General Moon Had Ordered The Special Operations

The scandal originates with the United States Marine Corps’ intent to increase production of the Osprey helicopter. The Marines found this type of aircraft to be ideal due to its unique abilities and wished to push for full development. In order to reach their goal, the Marines had to prove the Osprey was a reliable vehicle worth the extra funding to increase production. A requirement set forth to prove this was to have at least 80% readiness of the entire fleet of Ospreys at all times. (Flaherty & Ricks, "A Troubled Osprey Wounds the Corps; Pressures to Build a New Plane Led To Deception and Deadly Shortcuts”, 2001).

Among these leaders was Bravo Company’s 1st platoon’s SFC Robert Gallagher. The platoon endured terrible living conditions including no running water and filthy living space. These inadequate living conditions must be met with some relaxation on the standards they were expected to follow. Company leadership viewed this as a bribe to keep the soldiers in high spirits. In reality, they set the stage for the erosion of the morals the enlisted soldiers are supposed to possess. While the morals were being chipped away, so was the original plan the battalion had hoped to follow. Fragmentation orders became a pseudo-standard for the boys of Bravo Company. What had originally started as short-term overnight patrol bases turned into fortified traffic control points with the exception of any form of fortification other than in notion only. Despite the fact that platoon-level leadership requested for supplies they were repeatedly turned down. A major breakdown in the communication between the leadership created a loss in faith in the higher leadership for the lower-enlisted soldiers on the ground. Very soon into deployment, Bravo Company began to experience contact with unseen enemy forces. The enemy was able to engage and plant IED’s and cause casualties while remaining elusive. After the first few casualties within the company, the mission to start set up traffic control points was to begin. While conducting patrols down the road time and time

This is a great example of initiative, honor, courage, and commitment to the mission. This is a perfect example on how we must be on a day to day basis. Always putting the mission before self-comfort, to never question or object with whatever order or command you are given. Especially with us being in The United Stated Marine Corps, we should abide by these examples, and help others understand the importance of it as well. Everything that Captain Rowan did reflect our duty, our expectations, and our standards. Our duty as Marines to complete whatever mission is given to us, regardless of the objectives we may encounter throughout the way. To exceed the expectations they have for us, and to prove that no mission is impossible. One very important standard is to never strive for the bare minimum, but to always do everything to the best of our ability. We should always adapt and overcome in any given situation, and take initiative with good judgments. We should always work with what we got and do it with no hesitation, but most importantly, to go above and beyond the call of duty. Staying motivated and dedicated and applying Honor, Courage, and Commitment will take

Hunter Airfield Base in Savannah, Ga I stood there reticently facing my First Sergeant and Captain, being admonished by them. Months had passed and I haven’t recovered from the accident and it bothered them to the point that they had separation papers all laid out before me. My quiet attitude, begin to uproar a bit, I became vociferous pertaining to my career in the army. My career was coming to a screeching halt right before my eyes. My dreams of being an officer in the United States army, ever since I was a little girl was about to come to an end. “Pvt. Aaron, you are no longer physically, or mentally stable and you army being released from active duty.” Captain Mackenzie said. In my response, “Captain, First Sergeant, both of you denied my doctors convalescent leave and his rehabilitation orders for me and now you want to take my career from me too.” Then they proceeded and said “Sign here on this line Private and I didn’t know what else to do but sign. Didn’t know my rights or who to turn to. I was just as lost as a deer on a dark, dark, night in headlights and that’s just how lost I

This unit was practicing improper procedures for their soldiers were drinking, doing drugs, and visiting local brothels. From a tactical stand point the 48th infantry was no better in this aspect either. The patrols they conducted were inadequate and performed far from often. The area supposed to be under their control became dangerous because the insurgents moving in the area were virtually unchallenged. This was no feat for the 101st and 1st platoon because the 101st is a tactically sound unit that could establish control and a presence in the area but for soldiers that had to do so upon arrival when it was supposed to be maintained is not necessarily a good thing. The company commander of bravo, Cpt. Goodwin decided the best way to take back control of their area of operations is to have a three station cycle for his company. Each platoon would have a twenty-one day rotation at a different location carrying out a different task. The three tasks were to set up TCP on a main roads, set up a FOB and be the quick reaction force for the other platoons, and the third task was to patrol the city as per guidance from higher. The least liked job was manning the TCP’s. The soldiers did not like this job because they knew soldiers sitting in the open made for easy targets. The task of patrolling was no easy feat either, as stated earlier the previous unit left the city in poor conditions. The roads were filled with

It was in this environment that Kunk started belittling and micromanaging his company commanders and sowed the seeds of mistrust between the different companies and the headquarters unit. In defense of Kunk, the mission he received was going to be one of the most difficult missions during the Iraq war. Upon reaching their area of operations and conducting their battle hand-off, the problems already started to arise with Bravo Company. A majority of their leadership was wounded or killed in action, creating a power vacuum and a domino effect which were exacerbated by Kunk’s actions. Instead of providing support to his wounded company, Kunk belittled them and blamed them for the hardships that had befallen their comrades further driving a wedge of mistrust between Bravo Company and the head quarter’s element. Even with frequent changes in leadership, the casualties and problems continued to rise for Bravo Company, and living conditions for the soldiers reached deplorable levels. Being short-manned stretched the already limited resources causing personnel levels to be recklessly low for the various tasks the company received. This lack of men and lack of leadership cultivated the perfect environment for heinous criminals to act on their impulses. Company commanders complained, psychiatric evaluations were completed, recommendations were made that went unheeded and problems still

It went over the radio net that General Magnus had been captured and his CP destroyed by three Apache helicopters, which of course lead to many questions regarding where the helicopters came from. General Clayton and First Sergeant Diaz kept pushing through to the rear echelon units, many of not most of the units within the Army of the Potomac hadn’t heard of the capture of their commander. Even if General Clayton and the First Sergeant told every commander of the Army of the Potomac they came in contact with that General Magnus had been captured, they wouldn’t have believed them.

Many American hostage lives were on the line with just one military operation to save and bring them home. Yet, the failure of Operation Eagle Claw brought death to military personnel and shame to America. Operation Eagle Claw was a mission to end the hostage crisis in Iran which was in a political upraise against the United States. The planning of Operation Eagle Claw was too complex and planners over looked military aviation doctrine to hastily get the hostages safe. Operation Eagle Claw’s failure was due to prolonged American evacuation from Iran which led to a hasty complex plan that did not keep aviation doctrine in consideration which helped us learn how we need to rethink and conduct large scale military aviation operations.

Dan had his things ready for about a month now. He walked to the helicopter and checked it over for any things that could go wrong, filled the gas tank, checked the oil and started it so that it would be ready for the rest of the troop to climb into it. The boys in all over their gear. All of the copters lifted off the ground as if magic and went their separate ways and all of them had an easy fight, they finished their mission and went back to their base and left. All but Dan and his troop. The enemy and found out about Dan’s troop still being out and ran to the hill side to try to disarm

In 1915 at the U.S. Military Academy, West Point. With all his Awards and his helpfulness towards the U.S.

Once World War II started, Germany had invaded and occupied France on May 40. 1940. A year after America had entered the war in 1941, they and the British were contemplating an Allied invasion across the English Channel. Hitler was aware of the threat of an Allied invasion, but was uncertain of specifically where. General Dwight Eisenhower was made the commander of Operation Overlord in 1944. Prior to D-Day, preparations were made to make the Germans think that the main invasion target was Pas-de-Calais instead of Normandy. Along with making it appear that Norway and other locations were possible invasion targets. Eisenhower selected June 5, 1944 as D-Day, however there was a weather delay. On June 6, Operation Overlord was put into play and

     It was only after the crashes of the naval Shenandoah and the loss of several of his former men on flight from San Diego to Fort Huachuca, that Colonel Mitchell “went public”. Colonel Mitchell called in several reporters and degraded the Army and Navy for negligence and incompetency of higher ranking officials – none of which were aviators. Colonel Mitchell was promptly court-martialed by the military for his accusations, but welcomed the decision if it would show the public how the military structure was handicapping the

Delta give green light to the extraction force lead by LTC McKnight to extract the prisoners already capture. The mission at this point was great it was 1550 and it was supposed to last 30 minutes. While the convoy was waiting for Delta to wrap it up Black Hawk Super 61 piloted by CWO Cliff Wolcott was hit by an RPG. Only two soldiers were able to survive the crash, the pilots didn’t make it. Black Hawk Super 64 piloted by CWO Mike Durant was ordered to fill Super 61 position, then CWO Durant’s helicopter got hit by an

Scott O’Grady was a US Air Force pilot that was shot down over Bosnia and Herzegovina in June of 1995. He ejected his pilot seat into the hostile environment and was there for a week running from enemy forces until he was eventually rescued. O’Grady’s impossible task of overcoming an army of thousands is a great storyline for a movie of any day and age. His book, “Basher Five-Two the True Story of F-16 Fighter Pilot Captain Scott O'Grady,” revealed the true events that occurred during this incident. It was a little different from the movie in the fact that the naval commander did not fight with the officer in regards to the search and rescue mission, instead they just devised the best plan that they could. In the movie, he evaded by roaming around and searching for rally points. In the book, O’Grady got his survival bag from under his seat and then hid in the forest. He waited four days to radio back home, and then he ran to the rescue rally point which was where his ejection seat was lying. They picked up him and rescued him. “It wasn’t the reward that mattered or the recognition you might harvest. It was your depth of commitment, your quality of service, or the production of your devotion. These were the things that counted in a life. When you gave purely, the honor came in the giving, and that was honor enough”

    “If we can, you can bet we’ll use him,” replied the Colonel.  “This thing is all hands on deck.  We need everyone.  But I think most of all we could use your help. You may not remember him, but he definitely remembers you. He goes on at great length in his autobiography about what an impression interning with the Dailey Organization had on him.  You’re a hero to him really, and I can’t think of anyone better to get threw to him.”