No matter if you are a National Guard, Reserve, or Active Component lieutenant, these simple steps should offer some guidance as you navigate your way through your first assignment as a leader of troops. It is then up to that person to sink or swim. The Army does something unique: it takes twenty-two year olds with no real experience and throws them right into the role of leading troops. ![]() Which is fine the first step is admitting that you don’t know much. You may have noticed that while the Army did a great job teaching you tactics, there is a lot about the day-to-day life of being a platoon leader that you don’t know. After years of training in ROTC or a military academy (you OCS guys know all this stuff already, I’m not talking to you), you’ve finally reached the moment where you’re going to lead troops. Thing is, behind that brash exterior, you’re probably confused as all get-out. ![]() Look at you, all brand new and shiny, right out of your basic officer leader course, hard-charging to take over your first platoon. Lesson one: you should’ve become a warrant officer
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