1st Marine Division

Since the Tang Dynasty in 716 AD, the Yueyang Tower has guarded the Northern gateway to the Hunan province, the point where the Yangtze River meets the Xiang River at Lake Dongting. The site, once a platform for the Wu Kingdom (222-250 AD) general Lu Su to train his naval troops1, offers a beautiful and strategic panoramic view of the surrounding area and a near bird’s eye view of the lake – one of China’s largest bodies of fresh water. The tower had already been through numerous…

Mithraism contains elements of Hellenistic cosmology but the complexity of this relationship remains unclear as there exists a limited selection of primary sources detailing this masculine cult. There is no surviving text detailing the myth of Mithras making it difficult to discern and understand Mithraic culture and its perspective of Hellenistic cosmology. What has survived includes the tauroctony, an iconic depiction of Mithras wearing a Phrygian cap slitting the throat of a bull with one…

civilian style the military style is much different from the civilians I work with. The manager and employees are in their office all day. There are some that do casual conversation but I do not see the interaction that I do as a manager with the Marines that work for…

In the picture I chose for my article, there are two people in it. There is a boy dressed with a black suit and a green tie, smiling, at the camera with a girl in a green dress. I chose this picture because although they both look happy in the picture they have a bad past. The boy in this picture is the girl’s brother, Francisco, and the girl in this picture is Sandybel (me). In the past both the boy and the girl would fight all the time no matter what. Whether it was about food or whenever it…

Veterans Day! I was not on FB yesterday so today I will give my 2cent 's worth. Looking back in time, I remember getting out of HS thinking about what I should do with my life. I had no Idea. My parents wanted me to go to some kind of collage. There are people that are made to go to school well I am not one of them,and never was or will be. I realized that. My schooling was the School of hard knocks.from 1971 till? I remember it was a Saturday back in June of 1971. We where (my close…

Chapter 1 Deployment: It had been a rough nine weeks for the young marine. Boot camp was nothing he had expected, there wasn’t a single moment he wasn’t tired or getting yelled at. The 24 year old Adam Carmicheal stared out the window of the hummer, military armor, very safe very hot. A few beads of sweat rolled down his pale skin. He pushed up his falling glasses, not even a few days into deployment and he already hated Iraq. He had been greeted by some not-so-friendly locals who through items…

to this deployment. 25 July 2011, I signed into Ft Riley, Kansas. HHC Company, Combat Aviation Brigade, First Infantry Division. I was in the S2 shop as the Terrain NCOIC. I was enjoying my time there in my position and getting to know my Soldiers and section. Then I get a call from the Division HQ. MSG Snyder, he told me that he got me pulled from the CAB to go work at division as the Terrain NCOIC in the Intelligence and Sustainment Company, G2, GEOINT cell. My initial thought was “man I…

In reinforcing the claim that Simcoe was indeed forward thinking, a look at his latter governing position in northern Canada provides much insight. In his journal he writes, “The Governor is very anxious to oblige and please the Indians; his only son, a child of four years old, is dressed as an indian, and called Tioga, which name has been given by the Mohawks. This harmless farce may be of use in the intercourse with the Indians.” While the Americans typically destroyed relations with the…

Senescence is a robust tumor suppressive mechanism that inhibits the proliferation of damaged as well as initiated cells in response to a diverse range of stresses. The observations that human benign cancer precursor lesions are comprised of senescent cells further provide evidence that senescence is a physiological mechanism that prevents cancer progression in humans, possibly at an early stage. Senescence is clearly not fail-safe, since cells in pre-cursor lesions occasionally progress towards…

necessities of life determines the personal and class relationship within society. While there are several concepts that explain the progression of this theory, our attention is directed mainly to three aspects: the four stages of economic development, the division of labor, and the establishment of free trade. The Four Stage Model of Economic Development According to Hunt (2002), Smith hypothesized that there were at least four stages of economic development: hunting, pasturage, agriculture,…