Department of the Army Headquarters‚ United States Army Training and Doctrine Command Fort Monroe‚ Virginia 23651-1047 8 May 2007 Training *TRADOC Regulation 350-6 ENLISTED INITIAL ENTRY TRAINING (IET) POLICIES AND ADMINISTRATION History. This regulation is a rapid action revision. The portions affected by this rapid action revision are listed in the summary of change. Summary. This United States (U.S.) Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) Regulation 350-6 prescribes policies and procedures
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Towards the end of World War II in the European theater the Allies were pushing into Germany. The Third Army under the guidance of General Patton had made significant advances. General Patton was being glorified by the press for his successes commanding the US Third Army. His favorite armor division‚ the 4th Armored Division‚ had blazed at amazing speed into Germany and was known as “The Point.” Their advance had earned them a Presidential Distinguished Unit Citation1. General Patton’s confidence
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Honor Purple Heart Combat Medical Badge Expert Marksmanship Badge Biography Cont. Clarence Sasser was drafted into the United States Army after giving up his college deferment at the University of Houston. PFC Sasser was attached to A CO‚ 3rd Battalion‚ 60th Infantry Regiment as a Medical Aidman in Vietnam in late September 1967. On January 10th‚ 1967 he was hit by Shrapnel from an exploding rocket; shot in both legs by machine gun and continue to treat injured soldiers despite his injury
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We Were Soldiers Once... and Young Ia Drang- the battle that changed the War in Vietnam By: Lt. Gen Harold G. Moore (Ret.) and Joseph L. Galloway The Random House Publishing Group‚ 1992 Steve Heiser U.S. History since 1865/4:45W Dr. Luccioni October 24‚ 2012 I chose this book for my first book review for a few reasons. First‚ to bring to light and to honor the memory of Command Sergeant Major Basil L. Plumley‚ who recently passed away on October 10‚ 2012. He is a true inspiration
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proficiently and thoroughly. The leaders who step up when it is needed and when it is not to be able to build trust in one another and earn the respect of his peers. A Message to Garcia highlights a prime example of the leadership that is need in a battalion‚ company‚ platoon and squad sized element‚ as well as the society we live
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ATTENTION ATTENTION!! Allies and Germany faced off in the Argonne forest!! The battle was on September 26 through November 11 in 1918. The battle was located in Argonne Forest in France on the Western Front. This is one of the greatest and largest battle ever fought in American history! This battle was a muddy‚ rainy battle with barbed wire and lots of machine guns. Germans had been fortifying the Argonne Forest since 1915. Germans Army objective was to control the railroad hub at Sedan that
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The Ottoman empire began to suffer its first losses in the first world war as the Young Turks directly transmitted coded telegrams mandating the annihilation of the Armenian people. On the evening of April 24‚ 1915‚ and began schematically rounding up and as many as 300 Armenian intellectuals—political leaders‚ writer‚ educators‚ and religious leader in Constantinople—were violently taken from their homes‚ tortured‚ then hung or shot. The death marches lasted months‚ covered hundreds of miles‚
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Puerto Rican unit to serve in the U.S. military service; enacted by the congress on March 2‚ 1899‚ a year after United States took possession of Puerto Rico from Spain. The battalion composition was four companies of around 400 volunteer’s infantries and their primary mission was the defense of the island. After a year‚ the battalion developed a regiment size. On May 27‚ 1908‚ a congress’s reenactment made the 65th Infantry Regiment part of the U.S. Army. They took part in World War I (WWI)‚ WWII and
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2. It was a country geographically isolated by thick jungles and malaria-infested mountain ranges on its east‚ west‚ and north borders. Besides some oil reserves‚ the country possessed few natural resources and had little strategic value. Perhaps‚ Slim gives the best description of Burma when he states‚ “It could fairly be described as some of the world’s worst country‚ breeding the world’s worst diseases‚ and having for half the year at least the world’s worst climate.” It was an area that no one
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In December 1981 soldiers of the Salvadoran Army’s select‚ American-trained Atlacatl Battalion entered the village of El Mozote‚ where they murdered hundreds of men‚ women‚ and children‚ often by decapitation. Although reports of the massacre -- and photographs of its victims -- appeared in the United States‚ the Reagan administration quickly dismissed them as propaganda. In the end‚ El Mozote was forgotten. The war in El Salvador continued‚ with American funding. When Mark Danner’s reconstruction
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