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Platoon Leader

Author : James R. McDonough
Publisher : Presidio Press
ISBN 13 : 0307416380
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Platoon Leader written by James R. McDonough and published by Presidio Press. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A remarkable memoir of small-unit leadership and the coming of age of a young soldier in combat in Vietnam.' "Using a lean style and a sense of pacing drawn from the tautest of novels, McDonough has produced a gripping account of his first command, a U.S. platoon taking part in the 'strategic hamlet' program. . . . Rather than present a potpourri of combat yarns. . . McDonough has focused a seasoned storyteller’s eye on the details, people, and incidents that best communicate a visceral feel of command under fire. . . . For the author’s honesty and literary craftsmanship, Platoon Leader seems destined to be read for a long time by second lieutenants trying to prepare for the future, veterans trying to remember the past, and civilians trying to understand what the profession of arms is all about.”–Army Times

Boy Sergeant

Author : Doug Warden
Publisher : Tate Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1616639687
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (166 download)

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Download or read book Boy Sergeant written by Doug Warden and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A college dropout who was drafted to serve his country, Doug Warden was barely 20 years old when he arrived in Vietnam in 1967 as a private first class. He was 'green as a gourd' in the ways of warfare, but he stayed alive, listened and learned from his platoon leader and became a capable leader. He was first a rifleman, then a few days later, a Radio Telephone Operator for his platoon leader and then for his company commander. He gave up the relative safety of serving in the company command post to return to his platoon. He became a squad leader, platoon sergeant, and platoon leader in a remarkable short period of time. He would return to the states a staff sergeant with 5 months time in grade. Along the way, Doug became one of the most decorated soldiers in the 1st Battalion, 12th Cavalry. He was awarded two Silver Stars for gallantry in action, the Bronze Star for Heroism, the Soldier's Medal, the Air Medal, the Army Commendation Medal, three Purple Hearts, the Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry, and the Valorous Unit Award for his service in Vietnam. In addition, he earned the Combat Infantry Badge and the Parachutist Badge.

Platoon Sergeant's Story

Author : Dewey Taylor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781795415323
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (153 download)

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Download or read book Platoon Sergeant's Story written by Dewey Taylor and published by . This book was released on 2019-02-07 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I didn't read my dairies until 22 years after the war. As I was reading my diaries, I noticed I had so much detailed information in them that I started reliving those days. I started typing the journals into my story. The "Platoon Sergeant's Story, Book 1 - Operation Desert Shield," and "Platoon Sergeant's Story, Book 2 - Operation Desert Storm." Although well documented, accurate to the best of my recollection, it is the history of the Men and Women of the 236th Medical Company and those who were attached to our unit. It also gives the account for each day. It has been a lot of work, research putting it all together, and with the addition of pictures - A true story.

First Platoon

Author : Annie Jacobsen
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1524746665
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (247 download)

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Download or read book First Platoon written by Annie Jacobsen and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful story of war in our time, of love of country, the experience of tragedy, and a platoon at the center of it all. This is a story that starts off close and goes very big. The initial part of the story might sound familiar at first: it is about a platoon of mostly nineteen-year-old boys sent to Afghanistan, and an experience that ends abruptly in catastrophe. Their part of the story folds into the next: inexorably linked to those soldiers and never comprehensively reported before is the U.S. Department of Defense’s quest to build the world’s most powerful biometrics database, with the ability to identify, monitor, catalog, and police people all over the world. First Platoon is an American saga that illuminates a transformation of society made possible by this new technology. Part war story, part legal drama, it is about identity in the age of identification. About humanity—physical bravery, trauma, PTSD, a yearning to do right and good—in the age of biometrics, which reduce people to iris scans, fingerprint scans, voice patterning, detection by odor, gait, and more. And about the power of point of view in a burgeoning surveillance state. Based on hundreds of formerly classified documents, FOIA requests, and exclusive interviews, First Platoon is an investigative exposé by a master chronicler of government secrets. First Platoon reveals a post–9/11 Pentagon whose identification machines have grown more capable than the humans who must make sense of them. A Pentagon so powerful it can cover up its own internal mistakes in pursuit of endless wars. And a people at its mercy, in its last moments before a fundamental change so complete it might be impossible to take back.

Red Platoon

Author : Clinton Romesha
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698404157
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (984 download)

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Download or read book Red Platoon written by Clinton Romesha and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-05-03 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The only comprehensive, firsthand account of the fourteen-hour firefight at the Battle of Keating in Afghanistan by Medal of Honor recipient Clinton Romesha, for readers of Black Hawk Down by Mark Bowden and Lone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell. “‘It doesn't get better.’ To us, that phrase nailed one of the essential truths, maybe even the essential truth, about being stuck at an outpost whose strategic and tactical vulnerabilities were so glaringly obvious to every soldier who had ever set foot in that place that the name itself—Keating—had become a kind of backhanded joke.” In 2009, Clinton Romesha of Red Platoon and the rest of the Black Knight Troop were preparing to shut down Command Outpost (COP) Keating, the most remote and inaccessible in a string of bases built by the US military in Nuristan and Kunar in the hope of preventing Taliban insurgents from moving freely back and forth between Afghanistan and Pakistan. Three years after its construction, the army was finally ready to concede what the men on the ground had known immediately: it was simply too isolated and too dangerous to defend. On October 3, 2009, after years of constant smaller attacks, the Taliban finally decided to throw everything they had at Keating. The ensuing fourteen-hour battle—and eventual victory—cost eight men their lives. Red Platoon is the riveting firsthand account of the Battle of Keating, told by Romesha, who spearheaded both the defense of the outpost and the counterattack that drove the Taliban back beyond the wire and received the Medal of Honor for his actions.

The Sergeants Major of the Army

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Sergeants Major of the Army written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Shake 'n Bake Sergeant

Author : Jerry S. Horton
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781425144517
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (445 download)

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Download or read book The Shake 'n Bake Sergeant written by Jerry S. Horton and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2007-08-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unforgettable mixture of vivid realism, poignant sadness and unexpected humor. Once you begin reading The Shake 'n Bake Sergeant, you will find it hard to put it down. See www.shakenbakesergeant.com.

Platoon Sergeant's Diaries

Author : Dewey Taylor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book Platoon Sergeant's Diaries written by Dewey Taylor and published by . This book was released on 2019-10 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My diaries about the events and personnel I served along with during Operation Desert Shield. This book has LARGE 16 font PRINT, with Color Photos, 8.5x11 inches, Coffee Table/Text Book size, easy to handle and read. "Platoon Sergeant's Diaries, Book 1 Operation Desert Shield begins with our Medevac Company deployed to Saudi Arabia. Saddam Hussein threatened; he has a present for the U.S. Troops. We are at Treat Level D. One of our helicopters landed at the wrong location and got detained at gunpoint. The night our company evacuated, to the last day of Operation Desert Shield, and much more. Book 1 Operation Desert Shield, continue with "Platoon Sergeant Diaries, Book 2, Operation Desert Storm," the day the war began. Since Diary 2 come with a large 16 font print, it would be a heavy book to handle; therefore, I have broken it down into Book 2, Book 3, and Book 4 for your enjoyment. This book is the Combat History of the 236th Medical Company and those attached to our unit. It gives accounts for each day. It is a true story, and I am honor to have served with these great Soldiers. They will always be family and my Brothers and Sisters in Arms.

Platoon Leader

Author : James R. McDonough
Publisher : Presidio Press
ISBN 13 : 0891418008
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book Platoon Leader written by James R. McDonough and published by Presidio Press. This book was released on 2003-02-04 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A remarkable memoir of small-unit leadership and the coming of age of a young soldier in combat in Vietnam.' "Using a lean style and a sense of pacing drawn from the tautest of novels, McDonough has produced a gripping account of his first command, a U.S. platoon taking part in the 'strategic hamlet' program. . . . Rather than present a potpourri of combat yarns. . . McDonough has focused a seasoned storyteller’s eye on the details, people, and incidents that best communicate a visceral feel of command under fire. . . . For the author’s honesty and literary craftsmanship, Platoon Leader seems destined to be read for a long time by second lieutenants trying to prepare for the future, veterans trying to remember the past, and civilians trying to understand what the profession of arms is all about.”–Army Times

Black Hearts

Author : Jim Frederick
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307450988
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Black Hearts written by Jim Frederick and published by Crown. This book was released on 2010-02-09 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Riveting. . . a testament to a misconceived war, and to the ease with which ordinary men, under certain conditions, can transform into monsters.”—New York Times Book Review This is the story of a small group of soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division’s fabled 502nd Infantry Regiment—a unit known as “the Black Heart Brigade.” Deployed in late 2005 to Iraq’s so-called Triangle of Death, a veritable meat grinder just south of Baghdad, the Black Hearts found themselves in arguably the country’s most dangerous location at its most dangerous time. Hit by near-daily mortars, gunfire, and roadside bomb attacks, suffering from a particularly heavy death toll, and enduring a chronic breakdown in leadership, members of one Black Heart platoon—1st Platoon, Bravo Company, 1st Battalion—descended, over their year-long tour of duty, into a tailspin of poor discipline, substance abuse, and brutality. Four 1st Platoon soldiers would perpetrate one of the most heinous war crimes U.S. forces have committed during the Iraq War—the rape of a fourteen-year-old Iraqi girl and the cold-blooded execution of her and her family. Three other 1st Platoon soldiers would be overrun at a remote outpost—one killed immediately and two taken from the scene, their mutilated corpses found days later booby-trapped with explosives. Black Hearts is an unflinching account of the epic, tragic deployment of 1st Platoon. Drawing on hundreds of hours of in-depth interviews with Black Heart soldiers and first-hand reporting from the Triangle of Death, Black Hearts is a timeless story about men in combat and the fragility of character in the savage crucible of warfare. But it is also a timely warning of new dangers emerging in the way American soldiers are led on the battlefields of the twenty-first century.

A Platoon Leader's Tour

Author : Nate Self
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1477299432
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (772 download)

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Download or read book A Platoon Leader's Tour written by Nate Self and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-12-28 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Platoon Leaders Tour (The PL Book): This book is an on-the-ground view of U.S. Army combat in Iraq sourced from in-country interviews of this generation's Platoon Leaders from 2003-2008. The combat vignettes of former Platoon Leaders flow along the arc of a typical 12-month tour in Iraq. The authors selected stories that reflect the common challenges of young combat leaders, including: -Taking Charge -Making First Contact with the Enemy -Engaging the Local Populace -Interacting with Indigenous Forces -Use of Force -Operating in a Complex/Chaotic Environment -Facing Personnel Challenges -Making Moral/Ethical Decisions -Leading in Battle -Dealing with Death -Sustaining the Will to Fight -Leading Emotionally-Charged Soldiers -Adapting to Unfamiliar/Non-Standard Missions The book was developed by the U.S. Armys Center for Company-level Leaders at West Point in conjunction with the U.S. Army Studies Program and U.S. Army Research Institute. Interviews, writing, and editing of the stories was conducted by Pete Kilner, Nate Allen, Nate Self, and Anthony Lupo.

Platoon: Bravo Company

Author : Robert Hemphill
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312976576
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (765 download)

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Download or read book Platoon: Bravo Company written by Robert Hemphill and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2001-06-15 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The commanding officer of Bravo Company, 3rd Battalion, 25th Infantry Division--the same unit director Oliver Stone fought in and presumably based his Oscar-winning film "Platoon"--tells how he assumed command of the unit in Vietnam, and how it engaged in horrific fighting in the 1968 Tet Offensive. Photos.

Green Banana Stories

Author : Edwin C. Barnett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781450724944
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (249 download)

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Download or read book Green Banana Stories written by Edwin C. Barnett and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Twins Platoon

Author : Christy W. Sauro
Publisher : Quarto Publishing Group USA
ISBN 13 : 1616737530
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (167 download)

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Download or read book The Twins Platoon written by Christy W. Sauro and published by Quarto Publishing Group USA. This book was released on 2010-11-10 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A US Marine veteran recounts the experiences of his platoon in the Vietnam War following their enlistment at a Minnesota Twins baseball game. In the evening of June 28, 1967, 150 young Americans were sworn into the Marine Corps as part of the pre-game ceremonies of a Minnesota Twins baseball game. Before the end of the fourth inning these volunteers were being hustled on to buses, on their way to boot camp. It was a journey that would take them from a boyhood of baseball in the American heartland to manhood on the killing fields of Vietnam. Christy Sauro was one of the Twins Platoon, and in this book, he tells what it was like—from the pomp and ceremony of induction to the all-too-real initiation by fire that would shortly follow. In mere months, he and most of the Twins Platoon were on the ground in Vietnam and promptly faced with some of the toughest fighting of the war: the Siege of Khe Sanh and the Tet Offensive, including the brutal Battle for Hue. From baseball to boot camp to brutal combat, his is a firsthand story of American life being lived at the limits—and changed forever. Praise for The Twins Platoon “[Sauro’s] jarring memoir takes you to some of the craziest fighting in the war. . . . The tales of Marines falling to the bullets and artillery of the enemy are truly heartbreaking.” —Military Book Club “Sauro’s modest study of 150 men from Minnesota who enlisted in 1967 adds respectably to the literature of the Vietnam War. . . . Based on extensive interviews with a cross section of the surviving veterans, the book makes rather grim reading. But then, it’s about young Americans in a rather grim war.” —Booklist “The Twins Platoon is a remarkable achievement, and Christy W. Sauro Jr. is to be commended for the single-mindedness and determination that enabled him to write it.” —Leatherneck Magazine

V-2/8

Author : Jose Herrera
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781546766940
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (669 download)

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Download or read book V-2/8 written by Jose Herrera and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-05-31 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: V 2/8 A Fox Co. 1st Platoon is a journey of words that follows a series of events from 2009-2011. War is a subject we often see depicted as nostalgic clich� scenes in a film. We read or hear about all the flowery parts that encompass war, but no one really talks about platoon politics. What happens when the good guys become the villains? When PFC Donald Wayne Vincent died, Corporal Herrera thought he knew absolute hate and anger. It was only a precursor to what truly lay ahead. He vowed for revenge! Herrera stared into the shrapnel ridden face of his enemy as his dark journey unfolded. Two weeks into his 3rd combat tour something far deadlier began brewing. 1st Platoon, from two time periods, had suffered at the hands of "careerists." Marine personnel only interested in the advancement of their careers, all the while undermining 1st Platoon's embodiment as Marines. Revenge becomes the agenda as 1st Platoon is dosed with the death of a brother, Sergeant Joseph Garrison. Revenge towards the cowardly careerists and Taliban. This is a tale of brotherhood, justice, and love, that comes with the highest price ever paid, life.

The First 100 Days of Platoon Leadership - Handbook (Lessons and Best Practices)

Author : U. S. Army
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 9781678184230
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (842 download)

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Download or read book The First 100 Days of Platoon Leadership - Handbook (Lessons and Best Practices) written by U. S. Army and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2020-03 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The platoon leader and platoon sergeant are two of the most important leaders in the U.S. Army. The way platoon leaders and sergeants work together as a team can cause the success or failure of companies, battalions, brigades, and divisions. They represent the leading edge of leadership on and off the battlefield. On the battlefield, platoon leaders and sergeants build their platoons, empower squad leaders, integrate outside elements, and use troop-leading procedures to plan and lead. Off the battlefield, platoon leaders and sergeants prepare their platoon for combat through tough training. The platoon leader and platoon sergeant's ability to coach, teach, and mentor their Soldiers leads directly to the readiness of our formations. World-wide, platoon leaders and sergeants are personally leading the U.S. Army at the lowest level. This handbook is a guide for new leaders to help prepare them for a critical crucible of leadership that will determine the U.S. Army's ability to fight and win our country's wars.

Tears of Honor

Author : Larry Henderson
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1449083161
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Tears of Honor written by Larry Henderson and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of this book used the book as a therapeutic attempt to get his experiences out. Instead of keeping them all bottled in. He writes about everything from roadside bombs, small arms fire, and how he deals with the stress of returning to America after a horrific tour in the desert of the middle east. He shows patriotism and wants to keep his Lieutenant's memory alive. POW, MIA, KIA, you are not forgotten!