Platoon

Static, and beeping came over the radio, Sabre platoon a checkpoint is being overrun we need Sabre platoon support. This would be my first time outside the gates of the base. Adrenaline pumped through my body like a river flowing. With night vision goggles on, and white knuckles gripping the steering wheel I drove. I drove up…

Soldiers in ACE Suicide Intervention. He expertly executed duties of Unit Master Driver and Ammo Handler to ensure Unit's success at the M-16 Qualification Range even after being transferred to another Unit. SSG McDuffie has assumed responsibility of platoon sergeant with the highest degree of maturity and continuously leads by example to his fellow Soldiers. He scored 273 points on last APFT, displaying exceptional physical fitness and supports Soldiers in improving their own physical fitness.…

With the honor to serve my country, on August 6, 1942, I Fern Tegrootenhula, left Ft. Devens, Massachusetts, and headed to Camp Grant, Illinois, for my two months basic training. During the training, we completed a 5-day field exercise in which we marched to the maneuver areas, and set up field kitchens, sleeping in pup tents. In addition, we worked with simulated casualties of all types which, helped by providing experience in diagnosis, and, treatment, including the transportation of patients…

Chris Taylor who volunteered to go to Vietnam and captured the despair and patriotism experienced by those soldiers. Throughout the film, the soldiers struggled with the morality of killing innocent people, differentiating right from wrong. When the platoon landed themselves in a civilian village, they found pleasure in tormenting the Vietnamese civilians by shooting at a farmer’s feet and killing him and raping an innocent girl. Chris felt guilty upon realizing what he was doing, but the others…

War is stressful, it is traumatic, but at the same time fun and a bonding experience. In the novel The Things They Carried, the writer tells us about the memories of camaraderie between a platoon of young soldiers. “Rat Kiley made up a rhyme that caught on, and we’d all be chanting it together: step out of line, hit a mine; follow the dink, you’re in the pink” (32). Something as catchy as a song is remembered forever. Though, the ugly side of any war can have its lasting effects. Talking to…

Platoon Offensive Attack An attack is when you friend forces seek out the enemy to destroy, weaken and capture forces and supplies. The type of attack that I will be conducting will be movement to contact. I will be conducting a movement to contact because we were given an enemy objective to take out. We do not know a specific location instead we know a general location. The platoon will move in a traveling overwatch until we meet contact with the enemy. The platoon will be split up as first…

In the book The Things They Carried, author Tim O’Brien tells the horrific experiences of a platoon of American soldiers in the Vietnam War. This platoon goes through many hardships, which on the way cause many people to die and to completely change their personalities. O’Brien depicts the awful emotional and psychological conditions the American soldiers experienced during the Vietnam War. The way O’Brien depicts these topics by talking about many points like the items the soldiers carried,…

Some people may think that what I did was heroic. I don’t. I think that what I did was only being human. Well, I guess that’s a matter of opinion. It was May of ‘44, and I sat at the edge of my bunk, listening, and making small talk with my bunkmates. We were fighting for nearly ten hours, and we were going to be sent out of our bunks any minute. While others dressed, I checked my gun, I knew everything was fine, but we were all scared about being sent out again. The last time we were out,…

through which the reader experiences the story. The choice of the speaker allows the reader to experiences the Vietnam War as a soldier. The shoes the reader gets to step into are Jimmy Cross's. Cross is not an enlisted man but a First Lieutenant and platoon leader. Since he is in charge, he carries the extra responsibility and burden of planning and leading. First Lieutenant Cross’s job could be lonely at times since his main obligation "was not to be loved but to lead.”(119) Civilians think of…

Lieutenant Cross and the men in his platoon all carry different items based off of necessity or superstition among other reasons. Lieutenant Cross carries letters from Martha that are “not love letters, but Lieutenant Cross was hoping, so he kept them folded in plastic at the bottom of his…