...problems facing management in South Africa (SA) today. In the past, payment for work performed was simple and straightforward. Paying for work not performed, such as vacation was simply unheard by the management. For most parts the employer displayed a take it or leave it attitude when making pay offers to employees. Today the almost automatic increasing of employees’ salaries every 12 months or so is common practice. Although thing has change substantially, new and better ways of compensating people are needed in Human Resource Management (HRM). To understand the utility of broader construct for considering military and civilian pay comparability, it is necessary to consider how military service differs from employment in the civilian sector (Asch & Warner, 1994). A primary goal of South African National Defence Force (SANDF) compensation is to enable its military to meet its manning objective for the force size, composition, and wartime capability. To attain these objectives, compensation must be appropriately structured to attract, retain, and motivate personnel at a reasonable cost, even when national security goal are...
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...considered a life-changing experience, something that people remember, reflect on, and tell stories to their grand children about decades later. BCT is not easy...as we often say here, there is nothing basic about Basic Training. BCT takes 10 weeks to complete. Unlike schools which typically have between six and seven hours a day of teaching, the Army trains for about 12-14 hours a day, Monday through Saturday. We try to avoid too much sitting in a classroom...but it does happen: We also spend a little bit of time outside; getting some fresh and air and, when the opportunity presents itself, a little exercise: Traveling...by foot: Climbing ropes: And if you're good enough, graduating in front of your friends and Family! Week 0: Reception Soldiers complete administrative actions required to become part of the Army. Simple things such as medical examinations, setting up pay, and initial issue of equipment is completed. This process typically takes between two and three days but can take over a week in some cases. Weeks 1-3: Red Phase Welcome to BCT! Soldiers meet their Drill Sergeants and begin training. While often considered a difficult week for Soldiers due to the adjustments, it is actually pretty easy compared to later weeks. Most classroom-type training occurs in this period where Soldiers learn about: * Ballistics and Rifle Marksmanship Fundamentals * Personal financial management * Law of Land Warfare * Uniform Code of Military Justice (Military Law)...
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...104 3/24/2015 Explication of “Base Details” by Siegfried Sassoon If I were fierce, and bald, and short of breath, I’d live with scarlet majors at the Base. And speed glum heroes up the line to death. You’d see me with my puffy petulant face, Guzzling and gulping in the best hotel. Reading the Roll of Honor. “Poor young chap,” I’d say—“I used to know his father well; Yes we’ve lost heavily in this last scrap” And when the war is done and youth stone dead; I’d toddle safely home and die—in bed. In Siegfried Sassoon’s “Base Details,” the speaker, a young ordinary soldier, says that his life would be so much different if he was an older officer. During that war, only young soldiers were involved in the fighting; Sassoon was one of them. As a British soldier in World War I, Sassoon well understood the military life. Raised in the carefree, luxurious life of the British upper classes, Sassoon was at first a strong believer of war; however, his attitude completely changed as he became angered by those who profited at the expense of others. “Base Details” is an example of him expressing anti-war sentiment. The sarcastic tone of Sassoon reveals his true thoughts, developing the poem’s central message that the officers’ indifference unnecessarily leads their troops to death. Sadly, older officers had a lot of excesses; young soldiers were the ones facing their fate. The narrator, speaking in first person in this dramatic monologue, states that if he was a major...
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...Lauri Goodling English 1101 September 27, 2010 Military Life vs. Civilian life Life in the military offers many benefits that are not available to most people living a civilian life. Joining the military is a defining moment in a person’s life and has long-term effects on his or her immediate family. The sacrifices of a soldier may include long absence from home and family, deployment to dangerous places, and uncertainty of personal safety. Nonetheless, the benefits of serving in the military outweigh any conceived possibility of danger, discomfort, or homesickness. The military provides education/specialized training and healthcare, creates jobs, and offers opportunities for traveling to different places in the world. The current state of the job market in America is very limited to those with little education or any specialized training. For civilians seeking a new career, they are forced with having to pay for the training unlike their military counterparts. The military has a wide range of occupational specialties (MOS) from which any service member can choose upon entering or at any time during their career. Unlike civilians who usually must maintain a job in order to have an income, military personnel are paid while in school learning occupational skills. Along with the expense of paying for training, civilians also must seek employment on their own and can choose to work anywhere they want. Adversely, military personnel do not have the option of choosing where...
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...Stressors of Military Families Stressors are simply defined by Webster’s Dictionary: as something that makes you worried or anxious: or something that causes stress. Being apart of a military family for over the past twenty-one years, I can definitely relate to common stressors that military families may encounter. There are so many dynamics that are involved with having a family member who is enlisted in the military no matter what branch of service they serve in. In a military environment, circumstances can change drastically and dramatically in a matter of time. Stress is a key part of military life in general; however, there are several stressors that can have a big impact on military life; moving from state to state or even from country...
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...Growing up in a civilian family as a child and transitioning into a military family as a wife was not an easy task. I was faced with problems that interfered with my job, health benefits, and education. Growing up a civilian child and now having to raise military children has many differences and various issues arising. While both civilian and military families both face the overall issue of raising a family, there are many similarities and differences in jobs, income, and overall impact of these different lifestyles. In regards to life at home and different benefits that families require to survive, there are many differences in the homes of a civilian family verses a military family. Civilian families usually have "normal" home lives that consist of two parents present and a stable living situation. These parents usually work jobs where they are gone during the day but home for dinner every night. "In 1998, there were over 30 million dual-earner households" meaning both parents go to work every day (Clarkberg, np). Sometimes the jobs worked by parents include benefits such as health and life insurance, but many civilian families are forced to purchase these necessities on their own. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics "employer-provided medical care was available to 85 percent of full-time private industry workers...[but] only 24 percent of part-time workers had medical care benefits available" (BLS, np). Civilian families with careers that offer benefits are...
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...Effects of Military Service on Children and Families Abstract When a service member is deployed or sent on a tour, this has a drastic change in the life of the service member’s family especially the children. Being the family of a military service member is already a difficult and complex lifestyle; deployments don’t make it any easier. Military deployment is a unique experience affecting both service members who make sacrifices for our country, and the loved ones who await their return. The potential for deployment is a constant reality. Today’s military deployments may occur in rapid succession and be extended. Therefore, military personnel and their families must always be deployment-ready. Deployments are not easy and can create significant stress for U.S. military men and women and their families. In many cases deployments cans create problems in families. It can contribute to marital problems, family dysfunction, and emotional or behavioral disturbance in spouses and children. The primary purpose of this research paper is to describe the effects of military deployments on a families and children. This paper will discuss the effects and they type of effects the military families and children are faced with. “Deployments in the United States have increased greatly in the past 10 years. Families and children are psychiatrically affected by these deployments and recent studies are clarifying these effects.” (James 2012, p.16) Deployments in military service...
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...Military Families Many citizens of the United States join the military to serve their country. A person that is in the military can be deployed all around the world. They could be on deployment for a few months or a few years. Some leave their wife, husband, or children behind for work. Others take their family along for the deployment. Military children live a completely different lifestyle than the average kid. Growing up as a military child there are many advantages and disadvantages. Military children are at a disadvantage compared to the standard child due to the lack of consistency in their life and are more likely to be involved in more fights.. A military family that travels with the parent on deployment gains the advantage to see more of the world. A...
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...in the Middle East, martial families have undergone the emotional distress of deployment. For Deploying service members and families, there are assets accessible to aid throughout shifts. Even though the military has encountered many challenges ever since the war, social work has prepared resolutions to offer military families with optimism and encouragement to assist them to emphasize on their families as dear ones are deployed, and direct them with a base to construct upon inside their families. Through many programs and services accessible to the military people, they are allowed to utilize these services for numerous problems in their lives. PROBLEM STATED Ever since the September 11, 2001, terrorist assail, American troops have been set out approximately 3.3 million times to Iraq and Afghanistan, states the Defense Department Data (Tan, 2009). It is calculated that more than 2 million men and women have carried those deployments with 793,000 of them deploying more than one time (Tan, 2009). A lot of the military members are National Guard and Military Reservists entitled to task. EARLY LITERATURE ON MILITARY FAMILIES • Army families have been a component of the United States military services for more than the last two centuries, but martial life for family units has altered along with communal alterations (Pryce et al., 2012, p. 120). • Throughout the Gulf War, deployment of 199-1991 approached at a dreadful point for military families (Baker, 2008, p. 122). This...
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...Examining United States Military Culture from a Civilian Perspective Greg G Jacobs Albizu University This paper is put forth as a cursory examination of the culture of the United States Military from the perspective of an individual intending to work as a therapist or mental health counselor with current or former members of the military and their families. Although it is very important to think of every individual as unique unto themselves, there are shared customs, traditions, traits, beliefs, needs, and, challenges, common to members of the military culture. It is believed that in exploring these common items one can be of greater assistance in our supporting role to military members, families and ultimately the military’s mission. This author hopes to cover several topics that relate directly to the culture of the U.S. Military and therapists intending to work with this population. These topics include emotions, themes of isolation and alienation, the stigma associated with getting help, multiculturalism and how it relates to these individuals, honor, demographics of the new all-volunteer service, reasons people join the military, authoritarian families, parental absences, allegiance to the military mission, military hierarchal structure, and the defining features of the Fortress (secrecy, stoicism, and denial). Concepts of Military Culture “The whole culture of the military is that you don’t talk about feelings or emotions” (Marshal, 2006, p...
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...and there are about 1.8 million children that are part of military families. With over a decade in war, multiple and prolonged absences of the military parent have taken a toll on the military youth. With deployments and Temporary Duty (TDY) separations have become a way of life for these families. Although it may seem they are accustomed to these separations, recent studies have found increased emotional and behavioral difficulties associated to the military deployment cycle for youth of all ages. Adolescents, who are naturally going through a period of marked changes in their lives, and as they are trying to find their identity and learn to be independent, parental separation due to the military can impact their development. This paper includes research and a literature review on adolescents and the military life, how being part of a military family affects their social, emotional, cognitive and physical development, as well as the findings from an informational interview with a School Counselor. Introduction The United States military force consists of more than 2.2 million voluntary service members (Department of Defense; DoD, 2011). In 2007, approximately 1.88 million US Children had at least one parent serving in the military (Reed, Bell, & Edwards, 2011, p. 1676). The experience of being part of a military family is unique and rewarding, but at the same time is filled with sacrifices that impact the family as a whole. One of the most impacting factors that is currently...
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...Military Deployment and the effects on their family members Martin C. Weiss Eng/147 2/02/15 Patricia Nereim This is My Daughter, Julie Katilyn Weiss and her boyfriend LCPL Dillon G. Lackus is a U.S Marine Military Police Officer and LCPL Lackus is stationed at Camp Hanson, Okinawa, Japan. Military Deployment and the effects on their Family Members In America, the weight of the wars of Iraq and Afghanistan falls heavily upon military families. In fact, military families are living the new normal.”What that really means is that this,” intense life of repeated deployments, of prosthetics, of memorial services, this is what life is going to look like for us from now on, so we had better learn to deal with it. ( (Lyden, 2009) It’s a shame, that every military family has to deal with the decision of what their child has decided to do just coming out of high school. The good-bye until the next time is the hardest because they waited so long to see them. And it goes by so fast that the next thing you know they have to go back. Family members are faced with emptiness when that day comes; when their families and friends watch them walk away with their...
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...Service Members, their families, and caregivers with information they need on military facilities, health care services, and benefits. It supports access to the Wounded Warrior Resource Call Center and trained specialists who are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week by phone at 1-800-342-9647 or by e-mail at wwrc@militaryonesource.com. Advocacy/Support - Disabled American Veterans* www.dav.org The DAV’s 1.2 million members provide grassroots advocacy and services in communities nationwide. From educating lawmakers and the public about important issues to supporting services and legislation to help disabled veterans — the DAV is there to promote its message of hope to all who have served and sacrificed. Advocacy/Support - National Veterans Foundation* www.nvf.org Our Mission: to serve the crisis management, information and referral needs of all U.S. Veterans and their families through: * Management and operation of the nation’s only toll-free helpline for all veterans and their families. * Public awareness programs that shine a consistent spotlight on the needs of America’s veterans. * Outreach services that provide veterans and families in need with food, clothing, transportation, employment, and other essential resources. Advocacy/Support - Salute Inc.* www.saluteinc.org SALUTE, Inc. is a non-profit organization dedicated to increasing awareness and support of issues facing active military personnel, veterans and their families and to provide financial...
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...The novel that Pat Conroy portrays, “The Great Santini”, has a deep theme of meaning in the novel. The character of Bull Meecham, a marine pilot , represents how military life affects homelife and family in general through strict parenting and the family’s mistreatment , leading to son, Ben Meecham, to go through stages of discovery and manhood. Pat Conroy uses Bull Meecham as a way to show how experience in the military can lead to some abusive behavior back at home, like Conroys own dad, Donald Conroy, and how Pat went through mental and spiritual changes in his path to life.Throughout the novel, Pat Conroy establishes this theme through elements, such as characters and symbols that each hold and is related to the theme of the novel. Conroy...
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...ENGL099 – Pre-College English Transitioning from Military to Civilian Life Introduction My paper is on the transition from Military life to Civilian Life. The dealings and issues that a lot of the service men and women and even their families deal with on a day to day basis. In this paper, I will write about what they go through including the families of the service men as well as the dealings with PTSD and the issues of finding work after they are out of the service. Whether they are healthy or have been dismissed medically, the struggles they endure every day. I. Topic #1 A. Military Life 1. In the military, things are structured everything is done precise and accurately. No stone is left unturned. Typically, servicemen go to work whether in the office, in the field and it is hard labor. Nothing in the military is ever easy. The wives are left to take care of the house, the bills sometimes and the kids. Some spouses do work as well. Some already had careers when they married. A lot of spouses however will volunteer their time in the kid’s schools or around the base just to keep busy. 2. When a family is facing deployment, it is not only hard on the servicemen, but it is hard on the family as well, especially the children. The children have to deal with months or even a full year without their parent and some families if both their parents are in the service, they are having to deal with both parents being deployed which then leaves them with really just...
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