This feeling came from the fact that I had missed almost the entire training process for deployment because I had arrived in my unit only a few months before we left. I was not the only soldier to arrive late in the unit, in fact several other soldiers arrived at the same time as me or later. With many of us missing much of the pre-deployment process, we'll have to work even harder and learn quickly to be ready. We trained for the upcoming mission, learned what our roles in the fight would be and had set expectations for what was expected of us and canceled the deployment. The NCOs in my platoon were mostly seasoned, combat-hardened soldiers with combat experience. The majority of junior enlisted Soldiers were Support MOS (Military Occupational Specialty), meaning we were trained to perform tasks that supported Soldiers on the front lines. Support jobs include expertise in communications, medicine, and maintenance. We would follow what our NCOs did and the examples they set while fulfilling our new specific roles in the mission. All things considered, even with the training we received, the expectations set for a platoon full of untrained and inexperienced soldiers going in search of the enemy were rather low. We needed to get our commander from point A to point B safely and without problem. This is exactly what we did and after a while our mission expanded from just the commander's personal security detachment to escorting other elements and even became a quick reaction force. My platoon sergeant was able to use our new roles to instill even more confidence in each of us. He showed us that we were not only accomplishing the mission, but exceeding it. Knowledge of our new importance in combat greatly contributed to my deployment as