How many men are in a Marine platoon

Imp · #1 March 22nd, 2009, 02:32 PM

I am going to stick my neck out here I have no military background think ROTC is reserve officer training. Are you sure this is what you want to do & that you have the right disposition for it. If you are questioning looking after a few men I think they might pick up on that, what happens if the senior officers go down & your now looking after several times that & making decisions you can't get wrong in a hostile enviroment. Not ordering enough Pepsi in a supermarket is no big deal getting it wrong on a battlefield is a life changing event that I would think will stay with you. Hell from people I know getting it right stays with you long enough.

Ramm · #2 March 22nd, 2009, 04:49 PM

Thanks for the advice, but how many guys are in a real-life platoon?

I'm not sure I'm the right man for the job, but in the words of a famous man: "damn the torpedoes and full speed ahead". No one knows if they will fail in the military until they actually do it.

ROTC is for college, afterwords you can go in as an officer.

Something like 49 % of officers are ROTC not Academy.

I don't intend to go infantry or pilots, every Marine is a rifleman but not every Marine wears a flack jacket or flight suit to work.

Ramm · #3 March 22nd, 2009, 05:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Ramm

Thanks for the advice, but how many guys are in a real-life platoon?

I'm not sure I'm the right man for the job, but in the words of a famous man: "damn the torpedoes and full speed ahead". No one knows if they will fail in the military until they actually do it.

ROTC is for college, afterwords you can go in as an officer.

Something like 49 % of officers are ROTC not Academy.

I don't intend to go infantry or pilots, every Marine is a rifleman but not every Marine wears a flack jacket or flight suit to work.

http://usmilitary.about.com/od/enlis.../a/0231new.htm

is one example among many

Double_Deuce · #4 March 22nd, 2009, 05:06 PM

This may help. Its for rifle platoons but a platoon is pretty much the same size except for armor. Armor should have 15+ the platoon leader.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platoon