by the Drill instructor Staff Sergeant McKeon. The terrible incident that occurred in Ribbon Creek on April 8 1956 can be attributed to two major factors discipline of the recruits and the leadership of Staff Sergeant McKeon. The choice to take the march through the swamp lands was made with good intentions by a leader who was worried about the increasingly deteriorating discipline of his recruits. The other facts surrounding the incident show the reader the flaws in McKeon as a leader, one such negative