Platoon

In my view, this type of operation requires more than one individual in order to be successful; you have your Platoon Leader and you have your medical provider no only to support you, but to help you find the best way to fulfill the commander’s intent. So, it was surprising to me, that you did not mention any of them in your explanation of the events. The one positive…

situation. For example, before Pit Bulls got their bad reputation, they were used in war. As it is said in, "Pit Bulls Haven't Always Had a Bad Rap," by a blogger that goes by the name of pitbull_lover, one Pit Bull by the name of Stubby saved an entire platoon of soldiers by warning them of a poison gas attack! If Pit Bulls were such hazardous and vicious dogs, do you think they would've used them in war? Not only were pit bulls used in war, but they were also kept as guardians. Pit Bulls are…

Leadership is the defining aspect of every successful officer. Those who have it excel, and the opposite is true for those who don’t. In the Army, the Leadership Development Program can be modelled out by the Army Leadership Requirement Model (ALRM) which is broken down into two concepts: attributes and competencies. Within those concepts, there are six goals that leaders should strive for: character, presence, and intellect which are attributes, and leads, develops, and achieves which are…

Essay Question #1: Analyze Operation Valhalla, Iraq (2006). Using this situation as an example, what is the best leadership course of action to mitigate enemy manipulation of circumstances and kinetic operations? There were many courses of action to be executed during Operation Valhalla, (Iraq) 2006, but as a ground commander you are constricted to a limited amount of resources prior to executing the mission. From my understanding, United States Special Forces killed the enemy inside their…

Tim O’Brien went to Vietnam to fight. While there he experienced things he never thought of. In O’Brien’s book The Things They Carried, he wrote this book for himself to come to peace with the war he was suffering from and the problems. O’Brien was in Vietnam he experienced death, and him self getting shot two times. The book The Things They Carried is a story about Tim O'Brien's time in Vietnam and how he experienced the war. O’Brien intended audience was people going to war and he developed…

Leadership Challenges of Combined Joint Forces SGM George K. Ott Operation Enduring Freedom, Provincial Reconstruction Team, Farah Afghanistan, 04/30/2008 38B, Civil Affairs Team NCOIC, 451st CA Bn. CJTF-82 Bagram george.k.ott.mil@mail.mil 9 November 2015 Class 42 Abstract I was deployed in late 2006 to become a Civil Affairs soldier and lead a CA team as the NCOIC in Operation Enduring Freedom, within the first hundred days of arriving at forward operating base in Farah, Afghanistan; I was…

He realized that he made a mistake letting his men camp on the dangerous riverbank. Because of this decision that Jimmy cross made one of the members of the platoon dies. Feeling like Kiowa’s death was his fault he decides to write a letter to Kiowa's father and explain what happened, as he is remembering what happened that they when they go look for his lost body he remembers the smell, how terrifying and disgusting…

Summary Reflective Essay The Honor Mentorship Program is a program one is placed when he or she violates the honor code. The honor code is, “A Cadet Candidate will not lie, cheat, steal or tolerate those who do.” Before violating the honor code and being place in this program I lived a completely different lifestyle. I only did what was right when people were looking and always tried to find the easy way out of things. I inherited this behavior before USMAPS because where I am from people do…

Have you ever lost someone close to you? Family friend, neighbor; or possibly your Mom, Dad, Sister or Brother? Now imagine that they are leaving, no way to stop them; and if they do not go, they are thrown in jail or end up a runaway convict. This is the horror of drafting. Drafting is what steals away and breaks apart families and sends them off to war with little to no chance of them coming back home. They will be forced into being trained and punished to suit the necessities of war and…

DISPLACEMENT Friday morning we started a long displacement to the Gonaives city. In Gonaives, we would stop for two days before going to the building place. One of my first actions was to meet the drives. They were very good drives but is always necessary to remind everyone about safety rules. However, my main concern was about another issue. I discovered that usually some of them had been taking off the protection plates of the bulletproof vest. That time the situation in Haiti was…