User blog comment:Codfan/Inaccuracies?????/@comment-1260687-20100224044137

My squad was lucky, we had a full 13-man complement plus a Corpsman, and when our platoon went out, we usually had a three-man machine gun team or a four-man sniper team attached to us. If we were running patrols in a city though, it was just the 13 of us. The other squads in my platoon weren't exactly T/O, and we were short a few Marines. IIRC the rest of the platoons in our company were the same way, because we all got combat replacements about halfway through my first deployment. The last unit I was attached to was a motor-T unit, and they usually just ran convoys and security ops. They usually went out with 12 trucks (Humvees and 7-tons) with 2-3 Marines per truck: 2 for the 7-tons and 3 for the Humvees.