<p style=”margin: 0px 0px 10.66px; line-height: normal;”><span style=”margin: 0px; font-family: ‘Times New Roman’,serif; font-size: 12pt;”><span style=”color: #000000;”>After months of hard fighting with LT McDonough’s 2^nd Platoon, the Viet Cong make a final and devastating assault on the defenseless village of Truong Lam. This course…[Read more]

<p style=”color: #313131; font-family: -apple-system, HelveticaNeue; word-spacing: 1px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10.66px; line-height: normal;”><span style=”margin: 0px; font-family: ‘Times New Roman’, serif; font-size: 12pt;”><span style=”font-size: 1rem; color: #000000;” data-removefontsize=”true”…[Read more]

<span style=”color: #000000; font-family: ‘Times New Roman’, serif; word-spacing: 1px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;”>During a patrol in the beginning of chapter 14, LT McDonough and his men grab a family that is reasonably suspected to be supporters of the Viet Cong to be questioned, the most damning of their suspicions coming from the high…[Read more]

In chapter 10, 2nd platoon’s patrol base is meet with a Vietcong force that greatly outnumbers LT McDonough’s depleted forces on the night of October 9th. Some of the platoon was awake but most of the American force was set in for the night, including LT McDonough. Amidst the chaos of the overwhelming attack, it is McDonough’s job as the PL to…[Read more]

As LT McDonough first takes command of his new platoon, he uses what he has seen of the previous platoon leader to quickly formulate a stance as the new leader of the platoon. Before he first meets his Platoon Sargent and Squad leaders, he makes a series of decisions on how he wishes to run platoon operations for the foreseeable future and…[Read more]

CDT Nussbaum

Q #3

It is not that professional reading is a dated learning concept, but just one learning method of several that are now available. In the same way that there are several different types of learners, there are now several types of learning methods available for those seeking to improve their leadership qualities and learn from…[Read more]