Leadership in Dangerous Situations by Patrick Sweeney

Author:Patrick Sweeney
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
Published: 2011-09-18T20:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 11

Morale The Essential Intangible

Brian Reed, Chris Midberry, Raymond Ortiz, James Redding, and Jason Toole

We knew going into Ramadi that it was going to be a gunfight. Weekly updates and reports from Ramadi painted a picture of tough days for units in the city. Although the city was small and densely populated (500,000), it was all two battalions—one Army in the east and one Marine in the west—could do to conduct offensive operations.1 Hotel Company was tasked to provide a mobile unit for security as the battalion commander circulated the battlefield. Because we were the forward command post (CP) during battalion operations, our call sign was “Blade Jump” or as we called ourselves, “The Jump.”

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