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In my battalion, I am mediocre at best.
03/07/2010 Still with the 1st battalion, I join a convoy pushing further south to PB Karma – Patrol Base Karma.
They saw my guns, and the battalion I commanded, so the villagers knew better than to object.
Those of us in military operations certainly were safer because of them, but they were as mysterious there as IDA was in New Jersey; although I was the intelligence officer (irony alert) for my battalion, I was too junior to have high-enough clearance to see what they were doing, even though they were using my own.
As I was finishing this article this weekend I was notified that one of my junior commanding officers in the "San Francisco's Own" Battalion I lead was killed on his road bike on his way to work.
In April 1965 two Indonesian battalion combat teams from the 5th Brigade were deployed in the 3 RAR area of operations, designated 'H' BTP and BTP BTP, while a third battalion, 'I' BTP, was concentrated further to the east; in total 3,050 men under the overall command of Colonel Sujono.
In my book Travels with Harley - Journeys in Search of Personal and National Identity, I recalled a conversation with Joey, one of our doormen at the apartment complex I lived in on the Jersey City waterfront not long after 9/11 as I was preparing to deploy the Civil Affairs battalion I commanded to Iraq.
Hardly a day goes by when I do not think about Specialist Charles Bush, the soldier of the civil affairs battalion I commanded in Iraq who was killed six days before Christmas and just a dozen before our departure from the combat zone.
In a perfect world I would pick seven, six private soldiers and a lance corporal in the battalion that I know, that I have commanded before on operations and I know inside out, jocks that I know can do a job, but we don't get that luxury, we get who we are given.
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