![]() ![]() The general drops with a small combat staff, plus a small team of the roughest, on-the-bounce troopers in the M.I. I.'s best mathematical logicians then they drop with their own teams. Since there are never enough officers, the team commanders in his flag transport double as his planning staff and are picked from the M. ![]() He needs a big planning staff and a small combat staff. But a general must have staff the job is too big to carry in his hat. In fact a good many platoons are commanded by sergeants and many officers "wear more than one hat" in order to fill some utterly necessary staff jobs.Įven a platoon leader should have "staff"-his platoon sergeant.īut he can get by without one and his sergeant can get by without him. does have, but arranged somewhat differently. Officers total 3 per cent-which is what the M.I. There are no blank files and every officer commands a team. You wind up with 317 officers out of a total, all ranks, of 11,117.īut this doesn't reflect necessity or reality, as he explains: Six regiments with six colonels can form two or three brigades, each with a short general, plus a medium-tall general as top boss. Three platoons to a company calls for 72 captains four companies to a battalion calls for 18 majors or lieutenant colonels. This imaginary division has 10,800 men in 216 platoons, each with a lieutenant. Rico describes a hypothetical M.I.-only division (one not having non-M.I. ![]()
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