United States Navy

serving in the Armed Services of the United States”(MedalOfHonor). Recipients of this medal can receive three different kinds of the medal. The three versions are U.S. Army, U.S. Navy and U.S. Air Force. There has been a total of 3468 soldiers that have received this honor. The Medal of Honor is given to an armed force member in the United States Military because it shows loyalty, bravery, and sacrifice. First of all, an armed force member in the United States Military is given The…

bomb was dropped on Pearl Harbor by a Japanese fighter plane. There were many people involved in the attack on Pearl Harbor. Two key people involved in this event were Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto of Japan and President Franklin D. Roosevelt of the United States. Admiral Yamamoto was in charge of planning the attack on Pearl Harbor. His plan was to attack the U.S. from the air with many planes. President Roosevelt was in charge of America’s response to the attack. Roosevelt went before Congress…

how do we transport thousands of soldier with weaponry, food, fuel, and tanks all the way to the Pacific Islands and Europe? The answer is one that you don’t often learn about in your high school history class; the United States Merchant Marine was an invaluable part of the United States’ victory over the Axis forces during World War II. War is a highly demanding venture on resources and man power, and the fact that the US was waging war across the ocean added to the difficulty. The US relied…

The War of 1812 was a military conflict between Great Britain and the United States that was fought from 1812 to 1815. Canada became involved due to the fact that they were a colony of Great Britain at the time and Canada had been invaded on multiple occasions by the United States. The war began because of conflict between Great Britain and the United States when Great Britain adopted economic sanctions that restricted American trade. Britain also infuriated the Americans when the HMS Geurriere…

adjacent to a state and under its jurisdiction and extending outward from the coast about 31⁄2statute miles,” however, whose jurisdiction does that area fall under. The sea is classified as being between Malacca Straights to the Strait of Taiwan. Significant regional competitors for the maritime control include; China, Taiwan, Vietnam, Cambodia, and the Philippines, with yet still smaller regions laying claim too. Among some other non-direct bodies of interest include the United States and…

the state of Alaska, and around two and a half times larger than the state of Texas.3 Iran features a variety of terrain types, to include, mountainous, central basin with deserts, and plains. Its climate is mostly arid, but contains a subtropical zone along the coast of the Caspian Sea. It has a vast amount of natural resources, to include petroleum, natural gas, coal, chromium, copper, iron ore, lead, manganese,…

Leadership Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of Seal Team 10 is an autobiography about Operation Redwing an operation in northern Afghanistan where four Navy SEALs sought out to capture or kill a notorious al Qaeda leader. The mission ultimately did not go as planned to leave only Marcus Luttrell alive to recall the story through his eyes. First and foremost, Lieutenant Michael Murphy continually received praise from Luttrell throughout the novel…

that it was the Navy, in particular two chiefs that help push me beyond my own expectations. This is what I feel I have to offer as an officer in the United States Navy. Setting a high personal expectations and instilling it into your own subordinates is what a good leader does. A good leader is not the smartest person in the room; they know how to influence an efficient team that works well together to achieve the objective. These are all examples of what I have learned from the Navy and what I…

The United States ranks first with a GDP of 16.2 trillion dollars, with China at second with 8.2 trillion dollars (Greenberg and Page, 572). America’s economy is lucrative on a global scale because of their broad international customer base. Many foreign businesses…

August 2, 1943. An American Lieutenant, 27 years of age, was with his crew of 13 aboard a PT boat near Japanese waters. It was late at night. Suddenly, the Lieutenant spotted in the darkness the outline of a boat coming straight towards them. At first he mistook it for a fellow PT boat-no cause for alarm. Yet as it came closer, he realized what it was: A Japanese destroyer. He made an attempt at the guns and tried to move out of the way, but it was too late. The PT boat was hit by the enormous…