A Guide To US Army Units

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bleistift2@feddit.de · 5 pts · 2y (1 reply)

If a squad has at most 10 soliders and a platoon has at most 4 squads, how borked does an education system need to be to claim that a platoon can have up to 50 soldiers?

Cipher22@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y

These numbers are highly generalized

runswithjedi@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y (2 replies)
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Cipher22@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Not entirely, all general ranks may be addressed as General.

runswithjedi@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
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bunkyprewster@startrek.website · 4 pts · 2y (2 replies)

A lieutenant general outranks a major general?

YaksDC@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 2y

A good mnemonic to remember the order of generals is "Be my little general" Brigadier, Major, Lieutenant, General

nezrock@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 2y

Yep!