Iwo Jima: 67 Years of Lessons
Sixty-seven years ago, 19 February 1945, Marines of the 4th and 5th Marine Divisions assaulted a horrible looking, other-worldly volcano called Iwo Jima. The 3rd Marine Division joined the battle soon after. They were there for the airfields. It would take them thirty-six days and more than twenty-six thousand casualties to do it.
Leadership Expedition: Band of Brothers
Team Trident is on the move again. This time a team is journeying through Europe, following the wartime experiences of “E” Company, 506th PIR, the famed “Band of Brothers.”
The small team, led by TeamTrident colleague Jay Holmes, begins their expedition in Toccoa, Georgia, and will work their way from Aldebourne, England to Berchtesgaden and the “Eagle’s Nest.” While Jay is not carrying his laptop with him, he is armed with his phone and will endeavor to keep a stream of photos coming back, along with a few short updates as they advance. I will attempt to serve as the CIO…and do what I can to keep things together so we can follow their progress, then look forward to hearing more details on their return.
Steve
Expedition Pacific 2010
Team Trident is headed for the Pacific! We’ll be studying the epic WWII Central Pacific theater campaign for the Marianas, Operation FORAGER, which began 15 June 1944, one week after D-Day at Normandy, France. The key island targets of the Marianas were Saipan, Guam, and Tinian. In the Pacific, the attainment of this island group was the apex up to that point of the war, the desired end-state during a year’s advance through the smaller island atolls in the Central Pacific…the Gilbert and Marshall Island groups. Once the Americans reached the Marianas, the American Forces moved far forward, regrouped, and pushed ahead. The next target was homeland Japan.
Business Teams Find Leadership Lessons on Historic Battlefields
Trident Leadership was featured in a recent article by the Associate Press on business groups studying leadership lessons on historic battlefields, such as Gettysburg, Chickamauga, and Normandy.
The concept is not a new one. In fact, Congress preserved American battlefields as National Parks specifically for this purpose. The military has been studying leadership in this way for over 100 years, refering to it as a Battlefield Staff Ride. Ours is a Battlefield Leadership Study.
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