My current perspective and assumptions about homeland security are largely related to my experience as an Army officer and Department of Defense contractor. My time on active duty service began during peace time in 1998, then transitioned to war. When I entered active duty President Clinton was in the later part of his second term. The first time I heard the name Osama Bin Laden was in Korea 99’ during a security briefing. Prior to 9/11 I had assumed that all federal agencies communicated and shared
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face when the deployment goes on? Well I’m going to tell you the three phases of a deployment. First you start with the ceremony, the lonely flight and finally the trials and tribulations of the combat zone. As you well know I’m no longer in the military but I going to tell you these phases through my eyes when I was in the army during my combat tour in Afghanistan from June 2010 to June 2011. It all started when I first sergeant told us what time to be at the company so we can have our early formation
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Social Entrepreneurship can be explained as the act or submission of one or more persons with innovative resolutions to societies most pressing social issues. Social Entrepreneurship utilizes its resources and business surroundings to benefit the needs or wants of it social surroundings. One example that may play into social entrepreneurship is a company called “Thermpod”. A young girl, by the name of Jane Chen established this company, creating a sleeping bag-like device that warmed low-birth weight
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There are so many reasons why veterans are America’s heroes, and I will name a few of them. Veterans, first of all, give up their time with their families, they fight in wars, and they die for our freedom. My step-dad, my deceased grandpas, and family friends are all veterans. When veterans signed up, to begin with, in the service. They had to do a lot of training. All of that training took time away from family and friends. They missed birthdays, Christmas, Thanksgiving, children being born
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INSTRUCTIONS FOR COMPLETING AND SUBMITTING THE STATE OF CONNECTICUT APPLICATION FOR EXAMINATION OR EMPLOYMENT (FORM CT-HR-12) PLEASE READ CAREFULLY BEFORE COMPLETING THE APPLICATION GENERAL INFORMATION AND INSTRUCTIONS This application form is the official State of Connecticut Application Form for Examination or Employment effective October 1, 2010. PLD-1 application forms should not be used on or after October 1, 2010. Check the State Employment Pages on the DAS website (http://das.ct.gov/employment
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The second text is about Ryan who joins the army and how it affects his family. Ryan’s father Tim Kahlor encouraged Ryan to go the military although he would have liked the idea of Ryan going to collage better. Ryan says that the military destroyed his life and broke the entire family. “[...] a walking billboard for virtually every affliction suffered by today’s veterans” This quote describes how Ryan’s experience in the army hunts him till this day. The third text is about the auteur Nathaniel
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The VA plays a critical role in the health of the military personnel, veterans, and their family members. The VA’s mission is to care for the men and women who have served in the military to protect the United States (U.S.) of America. Also, the VA’s mission is to care for the military personals family members, and all survivors and the core of their value revolves around their mission (U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, 2017 I). A part of caring for these individuals the VA mission is to ensure
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Facing It Vietnam War veteran, Yusef Komunyakka describes a direct experience into his emotions when he went a visited the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in the poem Facing It. In the poem Facing It, Komunyakka caught my attention because of the title, and how Komunyakka explains the meaning of his title, by the types of speech he has in his poem, and how he describes the wall. Komunyakka’s figurative launuage in this poem drives home the speaker’s feelings and memories that he is encountering at the
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Organization: Monroe's motivated sequence Introduction Attention Step: When the mortar round hit Peter Herrick and the 42 other men in the motor pool, he said it felt like when someone hits your funny bone, except all over his body. The Navy veteran from Fort White, Florida was out cold for six days and presumed dead at least once after the blast in May 2004. He woke up six days later in the Bethesda Naval Hospital, about 6,000 miles from where he was assigned in Iraq, he said. His wife, Diana
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get rid of enemy shields and kill enemies. • The Hasta • Hasta is a Latin word meaning spear. It was the first and last main Roman weapon. It measured at around 2m and had a shaft made of ash. They were used by the Romans third line which were the veterans of war. During the late Roman Empire, they switched back from the sword to the Hasta. They were forced back to using the Hasta by the growing threats around them. It was a very effective weapon against
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