The Army is working to create separate weapons platoons within Infantry Brigade Combat Teams to lighten soldiers' cognitive load, according to a Training and Doctrine Command official. Col. Christopher Stone, TRADOC capability manager for IBCTs, said on the sidelines of a Nov. 1 Association of the United States Army conference that the service is in the "infancy state" of creating a platoon that would have a "company headquarters element" for weapons that "have no ownership." "The weapons platoon could have...
