Military Service College Essays Samples For Students

Introduction There is an unresolved debate among scholars and historians as to whether the Navajo Code Talkers represent a group of American Indians who were exploited by the United States military. Alternatively, whether the Navajo Code Talkers represent a moment in United States history when Native American men came forward to help defend the country against a great evil. Before the Navajo Code Talkers, the United States had employed Native Americans in various military capacities. During the colonial period, Native Americans had been hired by the military to act as scouts and sometimes as fighters. During the United States Civil War, Native ...

(Mental Health Problems, Use of Mental Health Services, and Attrition from Military Service After Returning From Deployment to Iraq or Afghanistan)

Introduction

The article “Mental Health Problems, Use of Mental Health Services, and Attrition from Military Service after Returning from Deployment to Iraq or Afghanistan” is authored by Charles W. Hoge, Jennifer L. Auchterlonie, and Charles S. Milliken. The context of the research article is that the military of the United States has carried out a population-level screening from mental health problems among the service members who return from deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan among other areas.
The objective of ...

Should Everyone Serve Two Years’ Mandatory Military Service?

Should Everyone Serve Two Years’ Mandatory Military Service?
As many know in some countries it is mandatory for every young person to serve at least two years of military service in honour of their country. With military and global conflict arisen in this day in age, some suggest that the United States should regulate such a policy, in which it is mandatory for all citizens at a specific legally-consented age to be subject to binding military enrollment. It is in my most humble opinion that it should not be mandatory for all young people to serve a two-year period ...

Gay marriage is one of the controversial issues, not only in the United States, but also all parts of the world. Whereas proponents of gay marriage advocate for the recognition of gay rights, the opponents are against such advocacy, which has in the past led to a hot debate of the same. In the United States, gay marriage has become a common phenomenon not only in the general public, but also the Armed Forces (Andryszewski, 11). Until recently, gay people were excluded from participating in the military service. Significant evolutions have been experienced over time with regard to the issue of ...

Bona Fide Occupational Qualifications (BFOQ) represent an employment practice that allows discrimination in specific cases, when an applicant’s religion, age, gender or national origin, when such discrimination is justified by the need to ensure normal performance of a job. While BFOQ frequently serve as an important tool of distinguishing between the cases of justified and unjustified discrimination, the practice of applying the BFOQ is associated with a significant degree of controversy (Shaman, 1971).
For instance, a question remains whether the gender-based discrimination in the military shall be considered in light of the BFOQ clause, contained in the 1964 ...

This memo is about my future career as a military officer. I am currently pursuing a course in human resource, a course that will enable me understand the management of people within the military forces. Becoming a military officer has its advantages and disadvantages, which I will discuss in this memo. Most people go into the military forces mainly to pay back their educational loans and achieve some leadership experience. For my case, I plan to gain experience on how the human resource department of military forces function. I believe it is worth pursuing a career in military, but there exist hurdles that I ...

Comparing and Contrasting Proponents and Opponents’ Perception on High School Military

Following the inception of “No Child Left Behind” Act of the year 2002, recruiters of the United States military personnel have access to all schools that receive State funds to target recruitment of high school children. The act targets to recruit students aged between 14 to 18 years to join the American armed forces. The act of recruiting the military personnel from high schools has grown in vigor and aggression, the phenomenon is not particular to the United States as United Kingdom already has a third of its armed forces recruited at an age less than 18 years. Supporters of ...

Abstract

During this paper, our target will be to analyze the main principles and ideas which could be derived from Carl von Clausewitz’s works concerning the strategy of war and the lessons which the states have to take into account, while planning the military actions. Additionally, we will be trying to deal with contemporary role of his work ‘On War’ which is thought to be the fundamental work in terms of military history and practice. The principles of five ‘W’ will be applied during the analysis. The final objective is to implement the principles and ideas of Clausewitz to ...

Drug abuse and its negative effects on soldiers is a historically common phenomenon in the military service and personnel. During the American civil war, soldiers used drugs to increase their level alertness and to dull the pains they incurred during the fights. Others used the drugs to reduce the fatigue from working and staying awake for several hours during the war. Unfortunately, the use of drugs in addition to alcohol abuse lead to addiction and other drug related consequences among the military service members in the army (Char 123).
This problem went on undetected for a long period resulting to a ...

Mass conscription refers the compulsory recruitment of the public to military service. In other words, conscription refers to the ability of established authorities to influence and mobilize the armies and the public of conflicting powers to engage in wars with their rivals. The act dates back to the ancient times and it continues to date in some countries. The authorities involved in the conscription also influence the ability of the military to win the wars by forcing a large number of the army to take part in the fights involuntarily. This type of influence has contributed to the outbreak ...

Introduction

In their attempt to identify appropriate research approaches in politics, feminists have often criticized traditional social science methodologies. In her article on women and democracy and the patriarchal welfare state, Carole Pateman raises the issue of the highly patriarchal political scene. She indicates that the positive and social democratic perspective is that a welfare state provides social meaning and equal worth to the political and juridical rights of all citizens. A second, more pessimistic, view on the welfare state, according to Pateman (1987) is that it provides the government with new approaches to exercising power over and governing the ...

Tanzimat is the name of modernizing reforms in the Ottoman Sultanate from 1839 to 1876, when the first Ottoman constitution was adopted. The basic principles of the reform were set out in Hatt-i-Sharif, issued by Sultan Abdul-Majid on the 3 of November in 1839 while his accession to the throne.
Unlike previous reforms, the main place in the Tanzimat occupied not military but socio-economic issues. The initiative belonged to the group formed by the bureaucracy, headed by Mustafa Reşid Pasha, who became the author of Hatt-i-Sharif.
For several years he was ambassador in England and France, and then ...

1. Introduction
Homosexuals are humans and that is a fact although many peopel argue that it is not a natural state because people are supposed to be heterosexuals. Most people are attracted to the opposite sex, but some there is also a significant percentage of homosexual people who also have human rights. Conservatives argue that homosexuality is not natural and hence homosexuality must not be condoned. But yet, progressives believe that homosexuality is indeed a human behavior and so they face the same challenges that heterosexual couples face.
2. Review of Evidence
Homosexual people have trouble with their marriages ...

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has been brought to the public’s attention by the problems experienced by veterans returning from military conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. Up to 13 percent of military personnel coming back to America are afflicted with the disorder (Friedman, 2014). There is a current controversy concerning the military discharging soldiers for pre-existing mental conditions rather than following up with care for PTSD. The question emerges as to whether PTSD, which is no longer considered an anxiety disorder, is a continuation of pre-existing mental illness or develops as a separate syndrome under stressful conditions. This paper presents information for ...

Introduction

This essay provides reasons why a mandatory period of national service (either civilian or military) for all young U.S. citizens is not a good idea. The concept of universal service arises from time to time, and in this instance surfaced following remarks made by General Stanley McChrystal at the 2012 Aspen Ideas Festival. He is quoted as saying that “our notion of ‘service’ had become dangerously narrow, with less than one percent of Americans serving in our military, and challenged us to explore new pathways and opportunities for service to country.” Those remarks of his triggered the Aspen Institute to launch a ...

Abstract

The issue of illegal immigration in the United States is extremely polarizing to many. Some feel as though illegal immigrants take advantage of the resources of America and cheapen the American experience, taking away jobs from its citizens. Others believe that the illegal immigrant population is far too ingrained in the American economy to safely get rid of without severe economic consequences. In this paper, the issues regarding illegal immigration and jobs, as well as initiatives like the DREAM Act, are explored.

The issue of illegal immigration in the United States is an extremely polarizing issue, one which divides ...

In Voltaire’s Candide, we see an incredibly prescient bit of satire, as the titular character, Candide, experiences an episodic, darkly comedic, eerily satirical breakdown of all the things he thinks he knows about the world. Over the course of the book, everything from war to love to polite society itself is lampooned, broken down and exposed for the farce that it is. Candide comes to understand that, contrary to what he believed in the beginning, he is not living in “the best of all possible worlds.”

Candide has a lot of fun lampooning the tenets of polite European society, ...

Abstract

In June 2016, the Pentagon reviewed and revised the Department of defense’s accession disqualifications with the effect of lifting the ban on transgender populations from serving in the military, but the debate on the suitability of the new policy has grown even more heated. This paper argues that barring transgender individuals from serving their nation in the most selfless way possible is at odds with both the constitution and the values that the military fights to defend. Given the large number of transgender personnel already serving or having served in the military, there is no reason to believe ...

The current national drinking age of 21 years old is sensible. However, there are a number of people who are adamantly opposed to this law, demanding that the current legal drinking age be lowered to 18. While many people want the legal drinking age to mirror the legal voting age, and the legal military service age, lowering the drinking age to a mere18 years old will have dire consequences for everyone in the United States, especially teenage drivers. Each year, alcohol plays a key role in the number of deaths caused by teenage automobile accidents, killing almost one-third of ...

Art and Architecture

1. Camouflage in Art and Fashion: The Embodiment of War
1.0 Introduction
Shopping malls are a place where war in the popular culture is obvious because of images ranging from the clothing displayed that is made with camouflage-printed fabric to the war movie posters at the cinemas. The culture of war is hard to avoid and somehow the idea of war seems to be comfortable to the consumers of goods and images in the mall. The world resembles the shopping mall in the way war is embodied throughout popular culture.
War shapes our bodies while defining space and identities ...

Military women in Combat

Integration of the Articles
The two articles elicit a lot of emotions on the topic of women in the military. In most instances, our women in the military tend to be sidelined by their male counterparts as there is a general feeling that the ladies in the forces are lesser qualified and physically unable to undertake some certain tasks in the military (Kerrigan, 2012). This leads to situations when women find it hard to be given top ranks in the organization. There is a lot of negative impact of this, as most of these women end up being demoralized ...

Although the number of deaths of military service members in the recent times has significantly reduced, there are still many of them who do not die but suffer severe injuries. For instance, in Korea and Vietnam, approximately three Americans were wounded for every one officer who died. In Iraq, sixteen soldiers get sick or are wounded for every person who dies. Additionally, those who do return injured are usually amputees or injured in such a way that it will take many years for treatment, both physical and psychological, for them to heal. Therefore, it is important that civilian counselors ...

Introduction

Firearms policies of the United Kingdom are one of the strictest in the world. As a result, the rates of homicides and other violent crime are reported to be the lowest (Uttley 2006; Squires, 2014)). Today’s research shows that only 0,05 intentional murders involving the use of civilian firearms have been recorded per 100,000 inhabitants in 2013 (Van Kesteren, 2013). Moreover, only 2.3% of all homicides perpetrated in the country involved the use of guns (Office for National Statistics 2015). The only one killing spree to have ever happened in the United Kingdom was the notorious ...

Vietnamese War: Impact on American society

There are only a few episodes of modern history that have impacted the US American society severely. Other than Pearl Harbor and 9/11, it was the Vietnam War. The war lasted till 1975. Post WW-II the American society gradually has gathered an opinion that their nation was the most powerful, invincible, and morally supreme and it had to take the responsibility for the world. They felt that America had to ensure the world would not go the evil way. In addition to the Leaders, most US laity thought Communism to be an evil. If the US Americans of that ...

Introduction

Posttraumatic stress disorder afflicts large swaths of the US defense forces. The problem is increasing due to multiple deployments of American forces. While the Department of Defense (DoD) and the US Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) are taking steps to mitigate the dangers posed by PTSD on American society, greater synergy and collaboration can be instituted. While the percentage of service personnel afflicted from PTSD is huge, care must be taken to separate those claiming disabilities purely from the economical viewpoint.

Thesis Statement

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) needs to be tackled with greater synergy and collaboration between the DoD and VA, ...

If I had to choose a legend in the world of boxing, this title would definitely belong to Muhammad Ali, as no other person stayed even barely close to the great man of all times. “Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee” is an expression, that became Muhammad Ali’s calling card, and later was developed into a boxing tactics for many amateurs and professionals.
The story of Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. (Muhammad Ali’s real name) is not a legend of a boy from a poor family, who decided to use the help of professional sports in order to avoid poverty. His parents ...

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America feared that the Cold War would inspire the Soviet communism nurture egalitarian societies, and prompt the colored people inside and outside America to remain marginal between capitalism and communism. This inspired American policy makers to undermine their practice of discriminating the colored communities. Thus, during the 1960s America witnessed radicalization of anti-racism movements. The Cold War affected the Asian Americans in different ways. First and foremost, a vociferous call by Asian Americans against racism would invite condemnation of the white Americans. Nevertheless, famed Americans of Asian origin voiced against racism. Until the year 1950, the Japanese were kept beyond ...

Social Identity Formations in Transnational Culture

The film, the best Years of our Lives is an indication of the cultural artifact of the formation of the social identity in the transnational culture. There are many hurdles, and one has to face several difficulties in order to gain, and then maintain its social identity in the transnational culture. It is also represented in the film, in which it is shown that the characters are facing difficulty to regain the social identity as civilian after the World War II. It represents some extraordinary and complex situations, and problems at the political unconscious level, within its wish to ...

Inequalities in terms of religion, race, age, sexual orientation, and gender has a deep-rooted history, yet is rarely openly discussed in the past even by those who directly experience discrimination. Women were discriminated upon when it comes to employment during World War I and continued on to World War II. There was initial fear that men could lose their jobs or affect men’s wages when they return to work as the government also provided the same salary to women who performed men’s jobs. With the continued employment of women, instances of discrimination increased and solidified resulting to women ...

Writing is an art that requires meticulous skill and knowledge. Different writers use different techniques to effectively communicate their message. As writers, Siobhan Fallon and David Wood employ a unique set of rhetorical techniques that help distinguish their respective literature, “The Last Stand” and “Iraq, Afghanistan War Veterans Struggle with Combat Trauma.”The Last Stand” is an insight into the life of specialist Kit Murphy a soldier who had had just returned home from the war only to find his family falling apart as his wife had become cold and indifferent. David’s article, on the other hand, is more informative ...

The Congress should pass the Dream Act. The first reason for this is that education is one of the fundamental ways of changing countries, for instance, the Soviet Union lessons from the fallen Wall and resulted into compulsory public education within the country. Secondly, the Defense Department's Strategic Plan for 2010-12 Fiscal Years makes an inclusion of the DREAM Act to be a way of helping shape as well as maintain mission-ready for all-volunteer forces. Third, the youth are the future and the promise of the state and nation, and hence the need to have them afforded opportunities of fulfilling ...

Feudalism is a hierarchical political, economic and military system whereby a king exchanges land or a gift for protection in the Middle Ages. There was instability due to the fall of Rome and trade, security and communication came to a halt and this forced the kings to strike a deal with the nobles with land in exchange for military service, taxes and food from the peasants. This system helped European civilization lift itself out of the Dark Ages. The feudal system was a bond in which people were linked in a chain of common obligations to each other. Even though the conditions for the bond were ...

William Shakespeare’s Othello is a tragic narrative of consequences arising out of a misplaced sense of identity, one that is based not on a personal conclusion, but on the society’s perception of an individual. Thus, Othello is subjected to numerous factors, such as his race, first and foremost, then his social status and finally military service, which serve as the indicators of his identity, and he is all too eager to believe the lies of others more than his own eyes.
Initially, Othello is seen as an outsider, simply because of the color of his skin, and is referred ...

The American military and the Israeli military have one thing in common, both defense forces admit female soldiers to serve and defend their respective countries. The defensive forces in America and those of Israel operate on an almost similar basis. However, the manner in which these forces operate with female soldiers is very different. Despite a few similarities in the requirements, nature of work and rules of working, the female soldiers in American and Israeli forces are totally different entities.

The similarities between the women soldiers in the American and Israeli forces are not as many as the differences. The ...

Queer theory had been popular since eighties taking the place of gender theory appeared to be more primitive. The ideas of queer theory are widely implemented by those who fight for human rights and freedoms. This paper is devoted to the research of two studies, namely: Wilchins, R. Queer Theory, Gender Theory and Sycamore, M.B. “That's revolting: Queer Strategies for resisting Assimilation”.
Before discussing potential flashpoints between persons with non-traditional sexual orientation (gays and lesbians), and queers let us consider similarities and differences between them. At first sight there is no difference between queers and gays/lesbians.
Gay ...