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 extensively throughout the Pacific during World War 2. While assigned to the attached Marine unit on the USS Minneapolis he participated in battles such as Guadalcanal, Tulagi, the
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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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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 with the National
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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 after a month of fighting, and the battle earned a place in American lore with the
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The photograph ‘Kent State Massacre” taken by John Filo was taken during the kent state massacre on may 4, 1970 is an important Photo. IT was the focal point of a nation divided by the Vietnam war. In the photograph the feeling of grief or sorrow is easily emitted from the painstaken face of a young girl kneeling next to the body of young student. The body is lying face down and motionless on the pavement. The bystanders are not really paying attention to the body but looking off to somewhere with
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G.I. Jane Are women in the military discouraged from training to meet the men's standards? Is this why a significant amount of women have dropped out of military training? (Eden 39) Women in military positions is an issue that has been very controversial for many years. Today, women that are usually serving in the military have an administrative or medical occupation, but filmmakers like Ridley Scott show that women can be strong, independent soldiers. In the movie, the main character Lieutenant
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In an article written in the Wall Street Journal, Dion Nissenbaum delivers a thorough explanation of the constant disloyalty caused by an Afghanistan trucking company. Nissenbaum exhibits the relationship between John Sopko; Special Inspector General for Afghanistan’s Reconstruction, and Hikmatullah Shadman; an Afghan contractor in the trucking business, who is currently the prime suspect in defrauding the United States of $77 million. John Sopko accused Hikmatullah Shadman of setting up counterfeit
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