Women's Land Army

1. Introduction Questions arise, people are asking how their grandfather, a family friend, or even a community member once survived the Vietnam War after being severely injured. Flight nurses, would be the answer. Flight nurses played a vital role in the transportation of wounded soldiers by serving to save many lives in the Vietnam War. Flight nurse are nurses that fly around in helicopters to different places of a war zone. They pick up severely wounded patients that need to be escorted…

Paul and his friends are excited to join the military at first, but after the training and fighting a few days on the battlefield, they are fighting for their lives and struggle to survive. Later on in the film, we see young teenagers joining the army. By looking at them, we can…

In the book Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane, it described the story of a boy who enlisted in the army during the conflict of the Civil War and how his journey and service affected him with the ugliness of battle. The book was narrated by Henry Fleming, who was the main protagonist in the story, on the events in the story. Henry was all for signing up to be in the war to earn fame and feel great about himself, but as his first battle happened, he then realized what he signed up for was way…

serve as currency to finance their war effort . Unfortunately, this strategy led to high rates of inflation due to low confidence in the instruments, which resulted in food shortages that severely limited the South’s ability to properly supply its Army later in the war . On the Union side, the Federal government had a similar, but more balanced approach. They issued Treasury notes, but they required acceptance of these notes for all debts except for interest on government bonds making the…

fear is a part of who we are.my fear came to me in many forms, fear to fail never wanting to be less than anyone, my fear of not being able to care for my family, these are fears that we all share,the fear that I had to overcome as a soldier in the army,were the fear of dying and also having the fear to kill to survive,all this I had to over come but my fear didn't stop there serving twenty years as a Houston Firefighter the fear of going into burning buildings,…

The starless sky was casket-black and brooding. Even the clouds seemed morose. Frozen hands clasped algid steel as the Kelly gang gazed upon their foe. The cold, malevolent wind howling and mewled through Dan and the souls of the Kelly gang in every which way. “Bang!” A fierce sound of bullet from the police startled Dan’s ears. The last stand of the Kelly gang has begun. “Fire!” Dan’s brother Ned shouted with a quivering voice. It was Dan’s first time seeing his brother getting extremely…

For centuries many authors have tried to capture the true essence of a soldier's experience during the war. In “How to Tell a True War Story” by Tim O’Brien, O’Brien expounds upon what constitutes a truthful account of war. There is a multitude of factors that go into creating a true war story. Based on O’Brien’s prerequisites, Kurt Vonnegut has succeeded. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut is a true war story because of the lack of clarity that war brings both the author and the protagonist…

Wilfred Owen’s Disabled is poem of the post-Great War period, when hundreds of young men were -similarly to the protagonist- abandoned to their misery and handicaps in military hospitals. The intentionally vague and indistinguishable character is presented as empty, an indicator of his inability to recover. However, despite his superficial remorse and apathy, we can distinguish an underlying message; Owen portrays the value of an individual in society as both fleeting and unappreciated. He uses…

Due to my lack of personal responsibility I failed to follow my instructions, therefore I will address the necessity of following instructions and why they are important. In the army if you do not follow instructions from your Noncommissioned officer which is a lawful order then you could get an article fifteen. An example of this is if a soldier was told to write a five-hundred word essay from their Noncommissioned officer and only wrote two hundred then they could get that article fifteen.…

People can never truly know how it feels to be in war, unless they’ve been in one. Even if someone who’s seen war tells them about it, they can’t understand. Movie’s rarely portray it how it’s suppose to be or they can’t catch the feeling of it. Although, Saving Private Ryan is one of the movies that show a piece of the struggle of war. With the many strong events that happened, it shows the war that only those who serve in it experience. It wasn’t just the main squad that showed what war is,…