TO&E
I remember it like this:
2 fireteams per squad, 5 men each, each with an auto rifleman and m79, the rest riflemen and one team leader, an e5s slot. The squad leader was sposed to be an E6, this totals 11. 3 rifle squads in a platoon,. one heavy weapons
We had 2 machine guns per platoon, in a heavy weapons squad, there was also a 90mm recoiless rifle in Panama but not in VN.
This was how it was in Panama, 3d/508th PIR but we still had M14s with the M14 automatiic rifle then. Of course everyones an atoumatic rifleman with an m16
It was supposed to be the same in Vietnam, except things were about half the size or less, I don't remember more than about 20 men per platoon in the war, squads were 4 or 5, SP/4 squad leaders, E5 or E6 platoon leaders.
A lrrp team is 5 or 6 guys, sometimes with sp/4 squad leader, I know this for a fact.
James
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