Military Discipline Essay

As a retired military member, I had to respond to your post. You are so right about how many military members felt abandoned by sequestration, among other programs. Your analysis is sound and, having lived through it and been one of the victims it, I can speak to its soundness from experience and from the information we’ve learned in this class. The military’s lack of trust in its lower rank doers of the work is notorious. I was complaining about this to my dad once and he reported it had been…

Hunnington Ingalls Industries is America's largest military shipbuilding company and a provider of professioinal services to partners in government and industry (Hunnington Ingalls Industries website). There are a variety of types of career oportunites at HII. A few examples of career oportunities would be craft careers, supervisor careers, contractors, and engineering design careers. There are many more types of career oportunities at Ingalls which leads to why there are thousands of people who…

Words of Helmut Walz, a german soldier: “On the day when I was wounded, that was the 17th October 1942, we went towards the red barricades. I think it was a metallurgical factory, and behind it was a gun factory. And what else was there? There was also - what do you call it - a steelworks? Yeah, that’s the Red October steelworks. And we were outside. That’s where the rubble field was. You had bomb craters and grenade craters and nothing else. So we fought our way to the factory yard of the red…

The USO’s mission is to “strengthen America’s military service members by keeping them connected to family, home and country, throughout their service to the nation.” (USO) Previously mentioned, was there are over 160 locations for the USO. These locations are at or near military installations. These locations are even in combat zones, some combat zones that are too dangerous for civilians are unstaffed, but are there for the soldiers to use. The part that struck me the most is the USO airport…

seeks to demystify the claim that a cut in the defense budget will lead to job losses. The main arguments are: • Although military budget cuts will lead to jobs losses in some way, the percentage of job losses will be higher if the budget cut rather occurs in nonmilitary programs. For example, a study in the state of Massachusetts found that if federal funds are shifted from military expenditure to nonmilitary programs such as in the health care, education, energy, and construction about 27% to…

Future armed conflict will be complex, in part, because threats, enemies, and adversaries are becoming increasingly capable and elusive. State and nonstate actors employ traditional, unconventional, and hybrid strategies that threaten U.S. security and vital interests. The complexity of future armed conflict is due to increasing momentum of human interaction, threats emanating from dense and weakly governed urban areas, the availability of lethal weapon systems, and the proliferation of CBRNE…

In the music video “Formation,” Beyonce makes is seen dominant and carries herself in a sophisticated manner. Beyonce and her backup dancers are all wearing outfits that are body hugging and that flatters their body. All of them had curves and big and poofy hair that embracing her culture. Beyonce expresses power in her outfits, but also in her walk and how she presents herself. In every scene of the music video, she was a dominant character, representing power and having high status. The…

Marines, I'd like to thank you all for the hard work, perseverance and keeping up with the ever changing battlefield known as recruiting. Summer and PCS moves are on the horizon. I wanted to touch base on a couple of topics prior to everyone exiting stage left. The reason is to ensure that everyone is aware of expectations. The expectations listed below are the minimum the command group expects and your SNCOIC may need to add additional requirements. MCRC assigns mission based on T/O…

This story is really about making decisions, and a decision is a choice made from available alternatives. Stanley’s decision was based on wearing the warmest clothes he had, which was an old army overcoat and headgear. His selection presented a non-programmed decision, which is a decision made in response to a situation that is unique, is poorly defined, and largely unstructured, and has important consequences. Stanley’s decision displayed non programmed characteristics, because it was made in…

Occupations are often categorized into different classes based on salaries or specialties. Generally, people consider one or the other when deciding their career goals, but how often do they think of it as being a job as opposed to a profession. As a HR professional clearly view what I do as being a part of a profession. Understanding what it is being a professional if closely linked to the meaning of the profession. The meaning of profession varies on one’s own views, but defined as…