David Schwimmer's character, Captain Sobel, is infamous among the men of Easy Company in HBO's Band of Brothers for his strictness and seemingly malicious nature towards the men under his command, but was his real-life counterpart as bad as the television show portrayed him? Much of the focus on Captain Herbert Sobel takes place in Band of Brothers episode 1, "Currahee," due to his role as the company's drill instructor, as he was not a combatant. The Band of Brothers Sobel portrayal is that of a cruel and sometimes petty man who revoked weekend passes to the men under his command for infractions such as having dirty sights on their rifles.