A tank is a large type of armoured fighting vehicle with tracks, designed for front-line combat. Modern tanks are strong mobile land weapons platforms, mounting a large-calibre cannon in a rotating gun turret. They combine this with heavy vehicle armour providing protection for the crew of the weapon and operational mobility, which allows them to position on the battlefield in advantageous locations. These features enable the tank to have enormous capability to perform well in a tactical situation:
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Imagine that someone's legs were so badly wounded that they are about to fall off, well that is what happened to Howard Wasdin in combat. Howard Wasdin is a retired Navy Seal soldier. When he enlisted for the Navy Seals, he became a seal and then took training to become a part of BUD/S. After that he eventually became apart of Seal Team Two, and was deployed in Mogadishu. Howard Wasdin was determined to keep moving up the food chain so he took on the challenge of becoming a part of Seal Team Six
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1Troops dug a network of trenches that stretched from the English Channel to the Swiss border. The space between the opposing trenches is “no man’s land” a rough landscape with craters from artillery fire. They used modern rifles and a fire machine gun. 2The Germans used poison gas in the Second Battle of Ypres. The fumes caused vomiting, blindness, and suffocation. The British used the tank into battle they were very slow and cumbersome, mechanically unreliable, and fairly easy to destroy and
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War is a horrible, destructive thing. What some people do not comprehend is, in war, consequences occur for everyone. Not only are the parties involved impacted, but almost everything else is influenced by the cancerous reach of war. The influence of war isn’t a positive thing either, everything can potentially be negatively impacted by its call, and for this, no war should be considered worth the effort. A good example of this is WW1, in which almost every aspect Canadian life was influenced by
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In asymmetric warfare a weak and a strong side are clearly labeled. The implications of these labels often lead to an assumption by the stronger force that they will win when in reality, that assumption often marks the beginning of their defeat. An example of this is that of the Algerian war fought by the National Liberation Front (FLN), considered the weak, against French authorities, the strong. The ultimate victory of independence in the Algerian war by the FLN after numerous defeats by the French
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Physicians started using maggot therapy again after a big rise in antibiotic resistances. The Food and Drug Administration cleared medical maggots brand for marketing in 2004 for the United States. Maggot debridement therapy is prescribed by physicians to patients with chronic wounds such as pressure ulcers, venous stasis ulcers, neuropathic foot ulcers along with non-healing traumatic or post-surgical wounds
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a. Conduct unit operations 071-326-5502 Issue a Fragmentary Order 326-5503 Issue a Warning Order 551-88N-3043 Prepare for Unit Move 071-326-3013 Conduct a Tactical Road March 071-720-0015 Conduct an Area Reconnaissance by a Platoon 551-721-3348 Perform Duties as Serial/March Unit Commander 551-88N-3042 Plan Unit Move b. Guard detained prisoners of war. 171-137-0001 Search Vehicles in a Tactical Environment 171-300-0011 Employ Progressive Levels of Individual Force when Confronting
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CONTAMINATED AREA AND HOW TO PROTECT AND DECONTAMINATE YOURSELF Chemical warfare is a place where you do not want to be in ever in your life. It is a situation that I pray no one will ever have to be in during their lifetime. When I was in the Army, the last few months of my time was to teach soldiers that were on their way to be deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan about Nuclear, Biological and Chemical (NBC) warfare. When you are in a situation where you have to protect yourself from NBC, you have
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Ernesto Guevara was born on June 14, 1928, in Rosario, Argentina. He suffered from asthma. At an early age he read history and sociology books and was influenced by the writings of the Chilean Communist poet Pablo Neruda. At 19 Guevara entered the medical school of the University of Buenos Aires. In 1952 "Che" Guevara ("Che" is an Argentine equivalent of "pal") broke off his studies in order to set out with a friend on a transcontinental trip which included motorcycling to Chile, riding a raft on
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Administrative Ethics paper Sherry Grant HCS 335 May 21, 2012 Holly Martinez De Andino Presidential Commission to Decide: Is Testing Anthrax Vaccine on Children Ethical? On May 10, 2012 the Presidential Commission of the Study of Bioethical Issues started their deliberations regarding a very important matter: Testing vaccinations and treatments on children. The ethical question is whether or not to begin pediatric studies to determine the effectiveness of Anthrax vaccines and other treatments
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