2015 Essay 1 Army Basic Training Changed Me My life changing experience was when I spent my past summer at Fort Leonard Wood in Missouri completing Army basic combat training; I joined the Army National Guard on March 28th of 2014; I always knew that I wanted to take this path but there were many things that surprised me once I arrived. This was such a huge life change for me as I learned how to kill the enemy and had adjust my everyday life and live by the seven Army values. The seven Army values are
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Basic Training Michael Parker University of North Florida Basic Training On March 25 @0330 on a humid and misty morning 6 drill sergeants came into the cold buildings hollering as if the buildings was on fire! Get the hell up privates! Literally you can see the spit coming from their mouths‚ veins popping into their foreheads. The more the Drill Sergeants paced back and forward as if they kicked over an ant pile from all the soldiers scattering. By the time they finished the
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Sweet Tooth Last year in basic training my battle buddy Brown and I always stole nutri-grain bars and oreos from chow (is what army defines as a time to eat) for uses of eating them and selling them to others. It all started when I was at a breaking point and I felt like needed something sweet in order to live or I wouldn’t make it to see the next day. So I decided to slide a few packs of oreos and nutri-grain bars in my pocket to save for later cravings Basic training was a very good learning
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The date is January 3rd‚ 2010 and I am on a bus headed for basic training‚ a four-month long process. I have a million thoughts rolling through my head. I have no idea what to expect. All I know is that I’m not in Texas anymore. I look out my window and see snow everywhere and soldiers walking in formation. The bus starts to take off toward the barracks‚ which I will call home for the next few months. Out of nowhere‚ three drill sergeants stand up and start talking to us about what we’re going to
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to break the news to my family? How was I going to support this child? I couldn’t fathom how anyone would take the news. My daughter’s father (Nathan) had recently lost his job; however‚ he had just enlisted in the United States Army and was due to leave for basic training in August. I was working part time as a hostess making just over minimum wage and we were living with his mother at the time. It took everything I had in me to keep myself calm. As I walked back into the bedroom my body went
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Introduction The army works under a lot of duress in an environment that is not only dangerous but also keeps changing. Thus‚ it is important that soldiers are adaptable‚ creative‚ and agile to survive in such an environment. Although agility‚ adaptability‚ and innovativeness can be achieved by experience‚ training and education of soldiers is critical in the creation of agile‚ adaptive‚ and creative soldiers (Grossman‚ 2001). Hence‚ governments must ensure soldiers are educated‚ trained‚ and developed
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Accountability & Professionalism in the United States of America’s ARMY DMI’s ESSAY September 5‚ 2008 Outline Intro‚ Definition of Essay‚ I. Infraction II. The affect it has on my unit and myself II. The importance of accountability in the army III. The importance of professionalism in the army IV. The 7 Army Core Values BACKFGROUND This paper is an essay that was assigned for me to do as a means of corrective training for infractions involving me being unaccountable and unprofessional
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United States Army. I signed up January of 2002‚ my senior year of high school to be a medic. My official first day in the Army was August 22nd 2002. I arrived in Columbia‚ South Carolina at 1145pm‚ after two hours of riding in a cramped bus I arrived at Ft. Jackson and the in processing station. On August 28th ‚ after getting stuck with needles‚ countless interviews‚ pushups for calling people the wrong rank and the first twinges of homesickness‚ the first day of real basic training loomed like immense
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The First Day of Basic Training Grantham University Abstract The first day of basic training was one of the most horrifying days of my life. I was afraid. I was terrified. I did not know what to expect from or during basic training. I repeated over and over again‚ “Why did I join the army?” I should not be here. I was so far away from home. I had no family close by. Everything that could possibility went wrong did. First‚ I was late arriving to basic training. Second‚ I did not
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Graduating basic training and becoming a United States Army soldier is one of the greatest feelings in the world. Less than one percent of the population of the United States understands and knows exactly how it feels to reach this milestone in life. When I reached this point of my life I was full of a sense pride‚ relief‚ and accomplishment. I knew that I had just officially joined something much bigger than myself. The memory of my basic training graduation ceremony will forever be burned into
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