Petty Officer Third Class

The sneak attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese on December 7th lasted less than two hours and ended at 9:45 a.m. Americans killed numbered 2,402; 1,402 more were wounded; five battleships and two cruisers were sunk; seven smaller ships were damaged; and 188 aircraft were destroyed. On December 8, 1941, the United States made a formal declaration of war on Japan. Japan’s attack had surprised even Hitler, the leader of Germany, but on December 11, 1941, the two other members of the Axis,…

Antwone’s greatest obstacle was realizing he needed to find his birth parents. Antwone was born in a prison in Ohio and was not later claimed by his mother when she was released (Black, Washington, 2002). Antwone’s father was murdered by one of his girlfriends when Antwone was an infant (Black, Washington, 2002). Antwone was placed into the foster system and adopted, along with 2 other boys, by Ms. Tate (Black, Washington, 2002). Ms. Tate was verbally abusive and physically abuse to all 3 boys,…

LEADERSHIP PHILOSOPHY How I define leadership is a unification of several different personal beliefs. Every person in the Coast Guard is different with their own personal value’s, backgrounds, cultures and belief system forms who we are today. We are all different in many ways, but what bring us all together are our Coast Guard organizational core values of Honor, Respect and Devotion to Duty. From the beginning of my Coast Guard career, one of my first values that I carried with me into the…

metal. This type of scratch must be reported and should have been as soon as it happened, in order to prevent costly corrosion. It was no doubt a member of our shops who caused the damage but failed to report it. We brought it up to our Lead Petty Officer knowing it was the right thing to do, only to be met with a simple shoulder shrug and the comment of “why would we tell on our own shop, we will let someone else find it”. If left unsaid the fall could come down on the entire shop or us.…

question, “What is the police role?” (Dempsey, 2016) can be answered. The Crime-Fighting Role is how most people view the job of a police officer. According to author John Dempsey, “The police are crime fighters concerned with law enforcement” (Dempsey, 2016). This role is often emphasized in the news, by the media, and on television. Many police officers view the crime fighting aspects of their job to be the more glamorous and exciting stories to share with their friend and family,…

which a person fells familiar, at ease, in control, and experiences low anxiety. A person in this state uses a limited set of behaviors to deliver a steady level of performance, usually without a sense of risk.” Years ago, as a young second class petty officer, my chief was counseling me on my marks when he said “you may notice that your marks are a little lower than PO Jomps that is because he is a flight engineer and can run engines and do other things that you can’t.” Chief then challenged…

can be numerous definitions of leadership. When I was a non-rate onboard the Coast Guard Cutter Boutwell, leadership meant doing what the Chief or First Class Boatswain’s Mate said. There was no questioning the commands or giving feedback. I did what was told because of their legitimate power. When I finally went to A-school and earned a Third Class crow, I learned from my supervisor at Public Affairs Detachment San Diego that leadership was all about building relationships. She showed the value…

Leadership Challenges of Combined Joint Forces SGM George K. Ott Operation Enduring Freedom, Provincial Reconstruction Team, Farah Afghanistan, 04/30/2008 38B, Civil Affairs Team NCOIC, 451st CA Bn. CJTF-82 Bagram george.k.ott.mil@mail.mil 9 November 2015 Class 42 Abstract I was deployed in late 2006 to become a Civil Affairs soldier and lead a CA team as the NCOIC in Operation Enduring Freedom, within the first hundred days of arriving at forward operating base in Farah, Afghanistan; I was…

responsible for more than a fifth of youth crime in London, with nearly half of the London gangs having been involved in serious assault. In support of Tony Blair’s statement (as above mentioned) the “Police hold black men responsible for more than two-thirds of shootings and more than half of robberies and street crimes in London”, this was according to figures released by Scotland Garden in 2010 (Camber 2010). In further confirmation of this a police figure for the Met Police proclaimed that…

1. Introduction Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany on January 30, 1933, bringing an end to German democracy. Guided by racist and authoritarian ideas, the Nazis abolished basic freedoms(3)The Third Reich quickly became a police state, where individuals were subject to arbitrary arrest and imprisonment. By mid-July 1933, the Nazi party was the only political party permitted in Germany German resistance to Nazism (“Widerstand”) was the opposition by individuals and groups in…