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1 " Mawdryn stared at the Brigadier with such a look of pain and longing. For a moment the old soldier's mind went back thirty-five years to his first taste of action as a young lieutenant in Palestine, with his platoon badly shot up by terrorists, and he remembered the mangled conscript who screamed at the officer to take his rifle and kill him. "
― , Doctor Who: Mawdryn Undead
2 " In fact, second lieutenants were primary-school teachers. Sure, teachers with guns, but a platoon commander was, nonetheless, the guy who sorted out the working day for 30 men under his command, taught their lessons, helped them with their homework, sorted out their petty squabbles and put plasters on their knees when they fell over in the playground. "
― , The Junior Officers' Reading Club: Killing Time And Fighting Wars
3 " Penny was a very pretty, witty and brave girl, as bold as a Marine platoon storming Iwo Jima. "
4 " He wrote to his father every day. His platoon called his dad a girlfriend. "
― Noorilhuda , Catharsis
5 " I no longer consider, is this chap a congenial companion? Rather, the question is, would I feel easy if he were in command of the platoon on my right? "
― , Five Lieutenants: The Heartbreaking Story of Five Harvard Men Who Led America to Victory in World War I
6 " It’s impossible to park on Tremont or even idle there for more than 30 seconds. A platoon of meter maids, imported from the female Hitler Youth shortly after the fall of Berlin, roam the street, at least two to a block, pit bull faces on top of fire hydrant bodies, just waiting for someone stupid enough to stall traffic on their street. "
7 " Strong combat leadership is never by committee. Platoon commanders must command, and command in battle isn't based on consensus. It's based on consent. Any leader wields only as much authority and influence as is conferred by the consent of those he leads. The Marines allowed me to be their commander, and they could revoke their permission at any time. "
― Nathaniel Fick , One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer
8 " The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield. "
9 " I am a military police officer and I have served on two deployments; my first was to Iraq, in a medical unit, and my second deployment was to Kuwait, as a military police platoon leader. "
