Battalion

followers; in some instances, however, the misalignment of these elements can cause ineffective, or even abusive leadership. Cary Fukunaga’s film Beasts of No Nation, takes the audience on a heart wrenching and disturbing journey as the film follows a battalion of child soldiers in West Africa (Kaufman & Fukunaga, 2015). The film shows the complexities of military leadership as well as how motivation, traits, influence tactics, situational leadership, and charismatic leadership interact to form…

echelon of the 28th Infantry Division. At First Battalions CP two of the TA-312’s rang, the OPLP’s checked in every hour on the hour, but they had checked in fifteen minutes ago. The Staff Duty NCO picked up the first line and the Staff Duty Officer picked up the second. Both men reacted that same with the news that was being reported by the two LPOP’s. Each post stated that they were seeing some movement in front of their…

Sergeants Major alike. More often than not, within our formation, warrant officers are viewed and employed by commanders and sergeants Major as part of the command team. Company and Battalion Warrant Officers should absolutely be part of the command team because they already are! Time spent as both a company and battalion operations warrant officers, in conjunction with the nominative process of selection, is what prepares an individual for the CCWO position. Special Forces Warrant Officers…

If the men of Reserve Police Battalion 101 were neither brainwashed nor were they killed for choosing not to shoot Jews, then the question arises: why did they do it? Rather than giving one simple answer, Browning proposes several theories as to why these normal men became killers. All of the people do not fall into the same category for “why they did what they did,” but, rather, a combination of many of the reasons best explains these men’s motives. One of the most compelling of Browning’s…

1-41 was the first coalition force to breach the Saudi Arabian border on the 15th of February, and conduct ground combat operations in Iraq. During the entire ground campaign Task Force 1-41 including Company D, 9th Engineer Battalion and Company D, 317th Engineer Battalion, travelled over 200 Kilometers in 72 hours and destroyed 65 armored vehicles and 10 artillery pieces, while capturing over 300 enemy prisoners (Thomas, Frank,…

Hello Kendrick JROTC Today I will be presenting my medal of honor recipient this is very important to me and our country so would you please be quite and sit up and show you respect to Larry Leonard Maxam and his duty for putting his life on the line for you and I and most importantly for our country with that being said let me begin my presentation Larry Leonard Maxam, who was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for heroism in Vietnam in February 1968, was born January 9, 1948, in…

deployments thereby, facilitating unimpeded logistics ISO the prestigious United States Army Special Forces (USASOC) from October 2010 to May 2015. From October 2010 to November 2012, Chief Warrant Officer Two Ramos served as the Special Forces Battalion as the Property Accounting Technician assigned to the 214th…

Next we are told about the how other Police Battalions were involved in the slaughter of Soviet Jews. Hitler started to not take prisoners, but to execute every Jew. To portray how some Germans were evil he talked about an incident in which German soldiers urinated on their Jewish captives. He continues to go into detail about different mass killings in Europe of Jews. Browning then tells us about the socioeconomic status of the men in the Battalion. They consisted mostly of middle aged men of…

with her troops on a weapons qualification setup mission. While driving through the Valley training area on about 4:48 am her tactical vehicle overturned and she was identified as a loss immediately upon impact. The 123rd Special Troops Battalion possessed a great deal of…

naked and forced to walk under the sun until they die. If you had stopped walking to rest you were shot. They were also being hunted down by Turkish "Special Organizations”. “These consisted of "killing squads "and "butcher battalions."…