Squadron

The Presidents: The lives and legacies of the 43 Leaders of the United States is a 364 minutes documentary featuring the insights of lives of the great men that have ruled our country. I got this documentary from John and Judy Gay Public Library, Mckinney. I watched the DVD on my laptop. Due to the course of this class i would be describing this documentary from Rutherford B. Hayes to Clinton. The DVD had 3 discs.Disc 1 has Washington to Monroe,, John Q. Adams to Polk, Taylor to Lincoln, Disc 2…

The smell of smoke and the falling of ashes was a sign of defeat that would not be tolerated. It’s December 8, 1941, the day after the attack on Pearl Harbor and Roger Protankscy and his squadron had just been ordered to be transported onto the USS Missouri. Roger was a strong and robust man fit for a soldier, but it wasn’t just his physical outlook that made him a commander of twenty of the best soldiers in the world it was his ways of leadership that stood out. Roger had a right-hand man and…

Reading a play is like appreciating the sea; the most exhilarating scene of the sea is the moment when the seawater is roaringly lifted by fierce windstorms. The seawater is the plot, and the windstorm is the conflicts. Othello, written by Shakespeare, consists of three chief types of conflicts, which are the characters versus characters, characters versus themselves and characters versus the social background in Venice. Each conflict sharpens the contradictions between two characters, molds the…

to join. Women were enlisting in formerly male dominated careers, such as office workers, instructors and other positions that were not on the front. “Women also joined the United States Navy. During the fall of 1942, the Women 's Auxiliary Air Squadron became known as the Women 's Air Force, began training women pilots who flew planes to various military bases in the United States”(Yale). The military was becoming hard pressed for pilots as they were suffering heavy losses. "As the supply…

A memorable line from If I Die in a Combat Zone by Tim O’Brien is “The war in Vietnam drifted in and out of human lives, taking them or sparing them like a headless, berserk taxi hack, without evident cause, a war fought for uncertain reasons.” (O’Brien, 138) The ending of this quote particularly reflects the views of Vietnam, which is the specific reason I found this quote memorable. I feel this way because people living during the Vietnam era didn’t see this as a crucial war to be apart of.…

aircraft carrier’s position was made, the American task forces scrambled fighters to attack the Japanese carriers. Meanwhile, Japanese forces also received positive confirmation of the American location and changed their course, causing the American squadrons to miss the Japanese fleet. LT. John C. Waldron led his TBD Devastators on their valiant mission, “out of the eighty-two men who headed for the Japanese carriers in the TBDs, only thirteen survived.” (Hanson, p. 342) Unintentionally the…

Siad Barre ruled as a military dictator and as a president during the last period of relative peace. In 1991, Civil War broke out and the misery began. Various international missions tried to intervene with bloody results. In 1993, A US helicopter squadron got ambushed trying to contain warlords in Mogadishu. Rocket propelled grenades took down several airships and 18 American soldiers lost their lives. The famous Black Hawk Down incident ended American and Western efforts to stop the violence…

Homeland Security and the Critical Infrastructures it Protects Homeland security in itself is an over encompassing concept that includes many agencies that "prevent terrorist attacks, defend our borders, enforce immigration laws, secure cyberspace, and ensure resilience to disasters" (United States Department of Homeland Security [U.S. DHS], 2010). The missions of the DHS are critical and vast. I’m going to explain some of the basics of this organization in terms of internal and external…

A hero is more than a story character, it is someone who gives up almost everything to better the lives of others. Opportunities are sometimes taken for granted and we forget to thank those who made our lives the way they are. My cousin, thirty-year-old, Nicolle Bernard has been serving our country for nine years in the Air Force. Captain Bernard grew up in Madison, New Jersey and is currently stationed in Germany near the Ramstein Air Base. Nicolle is a strong woman who puts a lot on the…

airmen, the Allies would have lost many crucial battles, possibly resulting in Germany’s victory. In fact, one problem with the BCATP was that it was too successful. By the end of 1943, the BCATP was producing pilots faster then the operational squadrons could take in. So in February of 1944, it was decided that the project must be slowed down. Due to its continues success, the BCATP ensured that the Allies had a sufficient supply of pilots, bombers, gunners, navigators, wireless operators and…