Military service

Imagine, sitting on a jagged rock in a roughly dug out trench; your best mate and brother beside you,along with countless others. You hold a gun in your hand and wear a naval uniform, feeling that you're doing your country proud. As the commanding officer gives the signal, you haul yourself over the trench wall, rushing towards the enemy with fierce determination. Then you see others, falling around you, clutching their sides and screaming in pain. Your brother and friend lying on the ground…

Sustainment operations are a vital part of any military operation. They are defined as the provision of logistics, personnel services, and health service support necessary to maintain operations until successful mission completion. Their importance has been demonstrated in every conflict since nomadic tribes started fighting for territory and the resources that went along with them. Without sustainment operations we do not have ammunition for our weapons, fuel for our vehicles, food, water,…

changes to many aspects of physical fitness. The Army Physical Fitness Test (APFT) changed from a five-event combat test to a three-event physical endurance test. In 1981The Department of Defense (DoD) Study of The Military Services Physical Fitness DOD Directive 1308.1, found all services needed to implement a planned physical fitness program. DOD Directive 1308.1 also outlined five primary objectives; physical fitness training should develop combat skills and a positive outlook towards…

preferred term and one does not fail to use John King’s term). The period was the mid-nineteenth century. Depending on my scheduled tours and assigned exhibit, I either wore a blue cotton coat, a red vest, a colorful kravatt, and a straw tophat or a military uniform consisting of sky blue wool trousers, a navy blue wool coat, and a matching bummer (Read floopy wool cap) (The kravatt was optional when in…

directed US Army to deploy SONOMA’s capability into Iraq within 90 days. I received a technology demonstration and assessed SONOMA would require $25M and 18 months of additional development to adequately operationalize the capability for employment by military personnel. The US Army Deputy G2 informed the DDRE of our assessment, which he accepted. I left the DCS, G2 staff after accepting a promotion at the Department of Homeland Security. Concurrently, RDECOM began operationalizing SONOMA,…

Perhaps the biggest factor of militia resistance to recruitment into the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War was the militia troops’ “small-producers” creed, which also impacted their religious economic, and political beliefs, as being self-sufficient (Moreland & Terrar, 2010). A large number of the population were farmers, who lived off the land and had very little to gain from war or any other incentives to join the Continental Army. They used their militias only to protect…

While other city-states were known for their philosophers and writers, Sparta had a different identity, which involved a strong military power. Historical events that were taken place during the creation of this text were the Second Messenian War. The Messenia’s and Spartans were fighting over land and power. The Spartan Creed is a set of a larger serious of elegies and war poems…

First and foremost before anything else, I would like to thank you for your outstanding and courageous service to our country. I know that it was very tough to go off and fight for our country and at the same time leave your family behind at home. Anyways, I am writing you this letter to give you thanks for the impact your book. American Sniper, has had on me. There was a lot of information there about our country’s fellow servicemen and women and how they risk their lives every day. Although…

10, 1845 known as the second oldest out of the five service academies. The purpose of the United States Naval Academy is to educate future officers that will soon in four years commission into the United States Navy or the United States Marine Corps. More than 4,000 men and women representing every state and other foreign countries making up the Brigade of Midshipmen learn from both civilian and military instructors in both academic and military subjects. Distinguished graduates paving the way…

choices of universities to attend. I really didn’t like being in school too much and doing work or completing assignments or the hassle of doing projects. So when I was in high school recruiters would come and recruit people to join their branch of service. I ended up signing up for active duty for the army and serving three years, there are two different types of components which you can sign up for active duty which is an everyday job and reserves which is one time out of the month and…