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Chapter 17 Answers to Questions About the Seventh Steel Company's No Platoon-Level Cadres
Some readers have raised some questions about why there is no position of platoon leader in the command system in this book. Now I will post a single chapter to express my personal opinion.

At the very beginning, the only fragments of positive descriptions of the position of platoon leader in my Internet materials, including TV dramas and books of the same name, were only in the recruit company period.

Moreover, the platoon leader of the recruit company was still held by the squad leader Shi Jin.

For this point, you can go to the TV series to watch, the clip of the dialogue between Wu Liuyi and Shi Jin is the time when Shi Jin wipes the car and bids farewell to the chariot after Sanduo raises his hand.

At that time, Wu Liuyi said this to Shi Jin: "I am the deputy of your class, a half-year-old student, and the class leader. You are amazing, and you are the leader of the recruit platoon!"

This is the first time the platoon leader's position has been described positively.

After that, there was no description of the platoon leader.

This is the easiest evidence for everyone to find.

Secondly, I also referred to the nature of 702 troops.

Everyone knows very well that the setting of 702 is a guard force to defend the capital.Coupled with the previous disarmament history of our country, I think the overall number of the Seventh Company will not be too many.

This point has not been described in the TV series or in the books. It may be that my guess is wrong. Don't be offended.

But do you remember, during the half a year that Sanduo was guarding the barracks, there was a scene where he was singing in front of the cafeteria, and he was eating with Liulian at that time.

It was a long shot at the time, and I took a closer look. There were nine columns in six companies, with seven people in each column.That is to say, the Sixth Company has only 63 officers and soldiers at the grassroots level, not counting company-level commanders.

Then, the organizational system of the Seventh Company should be similar to this, right?

Therefore, in such a small company, it seems more agile to have no platoon leader in the command system.

And I also asked some elders who were soldiers in the 90s, such situations were not uncommon at that time.In some company-level units, there may only be about [-] people in total.Therefore, they did not set up the post of platoon leader.

And until after the new round of military reform in 2017, especially after our army implemented the officer training system dominated by the military rank system, the "growth officers" who graduated from undergraduates served as platoon leaders in the lower companies, and all of them were awarded the rank of second lieutenant.

I don't know, do you still have any doubts?

(End of this chapter)