Captain Sobel

And I love the way they depicted so many parts of Easy Company's journey.

So in the Curry He episode, they are all being gathered together for paratrooper training under the command of Lieutenant Sobel, later Captain Sobel.

And as they demonstrate in painstaking detail, Sobel is... a micromanaging and very sadistic leader.

And at least that's how he's portrayed in the thing.

And then from the handful of other books I've read about this, he was a pretty heavy-handed leader and then also made up for the things that he either felt insecure about, et cetera, by coming down harder on his team.

And Randleman finally goes, Lieutenant Winters.

May I ask permission to ask a question? And he's like, yeah, go ahead, Private Randleman.

What's your question? And he goes, sir, I'm wondering why Lieutenant Sobel hates Easy Company and why we have to do the ruck marches all the time and nobody else does.

It's sort, it's sorta like, um, what, what you see in the first episode of Band of Brothers with, uh, Sorbell, Sorbell, and, you know-

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Dick Winters.

Sobel.

Sobel.

Yeah.

Who, which is a tragic story.