essay you will read about Sergeant First Class Rob Gallagher and Sergeant First Class Jeff Fenlason, their leadership abilities, and the techniques they attempted to use to resolve the issues in this Platoon that was in a downward spiral after losing many leaders to the hell of war.
Revolving Leaders Regardless of the purpose, size, or longevity of an organization, managing changes in its leadership is often difficult. In the Navy, due to the regulatory in changing duty stations by its personnel, leadership change occurs more frequent than within the civilian sector. At the AEGIS Training and Readiness Center (ATRC), a naval training command, this duty station is presented with an even harder leadership frequency change. The schoolhouse is the most advanced naval training
Oliver Stone is best known from his portrayals of Vietnam in film. His movies “Platoon” and “Born on the Fourth of July” have won him Academy Awards for best director. These movies not only depicted the violence of war, but also the cultural and psychological issues that the soldiers in these wars had to endure. The majority of his earliest and best known movies center around the Vietnam War. Oliver Stone’s experience in the military gave him a special insight that made his movies feel more authentic
Full Metal Jacket and Platoon are clearly two of the biggest movies ever made about the Vietnam War; therefore, they will always be compared and contrasted to each other. Platoon was based on Oliver Stone’s own experience so he used simple war movie techniques to give a realistic sense of what jungle warfare was like. Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket was based on Gustav Hasford’s experience, but Kubrick wanted to use the story to explore what made people into killers. These two films take very different
discipline were needed to survive and be combat effective in adverse situations. Throughout the battle you see numerous Army Values and Warrior Ethos being used. “I will never leave a fallen comrade”, was the etho used the most, to reach the separated platoon. The battle also shows that not all tactical orders are effective, but as leader you must never second guess yourself.
to learn how to be the best platoon leader is by talking to lieutenants who are going through the experience. During my CTLT at Ft. Richardson, Alaska, I was able to absorb the vast amount of knowledge my platoon leader gave to me. I discovered what a day-to-day schedule looked like and how to appropriately interact with NCOs within the platoon. During my time, the platoon I was shadowing conducted a platoon live fire. Watching how to platoon leader and platoon sergeant both took control of their
War in 1968. He served as an infantryman, and obtained the rank of sergeant and won a Purple Heart after being wounded by shrapnel. He was discharged from the Vietnam War in 1970. I believe that O’Brien’s own images and past experiences he encountered in the Vietnam War gave him inspiration to write the story “The Things They Carried.” O’Brien tells the story in third person narrative form about Lt. Jimmy Cross and his platoon of young American men in the Vietnam War. In “The Things They Carried”
morality” (439). The epitomes of a good soldier are characters such as Sergeant Elias (Platoon), Captain John Miller (Saving Private Ryan), and any number of the main characters from war novels such as With the Old Breed, The Bridges at Toko-Ri, and Black Hawk Down. These good soldiers fight for their country and brotherhood. Those that are the levelheaded father figures are praised while characters such as Sergeant Barnes (Platoon) are criticized for their aggressive and sometimes violent behavior
The book Black Hearts begins by painting an awful picture of a crime scene that was reported to 1st platoon Bravo Company of the 1-502nd 101st Airborne Division. The soldiers that are sent to investigate find that an entire family has been murdered, the daughter had been raped, and someone attempted to set the house ablaze, the family had all been killed in a seemingly brutal execution, while investigating one of the NCOs found a shotgun shell which he thought was strange because most Iraqis do
developed and continuously adapts to these types of threats by employing CBRN Defense. Under this system, CBRN reconnaissance operations were established to observe an area to locate and identify any possible contamination. Managed by CBRN reconnaissance platoons, these operations remain one of the most important defense principles of contamination avoidance. CBRN Reconnaissance Key Mobile Detection Systems In 1995, the Fox M93A1 Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Reconnaissance System (NBCRS) was developed
The book Black Hearts by Jim Frederick is an in-depth narrative about the 1st platoon, Bravo Company 1-502nd Infantry 101st Airborne Division deployed to Iraq in 2005. The leadership failures documented in this book range all the way from the general officer level down to the lowest private. LT general Ricardo Sanchez failed to understand the climate his command group was entering as they were deployed into Iraq. From then on the entire leadership failures continued to compound upon each other with
Western Front, the character Corporal Himmelstoss is portrayed as a disciplinary, brutal, and sympathetic type of person in the training camps. Although prior to his position as a trainer he was a postman. Corporal Himmelstoss is in charge of No. 9 platoon. His petite size and the sleek moustache is not intimidating at first, until he displays his strict side towards the young soldiers. The brutal strictness of discipline that the corporal is known for changes once he has a taste of the frontlines
There are many similarities from the novel Fallen Angels and the movie Platoon. Both Platoon and Fallen Angels took place during the Vietnam War. Fallen Angels and Platoon are similar in the protagonists, the settings, and the climax. The protagonists in Fallen Angels and Platoon are very similar. In Fallen Angel the protagonists name Richie Perry and in Platoon the main character is named Chris Taylor. They are both fighting in the Vietnam War. Perry and Taylor’s reaction to the aspects of war
Iraq, specifically the second battle of Fallujah in November 2004. Born in New York, the staff sergeant joined the war with the desire to be the guy who would play John Wayne in charge of the machine-gun nests as shown in the movies. Over the course of this novel, Bellavia successfully emulates John Wayne’s traits as a hero. He demonstrates valor and instinct leadership as he leads his third platoon into kill zones constructed by Fallujah’s militant insurgents. He uses his past relationship with
I guess you could say “protected” us from the relentless tasking’s that came from regiment. The new Commander, however, must have been wronged in his past by an element of mortars as he would rarely allow the line platoons to accept tasking’s that would separate his platoons for periods of time. After several relentless months of seeing my soldiers for short spurts of time I began to see the change begin. Begin to see the soldiers that I had trained, the soldiers that would never make mistakes
Hood where I pinned SFC. While at Ft. Hood, I coached my BDE Softball Team to a post championship. I later applied to OCS and was accepted, commissioned, and currently serve as a Military Police Platoon Leader at Ft. Bragg. Military Police Platoon leadership has been the most invaluable time throughout my career due to planning law enforcement missions, patrolling with my Soldiers, and developing as an officer. These skills I have developed have shaped me into the leader
First time out of the wire and on patrol but not with first platoon, First Sergeant moved me to second platoon just the day before. The night insertion that we conducted that night went without a hitch. The soldiers that were in my truck took turns throughout the night behind the weapons system which was an M-240B. At zero eight in the morning of the next day patrols started around the bazaar by the dismounted troops. I was coupled with the PL* and conducted familiarization patrols so that I could
The book opens with a squad of soldiers running a tactical control point just outside of a village called Yusufiyah. They are approached when a man Abu Muhammad had found his cousins family brutally murdered not too far off. Sgt. Tony Yribe and 3 others went to go investigate it. Although it was a terrible scene Sgt. Yribe had just assumed that it was like most other situations in Iraq in that the family was a victim of Iraqis attacking other Iraqis. The one thing that bothered him was that there
course, but I was not going to go TI a procedure. I was not going to go conduct an APART. I would directly supervise my direct subordinates, and so set the tone for those sections. As a Platoon Leader, I directly supervised, as well as partnered with, my Platoon Sergeant, my UAS Technician and my Maintenance Section Sergeant. What has remained my primary responsibility with all of these senior NCOs and WOs? Cultivation and development. The tactics you use to address issues may change, the level of organization
During the 1-502nd’s time at the Joint Readiness Training Center (JRTC) and the National Training Center, both places designed to simulate wartime situations) we see the relationship LTC Tom Kunk develops with his Company Commanders and their First Sergeants. Kunk was a tough leader to deal with, and mostly all of his commanders did not agree with the way he treated them or fostered their development. In the next section of the book Frederick explains area of operation, the 1st battalions occupation