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• Platoon
  A '''platoon''' is a small land military unit, typically the smallest commanded by an of ...rne platoon usually have four vehicles: a typical [[tank (military)|tank]] platoon consists of two sections of four tanks each, although some countries have t
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• Platoon/Definition
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• Platoon/Related Articles
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• Platoon
  A '''platoon''' is a small land military unit, typically the smallest commanded by an of ...rne platoon usually have four vehicles: a typical [[tank (military)|tank]] platoon consists of two sections of four tanks each, although some countries have t
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• Lieutenant (land forces)/Definition
  ...ssioned officer]], who may command a small group of [[soldiers]], like a [[platoon]].
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• U.S. Army branch basic course/Definition
  ...llowing general officer training, which teaches them the skills needed for platoon and company leadership in their specific branch: [[infantry]], [[armor (bra
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• Andrew Exum
  ...led a platoon of [[infantry|light infantry]] in Afghanistan in 2002 and a platoon of [[75th Ranger Regiment|Army Rangers]] in Iraq and Afghanistan in 2003 a
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• Reconnaissance, Surveillance and Target Acquisition Squadron (Brigade Combat Team)
  ...nsor Platoon, and an NBC (nuclear, biological and chemical) Reconnaissance Platoon (not addressed here). ===UAV Reconnaissance Platoon===
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• Military Intelligence Company (Brigade Combat Team)
  ...organizations, analytical tools, etc. The Company contains three kinds of platoon. ==ISR Analysis Platoon==
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• My Lai
  ...William Calley forced unarmed Vietnamese into ditches and killed them. The platoon had taken several casualties and had poor discipline.
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• Company (land forces)/Related Articles
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• Squad (land forces)/Related Articles
  {{r|Platoon}}
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• Squad (land forces)
  ...d officer]]. Some armies have an intermediate level of ''section'' between platoon and squad. Infantry squads are pure fighting units, with no dedicated supp
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• John Mulholland
  ...ormer Panama Canal Zone where he served as a rifle platoon leader, weapons platoon leader and company executive office in both 4th BN (Mech), 20th Infantry (S
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• Battle of Vinh Yen
  As the oficer fell back, he urged a platoon commander to hold the French as long as possible while he reformed his troo urging one of his platoon commanders to hold the advancing French infantry, while under air attack.
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• Paul K. Van Riper
  He commanded Marine combat units from platoon to division, and served in combat deployments to the [[Dominican Republic]]
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• Forward observer
  | author = 4th Anglico 1st Platoon, USMC}}</ref>
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• Turkey dinner
  ...d's Army]], titled ''Turkey Dinner'', Captain Mainwaring observes that the platoon will find it a challenge to put on a full turkey dinner in wartime. He del
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• Unit (military)
  | [[platoon (land forces)]]
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• Christie Carden
  | publisher = News Platoon
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• Infantry
  ...have at least one heavier weapon, such as a [[machine gun]]. Squads form [[platoon]]s of 20-50 men, with a small leader group, additional heavy weapons, and o Infantry operations build up from the smallest units of [[squad]]s or [[platoon]]s, with 3-5 man fire teams operating within them. The eight basic [[U.S. A
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• Michael Repass
  ...duation from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, he first served as a platoon leader and company executive officer in a mechanized infantry division. Aft
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• United States Naval Academy
  36 Companies (4 Platoons/Company and 4 Squads/Platoon)
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• Ronald Burgess
  Lieutenant General Burgess served as an Armor Platoon Leader and intelligence officer (S-2} of the 2nd Battalion, 69th Armor, and
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• M109 howitzer
  ...n, maintenance section and a food service section. Elements of the support platoon may be consolidated at the battalion level under the HHS, or remain decentr
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• John Nagl
  ...ng Transition Teams that embed with Iraqi and Afghan units. He led a tank platoon in [[Operation Desert Storm]] and served as the operations officer of a tan
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• David McKiernan
  ...istan. He had been a commander or operations officer for every level from platoon to Third United States Army, to the United States Army (i.e., DCSOPS, or de
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• Paul X. Kelley
  ...struction at the Basic School, Quantico, Va., he served consecutively as a platoon leader, assistant battalion operations officer and assistant division train
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• Jack Keane
  He was a platoon and company commander in the [[Vietnam War]]. His units deployed to Somali
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• Greg Newbold
  ...anded the [[1st Marine Division]], and had headed Marine infantry units at platoon, company and battalion levels. <ref name=USMC-BIO>{{citation
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• Magazine (firearms)
  | title=Silent Drill Platoon: 2006 Press Kit
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• Tactical wargame
  ...was introduced by ''[[Strategy & Tactics Magazine]]'' as a game set at the platoon and company level game focusing on tactics on the Eastern Front. In 1970, ...arket, including ''[[Grunt (board game)|Grunt]]'' (1971) ''Combat Command: Platoon-Company Combat, France, 1944'' (1972) billed as a western front sequel to '
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• Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below
  "If a platoon leader from a Bradley unit who normally operates an EPLRS radio tries to lo
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• United States Navy SEAL
  ...as disastrous as classic SEAL tactics were not used. In contrast, a single platoon assigned to disable Panamanian boats on which [[Manuel Noriega]] might esca
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• Luc Luong Dac Biet
  ...ieutenant advised by two USASF combat, did special reconnaissance. The BDA platoon was led by two USASF sergeants and had 30 selected CIDG personnel; it was a
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• Daniel Ellsberg
  ...served in the U.S. Marine Corps for three years, including duty as a rifle platoon leader. He then returned to Havard to earn Ph.D. in Economics at Harvard wi
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• Operational Preparation of the Environment
  ...le = History and Mission, 2nd Marine Radio Battalion, Radio Reconnaissance Platoon
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• Jack Reed
  ...ger and a paratrooper, served in the 82nd Airborne Division as an Infantry Platoon Leader, a Company Commander, and a Battalion Staff Officer. He returned to
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• Dau tranh
  ...sible. At the small unit level, battalion and smaller sized units down to platoon were managed by "party subchapters" (''Chi Bo'') under the control of the p
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• George Casey
  He commanded units from [[platoon]], to the [[1st Armored Division]], to army-level subcommand of a [[Unified
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• Received Pronunciation
  ..." he had when playing an [[able seaman]] in ''[[This Happy Breed]]'' and a platoon [[corporal]] in ''[[Dunkirk (1958 film)|Dunkirk]]''.
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• Tran Van Tra
  Later, in November, he spoke of a platoon, Ben Cat, defeating 173rd Airborne Brigade troops at the Hill 65 engagement
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• Intelligent Transportation Systems
  ...the rest following. To ensure safety, the distance between each car in the platoon must be monitored and maintained. This inter-distance is proportional to th
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• Marine Special Operations Command
  | author = 4th Anglico 1st Platoon, USMC}}</ref> After the war, these were reorganized into '''ANGLICO (Air N
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• Frederick C. Roecker, Jr.
  ...wounded, declined medical attention and personally directed movement of a platoon in an enveloping movement, neutralizing enemy fire and paving the way for t
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• USS Warrick (AKA-89)
  ...rtation company, a tractor-trailer platoon, an engineer company, a war dog platoon, medical companies, ordnance repair units, replacement drafts of personnel,
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• Home Guard
  ...Exmoor mounted platoon rode bicycles. There was at least one other bicycle platoon, in Gloucestershire.
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• Ray Odierno
  ...ars of service, General Odierno has commanded units at every echelon, from platoon to theater, with duty in Germany, Albania, Kuwait, Iraq, and the United Sta
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• Signals intelligence collection, ground-based
  ...Prophet, with the I-REMBASS monitoring system, will form the Ground Sensor Platoon of the [[Restructuring of the United States Army#Brigade combat team|brigad ...-man detachment from a [[Radio Reconnaissance Platoon]]. There is a SIGINT platoon within the Intelligence Company of the new Marine Special Operations Suppor
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• Signals intelligence from 1980 to 1989
  ...le = History and Mission [2nd Marine Radio Battalion, Radio Reconnaissance Platoon]
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• Bad Day at Black Rock
  ...in the fall of 1953. Although Spencer Tracy was 55 and much older than the platoon leader in the original story, Schary wanted Tracy to play the lead role. [[
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• Moqtada al-Sadr
  ...al-Sadr responded with a call for arms. By the 4th, a 1st Cavalry Division platoon was ambushed, unaware that the arrest had taken place or that high vigilanc
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• Battle of the Ia Drang
  Rick Rescorla was one of Moore's platoon leaders. On September 11, 2001|9/11, he was Vice President of Security for the squad, platoon, etc. is in danger of being lost." He recommended "reconnaissance by fire"
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• USS Seminole (AKA-104)
  ...nto the war. The ship entered Wonsan Harbor on December 4, and embarked a platoon of the [[3d Infantry Division (United States)|3rd Infantry Division]] and t
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• Tactics
  * A '''fighting patrol''' is a group with sufficient size (usually [[platoon]] or [[company]]) and resources to raid or ambush a specific enemy. It prim In modern warfare an ambush is most often employed by ground troops up to platoon size against enemy targets which may be other ground troops or possibly veh
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• Ricardo Sanchez
  ...t Airborne), 68th Armor, 82nd Airborne Division. His assignments included platoon leader, company executive officer, and assistant logistics officer and oper
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• Jefferson Airplane
  ...in Las Vegas (film)|Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas]]'', ''[[Platoon (film)|Platoon]]'', ''[[The Game (film)|The Game]]'' , episodes of [[The Sopranos]] and ''
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• United States Marine Corps
  ...nor recipient [[Dan Daly]] reputedly leaped from a trench bellowing to his platoon: “Come on, you sons of bitches! Do you want to live forever?”<ref name=
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• Signals intelligence in the Second World War
  In 1943, the US Marines organized the 2nd Radio Research Platoon, which was the original unit in a chain of tactical SIGINT units that also
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• Richard Condon
  ...andidate]]'', with the exception of Marco, Shaw and Mavole, all of Marco's platoon members are named for the cast/crew of "Bilko": (Nat) Hiken, (Maurice) Gosf
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• Battle of Khe Sanh
  ...LT Thomas Stamper, and O-1 was led by SGT John Balanco. (Another CAP Oscar platoon, O-2, commanded by SGT Roy Harper, stationed at the west end of Khe Sanh vi
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• Pacification in South Vietnam
  Their main device was the [[Foreign internal defense|Combined Action Platoon]], with a 15-man rifle squad and 34 local militia. Rather than having separ
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• Future Combat Systems
  Externally identical XM1206 vehicles will carry infantry squads, infantry platoon headquarters, and company commanders. They will link via the Joint Tactical
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• Guadalcanal campaign
  ...ved might be willing to surrender. Soon after the patrol landed, a nearby platoon of Japanese troops attacked and almost completely wiped-out the group of Ma
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• Iraq War, Surge
  ...ple. Both for his troops and the populace, he would go out with successive platoon patrols. “I wanted to show a little bit of love for the platoons, but als
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• World War I
  ...to be maneuvered on the field, powerful enough to blast apart an infantry platoon, and fast enough to hit the target time and again, it was the major French
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• Iraq War, major combat phase
  ...URLEY. Twitty called Perkins and told him to send the reserve, an infantry platoon that had been guarding the intersection of Highways 1 and 8. This very much
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• Signals intelligence from 1954 to 1979
  ...le = History and Mission [2nd Marine Radio Battalion, Radio Reconnaissance Platoon]
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• Manga
  ...Yoshizaki's screwball comedy ''Sergeant Frog'' (''Keroro Gunso''), about a platoon of slacker alien frogs who invade the Earth and end up free-loading off the
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