User blog comment:Ygrain/Long Days, Long Nights 2/@comment-5267262-20120922195353

Good story! adressing your notes at the end, 50 marines under 1 CO sounds an awful lot like a platoon (maybe two small ones, really depends on alliance organisation), which can operate en masse. When doing so there will be roughly 3-4 sections/squads of regular soldiers, and one or two command/support groups with an officer/sergeant and a couple of soldiers/signallers/mortar men. These would move around in sections so that usually each section can see all the other sections and when engaging an enemy, one section and the support group would suppress, and another section would push up into the enemy position, the last section would wait in reserve and the command group would coordinate the whole thing. That is an infantry platoon at least. The addition of tanks will somewhat change that.