United States Marine Corps School of Infantry

So, I have been to an event in the recent years called the Blue Angels air show. The reason I decided to go to the Blue angel’s air show was because I was in the AFROTC. The AFROTC set up a trip to go see the Blue Angels because we were going to help the show by doing community service by directing cars and picking up trash amongst a few other things. The Blue Angels are people in jets that do tricks and other things such as flips and rolls with jets. “The Chief of Naval Operations, Adm. Chester…

Vietnam Platoon “Move out move out!” “GO GO GO!” the general yelled while I was jumping out of the chopper. Bullets were already flying at us all the sudden a bullet already hit the person to the side of me “Ahhh!” he stumbled upon the ground lifeless. Three people took cover against the rock I was going for it, it was huge I stood behind them and didn’t say anything. One of them stood up and started yelling “move the chopper!” he got hit by the chopper while moving it up to leave he was…

The first step to trying to become a marine is meps which from start was frustrating and pushing our endurance to a breaking point. There was a physical, a ton of questions and a lot of waiting for the next part within the progress. There's so many people there of authority figure shouting commands and orders all at once just to make sure you follow the progress and pass to swearing in front of a flag and say the vow. This showed a future, a door that was opened just for me and whether i was…

engineers and assigned to the 82nd infantry division and a few weeks later, battalion was organized in Fort Gordon, Georgia. During World War I the battalion was participating in one of first American offensive war St. Mihiel. Battalion participated fire fight with German enemy forces in a valley of Meuse Argonne and during this operation battalion earned the motto “I main the right!” when the battalion maneuvered and flanked their unit to protect the 82nd infantry division from German Forces.…

to peer into the face of tragedy and somehow emerge fundamentally changed and able to impact the world in previously unimagined ways” (p. 8). All interviewees had experienced and overcome significant trauma. Perhaps Haidt (2006) is correct when he states that post trauma, “people often wake up to is that life is a gift they have been taking for granted, and that people matter more than money” (p. 140). It also seems “people who have suffered through battle, rape, concentration camps, or…

Joint Transition Course. We started with a post holiday compressed workweek, so our course is only four days. Early morning in processing for badges, computer issue, course familiarization, and student/faculty and Commandant introductions. The rest of the day was a quick overview (to be expounded upon in the next four days) of what our fellow JPME I classmates are familiar with. Six hours of lectures and discussion on broad stroke: National Security Strategy (NSS), Quadrennial Defense Review…

Introduction The career I have researched is a government job for the United States Air Force. This job involves you being in a group called a unit and there are many units at the base. The unit I will be talking about is called COMM. COMM stands for one word and that is communications. I have choose this topic for my research paper because my family has been through this branch of the military for now two generations now and I have always wanted to go through and be in the Air Force and would…

upon returning. In this story, Bradley mentions how the media took a photo of service men replacing a flag as a glorious display of American dominance in the war. Following the picture being taken, the men deemed “heroes” were sent to tour the United States campaigning for the sale of bonds as the U.S. only had a month’s worth of funding prior to the battle of Iwo Jima. The three living men denied the title of hero, as they believed the real heroes never came home.…

The sponsor used a remote-controlled drone camera and other high-tech equipment to record a synopsis of the performance in HD ("SW 32nd St. Navy Brass Band Recap"). You can feel the community environment of veterans, the local civilians in a military-dominated city, and their families gaining that sense of community through music and by the uniquely military nature of its transmission. As with the nature of the military, the specific band members rotate in and out with their tours of duty but…

Rosenthal wanted to join the United States Army or Navy but was rejected, due to his poor eyesight. Instead, he joined the U.S. Maritime Service as a photographer. After a year of service, he was assigned to the Pacific campaign and was sent to Iwo Jima where he captured the photograph. Joe Rosenthal won the Pulitzer Prize for his Flag Raising on Iwo Jima photograph in 1945. As the American Marines made their way onto the island, Iwo Jima, more than five hundred Marines were killed by the…