Dumbledore's Army

Combat Contract Although there are many dangers in enlisting in war, many people disregard the risks and still fight for their country. Each soldier may have different incentives as to why they are putting their life on the line. The combat contract explains that the different personal incentives determine the degree to which the soldiers will fight; the greater the range of incentives, the higher the levels of compliance. The reason behind why soldiers fight will greatly determine their passion…

hardships that Australian army nurses had to go through during WW1. Nurses are often marginalised but this is evidence that WW1 wasn’t simple for them. This artefact shows that women weren’t treated the same as men during ww1, they must have had worse experiences than men. Women weren’t ever leaders or highly ranked in ww1 as most men were chauvinistic. Men believed that women were inferior to them and some believed that women weren’t skilled enough to even be at the war working as army nurses.…

November 11, 1993 –a date typically dissociated with the remembrance of America’s involvement in Vietnam. On this day, the female Vietnam Veteran memorial was dedicated in honor of unspoken heroes, ones whose experiences are unparalleled to the soldiers who partook in the physical fight and incomprehensible to the public’s mind. These brave women, some married, engaged, or mothers, held the burden of a war with undefined intentions both physically and mentally, during combat and upon returning…

function that he held (without liquidation and without any right). Retired Colonel Doru Paraschiv, considering that this series of facts represents only the visible part of a long line of abuse, decided that as a gesture of respect for the Romanian Army, the Romanian legislation and as a good patriot, he will follow the paths offered to him by the Romanian justice and by his right to petition. However he again found himself…

critiques a video of a female soldier completing a 12-mile hike. In the video, the female solider can be seen falling to the ground and struggling to get to her feet several times. There is a three-hour time limit for completing this task, per the Army prerequisite tactical foot march, and she finishes with about fifteen minutes to spare. The instructions for the hike also dictate that the candidates must carry their rifles in a ready position, meaning that the weapon must be ready for use…

Transitioning Veterans into Civilian Life Veterans transitioning from military life into civilian life might have a hard time adjusting to their new lives when they get back. According to Demers (2010) there are three main themes that veterans might identify with when they return home. These themes are; time travelers, no one understands us, and crisis of identity (p.169). I will further explain these three themes. Demers (2010) explains that this feeling of being a “Time Traveler” is…

In the chapter “Night Life,” the Alpha Company receives intelligence about an NVA buildup in the area they were in so as a precaution, the platoon started moving at night. It was a hard adjustment for everyone but Rat Kiley however, couldn’t handle it at all. He started talking nonstop about bugs and scratching himself causing nasty, ugly sores on his body. He eventually broke down to Mitchell Sanders about how scared he was and the next morning he shot himself in the leg. Tim O’Brien uses…

We set out early after brackfast when the sun was already highest in the clear, fresh, windy morning. The Country from the river on each Side is open wavering plains, some pine can be seen in every direction of the hills. At about 4 P. M, Meriwether and William and the rest of our group left through the butifull bottom, passing an Indian Fort on a small island from the Lard Shore. While traveling, Shields killed a buffalow which caused William and the rest of the group to halt sooner than…

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…

When the United States takes the place of the French in the Vietnam War, Hal Moore is chosen to train lead a battalion of soldiers using helicopters for the first time in combat. He is told to take 400 men into a landing zone in La Drang Valley even though no one has any clue as to how many soldiers the North Vietnamese have around that area. When they arrive Moore captures a Vietnamese scout who tells them they have landed right next to a base camp located in a mountain near the landing zone…