Editing Platoon (section)

==Australia==
In the [[Australian Army]], an infantry platoon has thirty-six soldiers organized into three eight-man sections and a twelve-man maneuver support section, with a [[lieutenant]] as platoon commander and a [[sergeant]] as platoon sergeant, accompanied by a platoon signaller and sometimes a platoon medic (full strength of forty men). A section comprises eight soldiers led by a [[corporal]] with a [[lance corporal]] as second in command. Each section has two [[fireteam]]s (sometimes three) of four men, one led by the corporal and the other by the lance corporal. Each fireteam (also called a "brick" by Australian soldiers) has one soldier with an [[FN Minimi|F89 Minimi LSW]] and the other three armed with [[Steyr AUG|F88 Steyr]] [[assault rifle]]s. One rifle per fireteam has an attached 40&nbsp;mm grenade launcher; one of the [[grenadier]]s is the lance corporal. Fireteam bravo has a [[Heckler & Koch HK417|HK417]] 7.62mm for the [[designated marksman]] role. More recently, the designated marksman of each<!--I assume that the HK417 was originally carried by one man per 8-man section, then changed to one per fireteam. Alternatively, this sentence is basically just a repetition of the previous point.--> Australian fireteam has been issued the HK417 in [[Afghanistan conflict (1978–present)|Afghanistan]] and possibly afterwards. The platoon may also have three [[FN MAG|MAG 58]] general-purpose machine guns, one [[M2 Browning]] [[heavy machine gun]] or a [[Mk 19 grenade launcher]] at its disposal.