Trust
It was dark, cold and wet as we crawled up the dangerously exposed enemy beach. As commander of the ‘point section’ responsible for securing the beach, the safety of 1,000 men was in my hands. My team and I were the sharp end of the wedge, in charge of navigating the unit to the FUP (Form Up Point) for a dawn attack. Intelligence briefings told us there were two re-entrants or valleys, one was a safe route, the other was littered with enemy gun positions. I knew exactly where