User blog comment:Luperza/PlanetSide 2 Roadmap: March Preview/@comment-7127555-20130312132354

Hey Luperza, I love the Platoon Management Window idea, but I do have some additional suggestions. Which I've posted over at Reddit here:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Planetside/comments/1a57v6/march_roadmap_platoon_management_window/

But here's the detail: For me, this would help to quickly create squads and platoons from everyone online. Mobilising back to the WG would be quick and easy. Get everyone in the required vehicles on recall would be quick and easy.
 * Create Squads and Platoons from the top down, instead of the bottom up.
 * Be able to drag and drop players from the list of Outfit players who are online onto Squads and Platoons.
 * Be able to recall specific squads or a whole Platoon back to the Warp Gate.
 * Be able to specify that, on recall to the Warp Gate, specific players are deployed into a vehicle.
 * Be able to automatically loads squads into specific vehicles to retain squad cohesion.

Here's some stuff on the difference between bottom-up/top-down creation of squads and platoons:

Bottom-up: existing functionality. Top-down: proposed addition to existing functionality.

Scenario
 * Non-tactical ops are in progress. Squads are scattered around the continent.
 * Officer comes online and disbands all existing Squads and Platoons to start full tactical ops.
 * Officer calls out for Squad and Platoon leaders.
 * Goes to Platoon Management window and drags and drops Squad and Platoon leaders in place.
 * Tells all other players to join any squads.
 * Calls out for 4 Galaxy pilots.
 * Assigns 4 players as deploying to a Galaxy on recall.
 * Platoon recall is selected.
 * All players are recalled back to the Warp Gate.
 * Those 4 players respawn into a Galaxy lifting off from the landing pads.
 * 4 Galaxies park up.
 * Each Gal pilot selects 'Load Squad' from their vehicle pop-up.
 * Each squad is loaded into their respective Gal.
 * Galaxies fly off and kick ass.