Easy Company

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For the military unit profiled in Band of Brothers, see E Company, 506th Infantry Regiment (United States).

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 battalion of any given Army 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 in his book Band of Brothers, later made into a television miniseries based on the book. Today Easy Company, 2-506th, is now Alpha Company, the fifth infantry company in the 506th. Alpha Company uses the Easy call signs to carry on tradition.

Regiments in the US military traditionally assign their companies alphabetical designations (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.