But ground batttle is a series of platoon actions. No longer can the field commander stand on the hill, like Lee or Grant, and oversee his formations. Orders in combat-the orders that kill men or get them killed-are not given by Generals, or even by Majors. They are given by Lieutenants and Sergeants, and sometimes by PFCs. -T.R. Fehrenbach

Headquarters and Service Battery
173d Airborne Brigade (SEP)

October 1964 - April 1966
Okinawa and Viet Nam

Private First Class
E-3

"The Herd"
The object of warefare is to dominate a portion of the earth, with its peoples, for causes either just or unjust. It is not to destroy the land and people, unless you have gone wholly mad.
-T.R. Fehrenbach
For his own sake, and of those around him, a man must be prepared for the awful, shrieking moment of truth when he realizes he is all alone on a hill a thousand miles from home, and that he may be killed in the next second.
--T.R. Fehrenbach

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