Knee Jerk Reaction During the summer of 2007 near Ad Dawr, Iraq, our company was given a mission to detain a high value target, and to find and destroy a large cache within the same provided location. At the time I was a fairly new specialist, with all the motivation in the world. My individual task was to man the lead trucks M240B, in order to provide security during movement and during the actual mission itself. Upon completion of a …show more content…
I was apologized to, from my platoon sergeant and the rest of the chain of command. My platoon sergeant briefly stated that he had made a major mistake on the actions that he had taken towards me and how he thought that I had accidentally shot him. He stated that his actions were inexcusable and would no longer jump to conclusions, until fully understanding the situation and how it had come to be. Only been in theater for about three months this situation scarred everyone in the company with the thought of how the Army and our chain of command was out to get us and in-order to react to a hostile situation something bad had to happen