Army Accountability Essay

Vietnam. Unlike World War 1 and World War 2 that consisted only nurses, military women held more roles, such as physicians, air traffic controllers, officers, and new corps such as the Army Medical Specialist Corps. Due to the American presence in South Vietnam in the 1960s, it led to a greater demand for women in the Army Nurse Corps. Women in the armed forces faced many debates when it involved them being in combat zones despite the requests of servicewomen being deployed to South Vietnam.…

because of what the author is trying to say “in between the lines.” Ambrose Bierce wrote “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” with real world experience. “Bierce was especially suited to write stories about the Civil War, since he served in the Union army”(An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, Shmoop). This man was a part of a war, which gave him the knowledge of how things worked in the military, thus the in-depth detail of the military officers within the story. The use of symbolism in, “An…

they were manipulated, and they only had one choice once they entered the army: Kill or be killed. When villages are attacked and families are taken away for children, they don’t know any better and they believe that the commanders are the adults that they should trust. Therefore, the crimes that the kids committed aren’t their own fault, but the people that put them in that position. The young adolescents that join armies do kill people and commit crimes, but this is not their choice.”Armed…

a Soldier fulfilling his or her obligation toward his or her line of duty. Although the relocation of a Soldier can be difficult, involving a single Soldier or a Soldier with dependents, the army has implemented a program to resolve some of the issue a Soldier may encounter during transition. The Total Army Sponsorship Program (TASP) assists Soldiers and their families with proper documentation, unit support, and peer-to-peer communication. TASP also helps with proper and smooth…

life, human and otherwise. A tank sits to the soliders left, poised aiming and ready to fire into jungle. Fighter planes soar overhead, waiting to drop the next air strike, to save the lives of our soliders while taking away the lives of the other army. The metal almost blending in against the smokey, blue-gray sky. Smog billows through the air, travels up the mountain side and obscures the landscape view. The jungle is sparse, with a mountian range towering over the canopys. The mountains are…

1. To begin with, war does not justify anything, nor does it solve anything. War just leads to tension, either between the countries that are fighting or between the country’s society. During the vietnam war, there were, “Young men all over the country burning their draft cards and resisting the war machine” (Myers 116). Then, there were the others that were willingly joining the war to fight for their country. America was torn between prideful men and fearful men. The fearful men were fleeing…

For a majority of a field grade Officer’s time in the United States Army, he or she will serve a majority time in either a leadership command position or a staff position. There is quite a mental shift that occurs when one transitions between the two positions. An Officer in the staff position is responsible for himself or a small staff only but, when an Officer assumes command, a mental trigger is turned on knowing one is responsible for everything the organization succeeds or fails to…

War is always a way for men to get what they want or in most cases to settle a disagreement they have with each other. War is never a good thing because many innocent people die at war, they have their own lives and are dragged into fight for something they were originally not a part of. In some cases, however, men are more than glad to go into war and fight for anything, some treat it as an honorable thing to do, while others do it for their pride. The poems Red Badge of Courage by Stephen…

“War is hell” (O’Brien 1154). That simple line enlightens so much about what war is and how it is portrayed throughout this short story. The author contradicts himself as he tells the story, to make the point that every contradiction has a story in its own. Three of the most memorable quotes are, “…war is grotesque. But in truth war is also beauty” (1155). “War makes you a man; war makes you dead” (1155). Lastly, “In war you lose your sense of the definite, hence your sense of truth itself, … in…

In November of 1955, the United States of America entered the Vietnam War. What would follow for the next two decades was a gruesome, unchecked state of warfare, that would leave even the most resilient soldiers broken down and demented. Units were, for the most part, unchecked by any higher power, and were left to commit atrocities at their own discretion. Tim O’Brien was one of these drafted soldiers in the war, and he writes about his experiences in The Things They Carried, a work of fiction…