The Army has decided that starting this year, second lieutenants commissioned from the Third Military Academy and military scholarship officers in the personnel and political warfare specialties will ...
Imagine you’re a second lieutenant (2LT) in an armored brigade combat team (ABCT) and you’ve just been placed in charge of your first platoon. You’re now responsible for not only a few dozen Soldiers, ...
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South African veteran John Dovey recounts an exercise where platoon leaders misread terrain, lost comms, and failed to ...
Before the crack of dawn, a group of senior noncommissioned officers with the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, piled into a van to begin their road trip from Fort Hood to Austin. Along ...
“My platoon told me to win it, so that’s what I did.” Taking that directive to heart, Army 1st Lt. Georgia E. Jones, platoon leader, 814th Multi-Role Bridge Company, 11th Engineer Battalion, secured ...
FIGURE D.1 Organizational diagram of a typical U.S. Marine Corps rifle company. The company commander is usually a captain. FIGURE D.2 Organizational diagram of a typical U.S. Marine Corps rifle ...