Honor Purple Heart Combat Medical Badge Expert Marksmanship Badge Biography Cont. Clarence Sasser was drafted into the United States Army after giving up his college deferment at the University of Houston. PFC Sasser was attached to A CO‚ 3rd Battalion‚ 60th Infantry Regiment as a Medical Aidman in Vietnam in late September 1967. On January 10th‚ 1967 he was hit by Shrapnel from an exploding rocket; shot in both legs by machine gun and continue to treat injured soldiers despite his injury
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proficiently and thoroughly. The leaders who step up when it is needed and when it is not to be able to build trust in one another and earn the respect of his peers. A Message to Garcia highlights a prime example of the leadership that is need in a battalion‚ company‚ platoon and squad sized element‚ as well as the society we live
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ATTENTION ATTENTION!! Allies and Germany faced off in the Argonne forest!! The battle was on September 26 through November 11 in 1918. The battle was located in Argonne Forest in France on the Western Front. This is one of the greatest and largest battle ever fought in American history! This battle was a muddy‚ rainy battle with barbed wire and lots of machine guns. Germans had been fortifying the Argonne Forest since 1915. Germans Army objective was to control the railroad hub at Sedan that
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We Were Soldiers Once... and Young Ia Drang- the battle that changed the War in Vietnam By: Lt. Gen Harold G. Moore (Ret.) and Joseph L. Galloway The Random House Publishing Group‚ 1992 Steve Heiser U.S. History since 1865/4:45W Dr. Luccioni October 24‚ 2012 I chose this book for my first book review for a few reasons. First‚ to bring to light and to honor the memory of Command Sergeant Major Basil L. Plumley‚ who recently passed away on October 10‚ 2012. He is a true inspiration
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Puerto Rican unit to serve in the U.S. military service; enacted by the congress on March 2‚ 1899‚ a year after United States took possession of Puerto Rico from Spain. The battalion composition was four companies of around 400 volunteer’s infantries and their primary mission was the defense of the island. After a year‚ the battalion developed a regiment size. On May 27‚ 1908‚ a congress’s reenactment made the 65th Infantry Regiment part of the U.S. Army. They took part in World War I (WWI)‚ WWII and
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2. It was a country geographically isolated by thick jungles and malaria-infested mountain ranges on its east‚ west‚ and north borders. Besides some oil reserves‚ the country possessed few natural resources and had little strategic value. Perhaps‚ Slim gives the best description of Burma when he states‚ “It could fairly be described as some of the world’s worst country‚ breeding the world’s worst diseases‚ and having for half the year at least the world’s worst climate.” It was an area that no one
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believe the full range leadership model is best suited for my next appointment and I need to balance the range of styles between transactional and transformational so that I can effectively communicate and lead as a Officer Commanding (CO) of a Battalion. Reaching for transformational leadership style will likely to yield a positive and longer-lasting effects. Leadership‚ Management and Command Figure 2: Relationship of LMC in the Military Context14 Other than SAF 24-7 Leadership Framework
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In December 1981 soldiers of the Salvadoran Army’s select‚ American-trained Atlacatl Battalion entered the village of El Mozote‚ where they murdered hundreds of men‚ women‚ and children‚ often by decapitation. Although reports of the massacre -- and photographs of its victims -- appeared in the United States‚ the Reagan administration quickly dismissed them as propaganda. In the end‚ El Mozote was forgotten. The war in El Salvador continued‚ with American funding. When Mark Danner’s reconstruction
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The BDF has three infantry battalions‚ three armor battalions‚ and one artillery group‚ composed of 15‚000 frontline Soldiers and 112‚500 active reserve Soldiers. On March 26‚ 2008‚ Bahrain assessed a need for Patriot to cover the island. The King hoped the U.S. would provide one‚ while Bahrain
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The political and military policies of a decaying Spain and the emerging regional power of the United States at the end of the nineteenth century‚ however‚ placed Puerto Rico‚ along with Cuba‚ at center stage in the Caribbean. Out of all the colonies under Spanish rule‚ the island of Puerto Rico was the only one to never obtain its own independence. The final quarter of the nineteenth century carried dramatic radical‚ social‚ and financial alterations to the island‚ setting the tone for the advancement
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