Abstract The author‚ who served 4 years in the United States Marine Corps‚ believes military veterans make great police officers because of the skill sets they develop over the course of their military careers. This paper will focus on a few of the many skill sets military veterans develop such as combat experience learned in the military and how it is put to use in police departments. The knowledge and experience acquired in firearms skills in the military which help as a police officer in the
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The Wounded Warriors Project Troy J. Tassin ETH 316 Nov 14 2013 The Wounded Warriors Project The Wounded Warriors Project is considered a community organization. This organization attends to the needs of the military community. Wounded Warriors Project is involved by assisting soldiers that were injured in Iraq and Afghanistan. “To provide unique‚ direct programs and services to meet the needs of injured service members” ("Mission‚" 2011). The organization has taken the responsibility upon
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Treatments of Combat Veterans with PTSD Treatments of Combat Veterans with PTS Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is classified as an emotional illness resulting from life-threatening or severely unsafe traumatic event. It involves personal experience witnessing deadly event‚ assaults‚ natural disasters‚ sexual abuse‚ extreme violence‚ terrorist attacks or military combat. PTSD victims tend to avoid places‚ events‚ people or circumstances that remind them of traumatic events responsible
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Memorial Day and Veterans Day are two holidays about men and women who fought in the war for the United States of America. The between these holidays is the Memorial Day celebrates the fallen soldiers in the military forces and who survived through the many wars defending the United States. The first Memorial Day was on May 30‚ 1868 it was three years after the civil war .civil war commander chief John A. Logan declared the first official Memorial Day 1868. He declared it to be the purpose of strewing
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and veterans. In veterans there is a lot of cultural diversity with individuals ranging in backgrounds from all over including African-American‚ Asian-American‚ Hispanic-American‚ and Caucasian-Americans. Veterans suffer from a wide range of mental illnesses including depression‚ PTSD‚ anxiety‚ suicide‚ and substance abuse. PTSD is one of the most common mental health problems that veterans face after returning from war. According to Loo (1994)‚ individuals that are ethnic minority veterans tend
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date The Oak Grove Football Stadium on Game Night Everyone has the basic psychological need of belonging and purpose. I satisfied this need by supporting my school in the Warrior Stadium every game night. It was in that stadium where I would quench my thirsts for brotherhood and companionship. It was a place of refuge for me. I could escape from drama and peer conflict‚ into a bigger and broader conflict between rivalries older than myself. In the Oak Grove Stadium we could all join together
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Anthony Bush HRMG 5000 Human Resource Management Webster University Career Development Plan February 5‚ 2015 Abstract I am currently employed as a Veteran Service Officer in a State government position. In this position I am the assistant to the Director of the Legislative Delegation and Office of Veterans Affairs for Richland County‚ which is located in Columbia‚ South Carolina. My journey and my career development as a manager and administrator really started to take shape
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the memorial ’s sponsors‚ Lin ’s one genuine innovation was to list the dead and missing chronologically‚ rather than alphabetically‚ that latter being the accepted norm in military monuments. Lin quotes the purpose of the memorial: "The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is a geode‚I envision it not as an object inserted in the earth but as part of the earth‚a work formed an interface between the world of light and the quieter world beyond the names."7 The
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December 2014 Homelessness amid Veterans with Mental and Physical Disabilities One-third of adult homeless men and nearly one-quarter of all homeless adults have served in the armed forces. On any given night fewer than 200‚000 veterans may be homeless; and twice as many may experience homelessness during a year. I chose to explore the specific topic of “Veterans with Mental and Physical Disabilities” because based on recent and past studies‚ most homeless veterans suffer from mental and/or physical
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My Role in Honoring Veterans What does honoring means? Honoring is high respects‚ as shown for a special merit; esteem. Although honoring a veteran may not seem important to some‚ it should be a very high priority and very important to all Americans. After all‚ we would not be the country we are today without our veterans fighting in wars and protecting us and our freedom. But how can one honor a veteran? One of the simplest ways is simply flying the American Flag proudly. Salute the flag
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