Re: Chinese Battalion

[<DGill11331@aol.com>]

In a message dated 9/5/2001 2:34:22 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
DeltaFirebase@aol.com writes:


> I am trying to find out about how many men were in a Chinese infantry 
> battalion in 1953, just before the armistice. Also, how many men were in a 
> Marine squad.
> Thanks.


I can't help you with the Chinese battalion, but a Marine squad had 13 men.  

· A Marine rifle-company had three rifle-platoons plus other support units 
(i.e., HQ, weapons platoon, machine-gun section, etc.) 
· A rifle-platoon had three squads
· Each squad had a squad leader and three four-man fire-teams 
· Each fire-team was made up of a BAR-man, an assistant BAR-man, a fire-team 
leader, and a rifleman/scout. 
Doing the math a Marine squad had 13 men.  DGill