He was a squad leader staff sergeant in a weapons platoon.
After he graduated from Morris high in 1943, he was drafted and assigned to a weapons platoon.
The tall, balding thirty-two-year-old weapons platoon leader shook his head.
The Old Man was actually beginning to perfect some beautiful sucker moves for the playbook that involved the heavy weapons platoon.
As a first lieutenant he would normally have either a heavy weapons platoon or a staff position.
Thank Vlad we don't have a heavy weapons platoon with us.
A rifle company consists of three rifle platoons, a weapons platoon, and support staff.
As with most support units in any army, the size of a weapons platoon is generally smaller than that of its light infantry equivalent.
A year later, Friedman commanded a heavy weapons platoon during the invasion of Iraq.
Vietnam simply wasn't a very good war in which to enhance the technical proficiency of those assigned to a rifle company's weapons platoon.