Key tasks/responsibilities:• Manage and administer a team of up to forty personnel, ensuring compliance with organisational policies and procedures.• Contribute to development of tactical plans and operations.• Employ operational security.• Employ and utilise supporting assets.• Advise superiors on the command/employment and functioning of the platoon.• Manage the training and career development of subordinates.• Develop and enhance organisational policies and procedures.• Development and Coordinate Physical and Operational training programs.• Development and implementation of return to work and rehabilitation programs.• Liaise with external service providers.

Responsible for the effective co-ordination of offensive support assets for the battalion both direct and indirect as well as limited CAS capability i.e. Artillery, mortars, fast air, rotary wing and direct fire weapon systems. He is responsible for the integration of these assets to conduct fire planning on a timeline, to effectively support the infantry units before, during and after the close battle, in every type of operation.

Riflemen are employed to locate the enemy and develop an intelligence picture through patrolling and surveillance. He is also employed to provide security for other units and agencies through the same means. Once the enemy is located, and usually after air, artillery or naval bombardment, the Rifleman fights the enemy at close quarters with rifle, machine gun, grenades, anti-armour weapons and bayonet by day and night, regardless of season, weather or terrain. He is also employed to seize or hold ground from the enemy.While the Rifleman is supported in operations by other elements of the Defence Force; infantry units are capable of independent action for limited periods of time. The Rifleman is responsible for his security and the maintenance of his fighting capability at all times.

Patrolling in hostile environments, surveying the terrain for enemy, sending intelligence reports to higher command and provide a battle space that can be further exploited in a secure enviroment. There are many responsibilities for an infantryman, but the role of the Infantry defines it perfectly:"is to seek out and close with the enemy, to kill or capture him, to seize and hold ground, repel attack, by day or by night, regardless of season weather or terrain" (AS Army, 2014).