My experience as a leader was during Hurricane Dolly... All started the next day Dolly has passed away from Brownsville, TX... The 3-141 INF A CO Readiness NCO SFC Rosales and SGT Alvarado contacted all those that could volunteers. However, he first contacted all those Guardsmen that provided their names days ahead to volunteer with the relief work for Dolly... The 12 Guardsmen, including myself, answered the call to volunteer with relief mission... Once we all were gathered in the Armory; we played the "hurry up and wait" game, until our HHC in Weslaco, TX provided the "GO." After 5 hours of waiting around, SFC Rosales came out and began to explain the team's mission overall. Then, he pointed at the leaders of the Guardsmen, while looking and sounding off their ranks and names, "SGT Onderdonk you will be the NCO, and Cadet Garza you will be the Acting-Officer-In-Charge or AOIC, questions- clear good"  I just gulped, and the rest of the older Guardsmen turned and looked at me with disbelief... Oh, that's right, I was rushed to be an Acting-2nd Lt or PL... Anyhow, SGT Onderdonk, right away, snatched me from the rest, and took me to a corner to begin the prepping of the mission... 

To Make a Long Story Short

The Dolly Relief Missions consisted from distributing edible items to rescuing people from dangerous areas, such as flooded houses. The missions were done in the Rio Grande Valley areas. The relief team I was in charge of were made up of  4 LMTVs, 1 HMMWV, and 14 troops. Towards the end, the relief team was turned into 2 running teams consisting of: TEAM A.) 2 LTMVs, 1 NCOIC, and 6 troops, TEAM B.) 2 LTMVs, 1 AOIC, and 7 troops, and the 1 HMMWV was reserved. The 2 running teams were made to speed-up the process to distribute the edible items and provide better assistance to the local authorities to the states' strategic nodes. 

Results...

I earned the trust from the volunteering Guardsmen. In addition, I learned the "common sense" to lead without "non-sense." In other words, I learned not to allow "illogical reasoning to lead the way." Plus, I learned a leader cannot be trained, rather must learn from experience. Another detail to post, a leader must be there for the soldiers and the mission... Remember, a leader (or officer) must not think or ponder on the idea to be "godly-like." Rather, the leader must "think, create, and decide" the proper and adequate order for soldiers to follow with trust...