National Guard Case Study

The article “Building a Killer”, by Jonathan Strickland, is primarily explaining the roles that take place in producing a killer but it also explains the purpose of operant conditioning in the military and its use for it. Operant conditioning is a behavior learned or avoided as a result of its consequences. Building a Killer also gives an example of operant conditioning of soldiers “firing at human-shaped targets“, conditioning the soldiers to associate shooting at a person is permitted in the military and it is

The weekly assignment involves the NATs choosing the recruits of next year. While they do background checks on the future NATs, Nimah goes to a recruit from last year to find information on Simon. The assignment is cut short when an emergency meeting of the new agent review board is called in. The subject

VMI had a 150-year history as an all-male state-supported college. Its mission was to produce citizen-soldiers who would be prepared for both civilian life and military service, yet this “mission” was not mandated by the State of Virginia. Even though VMI had a long-standing tradition in the State of Virginia with it’s all male, high stress school, that fact alone does not make it equal under the Fourteenth Amendment. Indirectly, VMI asserted that women were not equal, but inferior, to men, by assuming a female could not successfully complete the same high stress, rigorous educational experience. VMI had over 300 women apply to the school over the years, but they were never given an opportunity

The CJCS also outlines and writes the National Military Strategy provided to Combatant Commanders as military context and translation of the National Defense

Reintegration back with your family and the civilian world can be frightening. The military kids are provided programs to cope with the two biggest hurdles of post deployment. USO provides Comfort Crew that speaks with the kids who are dealing with a parent who is injured or made the ultimate sacrifice. For the Service member that does make it home whether, it is from end of service or a medical retirement the USO has many programs to make the transition seamless. One major program is Hire Heros, they provide workshops on resume writing, interview practices, and how to put the military career into civilian related career terms.

World War 1 took place on April 25th, 1915 when our soldiers embarked on a courageous adventure in Gallipoli. Our soldiers endured many unpleasant and horrifying experiences, throughout World War 1; it was a long 8 months. World War 1 ended December 20th, 1915, as the last soldiers evacuated Gallipoli. The Anzac spirt or the Anzac legend has been described as a concept where Australians and New Zealand soldiers share many qualities and characteristics that are demonstrated on the battle field of World War 1. The legend can be seen as an inaccurate or an accurate portrayal of the Anzac legend.

Introduction The meaning of reintegration has been defined as “the process of transitioning back into personal and organizational roles after deployment” (Currie, Day, & Kelloway, 2011). While reintegration may bring images of family homecomings and welcome home parties, it is not that simple for the returning veteran. According to a survey conducted by the United States Department of Veteran Affairs (U.S. Dept. of VA), 40 percent of surveyed military members returning from deployment report experiencing a high level of difficulty reintegrating into civilian life (Sayer, Noorbaloochi, Frazier, Carlson, Gravely, & Murdoch, 2010). As war wages, more service members are returning to face any number of barriers to their reintegration such as: mental health issues, domestic situations, employment or lack thereof, disabilities, and lack of support from the Veterans’ Affairs, etc.

Coming from BCT to my unit was a big change. You go from standard military bearing to a laid back informal style. I arrive to my unit in July of 2008, from that point until January 2010 was spent training for a deployment. Now there is nothing that can prepare you for a deployment. You can go through all the briefings and all the trainings you want but nothing will prepare you for it.

On day one, the instructors informed me that I was lacking a number of certifications that I neglected to accomplish as a requirement for the class, moreover, the Army Service Uniform (ASU). The instructors guided me on how to come cross all the obstacles that was facing me and I was able to build my Army Service Uniform within 72 hours.

Suicide is an ongoing problem in the United States Military, as it is the leading cause of death among military personnel over the past decade and a half (Bryan, McNaughton-Cassill, & Osman, 2013). Suicidal rates of some careers in the Armed Forces has negatively skewed many of the perceptions of the military and war in college students. Skewed perceptions often times influences the propensity and motivators for college students to enlist in the United States Armed Forces. Motivators to Enlist While various attitudes towards war can adversely impact motivators to enlist in the Armed Forces, motivators to join can potentially outweigh the negative attitudes towards war. Individuals who expressed a high propensity to serve had an enlistment rate 24% higher compared to individuals who expressed a negative enlistment intention (Woodruff, Kelty, & Segal, 2006).

Introduction Managing supervisor of Department O, Wilma Coogan, asked if I could make a report on extending telecommuting at the Corona Corporation. Telecommuting is working from a remote location, away from the standard work office. Remote locations can range from the home of the employee to any place with an Internet connection and the required tools (Ye, 2012). Although we are currently using this concept, there is no formal telecommuting method for our company.

In David Barno’s , “A New Moral Compact,” he stresses about our countries current military situation, which is all-volunteer. Barno has also served time in the military himself as a lieutenant general. He claims that the countries current dependence on the all-volunteer military, allows us to rush into war without thinking about the consequences first. Barno proposes the idea, “that every use of military force over 60 days would automatically trigger an annual draft lottery to call up 10,000 men and women” (p.20).This solution is useful but it is not useful enough because it targets sympathy from the people while he needs to target the president because the president can initiate a war without consent of the people or Congress.

Combat Out-Post (COP) Keating, Afghanistan; Operation Enduring Freedom IX (OEF), was a challenging deployment that tested our knowledge of Reconnaissance Operations. The three Scout Platoons in the Troop rotated duty assignments; COP Defense, dismounted patrolling, and manning Observation Post (OP) Fritsche. The Troop’s rotation consisted of the platoons conducting one four month rotation at the OP, and executing missions from the COP. The rotation inside the COP was broken down evenly between the remaining two scout platoons; one month of executing patrols and one month of COP defense.

Over the past few days we have been learning about the hard, rough times Washington 's army faced at Valley Forge in the winters of 1777 and 1778. Now I ask would you have quit? Yes I would have left Washington in an instance and ran straight back to Virginia or North Carolina anywhere away from there. Here are a few of the many reasons why I would quit. The main reason over all the problems would be that the Continental army was already out numbered but more than half were sick and dying.

But Virginia’s representatives had other plans on how to solve their country’s problems. Each state would get one vote for each decision to be made in the meetings, no matter how many representatives they may have (other than Rhode Island, who sent no representatives to the meetings.) As I said before, Virginia had other plans to solve their country 's problems. This idea was written and proposed by James Madison, one of Virginia’s representatives.