Major in the 2nd Battalion, The Scots Guards and commanded G Coy ( 7, 8 and 9 Platoons ) at the assault on Mount Tumbledown during the Falklands War.

There are four rotating shifts at the station and they are identified as " A ", " B ", " C " and " D " Platoons.

Consisting of 48 U. S. Navy SEALs ( three SEAL Platoons ), this SEAL Team was tasked with destroying Noriega's private jet on the ground at the Punta Paitilla Airport, a coastal airport in Panama City.

In 2001 there also existed 122 Rapid Response Platoons and 27 Rapid Response Company Commands ( Insatskompaniledning ).

In 1960 the Grand Ducal Guard was again reorganised into four Platoons temporarily grouped into intervention and reinforcement detachments.

In 1964 the Grand Ducal Guard was organized into a HQ, three Platoons, a reinforcement Platoon and the NCO school.

Compulsory military service was abolished in 1967 and the 1st Infantry Battalion was established comprising a Headquarters and Services unit, two Motorized Infantry Companies and a Reconnaissance Company with two Recce Platoons and an Anti-Tank Platoon.

In April 1973, Colonel Héctor Irabarren, head of the 3rd Army Corps ' Intelligence Service, was killed when resisting a kidnap attempt by the Mariano Pojadas and Susana Lesgart Platoons of the Montoneros.

Platoons and squads of men became important ; hand in hand with that organization was the use of light automatic weapons.

4 and 5 Platoons withdrew, but another man was killed and others wounded in the process.

As a consequence he placed 10 and 12 Platoons in positions on the southern and eastern flanks, while the badly mauled 11 Platoon was allocated a position to the north-west.

Major Carrizo-Salvadores manoeuvred Castañeda's reinforced platoon to close with 4 and 5 Platoons and meanwhile under the direction of an NCO, part of Castañeda's platoon converged on the British aid post.

Platoons are organized into a company, which typically consists of three, four or five platoons.

There are three Platoons in a Rifle Company, which is commanded by a Major, and Three Rifle Companies within an Infantry Battalion, which is commanded by a Lieutenant-Colonel.

In the United States Army, Rifle Platoons are normally composed of 42 soldiers.

Platoons decrease the distances between cars using electronic, and possibly mechanical, coupling.

Platoons of Spaniards served in the 3rd Gebirgs Division and the 357th Infantry Division.

The Pasha I formation consisted of eight machine gun companies, the 601st to 608th Machine Gun Companies ( Maschinengewehr-Kompanien 601-608 ); four defence machine gun platoons, the 133rd, 134th, 135th and 136th Balloon Machine Gun Defence Platoons ; as well as the 60th Foot Artillery Battalion and the 350th, 351st and 352nd Trench Mortar Battalions ( Minenwerfer Battalion 350-352 ) of Austrian artillery.

Platoons had two officers, a Head Constable, four sergeants and sixty special constables.

By 01: 00 O ' Dowd ordered the survivors of 1 Platoon to withdraw through Company Headquarters into a new position in between 2 and 3 Platoons.

In her trial, which commenced on January 15, 1976 ( and in her dozens of previous interviews by FBI agents Charles Bates and Lawrence Lawler — any reference to which was not allowed by the presiding judge to be included in the trial ), Hearst's attorney F. Lee Bailey claimed that Hearst had been blindfolded, imprisoned in a narrow closet and physically and sexually abused.

* 2006-Fictional veterans of the Fighting 69th are portrayed in season three of HBO's Deadwood series, as agents of George Hearst.