"I just don't understand how this went so far," said Christopher Winfield, the father of Specialist Adam C. Winfield, one of the platoon members charged with murder.
As a twenty-four-year-old R.O.T.C. graduate, I found myself a platoon leader, in charge of a hundred and twenty men, many of whom had killed other men, in some cases with their bare hands.
During the engagement, he scaled a cliff face while under heavy fire and silenced seven machine gun posts, before leading his platoon in a charge that destroyed a further three.
"It's the smallest of the big drones and biggest of the small drones," according to Lieutenant Mark McConnell, the platoon leader in charge of the Shadow's operations here.
Five of the platoon soldiers have been charged in at least three murders, one of them Mullah Allah Dad's, and seven other soldiers have been charged with crimes including assault, the use of hashish and attempts to impede the investigation.
The platoon then dismantled demolition charges that had been fitted to the bridge and dug in to wait for reinforcement or relief.
The objective was captured following a simultaneous assault from both ends; the platoon then dismantled demolition charges that had been fitted to the bridge, and dug in to wait for reinforcement or relief.
Sergeant Oresko, a refinery worker from Bayonne, was in charge of a platoon ordered to destroy machine guns that were stopping the American advance.
Two days later the narrator went on sick call and Shoemaker, a specialist 4th class who disliked him, was put in charge of the platoon.
I remember my fear and uncertainty when I took charge of my platoon as a young Army Second Lieutenant in 2006.
