Fort Hood

From 1942 to 1944, in the United States Army Jackie served as a second lieutenant. “During boot camp in 1944 in Fort Hood, Texas, was arrested and court-martialed after refusing to give up his seat and move to the back of the bus when ordered to by the driver”. After the war, in 1946, manager and president Branch Rickey of the Brooklyn Dodgers signed Jackie Robinson to the team and assigned him to play on the Dodgers top minor league team in Canada. He led the minor league team to the pennant…

Heroes are people who are willing to sacrifice their lives to fight the evil that threatens the world in order to protect the world for it to be a better place for everyone and certainly Thurlow Craggs is a hero. Seargent Thurlow Craggs is a Vietnam War veteran who believed that serving in the military is all about making sacrifices in a person’s life for the good of the nation and its citizens. Growing up in a military family helped him understand the challenges involved in serving in the…

When induvial requested to gain access to the 21st Theater Sustainment Command’s Current Operations Integration Cell (COIC), I verified their information in JPAS and when needed escorted induvials to their appropriate locations. I directly briefed the Commanding General of 21st theater Sustainment Command on issues related to his Commanders Intelligence Requirements. I was chosen over 7 superiors to conduct in-depth briefs to the CG and his Staff on 21st TSC’s Area of Responsibility,…

‘workplace violence.’ Rick Perry said “[a]t some point in time, I think the [Obama] administration does have to address this as what it appears to many people that it is: an act of violence that is associated with terrorism.” Another example would be the Fort Hood shooting in 2009 in which Nidal Malik Hasan, former army psychiatrist, walked into a public space and shot and wounded many US soldiers. He is a self-proclaimed “soldier of Allah” and has written many letters to Religious leaders…

Dean Corll recruited two teenagers David Brooks and Wayne Henley, to help him commit: abduction, rape, torture and murder of young boys from the Houston Heights area. The victims were invited to parties by David and Wayne, there they were given drugs and alcohol and tied to a torture board. Dean destructively, castrated, emasculated, sodomized and mutilated his victims. The Houston Police Department had listed the boys as "runaway" children. This allowed Dean and his accomplices to continue…

While I was in the Army I had the chance to become an Equal Opportunity Representative for my Unit. In all of my EO complaints that I dealt with one stood out. Now before I get into the case let me explain the surroundings. I was in a Combat Arms unit which only had men in the unit. Now that being the case I was used to complaints about my soldiers outside the unit when it came to females and how my soldiers treated them during duty hours. In which the issues were dealt with accordingly and…

The 761st Tank Battalion was formed in the spring of 1942 and was the essential African American tank unit to see fight in the Second World War. Telling this regiment was a white Lt. Colonel, Paul L. Bates. As the unit fell under the examination of other white officers who were distrustful of blacks as warriors and especially as tankers, Bates pushed the 761st in its main goal for splendor. The 761st was suggested as the "mutt" unforeseen which inferred the power, similarly as other white…

There was a lot of mass shootings in the US. Almost all of them have injured or killed about 934 people,and there has been about 71 shootings all this time. Thats a lot of people injured or killed. One of them is the Las Vegas Shooting .It happened in October 1,2017 it happened in a country music concert. There was 58 people killed and 500 injured. The killer was a 64 year old man named Stephen Craig Paddock of Mesquite, he fired himself in his garage 10 pm. All the people were scared and…

points in canoes on rivers. They did this multiple times and past Celilo Falls. Moving even farther away from their origin, they hiked past what is now known as Portland, Oregon. The Corps presently arrived at the Columbia River. They sighted Mount Hood and other geological formations such as strato-volcanos. All these landmarks proved that their journey was almost to the Pacific Ocean. They first spotted the Pacific Ocean on November 7, 1805, and they arrived two weeks later. The Corps faced…

The United States has not had a change in pace with domestic terrorims in regards to events occuring. However, the steps taken to make the preventative measures has increased. You can see that through the amount of military personnel being shipped out. I do not believe the United States is in a better position than before The Homeland Security Bill was created, or now. Heres why, starting back in 1978-1995 Ted Kaczynki, (unabomber) is known for the mail bombings that killed 3 people. 1993, The…