...Composition and Communication II/COM156 November 25, 2013 Tamra Excell Thesis: The United States Military has different animal therapy programs designed to help Wounded Warriors and active deployed soldiers, and has been doing so since the year 1919. I. Animal-Assisted Therapy A. Definition 1. Differences 2. The Heart B. In the Beginning 1. Thru the years 2. Documentation II. Deployment A. War Zone 1. SFC Boe and Budge 2. Trauma and Reassignment B. Lessons 1. Policy 2. Health III. Walter Reed National Military Medical Center A. Programs 1. Dog Tags 2. Warrior Transition B. Nonprofit 1. Qualifications 2. Benefits Abstract Information for this research paper was obtained by reading articles written for the U.S. Army Medical Department Journal, April-June, 2012. These articles were written about the use of canines by the military for Animal-assisted Therapy in the military. All articles are written either by men and women currently serving in the military or civilians working with the programs...
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...brother died leaving the Mount Vernon. In 1752 Governor Dinwiddie appointed him district adjutant general of the militia with the rank of Major. As Adjutant General he oversaw the militia. ("Toward Fact: A Biography " ) In 1753 Governor Dinwiddie sent Major Washington to the French Commander with a letter. The French were told to leave British lands. Washington left Williamsburg, Virginia on October 31, 1753, and completed the round trip of more than 1,000 miles by horse, foot, canoe, and raft in about ten weeks. ("Journal of Major George Washington (1754)" ) He was accompanied by an explorer/surveyor, an Indian interpret and a few other men to help with the bags and to use as guards. During his journey to see the French Commander he kept a journal. He kept records of French troops and the size of their force. He even interview French deserters. Not only did he deliver a letter to the French he made sure the Indian stayed allied with England. ("Journal of Major George Washington (1754)" ) In 1754 he was promoted to Colonel and was given the command of the entire Virginia Militia. Governor Dinwiddie tasked him on protecting the Ohio trading Company on the Mississippi by setting up a fort for their defense. As Commander of the Virginia Militia he wanted a more...
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...I fear about my friend, the unnamed child soldier, that return to his former master’s house, my father. As I write this journal in my camp, I wonder if he is getting better. I remember the the day that we ran off, because we both believed the Union. He first joined the war, but I did not. I didn’t want to be war at all. So we parted ways and said good bye. After as year, I needed shelter, food and some clothes. So, nature forced me to join the war. As we saw each other, we cried and laughed all day. There were too many soldiers in the army but not a lot of drummer boys. So, they recruited me as one, I had felt less important than ever. With my drum, I speak for myself, as I play it on the army. I’m on the front lines, but I didn’t worry, I had the color blue and the drum besides me....
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...Buffalo Soldiers in America A buffalo soldier was an African American serving in one of the U.S. Army's African American units. The term buffalo soldier comes from an Indian term that described the resemblance between the soldier hair and a buffalo's head hair. It is unclear from which the term originated in the Cheyenne, Apache, or Kiowa tribe. It is still unclear whether the Indians meant respect or disrespect by using this term for them. There were many recruits waiting to be enlisted but black officers were hardly heard of. African Americans were eager to enlist as the army gave them the chance for social and economic prosperity something difficult to achieve in a society that was all but closed to them. Many knew nothing of the world outside the world beyond the city or plantation they had spent their whole life on. They could not go back now they were free but many did not have skills to go forward or a place to go. So many felt that the army would be a new home to others it was the adventure of being sent west to help tame an untamed wilderness. This could lead them to their great dream the dream of building a new life on their own land. The Buffalo Soldiers wore the same uniforms as the rest of the U.S. Army of the same time period. The only difference was due to delivery times. New uniforms and equipment were delivered in the order of the units. 1st Cavalry received the first shipments then the 2nd and so on. That meant that the 9th and 10th Cavalry received their uniforms...
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...Confederacy clung to. Essentially, civility was at an all-time low during the bloodshed of the Civil war. Over 500,000 lives were claimed, however the etiquette and ideological platforms of both sides proved to be The old world charm of the South was encapsulated by John Mosby and his revenge against a Union trooper killing a young child in front of the child’s mother. Mosby exclaimed that revenge was not a primary, or even a secondary motivation. He honestly believed that he had to kill in order to stop the killing (Civil War Times, 31). This etiquette and honor displayed during the bloodshed was in contradistinction to the crass and needless killing committed by the Union soldier. This shows how oftentimes ideologies can mask the deeper, truer feelings and sentiments of people. The Union exhibited regard for the abolition of slavery and expanded human rights, to a degree, however The Confederacy’s ideological platform was viewed as rigid and hateful though the actions of Mosby show that they exhibited warmth, pride and humanitarian principles on a personal level. Abraham Lincoln’s general, George McLellan,...
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...CIVIL WAR JOURNALS “My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, And is not either to save or destroy slavery” -Abraham Lincoln (1862) THE BACKGROUND CAUSES OF THE CIVIL WAR (C.W. JOURNAL #1). The Civil War wasn’t only about the fight of freedom for the black people, but also the economics, and the states against the federal rights, lead them to the call of battle. To me, they were important factors that people had their own desire of having the life they wanted. The Economic and social differences between the North and the South became more notable each day. The North needed the South, and the South needed the North. The southern economy was depending on cotton in which they needed the salves to work on. The North had the industries that purchased the raw cotton and turned them into finished goods. This created a major difference in economic attitude, and the North meant the change of society, evolved with different cultures and classes. Other fact that lead them to war was the disagreement the states had against the government. The government felt that the states should still have the right to decide if they were willing to accept certain federal acts. This resulted in the idea of nullification. When nullification would not work, the states felt that they were no longer respected and moved towards secession. ELECTION OF 1860 (C.W. JOURNAL #2). The Democratic Party split into Northern and Southern due the slavery issues. In the Northern democratic...
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...Conflict Management Strategies for U.S. Army Better Opportunity for Single Soldiers (BOSS) Program HRMN365 What is BOSS? Better Opportunity for Single Soldiers (BOSS) is Military Welfare and Recreation (MWR) program for the United States Army that is overseen by senior enlisted military advisors and ran by junior enlisted soldiers with the funding of the MWR program ("Better opportunities for," 2004). The goal of the program is to ensure a high quality of life for the single soldiers of the Army through volunteerism, recreation activities, and improved living standards. Its organizational structure (See Figure 1.1) consists of a web of teams of representatives. Each unit has a representative. This forms a Battalion BOSS program which has an additional junior leader chosen by the Command Sergeant Major (CSM) of each specific Battalion (BN). Next each BN Representative then reports to the Brigade (BDE) Representative who is chosen by that respective CSM. After that each BDE representative reports to the Garrison or Fort BOSS President who is referred to by the collection of Command Sergeants Major to the post CSM. In addition to the organizational leadership every soldier considered single or a geographical bachelor are participants in the BOSS program ("Better opportunities for," 2004). All groups of teams work together internally and externally to accomplish missions set forth by command. In addition to this, the teams have monthly training meetings at the unit...
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...for the United States soldiers as they aided South Vietnam during the war. Source 1: Elshtain, Bethke, Jean. Women and War. New York; Basic Books, Inc., Publishers. 1987. Women who were voluntary nurses during the Vietnam War cared for the soldiers physically but also mentally. Often some soldiers late at night would come to the nurses and talk to them about their families at home or their significant other. These talks would help get the soldiers mind off the war and help them relax as they were stressing over the battles in Vietnam. Sometimes soldiers would ask nurses to even marry them so that they could die as marry men. This relationship between nurses and the soldiers was not perceived well by other people at the time. Many nurses were called “sluts” because of their late night visits with the soldiers. After the war nurses were viewed negatively by the public. It wasn’t until years later where women where seen as heroes during the Vietnam War. In this source of information it tells you more about the personal relationships the nurses had with the soldiers and how they helped the men cope mentally. This is also a pretty reliable source because it states real life situations and relationships that actually happened during the Vietnam War. This information is not biased and the fact that the source is relatively old does not matter to its main objective. The main objective of this source was to let people know how nurses also helped the soldiers mentally as well as physically...
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...For nearly two years the Nazi war machine had been in a boxing match with the Soviet Union, both sides trading victories. The Nazi’s would start the summer season with a massive offensives trying to encircle Soviet armies and key cities. The Soviet’s would counter attack in the winter months utilizing their numerical advantage and winter equipment to help neutralize the germans technological advantage. Still even with these winter counterattacks, the germans looked poised to seize the Caucasus oil fields which would have sucked the Soviet army dry. Their first goal was to block oil from traveling up the Volga river, so in July 1942 they attacked Stalingrad. After first it looked as if the germans were going to completely annihilate the soviet defenders. Everything changed though when Georgy Zhukov was given command of the city, he ordered that all available Soviet units be sent to stalingrad. As the battle raged on the germans centered their army in the main part of the city, thinking that the soviets...
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...Hitler’s Army: Soldiers, Nazis, and War in the Third Reich: Omer Bartov Ioan Popescu 500182744 HST 603-011 The autonomy of the Wehrmacht within the confines of the Third Reich, particularly with respect to its relationship with the Nazi party has been open to considerable debate post World War II. In Hitler’s Army: Soldiers, Nazis, and War in the Third Reich, Omer Bartov addresses the motivating factors responsible for transforming the Wehrmacht from merely a highly efficient and professional military organization into an extremely politicized armed forces motivated by National Socialist ideals. Bartov argues four distinct yet related theories which, when taken together bring insight into the Nazification of the Wehrmacht in ultimately becoming Hitler’s Army. His arguments first highlight the war experience through the de-modernization of the Wehrmacht particularly on the eastern front along with the social organization relating to the destruction of the ‘Primary Group’. These factors resulted in the Wehrmacht to compensate through the ‘Perversion of Discipline’ which directly attributed to many war crimes along with harsh punishment of its own soldiers. Finally, the distortion of reality through propaganda all shaped the soldiers perception of the war and ultimately allowed Hitler to assume total control of the Wehrmacht. Murray Sager argues that the Wehrmacht supported Hitler, not just in gratitude, but because the Wehrmacht closely identified with the aims of National...
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...Recommendations Future Definition of Terms Future References Pages 29 Appendix A Permission to Conduct Study Chapter 1: Problem Definition Background Over the last decade Soldiers in the Headquarters Company of the 710th Brigade Support Battalion, 10th Mountain Division (HHC, 710th BSB) have deployed several times throughout the Middle East in support of combat operations. The way that Soldiers have trained has changed over that time. Training has shifted from a hands-on platform to more virtual world. Since the mid-2000s, the Soldiers of HHC, 710th BSB, 3/10 MTN have been prepared to execute combat operations based on the training that has been spearheaded by the Non Commissioned Officers (NCOs). Army Directorate Publication 7-0 (ADP 7-0) is a manual that describes the appropriate way to conduct unit training. According to ADP 7-0 “unit training is the Army’s life- blood and the NCOs are the primary trainers of enlisted Soldiers, crews, and small teams”. NCOs primary responsibility is to develop and conduct training for subordinates that support the unit training plan, coach other NCOs, advise senior leaders, and help develop junior officers (ADP 7-0, 2012). In addition, NCOs supervise weapon ranges, drivers training, and ensures the welfare of Soldiers are up to standard. The...
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...An Army White Paper THE PROFESSION OF ARMS I AM AN EXPERT AND I AM A PROFESSIONAL 9TH STANZA SOLDIER’S CREED CG TRADOC Approved 8 December 2010 Authority: This White Paper has been approved for distribution on 2 December 2010 by the Commanding General, Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC), under his authority granted by the Secretary of the Army and the Chief of Staff of the Army in the Terms of Reference dated 27 October 2010 for TRADOC to execute the ‗Review of the Army Profession in an Era of Persistent Conflict.‘ Purpose: This White Paper serves to facilitate an Army-wide dialog about our Profession of Arms. It is neither definitive nor authoritative, but a starting point with which to begin discussion. It will be refined throughout calendar year 2010 based on feedback from across our professional community. All members of the profession and those who support the profession are encouraged to engage in this dialog. Distribution: Distribution is unlimited. Yet, the material in this draft is under development. It can be referenced, but not referenced or cited as official Army policy or doctrine. Feedback and Participation: Comments on this White Paper should be sent to the Center for the Army Profession and Ethic (CAPE), Combined Arms Center, TRADOC. To get engaged in this review of the Profession of Arms, visit the CAPE website at https://www.us.army.mil/suite/page/611545 and click on the Campaign link. The website will also provide links to professional forums...
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...Japanese military wanted to show that the Chinese were its only enemy but spared the other ethnic groups. The ‘Sook Ching’ operations (brutal operation of the Chinese) were one way of showing that the Chinese were its only enemy and that the other ethnic groups were its friends. With the existing anti-British sentiments already present in Singapore before the occupation, the Japanese saw a golden opportunity to forge a viable cooperation with the Indian POWs because they intended to exploit Indian anti-British sentiments to sabotage British army. In fact, they openly courted the Indian community with broadcast messages telling them the Japanese had come to liberate. (Heritage Trails :: Civic District Trail I :: Indian National Army) The primary objective was to make use of the Indian POWs in Singapore by harnessing their patriotism to India. At that the time, the Indians in Singapore were eager to join the anti-British, pro-Japanese Indian National Army. It was hoped that they would fight along with the Japanese military in its attacks against New Delhi for the independence of India. The Japanese formed the “Indian Working...
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...Compelled to become instruments of war, to kill and be killed, child soldiers are forced to give violent expression to the hatreds of adults -- Olara Otunnu In the country of Uganda lies terror in the minds of many children. Many people are unaware of the inhumane and wretched experiences that happen in Uganda. Families cannot sleep peacefully at night because of unwanted attacks from rebels who torture and abduct their children. These children are then forced to be placed into an army, comprised mostly of children in an environment that radically changes their soul. Like the quote from Olara Otunnu, children are used as objects to carry forth actions that certain adults feel towards their civilization. If one is fortunate enough to escape or rescued then they must deal with the cruel effects of reintegrating into society. Research confirms that it is immoral to have child soldiers in Uganda because war-related experiences inhibit a healthy growth as a one suffers from psychological and physical trauma. Known to be one of the worse humanitarian crises since World War II, the epidemic in Uganda began over twenty years ago. This came about due to a man name Joseph Kony and his ideology of establishing a government based on the Ten Commandments (Benter 1). He believed with a large enough army, he would be able to overthrow the current system residing in Uganda today. One usually associates the idea of an army with adults; men and women who voluntary commit to serve their country...
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...be military service members and civilians. The dependent variable will be divorce rates among the two. Does stress influence the divorce rate among military members? Military families are most often self-reliant and resourceful as well as they all share the same commitment to the nation (Rodrigues 2009). More than anything, military members look forward to returning home from deployment to see their families. However, regardless of the honor received and the benefits earned, these families are destined to face some of the most challenging obstacles in their lives that make it difficult to maintain a healthy marriage. Aside from separation during deployments, military families also face the possibility of stress related issues when the soldier returns home such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and traumatic brain injuries (TBI). Surveys were conducted in this article, “The Prevalence of Marital Transitions among Military Families” (Adler-Baeder, Pittman, & Taylor 2006) by the Department of Defense (DOD) in order to provide demographics for the military families that were affected by divorce as well as remarriage. This study shows that a significant amount of...
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