My campaigns wartime platoon reorganization...

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Originally Posted by Abbott Shaull

On thing you could do is take the MG team and make them a fire team which would be the anti-tank team of the squad. Then make the two AT teams into MG teams that could be attached to any section as needed.

That's a good point -- in the example I gave, notice that there is no separate AT team -- the Dragon gunner is simply a squad member who is qualified (or at least knows how) to use a Dragon, and other squad members are carrying extra ammo for him. He still carries a rifle and has duties as a rifleman.

A million years ago when I was in the Guard (this was early 1980s), we didn't have SAWs, so our "automatic riflemen" were M-60 gunners without A-gunners. Assuming we had enough blanks available, four other members of the squad would be carrying as many as two extra belts of ammo for the M-60s each.