Platoon Sergeant

wanting to get across the railroad in order to have more room to maneuver. The truck slowed at Peninsular drive to check both ways, almost colliding with a pair hummers. The laser detachment was excited to see their platoon leader. "Where were you guys" the lieutenant asked? The sergeant in charge answered embarrassed "We were down at the beach, sir." Happy to have his troops back, he replied "Well it's nice weather for it." At the felons' urging the convoy drove toward the railroad…

finally got to the chow hall only to find we only had just ten minutes left to eat. After chow, we fell out, returning to our barracks and our ranks. We spent the rest of the day getting to know some of the guys that had filtered into our new home. The Sergeant assigned to watch over us was a short timer back from Nam and wanted nothing to do with us. During the rest of the week, we were marched from class to class, test to test, while we waited for our Army clothes to arrive, and be assigned to…

enemy. One can say that along with the combined arms that was introduced during this timer period along with the radio are the new innovations that have made war much bloodier in modern times. In the combined arms example for example and infantry platoon or company sized elecmet can easily call for support such as tanks to blow up a target or ven call air strikre s to maximize the ffectivenss of the aggressor. While this does make this accurate, it makes the infantry more capable of accepting…

Polyphemus, by clinging to the bellies of the monster’s sheep as they go out to graze.” Odysseus had been a good leader here, clearly thinking through consequences of certain actions, and choosing the best course of action for their situation. Army staff sergeant Salvatore ‘Sal’ Giunta also demonstrated good leadership. The military soldier not only saved a badly injured comrade in the midst of battle, but also led a small group counter attack on the opposing military. Historyvshollywood.com…

At the end of the war and a successful Normandy landing, allied forces thought the war was close to over but they were soon to find out Hitler had other plans. On 16 December 1944 Hitler pushed for a massive attack which came to be known as the Battle of the Bulge located in the Ardennes forest near the city of Bastogne. This was Germany’s last real attempt to stop and hold the allied forces. Hitler pushed more than 400,000 German Soldiers and over 1000 tanks through to the Ardennes forest in…

because I was able to act as a leader and learn great skills, but I have nothing to show for it in terms of rank and/or awards. During my last annual training I was performing the responsibilities of a person three ranks above my own and being a platoon…

Throughout this semester our class has been gathering information about the modern American military conflicts, either through book review or class PowerPoints. This newly gained information of our nation history has helped me create an understanding what leadership actually is and how certain people are able to have it. What helped me gather my view of leadership the most was the five leadership analysis on House to House: An Epic Memoir of War, We were soldiers once… And Young, The Last Stand…

amongst all the chaos. While sitting around sharing a drink and some laughs with a couple of my closest friends; the news had been reported that two very high ranking officials of Saddam Hussein’s regime had been killed by U.S. armed forces. A nearby Sergeant explained for us to grab our gear and become battle ready just in case of a possible retaliatory attack, amongst of all the celebratory fire that had followed as the oppressed locals began to get word of these deaths. We all scattered to…

A civilian once bombarded me with question over my war experience. As days began to drift by with no immediate end, I rebutted with a question. “When I say war, what do you think about?” He was hesitant, but he responded: Soldiers, enemy combatants, ships, tanks, Humvees, helicopters, jets, weapons, chemical weapons, the atom bomb, and death. I smiled, as if to say, that’s it. “The Things They Carried,” by Tim O’Brien is largely celebrated since its publishing in 1990. But much of his short…

The day the platoon was going to battle, Sergeant Stephan Schneider asked who had a neat handwriting. Eric Vandenburg saved Hans Hubermann’s life by nominating Hans. Hans Hubermann was assigned to write letters for the captain, which allowed him to not go out into the battlefield, other men volunteered to write letters and not go to the battlefield because they didn’t want to be looked upon as cowards. In that battle all the men were killed, Hence Hans Hubermann escapes Death while Erik…