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Sacrifice As A Transportation Platoon Chief

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After spending four years in Royal Military Academy and a year in Transportation School as an officer student, I was designated to serve at the 2nd Group of Transportation as a Transportation Platoon chief. This first assignment was very important for my military career, because it has shaped my personality and affected the conduct of many future assignments. In this case, what are the important lessons learned from my first assignment and which of them has the major impact on my professional life. The necessity of being too close to my subordinates, the ability to work in civilian or other environments and the importance of sacrifice virtue are the major lessons learned in my first military assignment. In order to debate this thesis statement, this essay will tackle the first lesson which concerns leadership, then the importance of the adaptation before ending by the virtue of sacrifice. …show more content…

Transportation Branch, unlike other branches is active and movable either in peace time or war time. This feature obliges the transportation units to operate far from their bases, and consequently military persons are in most cases far from their families. In order to ensure the maximum efficiency, platoon chief should be a good listener and capable to solve social problems of his subordinates. During one of the long term mission executed by my Platoon, I noticed a behavior change of one of my subordinate who occupies the truck driver function. After asking about the raison of this change, I found out that his wife is pregnant at the last month and she is alone. So, I gave him a permission to join the base in order to be near to his wife. This decision has not only enhanced the moral of this person but also the moral of all personals of my

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