towards what they considered “safer” military services like the Navy or Air Force‚ I knew that I wanted to be in the Army or Marine Corps. In 1997‚ I made that dream a reality and enlisted in the United States Army as a “Combat Engineer”‚ basically a grunt that specialized in mine warfare and explosives. In 2002‚ I was selected to be an Army recruiter and by 2004‚ I was “volun-told” (an Army expression for being volunteered with little or no choice) that I would be staying permanently in recruiting as
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The happiest day of my life is when my brother came back to the states from Afghanistan. On that day he called us it was a Friday morning before school started. He told me that he would come and see us next weekend so he can spend time with his wife. So the day goes on school gets out me and my sister Merissa goes home to do our chores so we can stay with our friend. When we get finished we walk to Amanda’s house and hang with her for a little bit. About four thirty we walk to our house to get some
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Restructuring Restructuring in the Army is usually done as new leaders are developed. This is done to ensure all soldiers know everyone’s strengths and weakness. The effect on each soldier and management is an ongoing learning process however continues to bring the group together and ensures that internally the organization has trust‚ confidence‚ discipline‚ respect‚ for each soldier and the management. Nike is in constant movement‚ and under restructuring. Using the talents of veteran employees
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The Importance of Accountability and Punctuality Accountability is the obligation of an individual or organization to account for its activities‚ accept responsibility for them‚ and to disclose the results in a transparent manner. Punctuality is the habit of doing things exactly in time. So the main reason for this essay is because I did not follow out proper orders and was not at the correct place of duty for PT/Accountability formation at the correct time There is still no excuse for me to miss
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playing in the Army can make not just one soldier look bad‚ but the Army as a whole. Horse playing in uniform can make you look very unprofessional. It will make you look like less of a leader and make you look childish and unfit for the Army. One day here at Echo Company‚ everyone got into a lot of trouble because two soldiers decided to piggy back and horse play in formation. It made the whole company look undisciplined and as if we had poor leadership. In most jobs in the army‚ horse play could
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The Lord’s Resistance Army‚ or LRA‚ is a rebel group run in central Africa by Joseph Kony. The LRA originated in Northern Uganda in 1980 as a religious movement called the Holy Spirit Movement‚ which was led by Alice Lakwena‚ who claimed that God had told her to overthrow the Ugandan government. (www.warchild.org.uk/issues/the-lords-resistance-army) The Ugandan government had been‚ at the time of the order‚ treating the Acholi people of the North unfairly. The movement quickly drew large amounts
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In the army there are many uniforms a soldier has to wear. This is for the different activities a soldier does. For everything from their daily Physical Training (PT)‚ their regular working uniform Army Combat Uniform (ACU)‚ or their dress uniform either the Army Service Uniform (ASU)‚ or the Army Green Service Uniform (Class A). Each uniform is design to fit a specific task and to be worn a in certain way. A great resource for either the ASU or the Class A is the “U.S. ARMY UNIFORM GUIDE.” I found
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In the book Citizen Soldiers by Stephen E. Ambrose‚ the title explains mainly what the book is about. The title itself gives you the insight about how the war was fought through the perspective of a regular citizen fighting in the biggest war in history. During the war there were many casualties‚ as a result more regular citizens were being drafted to go right into battle. In this book Ambrose exemplifies the fact that there were many regular citizens in the war and that they took the situation
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The largest organization in the United States is the Army. The Army is not only the lone force standing between other militant forces and our homes‚ but it is also a powerful energy in today’s society and economy. Our country would be very vulnerable to foreign takeover without the Army. Our country can continue to be the way it is because of the Army’s mission‚ responsibility‚ purpose‚ and presence. The importance of the military in the United States can lead us to believe that they are the best
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Introduction Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technicians (NEOD)‚ the organization that I am currently a part of‚ are a small group (1500 personnel) trained in the art of bomb disposal. As a scalable and agile force‚ we specialize in a plethora of complex and dangerous tasks ranging from IED to chemical and biological weapon remediation. Post 9/11 global terrorist activities placed tremendous “operational stress” upon the NEOD community with relentless training and deployments (Jones‚ Hammond & Platoni
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