Platoon

I was born in Christchurch, New Zealand, on 13 April 1967. My father was a Christchurch businessman, and my mother was from a farm roughly 30 miles from the city. Both sides of the family had immigrated to New Zealand from the UK and Ireland in the mid 1800s. During my early childhood I spent a great deal of time on the farm, and only wanted to grow up to be a farmer. My family moved away from Christchurch in 1970 to the deep south of New Zealand’s South Island. Invercargill is a small city…

1994’s Forrest Gump was a movie that touched on the relations of blacks and whites. This film covered several time periods including the 1940s through the 1980s. Forrest grew up in Alabama in the fictional town of Greenbow. He grew up in a home with his single mother who always told him “don’t you ever let anyone tell you that they’re better than you… you’re the same as everybody else.” These values were instilled in Forrest and he acted by them accordingly. He did not treat anyone differently.…

Boom! I fall to the ground; there's ringing in my ears. The artillery has bombed another trench yet again (Young 28). My m1 Garand is twelve feet away from me, and the trenches are filling with shrapnel. More explosions are bound to come, so I crawl to my Springfield semi-automatic (m1 Garand), still with the smell of gunpowder and smoke in my nostrils. But I continue to go get my gun I grab it and shoot the Germans pouring in the wood rotten trenches. Then I get out of the trench someone yells…

2. On Saturday evening 07 April 2018 PFC Staples woke up from a nap at or around 2130. Once he got up he left off-post to attend to a house party with two civilian friends who reside in Fairbanks. The civilian friend’s names were Harley and Zaquan. He picked up his two friends off post who he had met at a previous house party within the first few weeks of being at Fort Wainwright. PFC Staples has been on post since 4 February 2018. The group proceeded to go to the party around the Farmer’s Loop…

My platoon, the 101st Airborne division, we had been dropped off deep in enemy territory. With the following victory showed who was ready to meet their maker and fight for what is right. As we walk down the road with tattered rolling hills on each side there…

allowed to go home. As the years went by I experienced many different styles of leadership that were exposed to me and my platoon, all I could think about was that if I ever made the rank of Sergeant I would never treat or expose Soldiers in that direction or manner. An example of toxic leadership that I can remember is the one that an NCO would promise something to the platoon and never had an answer, years would go by and the Soldiers were clueless about the situation or mission that was…

poems, which illustrate the need for soldiers to unite in time of war to be successful. One of the poems in the first section, “Tribe. Clan” gives two stanzas that exchange pain and lust. Komunyakaa writes war related terms like “Tribe. Clan./ Squad. Platoon. Company. Battalion… (Komunyakaa 10)” to demonstrate the unstoppable traumatic effects the soldier fac-es post war time. From Goldstein’s point of view, “Esprit de corps”(10) applies the connection with a strong sexual urge (Goldstein 1369),…

From this point on, the fire department was getting away from being primarily volunteer based, to becoming a professionally run organization. In 1954, more firefighters were hired, bringing the station to be capable of 24 hour shifts and a three-platoon system with 2 men on each shift, accompanied with volunteers. The fire department soon moved into a more accommodating structure, the old town hall, in 1955. This has been a long lasting site for the department, as it is still being used to this…

Rules of engagement for the Unites States in the Vietnam War were a framework put into place by military authorities to define the limitations and circumstances that combat will be initiated or continue with enemy forces. (Georgia Tech College , n.d.). The rules are put into place to be compliant with international law for conducting war, minimize friendly fire accidents, and protect civilians. All of these regulations also had political motivation and each level of rank within the army from…

A song written by the group Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, titled “Ohio,” tells the story of Kent State and embodied the feeling of many of the American Youth. The song has lyrics such as, “Gotta get down to it/Soldiers are cutting us down” and “We’re finally on our own.” The war had finally seemed to reach the home front. All of these events, and others, worked together to build resistance against the Vietnam War in the public’s eye. The Soldiers and What They had to Endure: There is no single…