I'm a recruit, and yesterday, when I was going to drop ammo, a squad beacon came up, only then I realized that I was the squad leader, I looked at the squad and I was the only RE4 member. I could be blamed for not following the rules, but consider this scenario as real. The squad leader before me should have had to disband the platoon in first place or reorder it into less squads if there where not enough squad leaders.