Captain Tony Lane - Original Writing

His unit was performing well and morale was high, but he realized that he still has a lot to learn about leadership. That summer one of his Lieutenants approached him about a soldier he refers to as Garcia. He tells Captain Franks that Garcia is always late for the morning formation and that the night before he cussed him out. Handing Captain Franks Garcia’s paperwork he said he was recommending Garcia for a Court Marshal. As Captain Franks looked over the personnel folder he realized that there was something wrong; Garcia had recently re-enlisted, earned a GED, and had been nominated for Soldier of the Quarter. He calls Garcia into his office and asks him what was wrong. Garcia’s mannerisms and clear disrespect were readily apparent. Captain Franks gets straight to the point and asks Garcia what his problem is. After hearing a gut wrenching story of Garcia requesting leave through the chain of command to return to the states for his Grandmothers funeral and being denied because he was too important to the team to let go, then a subsequent request for leave, after his younger brother was murdered, again being denied for the same reason, and the emotional anguish that Garcia was going through Captain Franks was deeply moved. This is the point that he begins a change into a transformational leader. At that moment he put his arm around Garcia and states “What happened is my fault. I know

In the book,”Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of Seal Team 10”, Marcus Luttrell recreates what happened to him and Seal Team 10 during Operation Redwing in order to help preserve the events that transpired during the mission and to aswell honor the men who lost their lives while operating within it.

Moreover, during an extensive struggle on the Morris island, a lot of numbers of torpedoes were being used by the rebels in defense of Fort Wagner. In one of the huge explosions, a corporal of the 3rd colored troops was thrown about 25 yards. “the dead soldier landed entirely naked, with arm resting on the plunger of another torpedo.”

It seemed like ages before he was free. He ran back towards the British line, expecting at any moment to feel a bullet rip through him. Then, out of the blue, a single shot rumbled across the dormant battlefield. Ed spun around just in time to see the German commander’s pistol smoking. The machine gunner who had spared his life was slumped over, motionless.

On the night of May 9th 200 Green Mountain Boys assembled under Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold to capture Fort Ticonderoga. However only a small portion of the men could cross the lake to capture the fort as there weren’t enough boats for all the men. Fearful of losing the element of surprise Allen and Arnold decided to attack with their small force. With only one sentry on duty the colonists stormed the fort waking the men at gunpoint and disarming them. The captain was roused from his chambers and surrendered his sword peacefully, with nobody dying during the assault.

General Magnus had promoted Lt Layton to full Colonel and made him his new Executive Officer/ the other one had been killed by a sniper a week earlier. General Magnus knew it was those SF bastards because the round was a .50 Caliber and had to have been fired from an M107 possibly a mile or so away. It gave everyone pause, thinking now that every single senior officer was a target. What they didn’t know was that it was one of the 28th ID scout platoons that took the shot. Some of them had gone to

Mr. Erickson and Pfc Smith were in a long war that almost killed them both.Mr. Erickson and Pfc Smith took fire from the enemies. In Stop the Sun story Mr. Erickson said, “ So we were crossing the paddy and started to take fire from all sides.’’ ’’Pfc Smith told the news reporter “A human wave attack took the hill and most of the

While on Patrol the platoon hears Viet Cong singing resulting in the U.S. opening fire. During the fire fight Lieutenant Carrol was killed. He was hit under the arm. Sergeant Simpson asked Perry to write a letter home to his family informing the family of Carrol death. Captain Stewart liked the letter Perry wrote to Carrols family. Lobel is blaming himself for the death of Lieutenant Carrol. From the fight, they have a Viet Cong in custody from the Second platoon. Peewee receives a letter from Perry’s mom. Peewee didn’t really care to read the letter. The company received a new person named Turner. In another fire fight Perry was responsible for setting up the clay mores. However, when he did place the clay mores he placed them in the wrong direction. The Viet

Marco was in the invasion of Iraq in 2003. He went to Bagdad to fight. Marco was sent to the North of Bagdad to a small village called al-Tarmiyah to do recon. Marco and his battalion ran into the enemy. The marines were ambushed so his squad got out and ran 200 yards of terrain under enemy fire. Marco’s squad leader got hit by a piece of shrapnel and could not go on. Marco was next in line to be the leader.

BG Lane and three of his senior staff meet with the Admiral and the respective Captains of the Iowa and Hornet. They met to discuss the battle plan and what BG Lane was going to need from the Navy, which was more than eager to help. The Admiral stated they didn’t sail this far, under these conditions, to sit on their ass and watch. The meeting lasted several hours, for the General and his staff, they were able to get a nice hot meal and a shower before heading back. General Lane was satisfied with the battle plan, he knew there were a hundred different ways it could go wrong, they had covered every contingency they could think of. It was time now to get back to his Marines and get them ready to go and prepared to move out.

Many soldiers started digging fox holes to help them stay under cover while the machine guns and mortars fired away on the Allied forces that continued to pour onto the beach. Gardner wanted to check out the scene in front of him when all of the sudden he felt a large shock that only concluded that he had been hit. Gardner thought that this was his end because he realized he was in shock because he couldn’t talk to the people around him. Shocking enough, Gardner noticed that blood was everywhere and he didn’t even know where it was coming from. After quickly searching his body, he found his wound on his head where a large piece of his helmet was missing. He touched the wound beneath his helmet to realize that he felt something that as very squishy. Gardner completely thought the top of his skull had been blown off and that he was feeling his mushed brain. Gardner thought that he was going to die from his injuries, especially since the soldiers around him were looking at him with shock since his helmet and head had such a large wound on it. He was able to put a bandage on the wound, which helped the bleeding since it was very much out of control. As he sat in his foxhole, the other Americans didn’t seem to want to move forward after the large concrete wall was blown apart in front of them, but a group of British soldiers had fixated this problem by getting everyone to push forward to this cliff that hung under the pillbox machine gun nests. Even wounded, Gardner found the strength to push forward with the other soldiers to reach the cliff. The cliff was safer than the foxholes because the mortar fire wasn’t able to reach them as they waited for more

The blast had thrown both off their feet. There was mayhem everywhere. General Powell was temporarily deaf and blinded. His mind slowly began to place the pieces of sanity into place, General Powell found himself partly under some rubble. He did not understand what was happening and he could not distinguish between dream or reality. Of all his senses, it seemed that his olfactory sense had not been affected because he was stricken by the strong odor of kerosene or fuel of some kind. He wondered if perhaps a truck hauling kerosene or gasoline had accidentally exploded outside, after all there had been recent construction on that part of the Pentagon. His vision slowly returned, yet he was unable to hear anything. He started to look around only to be surprised by fires, smoke and mangled bodies and that overwhelming smell of kerosene. He called out for Major Perkins, but could not hear himself scream. Finally, after what seemed like an eternity, he struggled to get to his feet only to see the limp body of Major Adriana Perkins hunched over some rubble no more than 30 feet away. As he tried to get up and walk toward her, he got a sharp pain to his lower back which made it difficult and painful for General Powell to move his legs. He let out a scream in pain and fell to the ground and slowly crawled to Major Perkins’s side. The moment took General Powell back in time to the

He had metal shrapnel in his groin and wrist and a bullet wound in his leg. He was sent into a chopper with Brunner and lifted away. They were trying to save him but it was too late, he died. Perry was in the hospital for some time. The doctor told him he was lucky but then he wasn’t lucky. He was lucky to be alive but he wasn’t lucky because his wounds weren’t bad enough to be sent home. He was then issued to go back to his company. He went back and heard how Simpson was sent home. They got a new Sergeant, his name was Dongan. He was racist, he had Peewee take point all the time and Johnson with the 60 in the back. Those two places in the formation are the most dangerous because those two positions are at risk the most. Then a Vietnamese

On the night of september, 26 lcpl slade, lcpl pelcharsky and myself went out to the great town of iwakuni to get some nutriants for the night ahead. after eating at the sushi-go-round we decided to walk down to hill billy heaven where we would indulge some alcholic beverages and play ashort game of darts. soon after we made our way down to shenanigans to drink a little more and play more darts. when we walked in we saw sgt crumedy, cpl duncan, cpl herso, and cpl brunson so we decided to play darts and continue to drink. a couple of games later we left to underground garage.

Charlie Pace was born in 1979 to Simon and Megan Pace, and lived in Manchester, England. When Charlie was young, he was given a piano as a gift on Christmas Day, thus beginning his career in music. Charlie honed his musical talents by playing on the street for money, where he spotted a woman being mugged and saved her, prompting her to call him a hero. Sometime later, Charlie and his brother Liam had formed a band called Drive Shaft, and landed a record deal. Suddenly, Drive Shaft became extremely popular for their song "You All Everybody," although they were a one hit wonder. Liam, amidst their popularity and success, turned to heroin. On Christmas Day, while touring Finland, Liam gave Charlie a family heirloom, saying because of his addiction he would never have a family so it should go to Charlie. Eventually, though, Charlie became addicted to heroin. As the band 's fame began to decrease, Charlie sank further into his addiction. With Drive Shaft disbanded, Charlie resorted to theft to support his heroin addiction. He charmed a wealthy woman, Lucy, in order to rob her, but she learned of his intentions and left him as he began to develop real feelings for her. Charlie then traveled to Australia to persuade a sober Liam to rejoin the band.