Accountability: A Platoon Leader in Afghanistan

1LT Dan Skawski branched Engineer after graduating from Penn State. He deployed to Afghanistan in 2012 as a platoon leader in Charlie Company, 4th Special Troops Battalion. In this interview, he discusses the motivations that led him to enroll in ROTC, the crucial relationship between junior officers and senior NCOs, his experiences in combat, and an incident that forced him to make a difficult and painful decision.