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Tuskegee have highest rate of escorting bombers safely (“Tuskegee,” HistoryNet). The Air Force of today is very different from the Air Force of the mid 1900’s. Segregation was still a major factor. Racial separation required legislation to give people of color the opportunities for training as airmen. The Tuskegee Airmen were the first black aviators in the US military forces. Before then they were not allowed to fly in the military becuase of segregation in America. Black people were in the…

Chief Justice Earl Warren Many Supreme Court Justices have left behind some type of legacy. John Marshall for instance, through the Marbury v. Madison case he was able to confirm the establishment of judicial review- the ability of the Supreme Court to limit congressional power by declaring legislation unconstitutional. In his paper, I will be focusing on former Supreme Court Justice, Earl Warren. This paper explains his early life, law practices, and the legacy he left behind. Earl Warren…

Elizabeth West Pease was born in the year of 1927, two years before the Great Depression and twelve years before World War II. She lived with her parents, her two sisters, Martha, Jean, and brother George on Pleasant Street in the blue-collar town of Woburn, Massachusetts. The Depression of 1929 was set into motion due to the great economic crash of Wall Street, that was triggered when investors traded around sixteen million shares on the New York Stock Exchange in a single day and billions of…

Killeen. After Killeen was gunned down in 1972, Bulger joined the Winter Hill Gang, a predominantly Irish American crime syndicate led by Howie Winter. Here he took similar duties with the Winter Hill Gang as an enforcer, but quickly rose up in the ranks. A ruthless, cunning mobster, Bulger sanctioned numerous killings, including the murders of Spike O’Toole, Paulie McGonagle, Eddie Connors, Tommy King and Buddy…

poetry and talent for it. Through this Poet’s Society, he met a boy named Dick. Graves had a loving relationship with him but never made any advances towards a physical type of affection. They continued to write to each other even when Graves was enlisted in the war. Graves enlists at the end of his term, not as a sense of willingness to enter the war, but as a way to postpone college. He goes into the war and joins the Royal Welch Fusiliers, the Welsh regiment. Graves moves up quickly in…

Staff Sergeant Soto enlisted in the Marine Corps in March, 2000 and attended recruit training at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego, CA in March of 2000 as Private Soto. Private First Class (PFC) Soto attended the School of Infantry and Basic Machinegunnery at San Onfre, Camp Pendleton CA from June to August 2000. Upon Graduation PFC Soto reported to 1st Battalion, 1st Marines (1/1), Weapons Company (Wpns Co), Combined Anti-Armor Team (CAAT) Platoon (Plt) August 2000. PFC Soto was…

In the late 1700s-1800s, during the decline of the Mughal Empire, the British East India Company took advantage of the “military fiscalism” present in India. Soldiers would pay taxes to their kings and conquer more land for him, raising more soldiers in the process. Because the British were limited in how many of their own troops they could send to India, they created sepoy regiments of native Indian soldiers, but trained them in the European style. Through the enforcement of a subsidiary system…

Gary W. Gallagher introduces his book by stating propositions made by other historians, along with their arguments and sources, as to why the Confederacy lost the Civil War. Most of these arguments pointed to lack of desire, or commitment for independence. These historians made their proposals by working backwards from the surrender of the South to the beginning of war. Gallagher’s argument is that a majority of citizens in the Confederacy had the will and determination to fight for…

While the agoge did teach literacy skills, its main focus was physical education; and the development of young men into soldiers fit for military service. Upon graduating from the agoge at the age of thirty, all men were enlisted in the Spartan Army. New soldiers were inducted into their own personal syssition, with a mix of experienced and inexperienced soldiers. This arrangement allowed for the development of skills of the new soldiers. However, the success of the Spartan…

The applicant requests an upgrade of his general (under honorable conditions) discharge to honorable. The applicant seeks relief, contending, in effect, his discharge should be upgraded because he was found not guilty in a court of law for driving while impaired (DWI). The applicant believes his unit did not even give his court case a chance due to the fact that they were dismembering and they knew that this was a way to free up space. The applicant states, he was discharged before his first…