101st Airborne Division

Black Hearts Book Report Reading this book I found it to be very intriguing. It is a story about men from the 101st Airborne Division’s legendary 502nd Infantry Regiment known as “the Black Heart Brigade. These men were deployed to the country’s worst and most unfavorable location at the most dangerous time. The platoon the book talks about the most would be the Bravo Company First Platoon. They were constantly in a rough patch throughout the entire book, facing constant leadership changed and trying

In Band of Brothers Episode 5, Crossroads, the audience is introduced in the first scene to Captain Winters running across an open field and coming to an embankment at the end of the field. On the other side of the embankment sits a German soldier scrounging for something on the ground. Winters squeezes the trigger and then the screen goes black. This scene as short as it is I believe is a very powerful way to start the entire episode. If one were to break this scene down there is several traces

as one of the most brutal wars in the history of the world, World War II claimed the lives of millions of people around the world. Soldiers had to rely on their brothers in arms in order to survive. Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest by Stephen Ambrose explores the life of E Company in WWII, and serves to show how successful they were through all of their close bonds with one another. Ambrose begins the story of E Company in basic training

Mission Command Analysis Brigadier General (BG) James M. Gavin, 82nd Airborne Division, U.S. Army, was one of the distinguish Generals to contribute in the Battle of the Bulge in 1944. BG Gavin commanded the 82nd and the 101st Airborne Divisions. He was responsible for many decisive operations that were key for the success of the battle. He maintained firing positions for engaging the Germans counteroffensive attacks. Simultaneously, his Mission Command practices brought him to the success of occupying

Two weeks after high school at a time of war, I was alone and nervous sitting in my seat on a commercial airline jet, traveling by plane for the first time in my life to start basic training with the US Army. At the completion of basic training and Airborne School, I was sent to serve in South Korea. I was working with and was surrounded by some of America’s and South Korea’s finest young men and women. I began to converse and spend time with individuals that would discuss their goals, passions, and

Lane was notified that elements of the 82nd Airborne were making its way north-east to support him and his Marines. The 82nd would take an alternate route circumnavigating Baltimore and coming up south of the Marines current position. Once the 82nd was five to ten miles from the Marines they would halt, dig in and wait for further orders. If the Army of the Potomac decided to head south west before Baltimore they would run head-on into the 82nd Airborne and if they continued down the I-70 into Baltimore

On March 12, 2006, four 101st Airborne Division Soldiers of First Platoon, Bravo Company, 1-502nd Infantry Regiment committed one of the most heinous, documented crimes that occurred during Operation Iraqi Freedom - the rape, subsequent quadruple murder and burning of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and her family who lived just minutes away from the unit’s tactical outpost. What conditions could possibly existed for American Soldiers to take such callous actions? What leadership lessons could be learned

with impending war on the horizon, Gavin was among the first groups to attend the Basic Airborne School at Fort Benning, GA. Following jump school, Gavin wrote the first manual covering the employment and operations of airborne units in combat. Then in 1942, COL Gavin became the Commander of the 505th PIR, which Carlo D’Este describes as “one of the finest [regiments] ever produced by the army” (2011). The Airborne Leader Who Dominated the Initial Stages of WW2 In the early stages of WW2, as the commander

to face was moving from Airborne Infantry to Mechanized Infantry. I have served in many positions throughout my years in the military, but it concerned me that my lack of knowledge on any type of platform would make me an ineffective leader. The purpose of this paper is to explain the challenges I faced going from Airborne Infantry to Mechanized Infantry and realizing that not all units were made equal in the Army. I joined the Army in July of 2002 wanting to be an Airborne Infantryman. After the

Operation Husky marked the first time that the United States Army utilized Airborne Infantry units in an active military operation. The 82nd Airborne Division formed the backbone of the American airborne operations during this campaign. Initially, the 82nd’s role in this operation was to land three of its regiments, the 504th, 505th and 325th, behind enemy lines to provide assistance to the allied forces that were taking part in the amphibious assault on the coast of Sicily. This plan was to be