God for allowing me to be at this place in my life. Looking back on my life finding ending up in unusual, challenging, or exciting places is not new to me liked the night I found myself standing on the yellow footprints at the United States Marine Corp boot camp or when I found myself DJing at one of the hottest clubs in Japan being chauffeured in a jeep with a 45 on my hip. I never identified myself as a people person and always thought of myself as an introvert. But life’s experience have proved
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Image of the United States Military in the Public Eye The United States military has had its ups and downs in popularity with the American public. In World War II, America couldn’t get enough of its soldiers, marines, sailors and airmen. However, during Vietnam, the American public equated its soldiers with the government and the unpopular war. Soldiers were treated with disrespect when they came home, and they were called things such as “baby killers”. Ironically, many of the soldiers during
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Women in Combat “Your Momma wears combat boots,” this phrase will soon become true. In May 2012, the United States Marine Corps decided to start opening combat related Military Occupational Skills (MOS) for women. A MOS a specific job a Marine is trained to specialize in, and only preforms this specific job while in the Marine Corps. Is America ready to send their willing service women into combat? There is still a wide controversy on this topic, but I believe the majority of America is ready.
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It was a beautiful spring morning. Several of my friends and I were out walking through the country side in the warm sunlight. As my group continued down what appeared to be an old hiking footpath, I heard a distant popping noise that sounded very similar to a fire cracker. The leisurely stroll came to an abrupt stop to inquire about the noise. At that moment, it seemed that the entire countryside erupted with the popping fire crackers. My group had mistakenly strolled right into the middle
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Eqbal Mohammad Cleared Linguist with CI Polygraph 10429 Rapidan Lane Manassas, VA 20109 Cell: 571-839-1523 meqbal30@gmail.com ------------------------------------------------- Profile More than 9 years of experience in translation , interpretation and Linguist management for Senior U.S Military Personnel and Afghan National Security Forces in Afghanistan which included translation of hundreds of documents and simultaneous and near simultaneous interpretation of dozens of Senior Leader
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L. Adams Introduction No matter how trained an Army, winning or losing comes down to logistics. Evidence of how great the US military has become at mastering the art, you need to look no further than the initial invasion of Iraq. For the Marine Corp in particular, the Iraq invasion was the deepest penetration a Marine land component had ever attempted. The capabilities to conduct such long operations were a direct result of overhauling their logistic process. Seeing the Future One of the
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Weapons and Ballistic Protection COM/150 “The deadliest weapon in the world is a Marine and his rifle!” Pershing (1918). Wars and battles that have ever been fought have used weapons by opposing sides to wage them while possessing body protection to finish them. Battles have mainly been won and lost by the force that has the best weapons and body protection at that time. The weapons and ballistic protection that the United States currently has is better now than ever because of their capabilities
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filter replacement. * Maintaining the warehouse and keeping stock put away when new trucks come in to drop off oil and tires, wipers. * Cleaning shop and keeping trash put in right area empting oil drums from oil changes. United States Marine Corps- Camp Lejeune, NC (Feb/07 – Dec/11) Final rank-Corporal Training NCO Billet/QC NCO Operator * Supervision of junior Marines to ensure they were staying busy and to get the mission completed. * Delegating the daily work to the junior Marines
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fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little “clever” comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have
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Likewise the Control and Reporting Center, they have different TAOCs located throughout the United States in Yuma, Arizona; Cherry Point, North Carolina; Aurora, Colorado; Great Lakes, Illinois, and Virginia. In contrast, the United States Marine Corps only has one overseas location in Okinawa, Japan compared to the two overseas locations the Air Force has. The Control and Reporting Center and Tactical Air Operation Center own and operate their very own
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