this extracted material. The text may contain passive voice‚ misspellings‚ grammatical errors‚ etc.‚ and may not be in compliance with the Army Writing Style Program. "Prepare a Platoon SOP" You are a squad leader in 3rd Platoon. Your platoon sergeant gave you an order to write a platoon SOP for the entire platoon (16 personnel) for the M4 or M4A1 carbine’s weekly maintenance. • He instructed you to date the SOP with today’s date‚ your unit address and office file symbol‚ and to use the
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Being currently in the military I have mixed reactions when viewing this video. I perform the same role as “Doc” Krebbs did‚ but for the Air Force Reserve. There is a lot to consider when discussing this documentary. It was well constructed in the sense that those interviewed held various positions representing nearly every step of the larger process that is the war. First I would like to discuss the issue of battle itself. Few of our nation’s military actually sees combat‚ it is largely support
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desired setting of a scene if the medium used involved visual concepts. However‚ Wilfred Owens poetry manages to give the reader an extremely vivid idea of what the conditions were like for the people whom he describes. Like Oliver Stone‚ in his movie Platoon‚ Owen uses some very simple concepts to set the scene in his writing‚ such as mud‚ or loud noises‚ which convey not only the setting‚ but also the mood that goes with it. For example‚ in the poem Duce et Decorum Est‚ in
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I. Although this movie mainly concentrated on the Los Angeles walkouts‚ it also depicted a well-known Chicano organization called the Brown Berets; the Brown Berets were known for their militant and nationalistic ideology that was often unsuccessful in bring attention to their cause‚ which was giving better higher education for Chicanos in Mexican-American neighborhoods. II. One main point that the movie points out is the fact that the Hispanic students in Los Angeles high schools were punished physically
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troubles during this time‚ but only the soldier ’s who fought in that war knew the true madness that was Vietnam. Oliver Stone began writing Platoon because the Vietnam War was "a pocket of our history nobody understands." (Schuer t24) Platoon is a movie which should be viewed by everyone‚ not only for its cinematic qualities but for its historic insight as well. Platoon is an Orion Pictures production‚ filmed in 1986. Written and directed by Oliver Stone it tells the gruesome story of a Vietnam War not
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Rocio Rodriguez Platoon: The Film on the Vietnam War “Somebody once wrote: ‘Hell is the impossibility of reason.’ That’s what this place feels like. Hell” (Platoon). The controversial issues concerning Platoon were not on the film itself‚ but about how this film portrayed the war in Vietnam and the affects the war had on the soldiers morally‚ physically‚ mentally‚ and emotionally. Oliver Stone directed and wrote the screenplay‚ using his own experiences as a reference. Oliver Stone chose to
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I believe that every one thinking about joining the military should definitely consider watching the film Platoon for multiple reasons. The first reason is that at the beginning of the movie Taylor walks by body bags and they say “is that what I think it is” that shows him how real of a situation he is in. A life or death situation. The movie also shows characters having major psychological problems when going through and after the war. The soldiers thought it was okay that they were going to rape
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In the movie Platoon it takes place during the Vietnam War‚ it describes how soldiers come together to get the job done and try to make their way back home in one piece‚ but in all of this how they lose the sense of right and wrong in the instinct to stay alive. Even though they all come from different walks of life they joined together as a solid unit of brotherhood. The loss of humanity is so strong in the killing of innocent women‚ children‚ and men‚ and the rape of children is something that
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Green Conception vs. Action Practicing Yours Survey Skills Kim Nora Wiltfang•Alexander G. M. Hopf Biology Practical • B.I.S. • 14th June 2011 From: “Rette - die-Natur“ - Web adress: http://rette-die-natur.ning.com - Accessed on: June 11 13:34 Kim N. Wiltfang• Alexander G. M. Hopf • E-Mail: hopf.business@gmail.com • B.I.S. 1 Introduction In order to practice our survey skills‚ we created a questionnaire consisting of 10 Questions relevant to our field of inquiry Green Conception vs
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about what war was like in the past but they have never been able to see what it looked like. Oliver Stone’s movie Platoon showed the main character (Chris Taylor) and his companions throughout the war. The movie showed what happened during the Vietnam war and how it changed the view of soldiers from the beginning of entering the war to the end. Some major themes were Empathy vs. Ruthlessness because we see Sergeant Elias being understanding when taking over the village because the vietnamese
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