Military veterans' affairs

10. I didn't think I could be strong In The Walking Dead women fight and kill to survive and save the people they love. Their roles are no longer just to fight alongside men; they became powerful characters, not dependent on men. Carol is the most influential character in the show – a woman whose past experiences and losses have turned her into someone who is determined to survive no matter what it takes. This chapter will briefly follow Carol’s character development. Having lost her husband and…

Active Women Combat Roles? Integrating women into the military has been a long and drawn out process for many years, until now. “All military occupations and positions will be open to women, without exceptions beginning in January 2016,” says Defense Secretary Ash Carter (Pellerin par. 1). Unlike Army and Navy, Marines are still against women in combat; the Marine Corps released a study that painted a bleak picture womens effectiveness in combat suggesting women are weaker, more prone to injury…

Grant’s Military Strategies, and the North and South Armies Many studies have been conducted by scholars to determine why the North won the Civil War. Many scholars believe that it has to do with the North’s efficient military strategies; however, there are more factors that contribute to the North’s victory. Hattaway and Jones (2001), scholars from the University of Illinois Press, suggest that the North had a stronger and more educated military.…

Growing up in a military family I have been fortunate enough to have been exposed to a variety of different places in the United States, each more unique in diversity than the next. I spent most of my adolescence living on military bases up and down the east coast. I traveled with my family for ten or so years before settling in one place to go to college. In my traveling time, I experienced the cultures in different states and different types of areas from urban to suburban to rural. My…

toxic culture, where Soldiers ethics and morals could and would be questioned. “The ability to harness and integrate technological advances with complimentary developments in doctrine, organization, and tactics is dependent on the propensity of military culture to accept and experiment with the new ideas” (Siegl,…

Cross. Ironically, the Northern and Southern unions surgeons demoralized the female nurses to work in official military hospitals. Schultz noted “Throughout the nineteenth century, women were excluded from medical networks on the basis of biological determinism that cast them as unfit to endure the intellectual and physical rigors of doctoring.” Female nurses were doomed to encounter the military surgeons temper and by civilian bureaucrats who placed these policies. Being a nurse during war time…

participating in the military, which, of course, originally only allowed men. Throughout the years of their participation, women have demonstrated that they are just as competent as their male counterparts. Last year was a particularly significant year for female soldiers as they were finally allowed to move into battalions that were formerly all male. Jena McGregor, a writer for the Washington Post, wrote her thoughts on this historical achievement for women in her piece “Military Women in…

Sorrows of Empire by political scientist Chalmers Johnson takes a cynical yet statistically backed view of American imperialism. Johnson backs his research with heavy statistics and examples from various military and governmental outlets. His focus throughout the book is on American imperialism through militarism, secrecy, and the fall of the empire. Chalmers Johnson’s thesis is clearly laid out in the first paragraph of the prologue. He comments on the notion that American’s are…

Dick Couch writes a thought-provoking book, A Tactical Ethic: Moral Conduct in the Insurgent Battlespace, which details a growing problem in the United States military, i.e. maintaining ethical and moral behavior on and off-duty. His supporting arguments are society emphasizes behavior not conducive to promoting positive ethical behavior, malignant personalities in the ranks spreading negative behavior, and the ambiguity of the asymmetric warfare fought today. He provides anecdotal evidence…

bombed Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. After this women began to take a role in helpping the war effort after men enlisted in the military and rushed off to war. Many women started to loose their homemaker image and work outside the home. By 1945 one out of every four married women worked outside of the home. These women changed everyday women 's roles by working in industry, military, and the community around them. World War II changed the image of women 's roles in many areas; a major part of that…