Jimmy, being a brave soldier at heart, hates to be on the firing squad which is formed to shoot people, enemy soldiers and civilians in the name of traitors, who are given the death punishment by a military government.

There are different non-military squads: a cheerleading squad, those girls who stand at a sport and jump and dance to encourage their players; a pep squad, students of a school, in the USA, who try to instil team spirit of togetherness in other students’ minds; a practice squad, a number of players called in to practise and show their ability to be selected for the main team; a goon squad (informal), a small group of strong men employed by a crime gang boss, a politician or a labour union to beat up those who stand opposing them; a split squad (in baseball), half the team of an entire team plays opposite another team and the other half plays against another team the same day to reduce stress on the entire team; a rescue squad, a group of mostly trained but also of volunteers who form a group to rescue somebody or something that is caught in a disaster; and so on.