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An Advanced Individual Training (AIT) Platoon Sergeant is a United States Army Non-Commissioned Officer (NCO) responsible for the health, welfare, mentoring, disciplining, physical fitness and Warrior-Task training of AIT Soldiers. NCOs in the enlisted grade of E6 or E7 are assigned as AIT Platoon Sergeants and incur a minimum 24-month tour of ...
In the United States Army, a platoon sergeant is usually a sergeant first class (E-7) and is the senior enlisted member of the platoon.From 1929 until 1942 (replaced by technical sergeant) and again from 1958 until 1988 (merged with sergeant first class), the separate rank title of platoon sergeant existed (abbreviated PSGT or PSgt.).
A platoon leader or platoon commander (more common in Commonwealth militaries and the US Marine Corps) is the officer in charge of a platoon. This person is usually a junior officer – a second or first lieutenant or an equivalent rank. The officer is usually assisted by a platoon sergeant.
In 1944, Henry S. Golas of Central Falls was 1st sergeant of 2nd Platoon, Company C, 2nd Ranger Battalion. A few days before D-Day, Golas got a good news/bad news message.He had been promoted to ...
It is led by a company commander, executive officer and first sergeant, and consists of three platoons: a transportation platoon, a supply platoon, and a fuel and water platoon. [5] [6] The transportation platoon, led by a platoon leader and platoon sergeant, provides motor transport support as part of the BSB's distribution management process. [7]
Private First Class Wataru Nakamura, from Los Angeles had volunteered to check a communication line between his platoon and command outpost the morning of May 18, 1951 near P’ungh’on-ni in Korea.
Pay grades [1] are used by the eight structurally organized uniformed services of the United States [2] (Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force, Space Force, Coast Guard, Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, and NOAA Commissioned Officer Corps), as well as the Maritime Service, to determine wages and benefits based on the corresponding military rank of a member of the services.
This course provides basic instruction on the duties and responsibilities of a first sergeant, regardless of the Marine's unit. Understanding these duties and responsibilities augments a first sergeant's ability to advise, counsel, and interact with the unit's commander, officers, SNCOs, and enlisted Marines to accomplish the unit's mission ...