Staff Sergeant

retired military personnel become active duty and guide the program by teaching cadets military values and discipline which can carry over in civilian life. In the three years I completed the program I worked my way up through the ranks to a sergeant leading a squad of seven cadets. My responsibilities included teaching them the basic Marine Corps knowledge and instilling discipline into them. I am also required to lead them the best I could and to prepare them for the yearly battalion…

off and they run into a host of problems one being a member of their group is captured and tortured. The main characters of the film are Army Reserve Sergeant First Class Troy Barlow (Mark Wahlberg), he is the one that finds the map. Private First Class Conrad Vig (Spike Jonze), he is killed after being shot during a rescue attempt. Staff Sergeant Chief Elgin (Ice…

The board of directors would be the civilian world’s equivalent. The current members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff are comprised of seven members, all whom are white males (Biographies, 2017). Civilian corporations have begun to create specific positions such as a Chief Diversity Officer, “whose job is to oversee, coordinate and manage an organization’s diversity…

Leadership is not synonymous with management. This statement is what brought me to the Gonzaga Organizational Leadership program and is considered the heart of my statement of purpose for acceptance into this program. I am a nine-year Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. I am proud of my time on active duty but have often felt that I have not done my job as a leader correctly. The Army is the best and worst places to leadership! A 19-year-old, fresh out of high school can gain leadership…

This refection paper depicts an action occurring during my time in the Army. My husband and I were both young staff sergeants in the Army stationed overseas in Germany, residing in government off post housing in a high-rise building. We were the senior noncommissioned officers of our particular floor therefore we were responsible for ensuring the Soldiers conducted themselves in accordance with Army rules and regulation. On one particular evening after arriving home from work, we heard loud…

her recollections and my interpretations on the impact she has had upon women and the military of today. It’s August of 1973 and the 18 year old Carmon is sitting in a theater surrounded by men. She watches the men line up against the wall as the sergeant prepares…

“My friends went to college; I enlisted in the United States Marine Corps. When they woke up to decide if they’d go to school or work, I’d already been at work for hours. Their alarms woke them up; my alarms sent me to general quarters and watches. They made plans based on how they felt; I made plans based on the needs of my country. They couldn’t wait to leave their homes; I couldn’t wait to get back. When they look back on their respective lives, they may wonder if they’ve ever made a…

fitness”3 with encompassing the education and training effort standards. If there is a lack of adherence in one of the pillars, the CAF would be deemed useless and the Air Force core values that Airmen live by are compromised. In an article written by Staff Sergeant C. Todd Lopez, General Jumper mentions, “I expect squadron commanders to be out in front of their squadrons, group commanders to be out in front of their groups, and wing commanders to be out in front of their wings as we go through…

one central California police department, due to several investigative procedural errors on the part of police sergeants, referred to herein as supervisors, police officers of the department have received reductions in their discipline for misconduct that would otherwise warrant a sterner punishment. These supervisors are members of the same police union as those officers that the sergeants supervise. While each supervisors had received formal training regarding police supervision upon their…

Disabled Inmates:The Struggle of Adapting According to a report by the U.S. Department of Justice about 40% of females and 31% of males in prison are reported to have some kind of disability. This is very significant as disabled inmates struggle the most in adapting to the prison environment, due to the lack of equipment and funding available in the correction system. Prison population has always been a topic in today's political topics. According to the journal for every specific number of…