Squadron

In American Sniper, the primary character, Chris Kyle, is an American sniper. Through the whole film, Kyle was forced to make both right and wrong decisions. The actions that he performed illustrated several of the eleven Army Principles, Those actions were prevalent throughout the whole movie. The film starts with a vital choice making scene in which US Navy SEAL sniper, Chris Kyle is on a roof overlooking the course of a US military caravan through his rifle. While searching the area, he…

in their journey, much like how if we keep disrespecting our parents we would get farther away from obtaining that new iphone we desire. Another example has Odysseus stating “Only the west wind he lifted for me in the quartering breeze to take my squadron spanking home. No luck” (14). This reveals the role of the gods in the story because Odysseus expected to be rewarded for his good behavior, but was instead disappointed. People of today face a similar disappointments when we expect to get…

During the early 1900's miners in southern West Virginia were fighting, literally, for simple rights that every worker deserves. A 40-hour work week, decent pay that wasn't in scrip, and a sense of safety. On May 19 of 1920, members of the Baldwin-Felts detective agency arrived in the town of Matewan to evict union miners from houses owned by the Stone Mountain Coal Company. After catching wind of the detectives’ activities, Matewan Mayor Cabell Testerman and a pro-union sheriff named Sid…

Do you know where the first battle in the Civil War was located? That first battle was located at Fort Sumter, and was one of the most historic battles to ever happen on U.S. soil. Fort Sumter is located in South Carolina, which was a very important place to win because the state was undecided on which side to choose in the conflict. Many people do not realize the importance of this battle, and the conflicts leading up to it. Due to the major conflicts Fort Sumter brought it was definite the…

I also become annoyed with details, something that the team dynamics profile pointed out I must work on to improve as a leader. I was once in charge of the Thanksgiving Day feast hosted by our squadron, and while working out the initial ideas I found my strong personality and creative tendencies well suited for getting things going, but we had so many ideas we couldn’t nail any of them down to pinpoint our focus on the task. It wasn’t until my…

first place, and how that lead him to receive the Medal of Honor. Lance Corporal Carpenter and his squad were tasked to establish Patrol Base Dakota in a small village in the Karez-e Saydi area of Marjah on November 19, 2010. The next morning, his squadron was attacked by firearms, sniper fire, grenades and rockets while providing perimeter security and filling sandbags to fortify their positions at Patrol Base Dakota. Carpenter was located on top of an Afghan storage shed made of mud, straw and…

The Vietnam war is probably the most controversial war in United States history. Many people wanted the U.S. to never join the war, but then when we joined, people got mad. People in the U.S. even rallied to leave the war. There were many new weapons and war tactics that were introduced in the Vietnam war and have become well known today. The biggest thing that was introduced and was a huge factor in the war was the war tactic, Guerilla warfare, that the Vietcong used. It was a very successful…

Application of Aristotle’s Rhetoric “Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion” (Aristotle 8). In other words, rhetoric is the art of effective persuasion in speech and writing. This practice may prove successful through the use of rhetorical strategies such as ethos, pathos, and logos. Aristotle stresses through his book Rhetoric that these three tactics are key to having a strong persuasive argument in both writing and in speech.…

The following is summary of my life after graduation. Right after graduating in 1963 John Callahan (Geibel High School class of 63) and I enlisted in the US Air Force. On the August 20th 1963 we left Connellsville for Lackland Airforce Base in Antonio TX for basic training. He and I ended up spending some of the hottest months of the year in Texas. I can still remember getting off the airplane in San Antonio at 3 AM and being shocked at the heat and humidity (~85 degrees). After our twelve weeks…

Roald Dahl was born September 13, 1916 in Llandaff, Wales. His parents named him Roald after Roald Amundsen, because he was a Norwegian who had been the first man to reach the South Pole. Sofie Magdalene Dahl and Harald Dahl are Roald’s parents. They met in the United Kingdom. Later both, of them emigrated to Sarpsborg in Norway and later got married in 1880. Roald has a total of six siblings. Astri, Alfhild, Asta, Else, Louis, and Asta. Louis Dahl is the oldest out of seven children. Around…