more so than anything the war conjures factually. The three soldiers that carry this theme the most throughout the story are Jimmy Cross‚ Norman Bowker‚ and the story version of Tim O’Brien. 1. Jimmy Cross‚ as the leader of the main story’s platoon‚ physically carries a pistol‚ a special flashlight‚ a pebble‚ and letters from Martha. Emotionally Cross is constantly battling his love/hate interest in Martha while still trying to focus on his responsibility for his men. O’Brien makes it clear
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me‚ being courageous professionally is to know what your duty is in relation to yourself‚ the Army and the people you work with. For instance‚ soon I will be a second lieutenant. My duty in relation to the Army is to act as a moral compass for the platoon and to lead them to accomplish the mission at hand. To my soldiers it is to provide them with the training they need to make them successful‚ the support they need to accomplish the mission‚ and to ensure they understand what their duty is and what
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On May 7th 2006 I had just graduated Ranger school with my best friend in my platoon. We had both started the school as PFC’s and were immediately promoted to specialist after graduation. We also were moved into team leader positions as soon as we arrived back to our unit. At this point in time most of our platoon has been deployed at least once‚ either to Afghanistan in 2005 or the initial invasion of Iraq in 2003. Upon our arrival back to our unit we immediately went into training and preparation
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REACTION PAPER THE WOUNDED PLATOON Kevin Shields‚ a 24-year old Army Soldier‚ went out drinking with three Army buddies on November 30‚ 2007‚ from Fort Carson‚ Colorado‚ a base close to Colorado Springs. A few hours later‚ he was dead. He was shot twice in the head at close range and left by the side of the road by his army buddies. Shields’ violent murder accentuated one of many violent attacks committed by the three Army buddies‚ who are now serving time in
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Untold Story of “Nam” During the Vietnam War germen shepherds were needed to seek out mines‚ other booby traps‚ ambushes‚ etc...The government needed recruits and had high school students register to join the military. This is where Duke and Kyle came in. Duke was a germen shepherd for the military also known as K94324. He had a beautiful coat‚ the colors of his coat was mixed beautifully. He had a temper though‚ that’s why no one wanted to work with him. Anyone who got near Duke he would tear
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Having served in various leadership positions throughout a ten year military career‚ I can point to my appointment as a company commander as my most significant crucible experience. Although the vast majority officers prepare for this role relatively early in their career‚ my assignment to the position occurred abruptly‚ unexpectedly‚ and certainly imposed some traumatic qualities within my life at the time. These characteristics seem to fit Bennis and Thomas’ description of a crucible event. Furthermore
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one of these accountability formations pop up and they can tell the First Sergeant where you are. If your Sergeant doesn’t have accountability of you it makes the whole platoon look back even though its only one person at fault. It’s bad enough that you pissed off the First Sergeant but you should never wanna piss off the whole platoon for your actions. Theirs nothing wrong with taking sometime off from work but you should go through the proper channels to get leave or a pass to cover yourself.
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MOS SELECTION HANDBOOK CONTENTS PAGE Acknowledgements ………………………………………………………………. 3 MOS Assignment Process ………………………………………………... ……... 4 Supplementary MOS Program ………………………………………………….. 7 Promotion Information …………………………………………….……………. 8 MOS Descriptions ………………………………………………………………... 10 Adjutant ………………………...………………………………………… 11 Intelligence ……………………………………...………………………… 13 Infantry ……………………………………..…………………………..… 20 Logistics …………………………………………………….……….….… 22 Communications
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NAME: ______Kevin Daley____________________ # CORRECT: ___________ OUT OF 100 1. What are the 8 Troop Leading Procedures (FM 3-21.10‚ Figure 2-1): #1: Receive the Mission #5: Recon___________________ #2: issue the WARNO #6: complete the plan___ #3: Make a tentative plan #7 issue the plan___ #4: start necessary movement #8: _supervise___________ 2. The 5 components of a mission statement are: Who‚ What‚ When‚ Where‚ and Why. The What portion of the mission has
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this extracted material. The text may contain passive voice‚ misspellings‚ grammatical errors‚ etc.‚ and may not be in compliance with the Army Writing Style Program. "Prepare a Platoon SOP" You are a squad leader in 3rd Platoon. Your platoon sergeant gave you an order to write a platoon SOP for the entire platoon (16 personnel) for the M4 or M4A1 carbine’s weekly maintenance. • He instructed you to date the SOP with today’s date‚ your unit address and office file symbol‚ and to use the
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