1. This memorandum details the top five personnel shortages of the 4-42 Field Artillery (FA). The 4-42 FA is currently short 13B4O, 13R4O, 13R3O, 25U2O, and 13D1O. The following guidance details the impact on mission accomplishment. 2. 13B4O: Our current strength is five assigned out of nine authorized (55%). Sergeant First Class assists platoon leader in the planning, preparation, and execution of collective training activities of the platoon. Currently Howitzer Section Chief and Ammunition
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Mississippi River. When he served in New Orleans, Beauregard became unsatisfied with a peacetime officer. He informed the U.S. Army Engineer Department late in 1856 that he was going to join a filibuster, which is someone who engages in an unauthorized military expedition into a foreign country or territory to support a revolution. With William Walker, who had gained control of Nicaragua. He had also offered Beauregard the rank of second in command of his army. After the Civil War, he went on to many different
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For hundreds of years leading towards the 18th century, battles had been fought on horseback or with hand to hand combat. However, with the advent and improvement of gunpowder and gunpowder-based weaponry, it was clear that the 1700s marked the beginning of the Age of the Rifle. Armies themselves began to change as well. England was one of the first governments to create a standing professional army with strong organizational structure. This was a strong departure from current standards of the time
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If you are currently serving the Military Forces of your country or have been an ex-serviceman then you are entitled to secure due discounts on car insurance and loans. The major financial institutions, here, are morally indebted to you for the services rendered by you and as such are obliged to offer you these discounts as a mark of respect. There are several military officials who might not even be aware of the special discounts available on insurance, especially for them. A little bit of education
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To win in Supremacy 1914 a lot of time and effort is needed. Through my gameplay I have learned what works and what doesn’t. There are a bunch of things that work. The first thing that I learned was that this game took time and that I must have patience. I also learned that to attack it is not only needed to have a lot of men in your army but also the morale and being strategic. The morale is used as a will to fight for your men, if they have a higher morale they have more power. Having allies is
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It has been said that there was somewhere between 400 to 750 female soldiers in the Civil War. “The fact that women were willing to risk injury, illness, maiming and even death to escape the kind of lives that were available to them at the time, tells you something about just how limited their choices were,” said Elizabeth Leonard of Colby College, an american historian specialized in studying american women and the Civil War era (Schulte). Women fighting in the Civil War was baffling to those living
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Change is a big part of life and it’s something we all go through. What would someone expect from a young boy who signed up for the army thinking it would be the easiest thing he would ever do? Such a young boy is changed in Stephen Crane’s The Red Badge of Courage. With such a young mindset, Henry is taken over by his imagination rather than reality. When Henry is broken out of his imagination once he sees what war is like. Henry Fleming is a young boy who goes into battle with a few doubts & and
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William Insley Dr. Barbara B. Booker English Composition I 28 February 2017 Child Soldiers: Entering Society with a Broken Psyche Child soldiers: an image burnt into all of our minds. Young boys looking about eight-years-old, armed with assault rifles, and grimacing menacingly into the camera. Children are unanimously loved: even if you do not care for children, you will stop and smile at children as they pass. But what happens if that child is armed with an automatic weapon? Our attitudes towards
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of the benefits of citizenship. The program emphasizes skills for life: In a junior ROTC class, students can build soft skills such as leadership, self-confidence and discipline. They are taught by retired military personnel and partially funded by the military. Course work includes military history and customs. Students are required to wear a uniform at least twice a month. Students also partake in physical fitness training and
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the existing structure of the military as a gendered institution. Beginning with World War II, she uses feminist theory to show how women have fought for full citizenship rights, to include the right to serve in the Armed Forces, and the issues that have resulted from an incomplete and delayed integration. This book will be used to affirm issues the military has encountered due to continued gender segregation, and predict outcomes of full gender equality in the military. Fenner and DeYoung tackle
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