Engineer Memoirs _____________________________________________________________________
or the program where in one of your summers you spent a month out with an active unit. We
didn't have that but for a few cadets, and I never had that experience.
First Lieutenant R. S. "Sam" Kem
You also have the human nature factor, and I had a platoon sergeant that was very strong-
willed. He had always been allowed to run a platoon when there were only two platoon
leaders, and he'd been running this platoon for a year. He basically didn't want me there. I
was hardheaded also, and so our relationship really deteriorated quickly when he vied with
me for who was in command, who was leading that platoon.
It came to the point where the company commander had to do something with one of us three
or four months down the way. The platoon would go out to build an expedient M4T6 bridge,
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