Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index A batman is a soldier assigned to a commissioned officer as a personal servant. Duties often include: acting as a "runner" to convey orders from the officer to subordinates maintaining the officer's uniform and personal equipment as a valet driving the officer's vehicle, sometimes under combat conditions other miscellaneous tasks the officer does not himself (or herself) have time to do External link Recollections from memory about batmen - http://www.defencejournal.com/2001/july/batmen.htm This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.