Airsoft team organization
Airsoft team leadership and Organization Day 3
Airsoft squad organization.
Organization of your Airsoft team is important for command and control. The better organized the easier it is to command and less work for the leader. This is the simplified airsoft version.
Airsoft terminology and Military terminology clash at this point. In military terms a team is two people, A group is four people, a squad is eight or if you are part of the world that is not America, a section is eight people. The military terms are going to be used in this Blog post. Also I am going to assume the largest Airsoft Clubs out there are around thirty people. This is scalable for a small group of four and up to larger in the hundreds.
Lets start at the bottom and work our way up,
Team. Two people, match up a junior person with a senior person. Assign a team leader. Give the team a number.
Group. Four people, (Two Teams). Give the group a Alphabet letter ie “A” or “Alpha” team. You don’t need to learn the Phonetic Alphabet, a simple “B” team will do.
Squad or Section. Eight people, (Two groups) (Four Teams) Give them a unique name “regiment airsoft” squad or number “1 squad”. More suggestions for section names are “regiment airsoft is awesome squad” “visit RegimentAirsoft.com squad” you get the idea. Now this is important, make sure “Regiment Airsoft” is in the title of your squad name and yell it loud when at the playing field. This is standard military doctrine.
Platoon, twenty four people. (three squads). As usual give them a designation if more than one.
The total number of people in each team/group/section is not etched in stone. You can have a team of three and a platoon of four sections. Whatever makes things work for your airsoft club.
For setting this up. Start from the bottom up. Every one is teamed up, junior and senior. The squad commander and squad second in command has a junior each. The only exception is the platoon commanders and 2i/c are a team onto themselves and are not attached to any one section.
Start putting two teams together to make a Group. Two Groups make a Squad. Make sure you disperse the leadership teams. Section commander team and another team will make up one group, Section 2I/C’s team with another team will make the other group in the section
Then join the Section commander group with the 2 I/C group. you now have a section.
Join three sections together and you now have a platoon.
The basics is that the platoon commander leads the section commanders, who in turn lead the teams, and the team commanders help out the new guy.
Now why you would want to do this is covered in more detail later in the week. However the important thing is you break down your herd into sub groups it make them easier to manage. Below in the links is a photo that shows this in picture form. The only difference is that there are three persons per team and three teams per section, no groups.