This Watch2Lead uses excerpts from the movie Patton and the HBO series Band of Brothers to juxtapose two military leaders (General George S. Patton and Lieutenant Dick Winters) – as they face strikingly […]



This video case study uses excerpts from the movie Patton and the HBO series Band of Brothers to juxtapose two military leaders (General George S. Patton and Lieutenant Dick Winters) – as they face s […]

March 2021
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February was a busy month.  Activity across our social media platforms was high — with some outside content generating a lot of in […]

This video case study uses excerpts from the movie Patton and the HBO series Band of Brothers to juxtapose two military leaders (General George S. Patton and Lieutenant Dick Winters) – as they face strikingly […]

This video case study uses excerpts from the movie Patton and the HBO series Band of Brothers to juxtapose two military leaders (General George S. Patton and Lieutenant Dick Winters) – as they face strikingly […]

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Friendly Fire

First Lieutenant Dan Reape is leading his platoon during a company-level live-fire exercise. The rehearsals and day-training iterations go well, however, during the night iteration there’s a […]


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The company XO discovers that the monthly sensitive items inventory has come up short a few months in a row, howevever, his commander signs off on the inventories and sends them up to battalion anyway. The XO […]

Read2Lead Guides are pre-packaged professional reading programs that you can use in your unit. If you have a book that you think would make a good Read2Lead program, we’ll send you the book, you send us the […]

 
New Commanders’ Starter File (Updated 10 Jun 21)
A member of Junior Officer has provided us with a rather robust collection of documents that new (and current) Company Commanders will find useful.  A listing o […]

This CCLPD is provided to spark and support a professional conversation among officers and senior NCOs about when to streamline actions like procurement and purchasing, and when to go “by the book.” This pac […]

Christmas Day

CPT David Rodriguez is a medical officer in Kunar Province, Afghanistan.  It is Christmas Day and he and his Soldiers had just finished enjoying their holiday meal and prepping to bed down for […]

A lieutenant takes over as the new platoon leader for a platoon that has just returned from Iraq, at the height of the Iraq Surge.  During that period, Soldiers were being routinely stop-lossed and offered […]

A PL and his platoon are conducting BDA as part of a QRF and they come upon two IED emplacers that have been engaged by friendly forces. The two emplacers are likely to expire due to their injuries; the PL must […]

Warriors,
We’re continuing our discussion thread in the series “Student to Lieutenant.”  This week’s post brings us to our final destination, Phase 4: “Reporting you your First Unit.”

There are three short […]

Warriors, We’re continuing our discussion thread in the series “Student to Lieutenant.

Phase 1: Receiving your #Branch to #Commissioning
Phase 2: #Commissioning to Reporting to #BOLC
Phase 3: Graduating #BO […]