SUBJECT: Army Casualty Courses Policy for CNO/CAO Certification (https://www.hrc.army.mil/Milper/12-374) 1. Purpose: To provide up-to-date information on the certification process of being a Casualty Notification Officer (CNO) and a Casualty Assistance Officer (CAO). 2. Facts: a. Effective immediately, the standardized CNO/CAO initial certification course will take place in a classroom setting and includes the following modules: CNO, grief bereavement & self-care (GB&SC), and CAO. b. CNOs and CAOs must complete the classroom coursework and pass a written test to gain initial certification.…
This investigation will explore the question: to what extent did Nixon achieve the ‘Peace with Honor’ in the Vietnam war? The scope of my research will assess Nixon’s ‘Peace of Honor’ statement given to Vietnam in the early 1970s to see if Nixon kept his words or not to South Vietnam to have peace with North Vietnam after the Vietnam war. The method used to gather evidence of whether or not Nixon’s achieved the ‘Peace of Honor’ will be determined by the range of primary and secondary sources, compare and contrast of the evidences, as well as evaluating the origin and purpose of my sources for their values and limitations. Two sources- the New Republic Editorial ‘Peace with Honor’ and General text by John Traynor focused on modern United States…
Marine Corps War Memorial Patriotism is often associated with Americans in response to the emotional pride in their nations land, culture, present day achievements, and history. However one's devotion to what they love may come with the dismissal of cynical actions. The remembrance of major events in our lives through memorialization keeps us either sane or feel a sense of unity among our community. Memorials are important to the American people, which are constructed by artists to provide visual and spiritual remembrance of achievements, American progress, uniqueness, and honor. The way we interact with memorials, contribute to the purpose of its creation.…
The Anti-war movement started during the 1960s and shaped America’s public opinion on conflicts for years to come. As in all its conflicts, the support of the people on the homefront influences America’s military commitment.. Without Homefront support, the American war machine dies. American pop culture during the 60s and 70s, sought to change public opinion against the Vietnam War. Through blatant anti-war lyrics to their actions, the popular artists and musicians of the era influenced the mindset of a generation to oppose the military actions in Vietnam.…
Soldiers also left their posts because of letters from distressed family members. Many soldiers went home because of these, and because of this the Confederacy made it illegal for family members to encourage the soldiers to come home. The Union encouraged Confederate soldiers to desert because they promised to house any Confederate soldier that came to them (Desertion…
Greed is a common vice among many people, especially during the Civil War era in the South when so much importance was placed on wealth, personal property, and therefor, upon honor (Greenberg, The Nose, the Lie, and the Duel in the Antebellum South, Pages 57-74). It was human nature to protect one’s personal property and asset’s before even considering the general well being of the rest of the population. However, the cooperation and scarification of all that a large plantation owner could afford to give was especially important to the war effort in this time period. In such an even fight against the Union, any upper hand advantage was greatly needed; in this case, the advantage was the enslaved population. The real question in this situation…
Albert Einstein once said: “The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil but because of those who look on and do nothing.” The Civil War started because of differences between the free and slave states over the power of the national government to prohibit slavery in the territories that had not yet become states. The war was fought from 1861-1865, and it was the bloodiest 4 years in U.S. history. It started when the Confederates bombarded the Union soldiers at Fort Sumter. The majority of the fighting took place in Virginia and Tennessee.…
The Purple Heart is awarded to soldiers who were harmed in wars or did some merits in wartime. More than one million Purple Hearts has been awarded from World War I. With this overwhelming number of soldiers who received the Purple Heart award and other hundreds of thousands who died in wars, it is no wonder that the debate about the question if it worse to die for one’s country is spoken about in movies, songs, and even schools. In Tim O’Brien’s story, “The Things They Carried”, O’Brien paints an image of the Vietnam War through the things the soldiers carried with them. He shows in detail the struggle of the American soldiers during the war and their will to stay alive. In addition, O’Brien presents the psychological toll of the war on the…
“The dead, the dead, the dead -- our dead -- or South or North, ours all -- our young men once so handsome and so joyous, taken from us -- the son from the mother, the husband from the wife, the dear friend from the dear friend... And everywhere among these countless graves we see, and ages yet may see, on monuments and gravestones, singly or in masses, to thousands or tens of thousands, the significant word Unknown.” (Walt Whitman, 1865) The people who lived through the Civil War knew it was momentous. People believed that the Civil War was almost a kind of a second American Revolution, or at least a culmination and reaffirmation of the first one. The Civil War pitted the Union against the Confederate States of America and resulted in the death of more than 620,000, with millions more injured.…
In 1863, Grant (the Union general at that time) set up artillery to siege Vicksburg, a city on the Mississippi River. This prevented people from crossing or even coming close to the river and land. At that point, the Confederates were running low on supplies and they felt as if starvation was killing them. The Confederate soldiers couldn 't take the starvation anymore and petitioned to ask General Grant about terms for surrender. The defeat at Vicksburg meant a lot for the Union.…
The Vietnam war was a brutal war killing millions of vietnamese civilians, thousands of americans, and destroying miles of jungle. it also caused long term effects that to this day are making people physically ill, ruining habitats, dividing people on both home fronts, and causing a high tension point between a people and its government. The vietnam war started in 1956 due to the division of the (GVN South Vietnam) and the (DRV North Vietnam). American pressure caused these two countries to stay split between each other after french rule had ceased.…
Although a war is fought between nations,it is really fought by individuals who stand to lose everything in the process. The things the nations lose is nothing compared to what each and every soldier loses. Even after the war is over and the soldiers go home to their families,the war isn't over for them. The actual war is over,but the war in their own head has just began. Many soldiers can't adapt to their lives after the war.…
Therapy of the Vietnam War In the book “The Things They Carried,” Tim O’Brien describes his and others experiences during and after the Vietnam War. (1) O’Brien tells this story to explain the different ways that troops were able to cope with the killing, death, and changes that went on during the war so that they could continue fighting. (2) O’Brien included many first hand accounts of the different ways the troops coped with the experiences they had during the war and when they returned to life back home in America after their time of duty. (3) Some people in the war were able to cope or were not able to cope depending on how you look at it.…
As history was about to be changed, John Brown informed Fredrick Douglas about his plans; he summoned that, “When I strike, the bees will begin to swarm, and I want you to help hive them.” For John Brown, striking was not the hard part, getting the ‘bees to swarm’ was. Growing up in Connecticut, John Brown was an abolitionist who always hated the idea of slavery. With two previous marriages and twenty children, Brown did not miss out on any opportunity to spread his anti-slavery views. To help slaves Brown moved his family and himself to places like Massachusetts, Kansas, and Connecticut to help fugitive slaves cross the border into Canada to become free.…
The reading titled “introduction’ for me was more than a good reading. I did enjoy to sitting down engage in this reading. Even though it was a good reading it did have it parts that were important to me as a reader but it also had information that was also upsetting to me. As for the reading and how it fits into the course material it goes hand in hand with what we are learning in class.…