@pfbentley3 and @TomHeartsTanks are you organized for combat, in garrison? A thread.

XO is chief of staff and maintenance officer. Not supply. He sees everything. You are grooming him/her for command. As "cos" he sees all of it. Maintenance and calibration touches everything anyways. 1/

1st Platoon: NBC and training. Helps your clerk with everything from training schedule builds to alert rosters. Don't leave all that staff work to your E4 driver! Of course NBC room and all its maintenance. Decon etc. Likely also UMO 2/

2nd platoon: arms, intel, security. All things arms room and physical security. Intel stuff to include tracking security clearances and interface with S2, even COMSEC. Key control for the company and buildings. Calibration, gauging, NVGs, The works. 3/

3d Platoon: supply room. Inventory scheduling, pick up and turn in of unit equipment. LOGPAC issues chow planning while in garrison. 10/30 day supply builds etc. 4/

All of these commodity areas require staff work. Usually you get one lonely junior enlisted to run them. It's a ton of admin and paperwork! That's why you use what my 1SG called my "college graduates." You have 4 in company/troop/battery! 5/

Plus you are teaching staff work. All those memos, movement books, SOPs, policy letters etc. When an area needs a surge of manpower, that officers's platoon provides the bodies. Need more guys to load up the arms room? 2nd platoon. Automatic. 6/

Everyone is involved and there are less seams/gaps for mistakes and failure. Example: a 10% layout (usually includes a sensitive item). Supply officer gets the list. XO organizes and issues guidance. Training officer with commander schedules on training schedule. Cont 7

Arms room officer issues items to SHR holders (PSGs) on appropriate day. Platoons lay our all the gear and BII. XO checks maintenance and calibration. CDR inventories with supply SGT. Everyone participated. 8/

Bonus: issue all nonsensative BII to the platoon sergeants (cases, cleaning kits, tripods etc). Armorer is far too busy for this and it's all supply actions. Platoons will maintain them better and lay them out in inventories. 9/

All of this works extremely well during deployment and redeployment. Even to NTC or for realz. Makes RSOI that much easier. You know who packs what connex. Helps young supply SGT and armorer focus on what they need to do. Officers help the company and commander 10/

While NCOs move the troops around. Cannot emphasize how important these type of SOPs are to help run a very task saturated company. Get the officers involved and mentor their staff skills.