Gulf Coast of the United States

When a tropical depression began to form off the Southeastern coast of the Bahamas, no one could have imagined the damage that would soon ensue. What we have now come to know and fear as Hurricane Katrina began to churn in the late August of 2005 and still continues to have an impact today. This natural hazard quite literally blew everyone’s expectations away. Despite the warnings and alerts, no one could anticipate the worst natural disaster in the United States history. Hurricane Katrina brought devastation and destruction to the Gulf Coast region in a ghastly fashion. Katrina first began as a tropical depression that morphed into a tropical storm and finally, a hurricane. It was a storm that was carefully watched and predicted for over…

Isle of Dogs: A Delightful Dose of Dogs Isle of Dogs takes place 20 years in the future, where the japanese city of Megasaki is ruled by the cat loving Kobayashi dynasty, which has banished all dogs to live on an island of trash. This leads 12-year Atari (Koyu Rankin) to venture to the island to find his deported guard dog, Spots(Liev Schreiber). Upon his arrival, a group of dogs (Bryan Cranston, Bill Murray, Jeff Goldblum, Edward Norton, Bob Balaban) agree to accompany Atari across the Isle…

Red Snapper Industry of Pensacola Critical to understanding the eventual development of the fishing industry in Pensacola is recognizing the city’s geographical location and land features. In Hawkshaw: Prehistory and History in an Urban Neighborhood in Pensacola, Florida, the environmental setting is laid bare. A major land shaping force in the area is the Gulf of Mexico. During the Pleistocene Era, the sea level was 300 feet lower than it is today due to “glacial episodes.” Due to the low sea…

The Coast Guard is one of five United States military establishments and falls under the jurisdiction of the Department of Homeland Security. The Coast Guard has served since1967 protecting the ocean, as well as the marine life. There have been many acts passed since the Coast Guard has been established within the Department of Transportation. Those acts have caused the Coast Guard grow within many aspects causing them to branch out all over the U.S. their impact is local, regional, national and…

Homeland Security and US Border Protection The recent increase in over 60, 000 unaccompanied children flooding across our southern borders, coupled with the United States inability to stop the smugglers from bring them across, points to some critical weaknesses in our Homeland Security protection. Before terrorist can exploit these weaknesses, America has to find a way to fill the gap. One possible solution to fix these gaps in our security is to use the Army Reserve and National Guard troops…

Station) moves. PCS moves were implemented to better meet “(a.) Needs of the Service; (b.) Competencies of the position and the unit’s ability to train to rating.” (Ref. d.) Consequentially, Senior Leaders have limited choices for their next unit; which are often outside of RCD (Reasonable Commuting Distance). Command must eliminate rating designations from reserve E-8 and E-9 billets. 2. Over the last several years, we have seen a move in the Coast Guard’s Senior Enlisted Leadership…

Homeland Security and the Critical Infrastructures it Protects Homeland security in itself is an over encompassing concept that includes many agencies that "prevent terrorist attacks, defend our borders, enforce immigration laws, secure cyberspace, and ensure resilience to disasters" (United States Department of Homeland Security [U.S. DHS], 2010). The missions of the DHS are critical and vast. I’m going to explain some of the basics of this organization in terms of internal and external…

Intro, Importance, and Summary (U) In 2015, the United States Government suffered the biggest cyber-attack against a federal agency to date. The Office of Personnel Management reported that up to 21.5 million instances of personal data was stolen by hackers. Many more attacks have occurred recently, and cyber-attacks have become a common occurrence with billions of attacks carried out on various federal agencies each year. Pew Research Center recently conducted a study, and found that the…

I have a strong desire to become an officer in the United States Navy. To achieve this goal I wish to be accepted into Officer Candidate School where I will later graduate with a commission as an Ensign. I believe myself to be of both strong mind and body, and I accredit this to my commitment to my school, my work, and my training. I graduated top ten percent of my class in High School and Magna Cum Laude in college and I continually try to increase the diversity of my knowledge so to become a…

All of the United States Government agencies are now implementing some sort of risk management into there every day operations. A risk management can be done for a simple office party to the most dangerous raid. The Department of Homeland Security is no different with their 22 departments. In the case of ports, the Coast Guard and FEMA “cybersecurity efforts in the maritime port environment have been limited” (GAO, 2014, p.1). This includes the lack of a risk assessment that is heavily followed…