The Pentagon

I have lived in little towns my whole life, but for a change I went to a large city. It was an experience I will never forget. My dad is in the military, and early in the year he got told he would be working at the Pentagon. Because of this, my dad moved into DC. My mom and dad have been divorced and with my mom, we hardly ever went in the city. These very few times I did go in a city though, I did not like it very much. Going to my dad’s for the summer changed my mind about the city though.…

On September 11, 2011, a new memorial, honoring those who perished in the terrorist attacks on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon ten years prior, officially opened to the public. One feature that makes this memorial so unique is that the structures erected to remember those victims are actually located in the foundation that the Twin Towers originally stood. Since then, the memorial, located in downtown Manhattan, has hosted thousands of guests, all who have come to witness and visit the space…

Academy back at Annapolis, you have been quite obviously my best friend; you do not need me to tell you that. For that reason and a few others, that is why I want you to consider becoming my vice president. Yeah, I know you have a good job as a J-3 in Pentagon, where you get to plan all these super cool operations and coordinate troops and all that good stuff. Yeah, I know it is the closest…

to follow, every idea came from our brains or the internet. My group decided on a design based on the packets we read, and the reliable, online resources we found. We used the info we read to choose a cone with a round top for our nose cone, a pentagon for our fins, and a parachute to help soften the landing of our egg. I specifically researched how to prevent the egg from crashing, a slower landing, the softer the landing. I found that if you cut a hole in the top of your parachute, it will…

Point and did three years as an instructor in infantry tactics. Moore was sent to attend the year-long student course at the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas in 1956. After he graduated from the school, he was sent to the pentagon. In 1964, now a lieutenant colonel, he completed the course at the Naval War College. Moore was transferred to Fort Benning in Georgia and commanded 2nd Battalion, 23rd Infantry later to become a part of 11th Air Assault Division undergoing…

Osama bin Laden is the 17th out of 52 children, born in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in 1957. His father Mohammed bin Laden, was an immigrant who had owned the largest construction company in the Saudi kingdom. Bin Laden believed that Islam was more than just a religion. In the late 1970s while he attended college, he became a follower of scholar Abdullah Azzam, a “radical pan-Islamist.” He had believed all Muslims should rise up in jihad, to create a single Islamic state. Bin Laden supported his idea…

as a weapon. The captain hoped to infect the Native Americans with smallpox. This example does not stand alone. “A more recent U.S. biological attack occurred just after the Al Qaeda attacks of September 11, 2001, on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. An unknown actor mailed a powder containing infectious anthrax spores to two U.S. senators and several media outlets” (Nardo 11). This attack also represents an example of biological warfare. The attackers…

of force against Iraq, under the doctrine of self-defense. The U.S. military's first and only study looking into ties between Saddam Hussein's Iraq and al Qaeda showed no connection between the two, according to a military report released by the Pentagon, the report released by the Joint Forces Command five years after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, said it found no smoking gun after reviewing about 600,000 Iraqi documents captured in the invasion. According to this argument the Iraq was not…

After the third article, the U.S. Department of Justice got a temporary restraining order against further publication of the material, arguing that it was detrimental to U.S. national security. (pentagon papers) Citizens say the removal of these articles as the government trying to hide something from the people. In 1973 The Passage to War Powers Resolution was passed making it impossible for presidents to “single handedly” dictate military policy…

Friday the 13th is associated with bad luck, and now it will forever be attached to ISIS’ violent attack on Paris, France. This is not ISIS’ only violent attack which leads to the question, to what extreme is ISIS willing to go to reach their goals? ISIS is known to use tactics such as violence such as beheading or seizing control of towns which creates a shock value to assure to reach their goals. Most people do not understand ISIS’ meaning. ISIS is an abbreviation for "Islamic State of Iraq…