Diving into episode one of Band of Brothers (Curahee). Sayre and I get into a few key points, listed below, as well as how the series impacted us to the leadership lessons still applicable today.
-"it was a different time" people signed up and wanted to fight.
-The hatred of LT Sobel in training
-NCO's signing a letter saying they won't serve with Sobel
-LT Winters to Compton, "never put yourself in a position to take from these men"
-LT Winters helping his men into the aircraft ahead of D-Day
Sayre was a Ranger-qualified Infantry Officer and served as a platoon leader for the entirety of a twelve month deployment to Zhari District, Afghanistan with the 101st Airborne Division’s 2nd Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment during the troop surge of 2010-2011.
