Why I Joined Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps To give a little history on Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps (JROTC), it is a Federal program sponsored by the United States Armed Forces in high schools across the United States. The program was originally created as part of the National Defense Act of 1916 and later expanded under the 1964 ROTC Vitalization Act. I joined JROTC because I wanted to become a better person. One day while talking to my father I asked him how he became
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Justin, I like how you explained the relationship between all the elements of an air assault mission. You stated…”Typically, you have used some sort of reconnaissance before executing the mission. This reconnaissance could be conducted by an unmanned aerial system, scout weapons team, or ground force reconnaissance element. As stated in the FM 3-99, “reconnaissance, surveillance, security and intelligence are critical to information collection based on the commander’s critical information requirement”
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The Borough of Grove City in Mercer County Pennsylvania is a typical western Pennsylvania town with its bucolic setting. Grove City College overshadows its neighborhoods with a large campus in its center. However, if you look closely, there is another equally unique attraction. It appears to your left as you cross the Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad tracks going north on Center Street. One can make out an older castellated building that looks shopworn from decades of use. The makeup of the building
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Why it is necessary and important to notify your proper Chain of Command of your whereabouts and if you will not be at your place of duty on time. Of all the values the Navy expects to see epitomized in its sailors, the values of punctuality and accountability are by far the most expected and the most important, and for good reason. The ability to be held accountable for your whereabouts and the ability to be at your appointed place of duty on time are not only the exceptional qualities of a leader
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This paper will review research and policies that set up from Department of Defense (DoD) agencies and civilian nonprofit institutions addressing gender dysphoria (GD) effects and limitations of affected individuals by GD on the readiness in an operational environment. The material will discuss concepts, definitions, and restrictions shown in the policies of DoD and TRICARE policy manuals (2017). Current policy recommendations written by Secretary of Defense (SecDef), the Honorable James Mattis
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With that Hevy picks one up and begins to return to his post by Sharp. When Sharp yells to the squad, “Scanner’s picking a large mass moving toward us!” Rex, Hevy, and Rogue rush to the scanner. “That’s got to be at least a battalion of troops," Rogue says. Rex gave another order, “Gear up and get ready. Looks like we won’t be going without an easy fight. We got a couple minutes max before they’re here.” Hevy starts moving debris to use as cover from the wreckage, Rogue helps Sharp move to a location
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budget environment, what will be the highest priority and adjust the focus on that missions at hand. In 1996, there was a Workforce Cultural Audit completed and the Coast Guard Commandant addressed the need to improve its leader’s skills in the officer corp. Following that report a Junior Officers Needs Assessment working group was formed in order to determine the baseline needed to develop our leaders using the Human Performance Technology methodology by looking at the desired outcomes, actual state
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The United States Navy had departed San Diego a week earlier and was now sitting outside of the Panama Canal Zone. They were waiting to hear if it was safe to enter or if they would have to send in the Marines to clear it. About three days earlier all communication was lost with the two SEAL teams. Because of a very large storm that had it the area they feared this had prohibited the SEALs from making contact. The storm had cleared a day ago, and there was no word from them and it was evident by
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John Philip Sousa Perhaps the most iconic of all the marching instruments is the Sousaphone with its carefully crafted tubing and grandiose bell. This colossal apparatus is gargantuan not only in its physical size but in its thundering acoustics as well. But where did this mammoth instrument originate from? The answer is John Philip Sousa, a conductor and composer whose outstanding work in the United States Marine Band would earn him the title of “March King”. Sousa was born on November 6, 1854
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Used from 1942 till 1968 the code used to communicate in the military was the native language Navajo Native Americans was used (Navajo Code Talkers Facts). As a military form of communication to confuse the Japanese so as not to let secret messages be known during World War II. The Code talkers were Navajo men, who fought for their country and would talk in their native language over the radio to communicate for World War II to help the men of the American Military throughout the Pacific. These men
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