| carne68 | 14 Sep 2011 5:10 p.m. PST |
I am looking for a TO&E. The squad level has been flogged to death:
SL w/M-16 or M-4
3x Fire Teams
FTL w/M-16+M-203
SAW gunner w/M-249
asst SAW gunner w/M-16
Rifleman w/M-16 That part I've got. Is there a larger command element for the platoon or just the Lt and Platoon Sergeant? Where are the RTO's? What I don't know is the organization of the Weapons Platoon and Company command element. |
| Irish Marine | 14 Sep 2011 6:24 p.m. PST |
The rifle plt will have a plt cmder, pltsgt, guide, corpsman and radioman. The weapons plt holds three 60mm mortars, 6 240b machine-guns, 6 Smaw 83mm rocket launchers, pltsgt and plt cmder and of course several radios. |
| Berlichtingen | 14 Sep 2011 9:41 p.m. PST |
That part I've got Or not. The modern fire team is made up as follows: Team leader – M16 Automatic Rifleman – M249 Grenadier – M-32 Rifleman – M-16 |
| carne68 | 14 Sep 2011 10:12 p.m. PST |
I suppose I should have specified a sort of generic company for the 1990-2005 timeframe. Pre M-32 and SAW-replacement. |
| Berlichtingen | 14 Sep 2011 10:25 p.m. PST |
In that case, the team leader still carries an M-16, the grenadier carries the 203 |
| thatguy96 | 15 Sep 2011 3:31 a.m. PST |
As far as I know the M32/M32A1 is a commander's discretionary weapon in the USMC, meaning some number are allotted to infantry platoons, but with no assigned gunners. At the commander's discretion, the grenadier's M16A4/M203 combination (or probably any other squad member's weapon) can be replaced with the M32/M32A1. The grenadier is still assigned the former combination though. This is unlike the planned complete replacement of the M249 SAW with the M27 IAR. |
| Berlichtingen | 15 Sep 2011 5:16 a.m. PST |
I based what I wrote on what a grunt back from Iraq said. He'd said the grenadiers in his battalion where switching to 32's. My time in the Corps, we had M16A1's (later A2's… POS) and were just getting the M249's |
| Lion in the Stars | 15 Sep 2011 5:24 a.m. PST |
And the last I had read, the IAR wasn't replacing the SAW, it was a weapon in addition to the SAW. If you're patrolling in the city, SAWs stay in the vehicles, IARs go out to clear houses, and vice versa if you're patrolling out in the sticks. |
| thatguy96 | 15 Sep 2011 6:45 a.m. PST |
So another discretionary weapon. Wouldn't be surprising. Here's the Marine News story about the M32A1 from January, which mentions its discretionary status: link |
| 14th Brooklyn | 15 Sep 2011 8:21 a.m. PST |
I know a CPT in the Marines and he told me that it was common practice for the squad leader to take the m16/M203… so much so that he could not remember a single squad inhis company where the squad leader did not carry tge UGL. Cheers, Burkhard |
| Grand Duke Natokina | 17 Sep 2011 11:21 a.m. PST |
When did the Marines adopt the M-32? Does the grenadier carry a 9mm as back up? And does anybody do a 76th/72nd scale figure of a guy using it? |
Uesugi Kenshin  | 18 Sep 2011 8:27 a.m. PST |
Which also prompts the question, when is Peter Pig going to make a rocket sets containing Smaw's, Predator SRAW's, & Javelins? Maybe some helpful hinting emails would help?
martin@peterpig.demon.co.uk
;-)
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| carne68 | 18 Sep 2011 11:11 a.m. PST |
Which also prompts the question, when is Peter Pig going to make a rocket sets containing Smaw's, Predator SRAW's, & Javelins? Maybe some helpful hinting emails would help?
martin@peterpig.demon.co.uk
60mm mortars would be nice too. |
| Uesugi Kenshin | 18 Sep 2011 4:40 p.m. PST |
 -ing-@ they would!
;-) |
| Forper | 17 Jan 2012 12:47 a.m. PST |
You might want to check out my recent thread Carne: TMP link |
goes to sea with the Terrain Mat.
