From April 1994 to May 1995 I was a Light Infantry Rifle Platoon Leader in the United States Army.  As a new Lieutenant, I was often overwhelmed with the amount of information I needed to track.  Since then, I’ve made a career of building systems to track information.  The tool I use to model software before I write it is called the Unified Modeling Language, or UML. I’ve long though about the structure of the information from my time in the Army.  Here’s a start at modeling the information a new Platoon Leader needs to track.