"TO&E #04/395
Independent penalty company of the active army
Independent penalty company of the active army
- Organization
- Command
- Three rifle platoons
- 82 mm mortar platoon
- Medical unit
- Quartermaster unit
- Personnel
- Officers: 8 permanent, 0 temporary
- Sergeants: 3 permanent, 31 temporary
- Privates: 1 permanent, 110 temporary
- Total: 12 permanent, 141 temporary
- Horses
- Draft horses: 6
- Materiel:
- 82 mm mortars: 2
- DP handheld machineguns: 12
- Submachineguns: 49
- Rifles and carbines: 82
- Transport:
- One-horse carts: 2
- Two-horse carts: 1
- Cavalry type field kitchen: 1
Position or item | Rank | Amount | Specialty code | Salary | Weapon | |
Perm | Temp | |||||
Command | ||||||
Company commander | Captain | 1 | 1 | 1100 | p b k | |
Propagandist | Sr. Lieutenant | 1 | 1 | 900 | p k | |
Quartermaster/accountant | Intendant Lieutenant | 1 | 6 | 750 | p | |
Total | 3 | |||||
Three rifle platoons | ||||||
Platoon commander | Sr. Lieutenant | 1 | 1 | 800 | pp b k | |
Assistant platoon commander | 1 | pp k | ||||
Signals | 1 | pp k | ||||
Sniper | 2 | sk #1 | ||||
Squad commander | 4 | pp k | ||||
Deputy squad commander/MG gunner | 4 | |||||
MG assistant | 4 | krn #1 | ||||
Rifleman | 4 | 8 pp, 16 krn #1 | ||||
DP | 4 | |||||
Total | 1 | 40 | ||||
Total in all platoons | 3 | 120 | ||||
82 mm mortar platoon | ||||||
Platoon commander | Lieutenant | 1 | 2a | 800 | pp b k | |
Squad commander | 2 | pp k | ||||
Deputy squad commander/ gunner | 2 | p | ||||
Mortar crewmen | 8 | kr #2 | ||||
82 mm mortar | 2 | |||||
One-horse carts for mortars | 2 | |||||
Total | 1 | 14 | ||||
Medical unit | ||||||
Field doctor | Medical Lieutenant | 1 | 55 | 750 | p | |
Nurse | 4 | |||||
Total | 1 | 4 | ||||
Quartermaster Unit | ||||||
Unit commander, also company Starshina | Starshina | 1 | 1 | pp k | ||
Armourer and scribe | Admin Sr. Sergeant | 1 | 128 | v #2 | ||
Senior cook | Admin Sr. Sergeant | 1 | 124 | v #2 | ||
Cook | Red Armyman | 1 | 124 | v #2 | ||
Armourer | 1 | v #2 | ||||
Coachman | 2 | v #2 | ||||
Utility cart | 2 | |||||
Cavalry type field kitchen | 2 | |||||
Total | 4 | 3 | 4 | |||
Total in company | 12 | 131 | 6 carts | |||
October 2nd, 1944"
As you can see from the list of weapons used by the company, it was hardly "the one with the rifle shoots, the one without the rifle follows". However, the weapon types are a bit hard to decode, since not all of them are accounted for in the initial totals. PP is obviously submachineguns, p are pistols, sk are sniper rifles, v are regular rifles, kr are carbines. I don't know what #1 and #2 stand for (possibly variants of the carbine, but it's not clear why that would matter to anyone), or what k and b are. Valeriy had a theory that b is binoculars, and k is perhaps a map.