Talk:Battalion

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Battalion is also an online turn-based strategy game. But when I tried to edit the page accordingly, it was rejected. Why?

Well, actually it wasn't rejected, but now you've drawn my attention to it it has been removed. Why? Because it read like an advert and was unencyclopaedic (e.g. it referred to players in the 2nd person) and because it was in completely the wrong place. This is not a noticeboard for game fans. -- Necrothesp 03:32, 28 August 2005 (UTC)

I am not an expert but why does the symbol refer to the AUSTRIAN 14th battalion? I can see nothing to indicate its nationality. 82.212.19.84 15:47, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

I'm not comfortable making the change yet as a newbie, but battalion is also in common usage in the American fire service to denote a subdivision of a fire department. Inclusion might be considered 1) limited in scope and as such not a world view on the subject 2) jargon 3) too broad within the scope of the present article. Any thoughts on how to best work this additional definition into the article? Random memo (talk) 03:40, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

Contents 1 US Section 2 Communications 3 Purpose of article 4 HQ Companies

[edit] US Section

I think the US section needs a lot of work. It reads quite poorly with the parts for the Marine Corps inserted with parentheses after every point. I think we should make two sections, one for the Army, one for the Marines, describing the structure of a battalion in both. In the Army, at Battalion is commanded by a Major, sometimes at Lt. Col. A brigade is commanded by a Colonel.

Agreed, it very wordy and needs condensing perhaps using the British entry as an example? Also the tactical elements are similar if not essentially the same for both entries and should perhaps reflect that rather than as sub sections of a particular nation.Twobells (talk) 09:52, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Communications

I think the material on tactical communications in the US Army is interesting, but misplaced. Pete Fenelon 21:51, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Purpose of article

Wikipedia is not a dictionary. The lead paragraph is nothing but a definition. Most of the rest of the article is unrelated to Battalions, and is general background information on military organizations. The article doesn't cite a single source... what is encyclopedic about this topic?StreamingRadioGuide 06:16, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] HQ Companies

Does anyone know, in the British Army is the Commanding Officer of a Battalion also the Officer Commanding the Headquarters Company? Or does the HQ Company have its own commander (presumably a Major) as the other companies do? 86.158.11.109 (talk) 04:01, 22 May 2008 (UTC)