village was shelled by U.S. artillery to force fleeing civilians back to My Lai. Lt.William Calley, of Charlie Company 1st Platoon, led from the east and although he did not face any resistance, he began to kill indiscriminately the fleeing civlians. Within an hour, women, children, infants, and old men were rounded up. Calley ordered his men to begin shooting the villagers. His platoon hesitated, but within seconds the massacre had begun. Soilders raped an unkown number of women, slaughtered livestock
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Wilson C. Powell Jr. 114 Abby Ct. Elizabethtown Kentucky 42701 270-317-3847 elderwcpj48@yahoo.com Career Objective Business Management Professional Skills Profile with 2 year of Academic Schooling and Credential in: * Accounting I * Principles of Marketing * Microeconomics * Macroeconomics * Computer * Legal and Ethical Environment of Business * Business Management and Leadership Education AABA – Business Administration
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1. – I found “In the Field” very moving and traumatic in depicting the unity that surfaces among the soldiers as a result of Kiowa’s death. Furthermore, it was eye-opening to learn how collectively the soldiers accepted the blame for Kiowa’s death, as if a piece of their identity was stripped away from them. Now, I also interpreted “Good Form” in a similar fashion, as it was an honest and truthful disclosure of how captivating it is for the reader to hear the “story-truth” about the realities of
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Unit 7 American Revolution Assignment Albert Gonzalez Unit 7 Assignment He joined the Connecticut State Troops in June 1776 and was assigned duty in the New York City area, arriving just before the opening of the British Long Island Campaign. After a restless winter and spring back in Connecticut, the 16-year-old veteran reenlisted in the Continental Army in June 1777, signing on for the duration of the American Revolutionary War. His grandparents initially opposed the idea, but agreed after
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narrative first hand account of the 2003 invasion of Iraq. As Evan wright lands in kuwait on a Marine corps base, Camp Mathaila. It is very hot an average of 110 degrees everyday with men and tanks getting ready. As the men of bravo company, second platoon, Hitman 2 are waiting to step off. When he arrives he walks into a large tent with rows of cots and the marines are sleeping, reading or joking around with boredom eating away at them.It smells of chewing tobacco and body odor.With all the commotion
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Pit Bulls Need Love Too A random person walks to a reporter and says,” I have some news to report, I saw a Labrador chase a squirrel and it it.” “It’s not interesting enough and if we put a boring news story no one will watch it and we will have to close down. So I will replace the squirrel with a 6 year-old girl. It would also ruin the Labradors reputation, so when I interview you you have to say it was a Pitbull mauled a girl,because people hate them already”, said the reporter “Won't that be
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Seawater Paper Tia M. Williams SCI/209 July 6, 2015 Dr. Linda Martin Seawater Paper When you drink that glass of cold drinking water, and you enjoy it. Do you think to yourself where did this begin. It comes from seawater. Seawater has been strongly transformed to pure drinking water for personal drinking. Seawater properties are primarily salt. The eradication of the physical and chemical properties shift seawater into a current recyclable unit. Reverse osmosis and multi flash distillation
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In “The Lost Battalion” General Alexander states what he thinks are acceptable losses are. In the beginning of the movie Major Whittlesey states “I lost a platoon just probing that area this morning”, General Alexander replys “We have to live with acceptable losses, Major”. Which is morally wrong and somewhat apathetic, this is shown a couple times within the movie General Alexander was indeed technically “in” the war but he was nowhere close to the actual combat himself. He could of never known
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AND DEFINITIONS A. Drills – consist of certain movements by which a unit or individual are moved in an orderly, uniform manner from one place to another or from one formation to another. B. Ceremonies C. Element – an individual squad, section, platoon, camp or a larger unit forming a part of a next higher unit D. Formation – arrangement of an individual or unit in the prescribed manner. Kinds of Formation: 1. Line formation – formation by which elements are side by side of abreast
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Makes an Army Leader Practical Exercise Student Handout Extracted Material from Task 158-C-1230 This student handout contains one page of extracted material from the following publication: Task 158-C-1230, Apply the Ethical Decision Making Method at Small Unit Level Disclaimer: The training developer downloaded the extracted material from the General Dennis J. Reimer Training and Doctrine Digital Library (https://atiam.train.army.mil). The text may contain passive voice, misspellings
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