Military law

have held significant roles in the military. These positions were strictly support based, for example nurses and clerks. According to an article called Women in the Military, “nearly one-fifth of the armed forces today is made up of females”. (women in the military). Over the years the roles and the amount of women who served has changed dramatically. According to Women in the Military, “during World War I there were roughly 23,000 women who severed in the military. That number grew during World…

The leadership role as a non-commissioned officer is in such great contrast to the typical leadership role of an aviation Warrant Officer. I think for me, and probably most others this was and is a huge source of frustration. My NCO leadership was as a section leader in the infantry in the Marines. My experience there is separated by several degrees from my current position. It is hard to really compare this to an Army aviation NCO, and even harder to compare to my role as an Army aviation…

Completing assigned tasks and set goals is always the priority to the overall success of a platoons intended mission as well as increasing longevity of the life and health of all soldiers in the squadron. “To accomplish given task, an organizations’ leader and or leaders must efficiently and effectively carry out the primary management functions of decision making, supervising, and making the most of an organization manpower and allocated resources (Mintzberg, 1979). “In doing so leaders can…

conformity in that time. However, Australian women showed their possibility and had did a great effort on society during WW2 that they were the same as important as men. Military Before 1939, in Australia, there were many official restrictions on women’s choices at all times and especially they were not permitted to work in military. It resulted in only domestic or unskilled jobs…

Identification and Evaluation of Sources The purpose of this investigation is to answer the question: To what extent did the military tactics and empire-building strategies of Alexander the Great influence the culture and later rulers of Europe? This source is a video about Alexander the Great from Youtube, a video sharing website, that is part of the Crash Course World History video series. It was produced by author John Green and written by historian Raoul Mayer. Since the script is written…

Abraham Lincoln and his Generals With all of his greatest, Abraham Lincoln has one major flaw, he sucked at choosing those to who led the American Army. His flaws lay in the fact that due to his inexperience military wise, he was not sure what it took for a general to command an army of that size. Most of the generals that he chose were men who thought the war rested solely on their shoulders, or worse men who knew that they were not ready for such a job, but still took it. The men who were…

Conflicts, they can either make someone or they can break someone. The book A Long Way Gone, Ishmael, the main character, is in a modern waring state in Africa. Throughout the book Ishmael faces hard times in the hot plains of Africa and has some large amounts of adversity on his journey. Some examples of adversity that he is going to face is being all by himself in the jungle for a month, and another is watching his family all get killed just before he find them again. It’s always difficult…

“They [Incas] traveled with great pomp…. long poles of the finest wood and adorned with gold and silver….” (Strayer pg. 606). Pedro de Cieza de Léon praised the Incan empire. Even though Cieza came from the more "sophisticated" Spain. Why did Cieza publish his experiences in the Americas, on his return to "Spain in 1550" despite his "limited education" (Strayer pg. 605)? The Incan Empire ruled “2,500 miles along the Andes and contained 10 million subjects” (Strayer pg. 590). The Incas did not…

November 11, 1993 –a date typically dissociated with the remembrance of America’s involvement in Vietnam. On this day, the female Vietnam Veteran memorial was dedicated in honor of unspoken heroes, ones whose experiences are unparalleled to the soldiers who partook in the physical fight and incomprehensible to the public’s mind. These brave women, some married, engaged, or mothers, held the burden of a war with undefined intentions both physically and mentally, during combat and upon returning…

Transitioning Veterans into Civilian Life Veterans transitioning from military life into civilian life might have a hard time adjusting to their new lives when they get back. According to Demers (2010) there are three main themes that veterans might identify with when they return home. These themes are; time travelers, no one understands us, and crisis of identity (p.169). I will further explain these three themes. Demers (2010) explains that this feeling of being a “Time Traveler” is…