...Military Intervention Ever thought about why the U.S. always has to ho help other countries during a war? They should just sit back and mind their own business until they’re being directed in the war. The troops are being deployed to different areas around the world. The president needs to just keep them all in one spot to decrease the killing that’s happening. The military shouldn’t get involved with other countries war because that’s causing deaths, lack of support from the ones who are really battling in the war, and funding for it (Romesh 1). When the troops try to ask the government for help they always turn them down. Instead, the government is willing to help other countries like Syria with their weapons instead of the U.S. It’s the...
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...enlist in the military for a mandatory three years. There are many reasons why kids may not be able to go to college, but that should not give them an excuse to live their lives paycheck to paycheck without planning for their future. I believe the military is the perfect solution for this behavior. Money is always an issue with kids graduating high school and many can’t afford a four year university. Maybe the graduating student did not have the discipline or motivation to apply his/her self while the chance was there and now they are having a tough time getting accepted to a school. There is also the fact that many high school graduates have not decided what they want to do with their lives. In the following paper I will explain how the military can fix any of these problems. It is not cheap to go to a well known four year university, and even if one gets a loan, he/she would be paying it off for a long while after graduation. This could be a big reason some students graduating from high school do not attend college. Joining any military service would be an easy way to get anyone financially stable. After three years in, and most likely at least one deployment, one could have enough money for a vehicle and a place to live after getting out of the service. Also, if the student that could not afford to attend college after high school still wanted to further his/her education, there is plenty of money given to anyone trying to attend school after their military service. So after...
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...Driving under the Influence Abstract Driving Under the Influence (DUI) has been and is increasingly becoming more of a problem on the leading cause of vehicular deaths. This research paper will cover multiple areas of this issue such as National Statistics on DUI’s, The second most cause of DUI’s aside alcohol, How big the problem is getting, Who is most at risk, Particularly how it effects individuals in the military, both criminally and long term and last, The program M.A.D.D. (Mothers Against Drunk Driving) and how this programs helps the community. As I mentioned before, the issue of DUI’s is becoming more of an issue every day and it is not getting any better. There is this misconception that individuals can only be considered driving under the influence when consuming alcohol but this is not the case no more. The second most inhibitor of driving under the influence is Marijuana. It seems like the more time goes by, the more states make it legal to smoke. This drug can be obtained easier then alcohol as when that time comes when there is, as long as the money is right, it can be brought by pretty much anyone. National Statistics on DUI’s The annual numbers of DUI’s is pretty hard to swallow and the following numbers are just with alcohol, not marijuana. * The average number of people arrested annually for drunk driving are 1,500,000 * The average number of people who die annually in drunk driving accidents are 10,075 DUI’s Arrest by age group...
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...Refining Solutions Travis Lara March 24, 2014 PHL-458 Carrie Woodhouse My issue happened about a year ago. I had to decide weather or not I should stay in the military or get out. This decision would change everything, not just in my life, but my families life. My first solution would be to stay in the military. With this solution came a lot of sacrifice. If I stayed in the military I would be receiving orders out of California, which is where home is, unaccompanied. Unaccompanied means that I would be moving without my family. I would be in a different state or country for two years without my family. The second solution would be to get out. The scary part about that is that I didn't have a job secured for when I got out as of yet. I had been applying through several law enforcement agencies and interviewing, but had not yet received a yes from any. I was given 24 hours to make the decision. I soon decided that the best solution for me was to get out. Although this is a decision left a lot to the unknown I just could not imagine being away from my wife and kids for two years. According to Ruggiero in Chapter 11 there are three steps to refining a solution. Step one is working out the details. In this step you need figure out exactly how your decision will be applied. Step two is finding imperfections and complications. In this step you check for common kinds of imperfections, compare the solution to competing ones, consider what changes your solution...
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...Controversy in the Military For the longest time homosexuals have had to deal with discrimination everywhere, including the military. When Bill Clinton ran for president, he gave a promise to the gays he would allow them to fight, but changed his stance when elected and did not follow through on his promise. Instead Clinton issued the policy Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell that still hindered the homosexual’s chance of getting into the military. Finally, now after years of discrimination, a Representative of the House wrote a bill that will allow homosexuals the right to join and fight in the armed forces. The H.R. 1283 Military Readiness Enhancement Act of 2009 states homosexuals can join the military and should pass for the benefit of all those who serve the armed forces. Official discrimination against homosexuals began during World War II. Before World War II, it was only African Americans who had a hard time joining the military, but then the military started becoming stricter on who can join and who cannot. The military started making people take a psychological test, where anyone who wanted to join the military had to get tested by a psychiatrist (Katel). If people claimed they were gay, they could not join the armed forces. Discrimination continued in every war America has fought until Bill Clinton came along. When Clinton ran for president, he guaranteed to lift the ban that the military established on not allowing homosexuals the right to fight. To get around his campaign...
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...The Tillman Story is a perfect example of telling the truth slant soldiers were told to lie about what happened when asked, once the family was found out what really happened they were given an overload of information with blurred out key points which made it ineligible, the military as a whole lied to the Tillman family. The death of Pat Tillman became front page news a NFL player who left a football contract to serve for the US in the war who was shot and killed in duty. What makes this so interesting to the public is the clarification if he was shot by enemy forces or friendly fire. Soldiers in Tillman’s platoon were ordered not to release any information of the true cause of Tillman’s death. Fellow soldier Bryan O’Neal who was the last soldier to see Tillman alive was told by commanders not to release any information. Tillman’s brother Kevin wanted the truth he believed his brother was deliberately killed and all the information given by the military was “calculated lies”. After piling lies after lies the military clarified the cause of death as friendly fire....
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...At this time the United States of America does not required men to serve in the military like other countries? Well I have wondered why myself to. But I am going to point out three reasons on why I think men should have to serve in this essay. One being men need to learn discipline. Two we need to keep this country that we live in safe and secured. And lastly to boost our economy and put more people to work. Men should serve in the military to lean discipline. Men these day have no respect for there parents let alone the cops. The military will help train them to respect people above them. Not only that it will help them with work ethic from the discipline point of view to be able to do their job and work hard at doing it. They will break you down and build you back up through training and physical training. If you screw up they will teach you how to act and then make you do some kind of physical training so it will sink you to your head. It is vital in our country to keep it protected to keep our freedoms that our fore fathers fought for and all the men and women before us. There for all men should be required to serve in the military. We are in a world of terrorism in this day and age, for example September 11, 2001 automatically comes to mind when I think of terrorism. Therefore men shouldn’t have to be asked to join they should just want to join if they want to keep their freedoms that they have. Where are the jobs in this country? Where is the money in this country...
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...numbers/slots to prepare for those to be promoted to withstand the readiness, determination, and loyalty that it takes to become a NCO in each Military Occupational Specialty. By joining the Corp you are set to a standard and also considered to having the knowledge to lead and train soldiers. Understand that this is not the first time the Army has changed the promotion system. Change is good! The Army needed a change and by needing a change they wanted to revamp the promotion system so that promotions would be fair to all and weed out those who are trying to promote early for other reasons. As the Army put in action a new promotion system, it has affected hundreds of junior enlisted Soldiers that are in the promotable status to become a sergeant and staff sergeant. This new promotion system guarantees to revamp the free-for-all system that initially was thought to be fair for all Soldiers. There are still the requirements of getting a total of 800 points but there are just different stipulations that are adjusted. For the revamp of the system it is to focus on the proficiency and to make sure ensures the there is fairness throughout the ranks. The stipulations that are encountered are the proceeding of the unit’s board, correspondence courses, military and civilian education, and military training (Steiner, 2011). Before getting into the stipulations there has to be a clarification on what is granted for each promotion rank. Promotions for sergeant and staff sergeant...
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...this great nation have answered this nation’s call. Coming onto a year and a half now, I still remember the day that I signed my contract with the United States Air Force and what was running through my mind. As far as stability and structure in goes, being an Airman has changed many people in a tremendous way. It has changed many lives enough to where the majority of people that have joined have a different outlook on just about everything. The military has made many boys into men, and has turned girls many girls into women. However with that being said, there is a following of the responsibilities of being an adult. Sometimes the level of maturity student Airmen have had to rise up to correlates one with the other (college and Air Force). The amount of work piled up between the two worlds can be a bit overwhelming. Airmen in the United States Air Force Reserve have been said to have the worst time coping with stress, simply because it is one of the most stressful jobs in the United States. Balancing between being a student and a military member is a difficult lifestyle, and if anything, is misunderstood. It is said that college can be one of the most stressful times in a person’s life. Anyone who is currently in, or has been in college would agree that it can be. Homework, lectures, notes, studying, essays, projects, and finals can be hard to balance. These are all examples of stresses to be found in college that are applied to almost every student walking through a campus. Some...
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...Trans-genders in the Military As time continues, things that we found unusual and unrealistic have become normal and not such a burden to us. The military has been a key role on moving forward with many of these hush hush discussions many try to sweep under the rug. Now that the military is allowing openly gay, lesbian, and bi-sexual personnel into the military, there should be no reason for them to discriminate on trans-gender personnel who are trying to serve their country. In order for us to go forward with my statement I need you all to be opened minded. We all have an opinion but in the end it’s up to us to make the change for our future. The Don’t Ask Don’t Tell (DADT) era was a time when homosexuals where not allowed to be who they where without getting in trouble. The term was coined after President Bill Clinton in 1993 signed a law (consisting of statue, regulations, and policy memoranda) directing that military personal could not openly be a homosexual in the military (Britannica, 2015). In order for Clinton to win his seat in the white House he needed his sponsors to support him and having openly gays in the military was not something they wanted. Even though Clinton was for it he had to satisfy his supporters. After many discussions and fights back and forth Clinton finally came to an agreement that homosexuals could join the military but not be opened about it. Many officers were overwhelmingly opposed to that approach, fearing that the mere presence of homosexuals...
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...bloody rioting in cities in Burma. In Sept 1988, the army under General U.Saw Maung replaced the Government with the State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC), a group of military officers. In 1990, SLORC proposed a new government and allowed free elections with the confidence that it would win, but 80% of the seats were won by the civilian opposition party led by Suu Kyi. But it refused to turn over the power to the civilian government. It outlawed the opposition party, and arrested its leaders including Suu Kyi. It invited foreign private investors and companies to invest in Burma to restore the economy. Pepsi Co responded favourably to the invitations of SLORC and other companies from US also started doing business in Burma. In 1991, Pepsi Co decided to enter a joint venture with Myanmar Golden Star Co, a Burmese owned company by Burmese businessmen named Thein Tun. Myanmar Golden Star would own 60 percent of the venture. This included setting up a bottling plant with 10 year licence to bottle and distributes PepsiCo-owned products in Burma, including Pepsi Cola, 7 up, and Miranda soft drinks. US department of State accused SLORC of numerous human rights. Citizens continued to live subject at any time and without appeal to the arbitrary and sometimes brutal dictates of the military. Maltreatment of attendants, illness and even death was a standard practice Harsh working conditions to ordinary Burmese which included women and children Forced resettlement of...
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...James Dean Period 5 08 February 2013 Military Tattoo Policies Hey! Do you have any tattoos? Does it affect your job in any way? Well I know if you are in the military it can affect you. Military tattoo policies vary in each branch. They choose the policy based on, if the tattoos are a distraction from good military order and discipline, where they are located, how inappropriate they are and how many they have. I agree with these policies yet disagree also. Are your tattoos a distraction from good military order and discipline? In the Army tattoos on the hands and the back of the neck are now permitted as long as the tattoos are not extremist, indecent, sexist or racist. In the Coast Guard if any of your tattoos can be seen while in dress blues they are unauthorized, also in the Coast Guard no visible piercings are allowed. In the Marines they are prohibited from having a full sleeve tattoo, it does not look professional in dress blues. What would you say if you saw a man covered in tattoos protecting the president or anyone of high power? Me, personally, I do not think that tattoos that all over the body is professional, military or not if you are in a work environment tattoos should not be shown. Say you were a lawyer, is the judge or others going to take you very serious if you have tattoos on your hands, neck and face? I know I sure wouldn’t. No tattoos may not mean you are a certain kind of person, but they do not look professional. I do not personally have a tattoo...
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...of the Military: Should it be Lowered Jason M. Stoudt DeVry University The drinking age in the military is currently set at 21 years old as it is set for the rest of the country. There has been an age old statement widely used by those in the military, “If I am old enough to fight and die for my country, I should be old enough to drink”. The debate is out there that the drinking age should be lowered for all young adults from 18 years old to 21 years old. The idea behind the fact that younger people tend to have less responsibility and are not good candidates for being allowed to drink is a valid point. Those serving in the military are different in that respect for the fact that they have more responsibilities than that of their counterparts in the civilian side of the realm. Anyone in the military from 18 until retirement has to be more responsible and is dealt with more severe consequences if they break the rules. Now the thing to look at is that it has not always been this way. In earlier years the military service members were allowed to drink if they were 18 years old and older as long as they were on a military base. It did not matter if the military base was overseas or inside the United States. In the middle of the 1980’s advocacy groups such as MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving) as well as other groups lobbied Congress to have the rules changed. Per the U.S.C. 10, Section 2683, an amendment was made that changed the policy to reflect that the military base commanders...
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...soldier and a wolf to illustrate the U.S military withdrawal from Iraq. He vividly depicts the western Coalition troops' situation in Iraq by placing the soldier inside a treacherous and hideous wolf's mouth. The soldier represents the western Coalition troops while the wolf represents Iraq. He is trapped inside the wolf's mouth and surrounded by its sharp teeth. His eyes are wide open and focused outside the wolf’s mouth as if requesting for external help from that situation. He has a helmet on his head to emphasize how hostile his environment is with situations such as bomb attacks being one of them. In the cartoon, we see the soldier within inches of the wolf's tongue, and if he advances further he may be rolled up by and engulfed by it. Consequently, he cannot withdraw himself due to the surrounding sharp teeth which can tear him into pieces. The wolf looks barbaric and ferocious, an image which is an analogous description of some nomad countries which apprehend international peaceful treaties. The cartoonist further scribbles “Iraq" on the head of the wolf to drive the point home about who he is referring to. The phrase “Whatever you think of how I got in here, you have to agree the tricky part will be getting out." was the only statement by the soldier in the entire drawing. This statement carries a lot of weight. It shows that now the soldier accepts he made an enormous mistake by getting inside the wolf’s mouth and now getting out is becoming a problem. Though it only...
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... I have made many choices in my life, whether they were good or bad decisions they lead up to me making a choice in which I think was one of the greatest choices I have made so far in life. During the year of 2000, I decided to drop out of High School. I was 18 years old and had been attending Monacan High School for about three years. Due to financial situations I was forced to leave school and work a full time job so that I would be able to support myself. I had a talk with my General Manager about full time employment and he agreed that I was a good worker and gave the ok to start training to become a Manager of Taco Bell. I worked very hard to manage and save my money to make life more comfortable, and during that year I was able to plan and set more goals for myself. As I was getting my life back on the right track so was one of my closest friends, Nelson Clanton. Nelson and I would talk about the future from time to time. I remember one particular day he asked me what I thought about joining the military. We were both a few months away from turning 20 years old and we weren’t getting any younger. In the earlier days I would have never even considered joining the military. As the days past I went into deep thought about enlisting, I felt I would be a great opportunity to do something different with my life. I finally called him and said “Lets get it”, but I also let him know that I had to go back to school and get my diploma before...
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