Arch Posted March 21, 2023 Share Posted March 21, 2023 Intentional or not? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solution TSe419E Posted March 21, 2023 Solution Share Posted March 21, 2023 Intentional. It puts the platoon Sargent's call sign as the second most important vehicle in the platoon. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arch Posted March 21, 2023 Author Share Posted March 21, 2023 6 hours ago, TSe419E said: Intentional. It puts the platoon Sargent's call sign as the second most important vehicle in the platoon. Cheers, I figured it's something like that but could not find anything or figure it out. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ssnake Posted March 21, 2023 Members Share Posted March 21, 2023 It is, of course, the US Army's special secret why the #2 in command isn't No. 2, but No. 4 instead. Someone, somewhere, probably found it logical at some time. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arch Posted March 21, 2023 Author Share Posted March 21, 2023 37 minutes ago, Ssnake said: It is, of course, the US Army's special secret why the #2 in command isn't No. 2, but No. 4 instead. Someone, somewhere, probably found it logical at some time. I guess my European is showing. Actually most of the things the US does makes no sense, like their 4-man fireteams, squads that aren't 9 or 12 men, platoons of 4 instead of 3, fetish with alpine infantry and not just using actual light infantry etc. Reading the radiochat in-game as US is a pain because everything is just A, B, C etc. 😅 Oh, Amerika. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TSe419E Posted March 22, 2023 Share Posted March 22, 2023 1 hour ago, Ssnake said: It is, of course, the US Army's special secret why the #2 in command isn't No. 2, but No. 4 instead. Someone, somewhere, probably found it logical at some time. I believe this is a relic of the five-tank platoons. 11 is the platoon leader and 12 and 13 are his wingmen. 14 is the platoon sargent and 15 is his wingman. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arch Posted March 22, 2023 Author Share Posted March 22, 2023 2 hours ago, TSe419E said: I believe this is a relic of the five-tank platoons. 11 is the platoon leader and 12 and 13 are his wingmen. 14 is the platoon sargent and 15 is his wingman. I completely forgot they had five-tank platoons. When did that end, M60A3 TTS? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TSe419E Posted March 22, 2023 Share Posted March 22, 2023 With the M1/Division’86 TOE. So slowly through the mid to late ‘80s. Except for Cavalry which had a four-tank tank section in a nine vehicle platoon and switched to separate tank and scout platoons (two each). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ssnake Posted March 22, 2023 Members Share Posted March 22, 2023 6 hours ago, TSe419E said: I believe this is a relic of the five-tank platoons. 11 is the platoon leader and 12 and 13 are his wingmen. 14 is the platoon sargent... May well be, and I don't really want to dwell on this, but if 11 is the PLT leader, why not 12 the PLT sergeant, and everybody else is a wingman, independent of platoon size? Ultimately these are just labels, naming conventions. In that sense, it's completely arbitrary and meaningless. At the same time, the arbitrariness doesn't go so far as to assign hexadecimal prime numbers as callsigns, to give a particularly nerdy example. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TSe419E Posted March 22, 2023 Share Posted March 22, 2023 I’m just glad you’re not attempting to recreate a CEOI booklet. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TSe419E Posted March 22, 2023 Share Posted March 22, 2023 8 hours ago, Ssnake said: May well be, and I don't really want to dwell on this, but if 11 is the PLT leader, why not 12 the PLT sergeant, and everybody else is a wingman, independent of platoon size? Military intelligence? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mpow66m Posted March 22, 2023 Share Posted March 22, 2023 Sorta reminds me of the Major General,LT General debacle. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TSe419E Posted March 22, 2023 Share Posted March 22, 2023 Also with the five tank platoon you have the heavy and light sections. They probably thought it was easier for an outsider to recognize which tank was in which section with 11, 12, and 13 in one and 14, and 15 in the other. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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