Editing Platoon (section)

==South Africa==
In the [[South African Army]], a platoon usually consists of 27 soldiers and 1 officer organized into three sections 10 soldiers each plus an HQ which contains 8 men. A lieutenant as platoon commander and a sergeant as platoon sergeant, accompanied by a signaller and a patmor group of two men. 
A section comprises 10 soldiers led by a corporal who's assisted by a lance corporal as second in command. The corporal is in charge of all the soldiers except the [[light machine gun]] (LMG) group which is led by the lance corporal. The LMG group is armed with the [[Vektor SS-77|SS77]] while rest of the platoon is armed with [[Vektor R4|R4 assault rifles]], with rifle grenades if available. There's also the grenade launcher within each section.