knew that being in the military was in my future. While my parents tried to steer me towards what they considered “safer” military services like the Navy or Air Force‚ I knew that I wanted to be in the Army or Marine Corps. In 1997‚ I made that dream a reality and enlisted in the United States Army as a “Combat Engineer”‚ basically a grunt that specialized in mine warfare and explosives. In 2002‚ I was selected to be an Army recruiter and by 2004‚ I was “volun-told” (an Army expression for being volunteered
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and achieve the main goal of saving the patient. 1c. Strategies in Basic Training: • In “Anybody’s Son Will Do” by Dyer we encounter a different chaos and a different method of routinization. The 18-year-old boys that enroll in the U.S. Marine Corps all come from different backgrounds‚ different beliefs‚ and enlist for different reasons. When they first arrive it is a frenzy of testosterone‚ but the drill instructors know exactly how to tame and conform the recruits before they even have a
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The first of my favorite stories is “Greater Love Hath No Man.” This story is about one of the nicest‚ bravest soldiers in this entire book. This is my favorite story because Marine Scout Sniper Scott Montoya risked his life six separate times to save five other soldiers and some Iraqi citizens caught in battle. Marine Scout Sniper Scott Montoya was stationed in Sadr City near Baghdad‚ Iraq. On April 8‚ 2003‚ Scott and his four-man squad were helping patrol the city. Scott heard gunfire from
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Masculinity in Movies: Full Metal Jacket Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket is a 1987 film which portrays the early careers of U.S. Marine Corps recruits preparing for the Vietnam War. Throughout the movie‚ one recognizes concepts covered in the TV and film analysis film class; specifically the issue of masculinity. The first part of this movie is an accurate representation of recruit training‚ enforcing the well known mantra “tear down then build up.” Present in this leadership style widely
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DESTINATION AUDIT Overview of the Place The Philippine Marine Corps named Boracay de Cavite as Marine Barracks Gregorio Lim. Ternateños (local people) refer to it simply as "Marine Base”. Most people call it Boracay de Cavite‚ a small cove located inside Gregorio Lim Marine Base in Calumpang Ternate‚ Cavite. It is officially named Katungkulan Beach Resort‚ which means “duty” in English. This beach has gray-ish sand the sea water is not blue‚ but it is clean. One of the most remarkable features
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As Marines we cannot be successful on the battlefield without the use of tactics. Tactics is “the art and science of winning engagements and battles. “It includes the use of firepower and maneuver‚ the integration of different arms‚ and the immediate exploitation of success to defeat the enemy” (MCDP 1-3‚ Tactics‚ 1997‚ p. 3). Simply put this is how we gain victory of the enemy and win battles. Tactics use elements of maneuver warfare and coordinated fires to gain advantage to destroy the enemy
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takes after a detachment of U.S. Marines through theirtraining and the encounters of two of the detachment’s Marines in the Tet Offensive amid the Vietnam War. The film’s title alludes to the full metal coat projectile utilized by officers. The film was discharged in the United States on June 26‚ 1987. The Tet hostile was a noteworthy engagement in the Vietnam war in 1968. To
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master the skills and strategies of combat as well as men? Yes. Can women mentally endure the rigors of combat as well as men? Yes. Can women meet the physical rigors of combat at the level required by the U.S. forces and in particular the U.S. Marine Corps? Absolutely not!” Is it fair to assume that women are incapable of having the stability to fight in combat? Brown uses the women commandos of Nicaragua who fought for their country to argue his point that if given the opportunity and encouragement
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history to gain the rank of a four-star general. Just recently another women in the military was made General in the U.S. Air Force‚ her name is Lori Robinson. There are currently three women serving the United States Military with a four star ranking and one of those women is going to be leading combat forces. The other two women that hold a four star ranking are Navy Admiral Michelle Howard and Air Force General Wolfenbarger‚ even though Ann Dunwoody is retired
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‘Generation Kill’ is a memoir on the story of the First Reconnaissance Battalion; a group of highly trained marines that spearheaded the war in Iraq in 2003. Written in the perspective of Rolling Stones writer Evan Wright‚ it’s a first hand account of the emotions‚ the battles and everything that happened with the Battalion from their base in Kuwait to the streets of Baghdad. Generation Kill however is not specifically an account of war‚ but rather an in depth analysis of the new generation of US
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