properly allow sufficient coverage of daily Air Force Dining Facility a la carte meals while a member is assigned Temporary Duty at Air Force installations providing training. 2. The Training Quota Management Center (TQC) has the unique situation of receiving critical feedback from individuals we issue orders to after they have attended required training. Some of the courses we issue orders to require an individual to attend rate specific training at Air Force facilities. Consequently,…
outline the problem of the Active Guard Reserve (AGR) Full-Time Support TDA (FTSTDA) force structure process on AGR personnel and provide realistic solutions for improvement. As an AGR human resource professional in the Army Reserves over the last 9 years, a systemic problem across the AGR program is the Full-Time Support TDA (FTSTDA) force structure changes implementation or Overlay. The Overlay implements the force structure changes for the next fiscal year (FY). The current Overlay process…
“Silent Professional” is a term used often when referencing the Special Operations community. It means do not brag about what you have done or where you have been, because secrecy is your only true ally. Every night since the World Trade Center towers fell, there have been Soldiers overseas taking the fight to those responsible. Night after night, these nameless warriors have been planning and conducting covert operations in hostile areas all over the world without fail. The only time the…
Summary: AH-64 fleet readiness average increased from 63% to 64%, the H-60 fleet readiness average decreased from 81% to 80%, and the CH-47F fleet readiness average increased from 76% to 79%. Although the AH-64 average is under the Department of the Army standards, the XVIII Airborne Corps has improved over the last two months. A key omitted point is the impact that the DA Directed Events (DADE) has on readiness. When the DA Directed Events are removed, XVIII Airborne Corps’ average increased…
Throughout war, there are many changes that can occur. People can change both in their character and personalities. Transformations occur through the whole book. People have to deal with the terrible war in Vietnam. It is very hard for the soldiers to adjust to the rough terrain and appalling climates. When someone comes into a place or environment they have never been before, there can be many reactions from them. Certain situations can bring feelings that someone would have never thought they…
“No doubt exists that all women are crazy; it’s only a question of degree,” W. C. Fields once said. Well what’s the highest degree? Are women really crazy, or do they just change? In the chapter “Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong” in the book The Things They Carried, author Tim O’Brien lets us answer these questions ourselves. The chapter is a sweet one, we think in the beginning. It’s about a young soldier flying his sweetheart out to the war in Vietnam for a visit, since he can’t visit her. She…
Informative Presentation Outline Topic: The Army as a Profession Specific purpose: To inform the audience about the Army and the opportunities that it holds Thesis: The general public has a certain perception about the Army believing that all aspects of the Army are combat related and after being informed they make the military an option in there career choice Introduction I. Attention-getting device: A lot of individuals have the common perception the Army is kicking down doors and taking…
Mary Ann can be said to symbolize the way people lose themselves to war, since the war became a drug that made her realize how empty her life was in the United States. In a sense, Vietnam gave her life purpose and meaning, something that she had never experienced before. Mary Ann’s strengths in moral qualities are pretty clear, although not vast; she is very sincere in the sense that she is honest about the…
all else. The Vietnam War introduced a pressure to aspire for masculinity and twisted love into obsession which shaped the beliefs, ideas, actions, and feelings of the soldiers in an irreversibly harmful way. O’Brien uses masculinity as a driving force for the actions of all the soldiers. The desire for masculinity and fear of ridicule pushed many young men into the war, and resulted in a generation of men that "died and killed because…
story, but I was definitely wrong. Eventually, I found myself asking about his dating life with Mema. He began to tell me that after their first date they became pretty steady. They did all of their dating in Minnesota while Grandpa was still in the Army, and their blind friendship slowly grew into a deep love, which led to their marriage on June 22, 1960. Following their marriage, I knew they moved around a lot, but I did not know the precise…