the five battalions to "combat assault" into the valley by helicopter on May 10‚ 1969‚ and to search their assigned sectors for PAVN troops and supplies. The overall plan of attack called for the Marines and the 3/5th Cavalry to reconnaissance in force toward the Laotian border while the ARVN units cut the highway through the base of the valley. The 501st infantry and the 506th infantry were to destroy the enemy in their own operating areas and block escape routes into Laos. If a battalion made heavy
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I want to become BC because I feel qualified and prepared to make a positive difference in the Battalion. I have been and will continue to be immensely committed to JROTC. This year‚ I created and fulfilled the Chaplain position‚ showing initiative to improve the Battalion and enhance my understanding of cadets. Furthermore‚ I was the Saber Guard Commander. I contacted West Point in order to receive proper instructions‚ exhibiting my commitment to correct procedures. Also‚ I revised and wrote many
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Programmed for Obedience We humans like to think of ourselves as morally decent creatures. Indeed‚ our capacity for morality has been a major factor in the sustainability and prosperity of our species. We take pride in the acts of kindness we perform‚ and more often then not‚ we express genuine sympathy for those who are suffering. Yet as comforting as this mentality may be‚ it fails to give consideration to the atrocities human beings have enacted on one other throughout history. Such atrocities
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organized specifically to make Marines who are committed to the institutions core values of honor courage and commitment in service to the country. Recruit training is organized by Regiment; within the Regiment there are several components such as Battalion‚ Company‚ Platoons‚ Squads‚ and Fire Teams. Marine Corps Recruit Training San Diego uses the five functions of organizational management‚ which are planning‚ leading‚ organizing‚ staffing‚ and controlling (Reilly‚ M.‚ Minnick‚ C.‚ & Baack‚ D
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vulnerable to enemy retaliation. When General William C. Westmoreland‚ the American commander in Vietnam‚ asked for U.S. Marines to guard the air base‚ he got them. On March 8‚ a battalion of Marines splashed ashore on China Beach. On April 1‚ President Johnson approved General Westmoreland ’s request for two more Marine battalions‚ plus 20‚000 logistics troops. He also agreed with General Westmoreland that the Marines should not be limited to strictly defensive duties; now they would fan out and begin
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life‚ at all costs. The men of the Forth Texas Battalion‚ Confederate States of America (CSA) were by no means different. These Texas Soldiers of the 4th Infantry were part of over 70‚000 Texans that would take up arms in support of the Confederate Army during the Civil War. The state required that all able bodied men 18 to 45 years old enlist in the Army. These particular Texans had a deep reputation to uphold. When
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backpacks‚ pockets full‚ belts holding personal equipment and various weapons‚ sometimes weighing over 80 pounds. Up and down mountainous terrains‚ rivers‚ and villages the soldiers in the fields were ready for any orders that came down from their Battalion Commanders. These infantry soldiers were sleep deprived‚ hungry‚ diseased but pushed on by the rules of war and ready for any circumstances even
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Website | Official Website of the Indian Army | Commanders | Chief of the Army Staff | General Bikram Singh[1] | Notable commanders | General Thimayya Field Marshal Cariappa Field Marshal Manekshaw | Soldiers from the 4th Rajput Infantry Battalion of the Indian Army handling INSAS rifles during a training mission. The Indian Army (IA‚ Hindi: भारतीय थलसेना‚ Bhāratīya Thalasēnā) is the land-based branch and the largest component of the Indian Armed Forces. ThePresident of India is the Commander-in-Chief
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example of this is when our 800 soldier battalion gets alerted for state emergencies. The first one to be alerted is our Battalion Commander‚ he in turn calls all six of his company commanders who are in charge of approximately 130 soldiers. The company commanders call their three platoon leaders who call their squad leaders‚ who are in charge of approximately 10 soldiers. All this is going on throughout the battalion simultaneously. The result is that our battalion is ready to move to an emergency within
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Airborne Division‚ by January 2002 I was standing in front of the Battalion Commander’s desk being read my second Field Grade Article 15 in seventy days. I was being demoted to Private First Class‚ being sent to Correctional Custody in Camp Lejeune‚ South Carolina for thirty days and being moved to a new company when I returned. The first field grade was for disobeying a lawful order from three senior NCO’s‚ the Brigade CSM‚ Battalion CSM‚ and my Platoon Sergeant. They had all told me in the same day
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