Vietnam People's Army

I have been in the Army for 22 years. My family and I have been to ten duty stations and I have been away from my family quite a few times. My wife and children have had to adjust to each duty station each time we moved. My wife has had some good paying jobs, and established friendships with people from work and the neighborhood. My kids have also made friends with children from various duty stations. I have missed a substantial amount of time from my family such as when my oldest son…

Imagine a young, innocent, 11 year old boy. Now imagine a young, innocent, 11 year old boy with a military personnel helmet on twice the size of his head, holding an automatic rifle that is almost the same size as his frail little body. Imagine this boy looking left, right, up, down, and all he sees is blood, bullets flying, and dead bodies all around. All he hears is the sound of gunfire and screaming voices, trembling as he runs and hides in fear of his life. What is going through this child’s…

Owen, Faulks and Barker attempt to express the horrors of trench warfare through carefully crafting their language but, in doing so, prove that the horrors are so great that no form of language can truly express it. Mansur, quoting Howard Pinter, argues that “the more tense the experience, the less articulate the expression”, believing Owen cannot communicate the true horrors of war however eloquently he writes. It can be presumed that Faulks and Barker, through vivid imagery, also fail to do…

All Quiet on the Western Front, directed by Lewis Milestone, is a harrowing Anti-War movie depicting the horrors of World War I through the eyes of German schoolboys turned recruits. It stars popular actors from the time period, such as Louis Wolheim, Lew Ayres, and John Wray. It follows the life of a young soldier and his friends who voluntarily joined the war because of how gratifying and heroic their professor made it seem as he pressured them to fulfill their “patriotic duty”. They witnessed…

on the battlefield(Georgia 221). The Civil War required women to take on greater role and aid the soldiers in anyway that they can. That required women to become experienced in medical fields. "20,000 women who served as nurses, more than 3,000 were army nurses filling positions that did not exist before the war."(Barney 1).Women not only took on roles as nurses but they were also…

the enemy, it allowed for his men to deliver more accurate and deliberate fire at a greater pace and potentially avoiding every engaging in hand to hand combat. By using terrain to support the rifle fire, Marshal de Saxe effectively multiplied his armies effectiveness against the enemy without risking control of the battlefield that comes with hand to hand combat and battle lines mixing. His ideas and tactics found within Reveries on the Art of War are founded on the exploitation of the rifle…

Napoleon returned to Corsica with his family, but found opposition in his involvement in Corsican politics3. After his exile from Corsica for unpopular politics, Napoleon took widowed mother and siblings back to France, where he continued with the French army. Commanding as an alterity officer, Napoleon 's first victory was during the Siege of Toulon4 in 1793. Already notorious for his leadership skills and military potential at 26, Napoleon took the place of the former alterity commander after…

Awards of Guilt It’s the late 1910’s, a nurse for a hospital that treats WW1 soldiers was recently assigned to a new patient and her first shift begins tonight. She prepares like she would for any other patient, then enters the room for the first time. When she enters, she stands in the doorway unable to move, too shocked by the sight she has come across. Laying in the bed, where a man was supposed to be, was a distorted figure. The figure had the body of a man, but was missing the arms, the…

A Soldiers Sacrifice in “They” and “Disabled” In Siegfried Sassoon’s “They” and Wilfred Owens “Disabled”, both poems describe the physical and emotional trauma that soldiers experienced in the trenches and on the battlefield. Those left on the home front did not understand the circumstances that the soldiers were under and were shocked when their boys came home suffering from “shell shock” and PTSD. “Social reactions to shell shock victims varied from sympathy or anger at the war to confusion…

When Harry Truman outlawed having a segregated army he did not foresee just how much of an impact it would have on easing racial tensions. The Civil Rights movement and the start of the Vietnam War both helped bring racial inequality to the surface and helped end racial thought for many. Army Integration had a profound effect on racism during the Vietnam War helping ease tensions between races with minor resistance. The integration of the army had a positive effect regarding racism unlike…