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    Roanoke island is an island in Dare County on the Outer Banks of North Carolina, United States. It was named after the historical Roanoke Carolina Algonquian people who inhabited the area in the 16th century at the time of English exploration. The lost colonists were the third group of English arrivals on North Carolina’s Roanoke Island, settling near the modern-day town of Manteo. Roanoke Island was the site of the 16th-century Roanoke Colony, the first English colony in the New World. It was…

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    El Paso Case Study

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    in U.S. for years. El Paso also offers a diverse and rich culture, full of history and pride. El Paso is home to University of Texas at El Paso, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center at El Paso, and a strong military community from Fort Bliss. Fort Bliss is one of the largest…

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    defeating the German counterattack in the Battle of the Bulge, after which he led the forces across the Rhine River and into Germany, making prisoners of 10,000 miles of lands and freeing the country from the Nazi regime. In 1915, Patton was sent to Fort Bliss along the Mexican border where he led routine cavalry patrols; a year later, he accompanied Pershing as an aide on his expedition against Francisco "Pancho" Villa into Mexico. Along with the British tankers, he and his men achieved…

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    John Pollara Vietnam War

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    Pollara entered the Army to receive basic combat training. He was sent to Fort Bliss for eight weeks, where the basic training consisted of physical, drill, and weapons training. Fort Bliss is a training facility for American soldiers located in El Paso, Texas, and New Mexico, and is named in honor of Lieutenant Colonel William Wallace Smith Bliss. (Military.com) His training was very exhausting, and his drill sergeants were tough on all the troops as they trained…

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    Worked to pull team members together into a cooperative, supportive, and highly successful team by engaging with each member for input to taskers and suspenses. Created an environment of support, boosting the confidence of individual team members, allowing them to do their best by providing verbal and written guidelines. This resulted in logistics items being shipped to support other programs, (example Maingates.) Provided support across the program when needed to ensure that the mission…

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    First War Veterans

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    Have you ever thought what freedom means to you. Freedom means to me to be able to do things and not strict to laws. As americans we are free to do things we like. we have got freedom from people overseas fighting and winning our wars. Are first war veterans fought for our country and this is how much veterans mean to our country. They mean a lot to our country. They gave us our freedom If they did not fight we would be apart of a different country. Our veterans did so much for our country and…

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    Robert Terry's Duties

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    in the Army in 2000 in order to study without the support through his parents and served until 2010. His military occupational specialty (MOS) within the army was 92G (Food service specialist). After a basic training at Fort Jackson in 2000 and he finished the AIT training at Fort Lee in the same year. First his duty station was Korea. He went even Germany since then, and also several times went to the deployment. He deployed to Iraqi, Afghanistan, South Korea and Kuwait. Actually, he said, his…

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    The legal drinking age for military serving on active duty can vary from around the world. The minimum drinking age in the United States military is twenty-one and in other countries the minimum drinking age is eighteen. Germany has maybe the most relaxed laws for military personnel, which they only have to be eighteen to drink and can drink a maximum of two beers during the duty day. Young men and women can join the United States military at eighteen, have the right to vote, are tried as an…

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    harsh discipline led numerous battles. General John J. Pershing quickly and efficiently moved through the ranks and commanded the American Expeditionary Force in Europe during World War I, and won victory of Germany. He began in 1886, reporting to Fort Bayard, New Mexico Territory, where he was a part of the Troop L of the 6Th U. S. Cavalry. After leaving there, he served with the 6Th Cavalry at various posts throughout California, Arizona, and North Dakota from 1887-1890. In 1891 he was…

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    track, we're like cars on a cable And life's like an hourglass, glued to the table No one can find the rewind button, girl. So cradle your head in your hands And breathe... just breathe, Oh breathe, just breathe May he turned 21 on the base at Fort Bliss "Just a day" he said down to the flask in his fist, "Ain't been sober, since maybe October of last year." Here in town you can tell he's been down for a while,…

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