The Roles and Weapons with the Squad

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That is why "section F&M" is flawed, and better done as a platoon under tight control, with guns moving incrementally.

The "balanced" fire teams means neither can really do anything well.

Right. I'm with you now. That brings the pre-WWII plt with two Gun sections and two rifles sections into greater clarity. Did the gun section contain a single LMG (in which case having a security/close protection rifle team makes more sense given the plt focus)? Were they split two by two (ie, 1 gun and 1 rifle section) as manouvre/fire elements or was their employment entirely METT-T (or whatever their equivalent mnemonic was, and just what was that exactly?) dependant.