Talk:Battalion

message: 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)
thread_title:  The strategy game 

message: 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)
thread_title:  Misc editorial questions 

message: Whoever wrote the sentence below needs to check their source.  Old English alphabets DID have the letter Jj.  It was originally the letter Ii with a swash attached to it.  The letter's history goes back to ancient Rome.  The reason there was no company J (back in the day) is because the letters I and J looked too similar to make any distinction with some handwriting.  NOW, the omission of Co. J is by tradition. 
"There was no J company or troop: the letter J was traditionally not used because in 18th and 19th centuries the old English alphabet did not have the letter "J" and was never added because of tradition."
If the author does not wish to make this correction, I will gladly do it.  Best wishes.  Jaaches (talk) 13:52, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  US Section 

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

message: 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)
thread_title:  Purpose of article 

message: 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)
thread_title:  HQ Companies 

message: 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)
thread_title:  Fire Services Battalions 

message: Can anyone confirm that the RSO is actually an officer from the Royal Corps of Signals?  I have never heard of this before!--Mlongcake (talk) 09:56, 30 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  RSO 

message: What is "Theatre of War II" other than a game? Should this be "World War II"? I can't find any reference to "Theatre of War II" as a conflict in WikiPedia or Google.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Barwise1 (talk • contribs) 13:06, 9 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Theatre of War 

message: The term "battalion" appears in Manuals of Arms from the early 18th Century, but the battalion they refer to is not the modern battalion. The 1740 French Manual of Arms prescribes that except in the most unusual circumstances, His Majesty's infantry regiments will deploy and fight in a single battalion including all seventeen companies.
The British system was different, as the regiment did not deploy as such, but raised, equipped, and trained one or more battalions which did deploy to the theatre of operations. Many, if not most, regiments of the British Army during the Napoleonic Wars fielded a single battalion.Cybersharque (talk) 22:39, 9 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Historical meaning 

message: It is said in this page that battalions consists of 300-1000 men, does that mean the 300 Spartans led by King Leonidas is a battalion? RA9Markus (talk) 19:54, 30 September 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Size 

message: Currently the article focuses on the term "battalion" as it is used in Western countries. As a result, the lead generalises specific uses of the term as universal fact. For example, the only parts of the article which state that a battalion usually consists of 300 to 1,000 soldiers are in the U.S. and Canada sections. There is no reliable source given that says this is universally true. CentreLeftRight ✉ 07:37, 8 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article needs to be globalised