came different. A trip to the post office did it for her. While waiting in line she began to read all of the signs along the wall. One just happened to be a recruitment poster. Jones enlisted in the National Guard in 1976 as part of the Quartermaster Corps. After receiving her bachelor's degree in liberal studies in 1980, Jones was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the California Army
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The Army Times recently dispersed a possible update to the Army Physical Fitness Test (APFT) that has caused quite a commotion amongst the soldiers within my unit. This update is known as the Army Combat Readiness Test (ACRT) and consists of six physical events to test a soldier with rather than the three that are currently tested with the APFT. The six events, one of which being the two-mile run that soldiers have learned to love, now include weight-lifting exercises such as a 250-meter spring/drag/carry
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SPC Rogers, for the month of December you have performed at a level above your peers. During this time, much of CPN Team 57115 was not present do to School Incentive, multiple appointments or soldiers being new to the team. Your presence was felt with the limited soldier-power on 57115 at the time. Currently you are applying for your Top Security clearance in order to reclass with retention. Be sure to stay on top of all needed tasks to ensure you get everything you want and need for your Army career
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the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. His first experience with the military started while still in college. He was a cadet in the Army Reserve Officers Training Corps at the University of Idaho. After resigning his commission in the Army, he accepted a commission into the Marine Corps in 1941. Myers served a long career in the Marine Corps throughout multiple wars and a wide variety of battles. After completing The Basic School, he would go on to San Diego, then the fleet in the Pacific. Myers traveled
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One of the exercises we do is infiltration drills. This is where everyone gets down on the ground and crawls under a shallow sheet of barbed wire through the dirt and mud for about 200 meters. Once we get to the other end, the Sgt. Davis yells at us for doing a poor job and makes us crawl all the way back. These drills go on over and over again for about two hours. One day, we started off the morning doing these infiltration drills. This was probably the worst time of day to start them because there
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Abstract The United States Military sends troops into combat operations all around the world. An increase of female soldiers being allowed into military occupational specialties that engage in combat operations has led to a growing number of military sexual trauma cases. Sexual trauma occurs in the male military population in fewer reported cases. Military sexual trauma contributes to a rise of mental health issues among our service members. Sexual trauma in the military creates unique challenges
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The 41st Engineer Battalion dates back to 1942. Before they became part of the 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry) located at Fort Drum, New York, the 41st Engineer Battalion was called the 126th Engineer Mountain Battalion based out of Camp Carson, CO. The 41st has been activated, inactivated, re-designated and reorganized several times since they were constituted on 27 August, 1942. The lineage of the 41st starts in 1942 and goes up until the year 2006. Their Campaign participation includes
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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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The United States Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (JROTC) is a full physical education credit class. The class encourages students to express themselves and to put their selves out there. There are five branches to JROTC: The Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines and Coast Guard. Army JROTC is the branch most high schools have. The instructors are men and women who have retired from military services. Citizenship, leadership and community are the core principles of the JROTC. JROTC first emerged
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The American amphibious invasion of Iwo Jima during World War 11 stemmed from the need for a base near the Japanese coast . Following elaborate preparatory air and naval bombardment, three U.S. marine divisions landed on the island in February 1945. Iwo Jima was defended by roughly 23,000 Japanese army and navy troops, who fought from an elaborate network of caves, dugouts, tunnels and underground installations. Despite the difficulty of the conditions, the marines wiped out the defending forces
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