Thousands of soldiers left their homes for many months‚ living in tiny tents and fighting in bloody battles. Many faced disease‚ starvation‚ and death while in camps and on the battlefield. Soldiers went through these tremendous challenges and gave up many luxuries just to fight for their cause. Camps in both the North and the South were laid out uniformly. Army regulations called for camps to be set out in a grid-like pattern with the officers’ quarters at the front and the soldiers’ quarters near
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What You Can Expect From Me as an NCO As a Non-commissioned Officer you can expect me to be a professional leader dedicated to taking care of soldiers‚ the mission‚ and the army way of life. You can expect me to use Army Regulations‚ Technical Manuals‚ and direct orders from my superiors as my guidance on what actions to take in each situation faced whether tactical or technical. I will not be afraid to make sound and timely decisions in the absence of my leadership’s orders. When left in charge
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The government trains soldiers for years to teach them when to and when not to pull the trigger. The ethical line remains blurred when it comes to shooting another human‚ and soldiers must realize when it is allowed ethically and factor in everything that has led up to the moment where the decision to take another life is made. There is no clear time when the military allows a civilian to be shot‚ but it remains unsaid that many soldiers will have to shoot a civilian. Many of them will not receive
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Responsibility make a soldier accountable for? It makes them accountable for the personal conduct. 4What is Command Authority? Command authority is the authority leaders have over soldiers by virtue of rank or assignment. Command authority originates with the President and may be supplemented by law or regulation. 5What are the two most important responsibilities of a leader? Mission accomplishment and the welfare of the soldiers. 6What does Command Responsibility make a soldier accountable for?
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After the battles of Brandywine and Germantown‚ General George Washington marched his weak and defeated soldiers to Valley Forge. However‚ the freezing weather of Valley Forge during winter bedeviled the soldiers and General Washington. The soldiers also faced a shortage of daily necessities such as food‚ clothing‚ and medicine. According to Ellis‚ all of the challenges Washington and his soldiers faced during their march to Valley Forge contributed to it being one of Washington’s
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"Attack" is a poem written in 1917 by Siegfried Sassoon while he was convalescing from his wounds in a hospital in Scotland. He was a soldier who fought in the First World War. Attack is a short‚ 13-line poem written in speech rhythm with some rhyme. The poem is described in a very vivid way which makes the reader think that the author himself witnessed the scene. The poem begins with the poet describing the setting of the poem. The landscape is in a battlefield where there are still remains of previous
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well-rounded‚ dedicated‚ motivated Soldier. The only way to provide that dedicated Soldier is to maintain qualified trained professionals. The Military offers its Soldier’s a large range of training. Specifically Military Occupational Specialty (MOS) training at different skill levels. The military also offers a variety of training to its Soldier’s‚ some that the Soldier can use in the civilian world. Bottom line; a trained‚ highly dedicated‚ determined‚ selfless Soldier is the back bone of the Military
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The Things They Carried –Coping Mechanisms to Survive During the Vietnam war‚ soldiers were not exposed to the traditional coping mechanisms of our American society‚ as illustrated in Tim Obrien ’s The Things They Carried. These men were forced to discover and invent new ways to deal with the pressures of war‚ using only their resources while in the Vietnamese jungle. It was not possible for any soldier to carry many items or burdens with them‚ but if something was a necessity‚ a way was
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No one knows the real story of Pat Tillman. On April 23‚ 2004 news headlines filled the air waves with tragic news that Pat Tillman was killed in action yesterday‚ fighting in Afghanistan. While on a patrol with his detachment through eastern Afghanistan‚ the detachment was ambushed. When the ambush was quelled‚ sadly‚ Pat Tillman was dead. For the better part of the week following his death‚ his story was still being constantly reported about on every news channel including ESPN. The NFL dedicated
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should not be allowed to go overseas and experience the terrorizing war scene. In the book NAM the author writes “Next I had to kick one dead body in the side of the head until part of his brain started coming out the other side.” (Baker 59) Older soldiers made the young cadet do this just to get the feeling of killing Vietnamese people. Even though he was throwing up simultaneously and to the point of dry heaving‚ they still made him kick until they were satisfied. Eighteen to twenty one year olds
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