The problems of Fresh meat

The problems of success in the army was that you were often depended on for greater things after that success. Winters was no exception. After seeing him in action, he was continually given more assignments to carry out with his company.

Unlike many commanders, Winters did not break under the pressure of battle and seemed to make all the right decisions at exactly the right time even under the cover of fire. Many soldiers and officers could not do the same. Eventually Winters was asked to take up a position of X.O of the entire 2nd battalion [pg 154]. However, this was not the best thing for Winters or Easy company. Winters hated not being in the field and having to carry out an administrators job.

Easy company took it a bit harder. With their leader gone, many other recently promoted officers would be transfered to other companies to lead. However this was absolutely disastrous in most cases. Since most of the men did not trust these commanders, they found that easy company was hard to lead. Many of the new commanders would lose it in the middle of war. They could not handle the stresses of war and many of them found it very hard to lead. [pg. 156]. Many of the soldiers had not even bothered to learn the names of the new officers because they would leave very fast.