Personal Narrative: Team Warrior

As a paraprofessional one of the biggest problems that is face is the collaboration between the team of the student you work with. I work on a team of twenty-one people who I must communicate with most of them daily or weekly basis. The main issue I face is working with the Special Education teacher and regular classroom teacher in curriculum. The reason being is that I don’t get things modified for my student occurring to the IEP and preview the materials ahead of time. Just being given the material to work with the day of is hard because if I must modify I don’t get the planning time to do so. Then I run into the student having behaviors cause the material is too hard. Looking at the problem-solving worksheet from De Boer I really like the

During a reconnaissance in force, Delta Company 187th engaged enemy forces as they trenched along the hillside. Unknown size elements of enemy forces engaged, with a total count of just two enemy killed in actions. US forces had assumed the North Vietnamese forces would conduct small sporadic attacks and escape back into Laos or Cambodia (Ibid. PG168.). Soon after Delta Company broke contact, Bravo Company engaged an unknown size element of enemy forces. From the controlled firing, it was determined that the assault on the hill will face resistance from a well-disciplined

The Bradley’s took position on the woods, about a quarter mile from their objective. They waited for the tanks to get into their over-watch position, which took another ten minutes. Each vehicle was fitted with radios that allowed for them to communicate up to two miles. Once the tanks were in position they gave the ‘go’ to the Bradley’s. The Bradley’s made their final checks, and then moved out, because their target was Fifth Brigade’s Command Post and its accompanying vehicles. Once near the CP the Bradley’s stopped. They had a new type of low powered beacon on top of their respective vehicles, which would identify the vehicle as friend or foe. Word went out over the radio net to engage, engage, fire at will!

Whittlesey’s nearly 600-strong force dug in and established a makeshift defensive line. Despite being low on food, water and ammunition, they spent the next five days dodging sniper fire and repelling wave after wave of German attacks. At one point, their own troops began accidentally

However, the Marines failed to scout the woods. As a consequence, they missed a regiment of German infantry dug in, with a network of machine gun nests and artillery.[7]

Lt. Colonel Honeycutt, commander of 3/187, ordered two of his companies to the north and northwest ridges of the hill. Bravo company started pushing up the hill while meeting large amounts of North Vietnamese soldiers. Because of the resistance, they called in close air support to aid in moving up the hill. Miscommunication caused the air support to confuse the landing zone for an NVA camp resulting in them opening fire and killing two and injuring thirty-five of their own. Unfortunately, this was the first but not the last friendly fire incident during this battle. The thick vegetation caused for so much miscommunication and inability to properly identify targets. Honeycutt continued to launch assaults against the NVA. Theses assaults would face heavy resistance with many casualties. Lt. Colonel Conmey, commander of the 1st Battalion 506th Infantry regiment shifted his assaults to the southern base of the hill. American pushes were caused to fall short due to the thick vegetation, this also effected the capabilities of the American’s heavy weapons. Those hindrances gave huge advantages to the NVA. Because of all the vegetation, they called in approximately 270 Air Strikes in a ten-day period. These strikes dropped 890 tons of explosives and 115 tons of napalm. These air strikes and napalm eliminated many of the NVA bunkers and trenching system (Hickman,

They called in for fire and with the fast and accurate fire support from the 105mm and 155mm howitzers, the infantrymen could gain a solid position to engage

“God damn it! Get some fire on their position, Robinson!” Blackburn was screaming at me from the driver seat while grabbing his M4. I was in Shell Shock. Once I understood what was happening, I positioned the 50 Cal. sights on the ridge. I opened fire. Forcing the enemy into cover giving time for the other Marines to recuperate and get ready to do what Marine’s do best.

The team and I joked around to try and release our nerves. Something was bugging me though, I kept thinking back to when Durkins told me that Lincoln had said that we were going to lose(4). I was really shocked, I mean, I knew Lincoln trusted his old team more than he trusted us but I had dismissed that as a new kid kind of thing. That didn’t mean I was all cool about it though, I was angry that he wasn’t confident in his team to win against Franklin. Although that anger may be from the times that Lincoln disobeyed Coach or from when he trusted his old team more than his new team even though we were his new team. MitchelI put Mitchell in a headlock and a little later Lincoln strode into the locker room. I let go of Mitchell and straightened up. “ Durkins says you said that we’re goin’ to lose. Why did you say that?” I remarked.

My best collaborative team experience was in an extracurricular club where we had to design an underwater robot for competition. Like any other challenges, the robot had parameters that it must follow such as a weight limitation, the amount of motors that it could use, and the cost of materials could not exceed twenty dollars. My teammates and I brainstormed and mapped out any and all ideas for our robot before we critique the designs. Afterwards we looked at which plans were realistic in that the robot could be built in the 6 weeks we were given for the challenge. Once we came to a consensus on our plan for the robot, we all agreed to meet every Tuesday and Thursday to work on constructing it. Every member contributed to the final design

Good afternoon. Coach Josh and I would like to welcome you to the team. We are looking forward to working with your kids this Falls season. We have simple goals, work hard, support each other, and have fun. Our team practices on Thursday at 5:30PM on field McK-3A at McKee Road Park. This Thursday will be our first

I waited for him, after he hung up the call, I asked him, “why did they enclose us, instead of just destroying us?” Lieutenant answered, “I think they are draining us out, trying to capture us as entire division, and use them as prisoners.” I asked, “Is there any chance that somebody will get us?” he said, “The bad news is Germany’s offensive is so quick and strong, they already reached all the way down to Rochefort. Our defense line is just getting destroyed and can’t really do about it. But the good news is the 3rd army is coming to save us. We need to target south line because that boundary is the thinnest and Patton’s army is coming towards

Determined to escape this hell hole or die trying I zipped up my vest and began to load the pistol and rifle I took from the guard. Fueled with rage I kicked open the door and released fire on 3 guards crouched in

It was back in 2012 around November when one of my friends came up to me and said “Hey, Landon do u wanna come to Junior Youth at my church tonight. Every Wednesday we get together eat then we go into the youth room and talk about God and his impact that he has

Fight ‘til the last man drops. That’s what we were told during our briefing. Our objective was simple: hold Regensburg. At first, it seemed useless for us to defend this small, boring town, but this was the only spot for miles that had intact bridges across the river. We had built up defenses on the bridge west of town. Tank traps and sandbags were placed along the bridge. There were anti-aircraft guns on either side of the bridge and even a concrete bunker as a part of the first line of defenses. We all sat in our positions and waited anxiously for the Germans to attack. Suddenly, the sound of gunfire split the silence. But… it wasn’t in front of us? A panicked voice sprang over the radio, “They’re here! They’re here! They’re behind us!!