Lifestyle of an Active Duty Soldier and Veteran Keri Reeves ENG 121 English Composition Prof. Ginger Marcinkowski October 4, 2015 The lifestyle of an Active Duty Soldier and Veteran is an experience I will never forget. Imagine this, you just graduated from high school and ship out the following month to boot camp. You are eighteen-years-old and officially on your own. You have a purpose and a new career ahead of you. You just joined the United States Army, congratulations kid. Till this
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Clay Hunt Sav Act 203 Introduction Approximately twenty two American veterans takes a decision of committing suicide daily. This statistics amounts to around eight thousand and thirty veterans committing suicide annually. Th Act was named after one of the Marine Corporal Clay Hunt originating from Houston Texas. He worked in Afghanistan and Iraq after which he ventured into assisting the veterans after his warfare tours. During the War in Iraq, Hunt was wounded and later diagnosed with post-Traumatic
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The use of music has been an integral part of American military services since the American Revolutionary war. Before evolving into the modern day band to provide ceremonies and entertainments, music was mainly used for signal, communication, and physiological effects (The Music of War). During the Revolutionary War, the most commonly used traditional instruments were the flutes, trumpets, bugles, and drums. After the establishment of present day small group ensembles and marching bands, musicians
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armed forces allows its service members to drink alcohol on the conditional basis that they manage themselves and conform to local and state laws. The armed forces however have implemented certain policies called General Orders, which apply to all military service members deployed to South East Asia. This order is in support of local cultural beliefs and also the health and welfare of soldiers due to the operational tempo of being in a combat zone. General Order One, as it pertains to alcohol reads
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a video game and so it makes going to war easy so we can start wars without even sending people to go fight. Then sometimes the drones kill our own military in drone strikes. Drones have killed around 2,000 innocent people and many of those deaths were children. Drones are bad because they cost so much and the money we use for that could go to veterans, then they are no way to make friends with other countries, There always hovering around watching us and there almost invisible so if they do shoot
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our national security is at risk. It is the mission of the Armed Forces to ensure training of all sorts is available to maintain a strong and ready force. Introduction From the time you arrive at the Military Entrance Processing Station (MEPS), a new recruit can fathom that life in the military is going to be full of rules and regulations. It is easy to understand that rules must be followed. This is no different when one arrives at Basic Training and finally at their first duty station and beyond
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is acquired, the person moves on to ODS (Officer Development School) located in Newport, Rhode Island. (Navy). ODS is a 5 week course that teaches an officer candidate how to lead the men and women of the Navy. Candidates are taught military indoctrination: military customs, courtesies, naval terminology, basic uniform assembly and requirements, inspection procedures, and training requirements. Damage control: dealing in the different types of damage, warfare, and nautical catastrophes. Firefighting
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Property, a Service Disabled Veteran Owned Business: Army Property was formed in 2009 as a Service Disabled Veteran Owned small business specializing in providing commercial goods to the Military, Government and commercial market. Army Property operates under the umbrella of IMS, LLC, an inventory management solutions company designed to assist the Military logistics and procurement community with property accountability. By virtue of interacting with the Military logistics community to help provide
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On June 28, 2005, Lt Michael Murphy found himself deep behind enemy lines in a life or death situation. Murphy, leader of an element of four Navy Seals to kill Muhammad Assail, a leader of the Taliban. This mission was supposed to go in take Assail down and then leave quickly, but it is not what happened that day. While the team was waiting on top of a mountain, they were detected by a couple of goat herders. Most people agree Navy Seals are trained for many situations, but it is next to impossible
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pat, gave up a successful life in the NFL to serve in the U.S Army in 2002. Pat gave up his life in the NFL and his teammates amates to serve. He also left his family behind was he went to serve. Pat said to his wife that his family served in the military, navy and U.S army, so he thought that he never made a difference in the world by just playing football. So pat enlisted in the U.S army for a three year term. Pat later on died in Afghanistan while fighting for are country. Pat will always be remembered
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