Creative Writing: First Lieutenant Of The Fifty First Platoon

SSG Rawlins was looking for high ground that had good cover and concealment. He wanted a place where he could spy the enemy and collect intel, he looked around for a few moments, “There at our fifteen hundred.” SSG Rawlins pointed at it. SGT Hammerston looked through his binoculars toward where SSG Rawlins was pointing. He scanned the area, “It looks good Staff Sergeant, but it’s going to take some doing to get over there.”

Chapter 6 (Chapter 17 - 19) The squad found out they were moving to another base that was north of Chu Lai, so they packedc up their gear and to go. Once they were at the new base, Perry was put on night patrol along with his squad. They ;later found out that they were going to ambush some North Vietnamese troops. But Lieutenant Gearhart decided to take safety precautions and called off the ambush due to what happened last time that because one soldier to die.

Lieutenant Carroll was a smart platoon leader. He knew his role in the war. Carroll always put himself on the line to save his platoon members (Myers 39). He would sacrifice his own life for someone else's; that makes him a smart platoon leader.

The danger inside all of the soldiers is old memories, locked up emotions, and realizing how close they are to death. One example of this danger is Detering. Detering saw a cherry blossom and it reminded him of home so

Lieutenant Jimmy Cross is a platoon leader in Tim O’Brien’s short story “The Things They Carried.” In the story, Lt. Cross is distracted with thoughts of a college student back in the States and has to deal with the guilt that he feels when one of his men is killed while he is daydreaming about the student. War is a traumatic experience for soldiers and the story draws attention to what goes on inside the mind of soldiers in combat who put their lives on the line for their country.

One of the unusual events he faced was when they picked up a dog at a base camp they were visiting this was unusual because they weren't allowed to have pets. He remembers playing a prank on a fellow soldier where he swapped fruit for pound cake in the sea rations. He thinks his biggest accomplishment was Surviving and making it home safely. He remembers keeping a journal of phone numbers of the friends he met.

Imagination hindered the platoon which clouded their judgment and decision making. Instead of remaining focused their wondering mind lacked what was necessary, assessing the task at hand. “In some respects, though not many, the waiting was worse than the tunnel itself. Imagination was a killer.” (O’Brien 619) In relation to the quote “imagination was a killer”, this metaphor represents how the soldiers made situations like being in the tunnel mentally challenging for themselves. Paranoia quickly consumed their thoughts and emotions before partaking in the actual mission. The men envisioned awful scenarios that could occur which aided their

The men of SOG stepped into enemy saturated terrain and just after dawn, already dripping wet from due and humidity (Fluty, 2011). Left to their devices, the jungle was hot and oozing with what American GI’s came to call “the funk” (Bogguess, 1969). The next thing Col. Robert Howard, then a Sargent First Class (SFC) can remember is feeling the cool rush of blood over his head and eyes (Fluty, 2011). He was wounded horribly from an ensuing ambush that would instantly kill half the men with him that morning (Feherty, 2010). The men who were still alive ascended into the jungle to take cover and as Col. Howard came back to his senses, he could not see and his physical mobility was all but gone (Fluty, 2011). The next thing he recalls is a deluging and powerful smell of burning fuel and flesh. Col. Howard surmised that in his immobile and blind state that he too would soon burn alive. Then his site returned, soon followed by dexterity in his limbs. It was at that moment he retrieved a fragmentation grenade from his load carrier. The North Vietnamese soldier charring dead American and Vietnamese soldiers with a flamethrower suddenly stopped, nearly standing over Howard when they both realized that he was still a member of the living (Fluty, 2011).

The US sends a group of SEALS on a mission to save some American citizens from the civil war in Nigeria. Lieutenant A. K Waters is in charge of his crew and the mission to save Doctor Lena, a priest and two nuns. The conflict starts when L. A. K goes looking for Doctor Lena, but she denies leaving Nigeria without her refugees. The priest and the two nuns decide to stay at the village church to help take care of the wounded refugees. Lieutenant A. K lies to Dr. Lena, when he tells her that he is also going to save her refugees. But when the helicopters arrive, Lieutenant A. K leaves the refugees in the jungle and only takes his crew and Dr. Lena with him. Dr. Lena starts crying and screaming because she doesn’t want to leave her people alone in the jungle. But later L. A. K changes his mind to return and rescue the refugees after he sees the horrible reality of dead people in areas were the Rebels had destroyed and killed everyone. That’s when L. A. K starts changing his mind to save the refugees, even though he is on his own because Captain Bill Rhodes denied giving help.

Throughout the story of this one deployment, there are parts where the author talks about his early life as well as some parts of his earlier days in the Army. The author puts these Stories in to the book in an intriguing way to help explain why and how the author ended up where he did.

Later that evening, the colonel prepared to present the new orders that had been received. “All right, gentlemen, you’ll be happy to know we can sleep off the night, but we need a one-man watch every hour or so.” The soldiers gave off a dull, quiet cheer, and began to prepare for the night.

Then I saw them. Germans walking around in our trench. I crouched low to the ground. ” After the bombing we must have lost the trench” “They must have retreated” I thought to myself. I crept around the tangle of barbed wire and mangled bodies.

The Sergeant’s random questions didn’t exactly have the best reputation for having the most desirable outcomes. In fact, the last soldier that volunteered themselves ended up scrubbing the toilet. And then Schneider told us we would be going out there. His finger, covered in dirt and gunpowder, pointed towards the enemy trenches, out onto no-mans’ land.

The plot of Saving Private Ryan illustrates a dramatic war movie by depicting all the stages that a war veteran experiences. Private James Ryan and Captain John Miller were chosen to undertake those emotions and experiences. Towards the beginning of the film, the point of view switches from Ryan to Miller when Ryan has a flashback to WWII. Through Miller’s eyes the audience experiences the pure horror of World War II. Saving Private Ryan shows the battles of Normandy beaches where more than 10,000 American troops died alone. Spielberg used this scene in particular to show the raw

Determined not to die and dedicated to your training. Each mistake you make will stay with you forever. Welcome to your worst nightmare.” Sergeant Davis walked down the line looking at all of us with a deep stare. He paused at a skinny kid with glasses asking, “And why are you here?