by Darrell Dement | Aug 27, 2016 | Top Reads
DDLLC 2016-006 The 50% Ranger “I’m going to count backwards from ten. If you can’t stop shaking, if you can’t stop your teeth from chattering, you better let your Ranger Instructor (RI) know right away?” “We’ve already had someone lose a toe. It ain’t worth it.”...
by Darrell Dement | Aug 21, 2016 | Top Reads
Thirty-seven nations dog-piled into the mosh-pit wanna-be nation of Kosovo. Each army arriving to drive a wedge between Serbian and Albanian forces and stop genocidal activities. The world had finally grown sick of witnessing this never-ending tragedy unfold. Each...
by Darrell Dement | Aug 11, 2016 | Top Reads
DDLLC 2016-004 Deconstructing the 5 Paragraph Operations Order Swinging open the passenger door of our small Mitsubishi SUV, known in army circles as an NTV or non-tactical vehicle, I hop out. We’re already late. This is my first visit to the Al Faw Palace in Baghdad....
by Darrell Dement | Aug 5, 2016 | Top Reads
DDLLC 2016-003 Operationalizing Troop Leading Procedures So as I lay there on my back, hands clutched behind my head, staring, watching and listening to the enormous billowing and snapping of this huge army tent, I pondered our situation. My patience was thin. This...
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