The United States Marine Corps is organized within the Department of the Navy, which is led by the Secretary of the Navy (SECNAV). The most senior Marine commissioned officer is the Commandant of the Marine Corps, responsible for organizing, recruiting, training, and equipping the Marine Corps so that it is ready for operation under the command of the unified combatant commanders.

1. Company Commander Handbook Usmc

A platoon guide is a position, but not a, in the and. The guide sets the direction and cadence of the. In an infantry the platoon guide is a non commissioned officer (by Table of Organization TO a sergeant in the US Marine Corps) who acts as an assistant. The platoon guide is responsible for ensuring the platoon is supplied with ammunition and rations and, in combat operations, may be tasked by the platoon commander to take temporary charge of casualties or enemy prisoners of war/detainees until they are evacuated to the rear.

The Army changed the platoon guide title to assistant platoon sergeant after World War II and eliminated the position after the Korean War. In a unit, the platoon guide is the senior recruit in the platoon chosen by his or her as a liaison between the Drill Instructor and the platoon and the recruit leadership of the platoon. In Marine Corps training units the platoon guide also carries the platoon (Army training platoons do not have guidons.).

Company Commander Handbook Usmc

Nra gunsmithing guide updated. This is derived from 19th-century guide sergeants, who carried marker flags to denote the flanks of an infantry regiment, and was applied to smaller units as tactics changed.