re: Rewatching Band of Brothers today

Also, Cobb wasn't the blowhard baffoon they made him out to be. From everything I've read, he was actually a good soldier, just a really mean drunk.

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Cobb, after drinking schnapps to intoxication, was arrested after assaulting Lt. Foley (the movie depicted Cobb as, instead, verbally assaulting Sgt. Martin). During processing for a court-martial, a frustrated Colonel Sink told Foley "You could have saved us all a lot of trouble. You should have shot him". Cobb was court-martialed, eventually discharged from the Army and returned to the States.

Cobb was not discharged immediately after the incident, but instead was allowed to remain with his unit until after V-E Day.

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Winters said before his death that he felt Sobel was not as incompetent as portrayed in BoB.

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Like a lot of others here, I’ve read different accounts of things from various members of Easy Company, and they all seem to agree on one thing, almost to a man: that while Herbert Sobel would’ve been an absolute disaster as a combat leader, they all credit his skill and methods as a training officer for building Easy into the unit it became.

Sobel was very bitter about losing Easy and never got over it. Bill Guarnere and others reached out to him throughout the years, but he always shunned them. A suicide attempt in 1970 left him blind and he died in 1987.