Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by DaniFong 6600 days ago
W.L. Gore & associates.

http://www.gore.com/en_xx/

The later Roman army was made up of eight (in the early republic, ten) soldiers per contubernium, which shared a tent and ate together. There were ten contubernia in a century. These numbers seem awfully familiar.

1 comments

Modern armies share structure that is essentially identical. Section/Squad (8-10) -> Platoon (30-40) -> Company (100-120)