Easy Company

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For the military unit profiled in Band of Brothers, see Easy Company (Band of Brothers).

For the DC Comics military unit led by Sgt. Rock, see Easy Company (comics).

Easy Company was the phonetic designation of the fifth company in a US Army infantry regiment before the adoption of the NATO standard alphabet.

"Easy Company" has been famously used by a fictional cast of comic book characters, and by a real life company of the 101st Airborne whose story was told by historian Stephen Ambrose and later in a television miniseries based on the book.

Regiments in the US military traditionally assign their companies alphabetical desigations (e.g. the fifth company is Company E). During World War II, this would have been pronounced Easy Company according to the Joint Army/Navy Phonetic Alphabet. This differs from modern conventions, which use the NATO Phonetic Alphabet. Today, E Company would be Echo Company.