"Follow me!"

The man in the picture is Richard Winters. He was the commanding officer of Easy Company 506th Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division (paratroopers). The 101st was one of the first men who jumped in France for the D-day invasion. Needless to say, they suffered a lot of casualties on that day

Richard Winters was one of the characters were the HBO mini-series "Band of Brothers" were based. It told of their story from training up until the end of the war.

In one of it's episodes (episode 2 i think), it was during D-day and Easy Company (more like what's left of it) was assulting a german position, they were outnumbered and out positioned. In one instance, then Lt. Winters gave the order... "Follow me!" and then they proceeded to attack the german position with Lt Winters leading

I've always wondered how military leaders are able to do that, I mean giving orders to men which could lead to their deaths, of course we have to consider that soldiers were conditioned to follow orders without question, but still ... am sure soldiers follow because they trust their officers and they believe in them. I guess Lt Winters is my kind of a leader, somone I would like to imitate.

I hope that I will become that kind of a leader wherein I can say "Follow me" and my team will follow without question, not because they fear me, or because it will affect their performance appraisal but because they believe in me and trust me and they are inspired by me.