West Coast of the United States

However, the state was not always reliant on industries such as commerce, tourism, and other recreational facilities which have become a facet in everyday life for Maines. For example, in the 19th century, over two-hundred years ago, Maine’s industry for the most part revolved around natural resource products such as wood, fish, and even ice. If Maine is to continue to progress forward on into the rest of the 21st century, then the state should focus in on financing the service industry, the state will not be able keep up with the rapidly developing global world if it continues to rely on old traditional values from the past. Maine has faced these issues in the past where it refuses to…

The National Guard plays many roles in keeping our country safe from protecting the United States to assisting in helping civilians during natural disasters. The National Guard has played quite an enormous role in the past when Hurricanes Sandy and Katrina hit the coast of the United States of America. Hurricane Katrina had arrived on August 23, 2005 and disappeared on August 31, 2005. Hurricane Sandy came into effect October 22, 2012 and the storm died out on October 31, 2012. The storms…

Homeland Security and US Border Protection The recent increase in over 60, 000 unaccompanied children flooding across our southern borders, coupled with the United States inability to stop the smugglers from bring them across, points to some critical weaknesses in our Homeland Security protection. Before terrorist can exploit these weaknesses, America has to find a way to fill the gap. One possible solution to fix these gaps in our security is to use the Army Reserve and National Guard troops…

Station) moves. PCS moves were implemented to better meet “(a.) Needs of the Service; (b.) Competencies of the position and the unit’s ability to train to rating.” (Ref. d.) Consequentially, Senior Leaders have limited choices for their next unit; which are often outside of RCD (Reasonable Commuting Distance). Command must eliminate rating designations from reserve E-8 and E-9 billets. 2. Over the last several years, we have seen a move in the Coast Guard’s Senior Enlisted Leadership…

Homeland Security and the Critical Infrastructures it Protects Homeland security in itself is an over encompassing concept that includes many agencies that "prevent terrorist attacks, defend our borders, enforce immigration laws, secure cyberspace, and ensure resilience to disasters" (United States Department of Homeland Security [U.S. DHS], 2010). The missions of the DHS are critical and vast. I’m going to explain some of the basics of this organization in terms of internal and external…

Intro, Importance, and Summary (U) In 2015, the United States Government suffered the biggest cyber-attack against a federal agency to date. The Office of Personnel Management reported that up to 21.5 million instances of personal data was stolen by hackers. Many more attacks have occurred recently, and cyber-attacks have become a common occurrence with billions of attacks carried out on various federal agencies each year. Pew Research Center recently conducted a study, and found that the…

I have a strong desire to become an officer in the United States Navy. To achieve this goal I wish to be accepted into Officer Candidate School where I will later graduate with a commission as an Ensign. I believe myself to be of both strong mind and body, and I accredit this to my commitment to my school, my work, and my training. I graduated top ten percent of my class in High School and Magna Cum Laude in college and I continually try to increase the diversity of my knowledge so to become a…

All of the United States Government agencies are now implementing some sort of risk management into there every day operations. A risk management can be done for a simple office party to the most dangerous raid. The Department of Homeland Security is no different with their 22 departments. In the case of ports, the Coast Guard and FEMA “cybersecurity efforts in the maritime port environment have been limited” (GAO, 2014, p.1). This includes the lack of a risk assessment that is heavily followed…

while on deployment we may be in need of repairs and may have foreign workers that have been cleared to assist with the work. It is a partnership between countries that is made up of trust. Keep in mind they workers are not allowed to access secure areas and they are escorted and watched. Looking at the cargo shipment containers I can see how things get overlooked or not looked at all. The shipping industry would suffer greatly if every container had to be inspected at the receiving…

According to the textbook, the Homeland Security Advisory System or HSAS was created to help inform United States, (U.S.) citizens from prospective terrorists attacks (Gaines & Kappeler, 2012, p. 17). The HSAS have five, color coded, divergent levels of risks for terrorist attacks against the United States. These colors consist of red, which stands for a severe risk; orange, which stands for a high risk; yellow, which stands for a significant risk; blue, which stands a general risk; and…