Major Richard Winters: Most Respected And Likeable Of Men In Easy Company

Major Richard Winters was the most respected and likeable of men in Easy Company. He wanted to gain the respect of all soldiers within their company. Winters was known as a man who couldn’t cuss and would apologize afterwards. He had all the decency in the world. He had a military mind without the derogatory of it all. People looked up to that, though it was seen as weak minded at first. Everyone within the company would respect Winters at the end of all training.
Winters had taken action and leadership one of the first days of basic, and everyone knew he was fit for the job. He only had one thorn in his side, and that was Captain Herbert Sobel. Sobel had Winters do all of the bad and dirty jobs like cleaning the bathrooms. Winters was the
favorite by many but a lot knew that Sobel was trying to make him equal to the rest of the company.
Major Richard Winters of Easy Company despised Sobel. Winters knew that Sobel wanted to be the leader, but he was doing it without gaining the respect of the company. Winters hated sobel like the rest of the company did. They all knew he was “chickenshit”. Not one man respected sobel. Basic proved every man better than sobel and everyone including winters knew sobel had no idea how to fight or how to survive in war. After passing basic they were all more physically fit than Sobel, who could hardly do 20 pushups without his whole body shaking.