Whampoa Military Academy

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 make my grandfather very proud if I completed everything and became a solider in the Air Force. I also want to do something to serve my country…

leadership positions. There are significant contrasting perspectives from different Soldiers along with how they felt about the topic at hand. When asked to First Sergeant (1SG) Henriquez, Rosendo (Deputy Commandant of Noncommissioned Officers Academy ALC), First Sergeant Nichols, Andy, (NCO Deputy Commandant for SLC), Staff Sergeant Felix, Efrain (a Senior Leaders Course (SLC) Student), SSG Macdonald, John, (a SLC Student), and Sergeant First Class Fassett, (a SLC Small Group Leader (SGL),…

Slavery is defined by a person who is the legal property of another and is forced to obey them. When these children become a part of this military, they become illegal property to the people that they are obeying, and with some doing so willingly slavery in my opinion would not be the best way to describe such a situation. This can be better described as an extreme type of child labor. Child…

roles. Author Tarak Barkawi confronts this issue as he argues we have missed an area in our United States military. His article published in 2012 titled, “Equality in Army and Society”, harshly challenges the rules and regulations in the U.S army against women’s rights. Barkawi’s main point is, women do not have the same career opportunities due to traditional roles, masculinity in the military, and civilian ideas of gender roles. Barkawi states, “the army is one of the last redoubts of…

Through Margaret Atwood’s poem The Loneliness of the Military Historian we learn that speaker includes herself within her opinion of how the world view the people of the military. She continues throughout to express her understanding of how the soldiers are viewed. “ Confess: it’s my profession/ that alarms you” (Atwood, 1-2), here the speaker understands that her profession is the reason she is not called upon, “this is why few people ask me to dinner/ though Lord knows I don’t go out of my way…

Both the books Blood Trail by C.J. Box and Custer’s Fall by David Humphreys Miller are books that show that a lot of overconfidence can lead to your death of you or your reputation in general. Both Custer from Custer’s Fall and the killer from Blood Trail are fantastic representations of how overconfidence in yourself and how you approach what you do can sometimes lead to your death. Overconfidence can almost certainly lead to your demise, whether its your death or just the demise of your…

My Responsibility To America “Duty then is the sublimest word in the English language. You should do your duty in all things. You can never do more, you should never wish to do less.” What words could describe more clearly the entire character of the awe-inspiring American hero: Robert E. Lee. Throughout his life, he strove to always answer the call of duty. As a general, he felt an immense responsibility to the men under his care during the Civil War. He treated them with honor and dignity,…

Warrior is a gripping and compelling story about the story of two brothers and their father. This film is similar to the biblical story of Cain and Abel. There are many parallels between the two storylines.Some of the things that happened in Warrior are symbolic of what happened in CAin and Abel. In Warrior, Tommy Conlon is a retired U.S. Marine who shows up, looking for his father to train him, after being absent from his father’s life for several years. Brendan Conlon is a teacher who was…

When you're at war, the most vital you would stress over is surviving. Well in "The Expert sharpshooter" by Liam O'Flaherty; he passes on the subject of survival. In this short story, the primary character is in a duel with an adversary amid a the Common War, when he just comes to discover at that the end he executed his sibling. A great many people would respond with savagery, before discovering that would be a man so near them. It's a battle for your life, and you would do pretty much anything…

Operation Slapshot refers to a code name that was given to an undercover operation conducted by New Jersey state police to take down a gambling ring that took place throughout the United States. It involved people on NHL teams, either players (both current and former), coaches, staff members, state troopers. It was started in 2001 and went on until 2006, when it was brought down. The investigation was started off a tip, and lasted for four months, when it was made public in early 2006. Over…