The general finds that "at the platoon level and below, Colonel Tunnell's... philosophy had minimal impact on the soldiers".
Do we want President Bush down at the platoon level, determining fields of fire and ammunition loads?
His Army service began immediately: he led troops at the platoon, company, battalion, and brigade levels at bases in South Korea, Germany, and across America.
Matthew Brandt, the Marines' project manager for G.P.S., said the corps had purchased only about 5,400 of the units and generally deployed them at the platoon level.
Arriving at the platoon area, Eriksson told me, he felt as though he had reached the promised land; the anxiety in which he had lived the past two days yielded to what he described as an almost tangible sense of safety.
The German infantry deployed and about two platoons of the 2nd Company, 1st Battalion, then attacked the Americans head-on, bunched together in the open and charging straight up the hill, directly at the platoon's hidden and fortified positions.
He motions at the platoons of Secret Service agents and staff members taking their seats.
"They tend to fight in numbers of 20 or so at most, platoon strength," the general told the assembled defence correspondents in London.
