Assertion: platoon's officer | /r/HasProperty | second lieutenant
Facets:
value: usually
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: Therefore, the platoon is usually commanded by a commissioned officer (normally a second lieutenant) as his/her first real command position after commissioning.
text: The platoon commander was supposed to be an officer, a second lieutenant or a first lieutenant.
text: The platoon commander was supposed to be an officer, a second lieutenant or a first lieutenant.
text: Instead, the squads were reorganized into a 12-man unit of three elements, or teams, Able, Baker, and Charlie, reporting directly to the platoon commander (an officer, usually a second lieutenant), assisted by a sergeant assigned as the "assistant to platoon commander" (re-designated as "platoon leader" in 1940 and as "platoon sergeant" in 1943 with the officer then re-designated as "platoon leader".)