Talk:Company (military unit)

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Contents 1 VfD: Bravo Company 2 commanded by? 3 First Sergeant: appointment, or rank? 4 120-200 men

[edit] VfD: Bravo Company

Bravo Company was listed on Votes for Deletion on Aug 20, 2004. What follows is the discussion on the issue.

Every US Army regiment had a Bravo Company, Delta Company and Easy Company. The terms themselves are completely non-notable, since Company (military unit) already tells us enough. The histories of particular companies, if they are any more notable than any other company, are better off in regimental histories. -- Necrothesp 20:03, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC)

• • Keep Easy Company, a likely search term because of the TV series, and notable for that and the comic book bit. Delete the others.--Samuel J. Howard 20:17, Aug 20, 2004 (UTC)
• Delete. What Necrothesp said. Plus the information in Bravo Company is wrong and the info in Easy Company belongs in Band of Brothers. DJ Clayworth 20:19, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC)
• Disambig Easy Company, kill the mess. -FZ 21:21, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Concur. Kevyn 23:38, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC)

• Unfortunately, we are in a pickle here, because of Hollywood. The Easy Company of Band of Brothers is of a particular division, while the "Bravo Company" featured in other films is of a different group, then there's "The Boys of Company B," etc. I think a disambiguation page for each as needed. At present, that's just Easy Company. However, if anyone can think of a famous Able, Baker, Charlie, Delta, or Easy otherwise, it might be good preemption to set them up now. Delete all, if not turned to disambiguations by end of VfD. Only keep any that have turned to disambiguations. Geogre 00:34, 21 Aug 2004 (UTC)

I have to say that I don't agree. If people want to know about Band of Brothers then they'll look for Band of Brothers. Any information about the historical unit would be best put under 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, which actually provides a unique designation. I don't see the necessity of having an entry, even a disambiguation page, for every obscure military unit without a unique designation, even if a book was written or a film made about it. There are many hundreds, if not thousands, of B/Bravo/Baker Companies in history. -- Necrothesp 04:09, 21 Aug 2004 (UTC)

• Delete. These can be little more than dicdefs, already fully covered in Company (military unit) and the links in that article. As Necrothesp said, anyone searching on a unit will search for the specific unit, not a vague "Bravo Company" or some such. SWAdair | Talk 04:55, 21 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • Keep redirects. SWAdair | Talk 07:20, 21 Aug 2004 (UTC)
• I have merged and redirected all three to Company (military unit). Keep harmless redirects. Comment: Bravo 1-115 IN (and many other military units) probably deserves an article but it should not be shoehorned into this page. I've copied off the content until I can find a guideline on naming conventions for military units. (Suggestions would be appreciated.) I've moved the contents of Easy Company into a "disambiguation section" of Company (military unit). It's not pretty yet but it makes more sense to me than trying to do the same thing using individual company names. Rossami 05:14, 21 Aug 2004 (UTC)

end moved discussion

[edit] commanded by?

The article says in one place that a company is commanded by a major, but elsewhere it says it's normally commanded by a captain except in less common cases. Seems contradictory?--WPIsFlawed 22:26, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

Different militaries. LamontCranston 23:28, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] First Sergeant: appointment, or rank?

The information here on US Army First Sergeants seems to contradict that in that article. Are First Sergeant and Master Sergeant distinct ranks, sharing a pay grade, or is First Sergeant an appointment of the rank of Master Sergeant? Alai 16:37, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] 120-200 men

I think there should be a note about where the historical size of a company came about..that being that a person can only really know 120 or so other people...i think that was in the article previously..or a similar one... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.4.75.42 (talk) 10:17, 6 March 2008 (UTC)