He participated as a platoon messenger with his division at Arzew in Algeria in rigorous training for the Allied assault landings in Sicily, and was promoted to private first class on 7 May and corporal on 15 July.
One of the starkest incidents in recent weeks occurred on the evening of Jan . 18in the town of Tal Afar, a trouble spot west of the city of Mosul, where a platoon from the 25th Infantry Division was on a foot patrol.
Calley was an infantry first lieutenant commanding a platoon in the 23rd (Americal) division in northern central Vietnam.
Michael Dyer, 26, who spent 12 months in 2008-9 as a platoon leader for the Fourth Infantry Division in Iraq.
McChrystal, a West Pointer who became a Green Beret not long after graduation, following a stint as a platoon leader in the 82nd Airborne Division, is currently director of the Joint Staff at the Pentagon, the executive staff to the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
I'll never forget one of the interactions we had with my commanding general of the division in which I was a platoon leader.
For starters, the word "Legion" was a familiar word, used for a division of Roman soldiers (much like a platoon), and there would have been many legions in the area.
So, find me a division...I would settle for a brigade (indeed, I would even settle for a platoon) of Saudis who are fighting alongside the American-led coalinion in Syria or Iraq to vanquish ISIS.
Is it a platoon situation?
It would serve a platoon of Marines.
