Iraqi Army

Controversy on the Front Lines Women should be allowed to fight on the front lines. Women should fight on the front lines because, they have taken part in war efforts already, they fought for their own right to vote, and if they fit the position there should be no reason for them not to. From the beginning women have had some role in war. Whether it be staying at home, being a single parent, or enlisting and helping where they are told. Native Americans were able to treat men and women as…

Throughout The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane, main protagonist, Henry Fleming matures greatly. The man who ends up carrying the flag and leading the charge against Confederate troops was once but a boy who was dubious of his own conviction. For the first four chapters before the initial battle, Henry’s head was a whirlwind of self-doubt and curiosity. Will he fight? Will he run? As events would have it, he does both. Although Henry stands his ground in the first conflict, he flees…

A true war story can be defined in many ways. It could be defined as a story that describes real events that happened to soldiers, or a story that . In the book The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien, a true war story has many definitions, but they all have one thing in common, “A true war story is never moral” (O’Brien, 68). In order to understand what makes a true war story, one must first understand what is war and stories, how can these things be both true and untrue, and how does the…

It can make them put on a front, act overconfident. Opposing to these reactions, fear can also make people run away or hide. In the mid to late 1900’s during the Vietnam War, soldiers were faced with this same fear. The men did not want to appear weak to each other, their community, their family, or to anyone. In Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried he reveals stories of the Alpha Company, a United States unit of foot soldiers, that he was in during the Vietnam War. Some men went to war to…

Vietnam. Unlike World War 1 and World War 2 that consisted only nurses, military women held more roles, such as physicians, air traffic controllers, officers, and new corps such as the Army Medical Specialist Corps. Due to the American presence in South Vietnam in the 1960s, it led to a greater demand for women in the Army Nurse Corps. Women in the armed forces faced many debates when it involved them being in combat zones despite the requests of servicewomen being deployed to South Vietnam.…

because of what the author is trying to say “in between the lines.” Ambrose Bierce wrote “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” with real world experience. “Bierce was especially suited to write stories about the Civil War, since he served in the Union army”(An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, Shmoop). This man was a part of a war, which gave him the knowledge of how things worked in the military, thus the in-depth detail of the military officers within the story. The use of symbolism in, “An…

they were manipulated, and they only had one choice once they entered the army: Kill or be killed. When villages are attacked and families are taken away for children, they don’t know any better and they believe that the commanders are the adults that they should trust. Therefore, the crimes that the kids committed aren’t their own fault, but the people that put them in that position. The young adolescents that join armies do kill people and commit crimes, but this is not their choice.”Armed…

a Soldier fulfilling his or her obligation toward his or her line of duty. Although the relocation of a Soldier can be difficult, involving a single Soldier or a Soldier with dependents, the army has implemented a program to resolve some of the issue a Soldier may encounter during transition. The Total Army Sponsorship Program (TASP) assists Soldiers and their families with proper documentation, unit support, and peer-to-peer communication. TASP also helps with proper and smooth…

life, human and otherwise. A tank sits to the soliders left, poised aiming and ready to fire into jungle. Fighter planes soar overhead, waiting to drop the next air strike, to save the lives of our soliders while taking away the lives of the other army. The metal almost blending in against the smokey, blue-gray sky. Smog billows through the air, travels up the mountain side and obscures the landscape view. The jungle is sparse, with a mountian range towering over the canopys. The mountains are…

1. To begin with, war does not justify anything, nor does it solve anything. War just leads to tension, either between the countries that are fighting or between the country’s society. During the vietnam war, there were, “Young men all over the country burning their draft cards and resisting the war machine” (Myers 116). Then, there were the others that were willingly joining the war to fight for their country. America was torn between prideful men and fearful men. The fearful men were fleeing…