Blackhearts: One Platoon’s Descent into Madness in Iraq’s Triangle of Death Mid-year of 2005, during the summer months, the 1-502nd journey begins with Lieutenant Colonel Kunk at Ft. Campbell, KY. Lieutenant Colonel Kunk receives his orders that he and his unit of high speed soldiers will deploy to Iraq later that year. Coalition forces were having a hard time maintaining order, all the while Iraq was becoming more and more unstable and unbalanced. American forces had brought Saddam Hussein and
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be 1st Platoon, 2d Platoon, 3d Platoon, and the command group. We are responsible for any bleed through elements. Our Scout Platoon needs to remain close to the rear of the forward elements. We must be ready to assume the attack if any other elements are unable to complete their assigned objectives. After TMs A & B achieve success we will secure the rear of the OBJ. We will have positions from the OBJs 6 - 12 o’clock. Deploying from AA TIGER, 1st Platoon will assume our left flank, 2d Platoon on the
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the beginning of the year I realized that NJROTC was something which I was quite good at. When it was brought to my attention by my Platoon Commander that we would be receiving what we called Dream Sheets where we wrote down our top five choices for NJROTC staff positions throughout the rest of our high school career I immediately decided that I wanted to be a Platoon Commander and was prepared to do anything it took to become
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nine authorized (55%). Sergeant First Class assists platoon leader in the planning, preparation, and execution of collective training activities of the platoon. Currently Howitzer Section Chief and Ammunition Section Chief filling two shortages in platoon sergeant positions vacant and one platoon sergeant shortage is still vacant. As a Cannon Crewmember Assists, it is imperative that we fill these platoon sergeant positions, so our platoons can operate autonomously.
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loco Mexican day, and yet I’m not home to drink a beer. Today consists of the Platoons’ day off, but as any normal day at COP Charkh, the Platoon could not be so fortunate to have a day off at all. At zero six hundred hours I took over force protection as the SOG* for three hours. After having breakfast- link sausage, hash browns, French toast, a biscuit and gravy with two orange juices, I wandered back to the platoon tent to obtain information about what the day had in store for my squad. As it
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bataha asl,ax, submitted by akjlksjd Republic of the Philippines Department of Local Interior Government NATIONAL POLICE COMMISSION NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS, PHILIPPINE NATIONAL POLICE OFFICE OF THE CHIEF, PNP Camp Crame, Quezon City (CORRECTED COPY) (odd-dpi) MEMORANDUM CIRCULAR NUMBER 2009-020A TO : The Deputy Chief, PNP for Operations Directors, Directorial Staff Regional Directors, PROs SUBJECT: GUIDELINES AND PROCEDURES ON THE RATIONALIZATION OF THE PHILIPPINES
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1. Overview. STARSHIP TROOPERS is the story of Johnnie “Juan” Rico and his transformation from high school student to a seasoned platoon commander in the Mobile Infantry, the space soldiers of the future. Juan’s story starts his senior year of high school. Juan’s best friend Carl intended to join the Federal Service in the electronics field, and Juan much to his parent’s disgust decides to go with Carl to the recruiter. There they meet a fellow classmate, Carmen who is signing up to be a pilot
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Coming from a low income family and growing in an agricultural world, I learned how to be independent by making my own resources and raising my own crops. My mother, my siblings and I still lived in Mexico while my father would travel to the United states(U.S.) back and forth bringing money. I thought I would always live in an agricultural world, but then one day my father came back from the United States with two game systems, Nintendo 64 and the Sega. Having that experience of what technology can
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the Army's official investigative office) and chaplains. They studied leaders and followers from the lowest three managerial levels in the U.S. Army: the typically nine-person squad (lowest level), the three- to four squad platoon (middle level), and the three- to four platoon company (highest level). Each level had its own leader who reported to the leader at the next higher level. The questionnaires were administered to members of the randomly selected units in person in small assemblies by Army
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culture of integrity for soldiers to emulate when they become leaders. During a recent deployment, our Task Force conducted a series of Joint Combined Exercise Training blocks to build relationships with foreign allies. One of the well-respected platoon leaders began writing inaccurate reports that embellished the positive points and left out the negative points to demonstrate his superior management skills. When others in the team were asked to review the reports and add their comments,no one agreed
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