The Chains of Command
Oct 03, 2022
These chains that bind.
The “B.C.”: the Battalion Commander. A Battalion is usually two (usually more) Companies, up to five at most. A "Company" of soldiers is approximately 100 or so people, it varies depending on mission and type of unit. So by the time everything is added up, a Battalion can be anywhere from 500 to 1,000 soldiers. There are units with much more or even much less, but those tend to be specialized units and represent outliers from the norm.
The “T.O.C”: “Tactical Operations Center”– that SGM Hoddson refers to is basically the field headquarters for the battalion. A lot of time this would be a tent-- a very large tent, or even multiple tents put together to form one giant maze-like super-tent. In Iraq we were mostly set up in one place and didn't move around, so our TOC was a building made of two-by-fours and plywood with some minimal cheap siding and insulation-- pretty cushy, considering.
Just to be clear, LTC Fassbender and SGM Hoddson do not represent any actual people I’ve known or served with.
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