In the Grand Army of the Republic, a standard platoon of clone troopers consisted of 4 squads, each led by a sergeant, a total of 40 soldiers, led by a Lieutenant. Giving a total of 41 clones to a
In the Grand Army of the Republic, a standard platoon of clone troopers consisted of 4 squads, each led by a sergeant, a total of 40 soldiers, led by a Lieutenant. Giving a total of 41 clones to a platoon. The platoons were known to be under the established strength due to battle losses. Four such platoons formed a company.
There were also platoons of 24 troopers in the Army.
In the Imperial Army, the basic structure of the standard platoon remained very close to what it had been in the GAR: four squads, each consisting of eight men plus a sergeant, with four platoons forming a company; but whereas under the Republic the platoon's commanding Lieutenant had been included within the 36-man detail, he was now supernumerary along with a Sergeant Major who served as platoon adjutant, for a total of thirty-eight personnel.
A platoon was the smallest unit authorized to request fire support from friendly artillery, although typically these requests first had to go through the unit's parent battalion headquarters, which either allocated resources or passed the request higher up the chain of command. If there was time before a battle t