Leadership
A squad is led by an NCO known as a Squad Leader. His/her second in command is known as an Assistant Squad Leader. In Britain and the Commonwealth, these appointments are known as Section Commander and Section 2IC ("second in command"), respectively.
Typical ranks for squad leaders are:
- Australian Army: Corporal
- Austrian Army: Wachtmeister
- Brazilian Army: In the Brazilian Army, a Grupo de Combate is a platoon subdivision and is commanded by a third sergeant, as in a U.S. Army squad.
- British Army: Corporal
- Canadian Army (Canadian Forces Land Force Command )(Armée de terre canadienne): Sergeant or Master Corporal
- Danish Army: Sergent
- Estonian Defence Forces: Seersant (reserve unit) or Nooremveebel (professional unit)
- Finnish Army: Alikersantti or Kersantti (Corporal or Sergeant)
- German Army: Feldwebel or Oberfeldwebel (previously Unteroffizier or Stabsunteroffizer)
- Israeli Defence Force: Sergeant (Samál) or Staff Sergeant (Samár)
- Norwegian Army: Sergeant (NOC is corporal and leads the light machine gun fire team of the squad).
- Portuguese Army: Sargento
- Royal Netherlands Army: sergeant
- Royal Netherlands Marines: Corporal
- Russian Army: Junior Sergeant or Sergeant
- Spanish Army (pelotón): Cabo 1º, Sargento
- Swedish Army: Sergeant, First Sergeant
- Swiss Army: Wachtmeister (before 2004: Korporal)
- Turkish Army: Çavuş
- U.S. Army: Staff Sergeant or Sergeant (rarely Corporal)
- U.S. Marine Corps: Sergeant or Corporal (sometimes Lance Corporal)
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