John Kerstetter’s essay “Triage” represents the emotional trauma that medical personnel undergo at war. “A Brief Encounter with the Enemy” follows a young soldier and his contradictory goals of acquiring glory and avoiding to face death when going off to war. War redefines what it means to be human by forcing out hidden capabilities of enduring, endearment and escaping gut instincts to face terror willingly. Leaving someone to die in a twisted mess of suffering is unfathomable. When one saves lives everyday, it takes a special amount of strength to ignore ones instincts and life duty to refrain from helping.…
The survivors from the war and diseases had to try and learn new ways on how to…
Overview The Wounded Warrior Project (WWP) is a 501©(3) non profit, non-governmental organization whose mission is “To honor and empower Wounded Warriors” (Wounded Warrior Project, 2014). This mission statement addresses two of the major elements of a mission statement: What: Honor and empower Who: Wounded warriors It does not address “where” it will provide services and “how” these services will be provided.…
Donna Pratt is a warrior who served in the Gulf War. She managed the vehicles used in battle. She was working with the military before 9/11 on a mission. She came back to continue the mission after the tragedy had struck.…
In this paper, I wanted to review “Smallpox in Washington's Army: Strategic Implications of the Disease during the American Revolutionary War” by Ann M. Becker. Smallpox was an infection. Many people were dead if they contact with people who had smallpox. Fortunately, we had the treatment to heal the smallpox today by receiving inoculation and it was not a threat anymore. From this article, I understood that smallpox was a problem for American’s soldiers to face during the Revolutionary War.…
The Wounded Warrior Project (WWP) is a well-known organization that strives to improve the lives of injured veterans. The organization works hard to eliminate issues injured service members face after they have given so much in the service of our country. Since WWP is a non-profit organization, they are not concerned with profit in classic sense. The “profit” is earned in the benefits injured service members gain by the organization’s efforts.…
Smallpox, malaria, and measles were the greatest enemies. The cold shelter, proper clothing’s, and poor quality of water and food mad army camps a suitable spreading disease ground. The sanitary commission was formed in order to try to cure these appealing conditions in the camp. The sanitary commission tried to teach the army how to stop the spread of…
When the Civil War began in the spring of 1861, Dr. Mary Edwards Walker shut down her practice and headed to Washington, DC, where she found a city overrun with soldiers wounded during the Battle of Bull Run.[4] Walker believed that she had an obligation to act that inaction wasn't an option, Dante Alighieri wrote that “The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.” [5] She went straight to Secretary of War Simon Cameron and presented herself as a willing and able surgeon. Cameron found her a modified Bloomer costume and would not consider commissioning a woman for any rank above a nurse. Her services were readily accepted by Dr. J.N. Green, the lone surgeon of the Indiana Hospital, a makeshift infirmary hastily set up inside the unfinished U.S. Patent…
The conditions in WWI was bloody and miserable. The medicine in the war evolved a lot. It was able to become better by the help of technology and science. This essay is about the problems and advancements of the medical conditions of WW. This is what you will learn from this essay.…
Trench warfare exposed soldiers heads to enemy fire. Soldiers faces were disfigured,they were called broken faces. Surgeons were flooded with the broken faces and they worked on giving them human faces again. The surgeons found ways to work on soldiers with missing flesh and bone. They had the idea of taking skin from someplace else on your body and putting it on their face.…
Justin Dilks Professor Duinink LAS 110 1 October 2014 Wounded Warrior Project 9/11 was one of the most pivotal moments in U.S. history. History shows that when somebody threatens the liberty and freedom of the United States, the people come together. Historical events such as the Pearl Harbor and the Boston Massacre are examples of Americans coming together to defend what is rightfully theirs. 9/11 was one of these uniting moments in U.S. history. U.S. military enlistment increased drastically after the events of 9/11.…
“We see men living with their skulls blown open... we see men without mouths, without jaws, without faces… on every yard there lies a dead man”(Remarque page 134-135). The war has inflicted so much trauma that some soldiers try putting themselves out of their misery, so they don’t have to live in a never ending nightmare. When they fight, they become inhuman not caring about the causalities and the aftermath. “We have become wild beasts”(Remarque page 113).…
Jaber al-Ahmed al-Jaber al-sabah had taken a stand in order to defend his country ,Kuwait, from the wrath of Saddam Hussein. On August 2, 1990 the country of Kuwait was invaded by Iran causing the start of the Gulf War. A massive attack was led by the dictator of Iran ,Saddam Hussein. The raid killed thousands and led to the destruction of over 700 thriving Kuwaiti oil refineries. Saddam’s actions had later constructed the beginning of the gulf war, an international conflict that had recrudescence during the the late 1980’s and early 1990’s.…
Over the last 1.5 years, the 4th Armored Brigade Combat Team (ABCT) has undergone significant change. Following a nine month deployment to Afghanistan, the Brigade appears to be overcome by stress, fatigue, leadership, and ethics issues. While many might categorize these as normal post deployment occurrences, they appear to run much deeper. The events of the previous deployment coupled with the death of the Brigade Commander, Brigade Sergeant Major and a Battalion Commander appear to be the critical events that triggered the downward slide of the Brigade.…
While each component is independently important, which is the most important subject to YOU when it comes to Soldier readiness? The three key components of the performance triad are nutrition, physical activity and finally sleep (Army Public Health Center). I feel that all three are important in their own way. Sleep as defined by Webster dictionary is “the natural state of rest during which your eyes are closed and you become unconscious”. But based on the performance triad sleep is “very critical in achieving optimal physical, mental, and emotional health” (Army Public Health Center).…