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Platoon guide

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A platoon guide is a position, but not a rank in the United States Army and Marine Corps.

In an infantry platoon the platoon guide is a non commissioned officer who acts as an assistant platoon sergeant. The platoon guide is responsible for ensuring the platoon is supplied with ammunition and rations.[1]

In a basic training unit, the platoon guide is the senior recruit in the platoon chosen by his or her Drill Instructor as a liaison between the Drill Instructor and the platoon and the recruit leadership of the platoon.[2] The platoon guide also carries the platoon guidon.

Notes

  1. ^ p.41 Rogal, William W. Guadalcanal, Tarawa and Beyond: A Mud Marine's Memoir of the Pacific Island War McFarland, 01/07/2010
  2. ^ p.29 Hitchcock Thomas One of the Few, the Proud, the Marines Dorrance Publishing, 18/06/2010