Talk:Carwood Lipton

Fact Check?
I don't know the factual history of the Easy Company, but I have seen the BoB series. That probally isn't saying much as I don't know how much of it is fact. But the section of this article where it tells of Lipton running like a madman to link with the rest of a scattered group of soldiers was depicted as Speirs in the series. In the movie this action only added to the "legend" of Spiers, and in the movie Lipton narrorated the sequence ending with ".. after it all, he came back."

Agreed - the 101st never took part in the assault on Arnhem, I deleted a portion of the article which referred to that. That's bunk, the 101st assignment during Market-Garden was south of Arnhem.

07:31, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

The part of the series portraying the NCOs turning in their stripes is inaccurate. According to one of the men who participated in this event, this did not happen.



Basis
Whoever wrote this based most of it off the BoB series and perhaps not so much on fact


 * The article is structured off the HBO mini-series, so that definitely needs to be changed, especially the narrative tone inappropriate for a Wikipedia article. It sounds too much like a summary of each episode. The facts are there though; we just need to separate them from the televised information. --Scottie theNerd 10:18, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

Photo
The photo at the top of the page could not have been taken at Camp Toccoa, as Lipton is wearing officers' lapel insignia and it had to have been taken after his battlefield commission. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.158.189.50 (talk)


 * The pins on his uniform are not the lieutenant rank insignia. They're the U.S. badges worn on the collar. Additionally, he isn't wearing any of the awards he would have won by the time he received his battlefield commission; the ribbons are likely to be received after earning his wings. --Scottie theNerd 14:40, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

The insignia on the lapels are that of commisioned officers. Enlisted ranks wear lapel insignia that look like round disks, one bearing the letters "U.S." the other of their military branch (in this case it would be the crossed rifles of the Infantry. This picture was taken after he was commisioned as a Second Lieutenant.

Base it on Band of Brothers (book) instead of the Miniseries?
As far as I know, there are only a few major changes if we are to base and cite the facts on the book instead of the series, and that will by far improve the reputability of the article. But this also means a rewrite of the whole section, because the style of the writing needs to change from one describing the plot to one about a person. -- KelvinHO Wiknerd ( talk ) 08:12, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

Promotion and role
I have reflected on his promotion from first sergeant to second lieutenant. As far as I know, a first sergeant is a much more prestigious and harder to obtain rank than second lieutenant and even first lieutenant (which is a automatic promotion from 2nd lt as platoon leader). Why did he accept the "promotion" to such a low junior rank? His role as a first sergeant was, as far as I know, to run the company together with the CO, the same way as a staff sergeant runs a platoon together with a platoon leader. If that was indeed so, I would expect him to be made a first lieutenant at least. What was his role as a second lieutenant? Platoon leader, company XO? --Malin Lindquist (talk) 12:02, 7 October 2011 (UTC)

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