Essays on Deployments

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Any tenet of research activity always poses a challenge to the researcher regarding data collection, consolidation and harmonizing the findings available for a report or publication. However, some aspects or types of research prove even more challenging. In my research, the topic was STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics), the much projected smooth transition from topic development to the research stage was constantly obscured and slowed down by the nature of the research data available against the objective in mind. Similarly, the replies encountered hurdles in obtaining the necessary data as a result of information shortage and some being ...

The Wilkinson family and Flanigan family interviewed in “Coping with Fear and Uncertainty” dealt with the fear and uncertainty of military deployments differently. The Wilkinson’s prepared for the realities of deployments by talking about the risks they faced. For example, they accepted that the husband would be deployed and the deployment would put him in danger. They did not focus on the danger. Instead, they planned for their ‘worst case scenario’: What if Mr. Wilkinson’s deployment was extended? That the Wilkinson’s openly discussed the possible risks and planned ahead for possible outcomes shows that they ...

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Cloud computing is a novel model of delivering information technology (IT) services to end users by facilitating convenient and on-demand access to a wide pool of shared computing resources such as servers, applications, storage, networks and services which can be easily configured, provisioned and availed to the end user with minimal effort from management or the cloud service provider. In this case, the cloud computing paradigm has transformed the way traditional (IT) products and services are delivered, managed and consumed by users. The technology promises accelerated innovation, rapid time-to-market delivery of IT products, the ability to scale business applications ...

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Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) develops because of exposure to a traumatic experience. According to the Institute of Medicine (2012), the vital element of PTSD is the development of the characteristic symptoms that follow exposure to extreme traumatic stressors, including personal experiences. For an event to cause PTSD, it has should have had an actual or implied dire injury or near death experience to the victim. Such events could also threaten one’s physical and psychological integrity. The most common traumatic events happen during military combat, hostage situations, violent assault, torture, terrorist attacks, and disasters. While PSTD is most common ...

The U.S. military has experienced aggressive deployments in recent years. These deployments, particularly in Iraq and Afghanistan, are usually associated with health, psychological and housing problems. For current purposes, focus remains on homelessness as one post-discharge problem a significant number of veterans experiences. The scope of homelessness is, if anything, unsettling from at least two perspectives. First, homelessness is not properly reported. Upon discharge, inactive service men and women are left out in a civil life completely different from a military one. Fearing negative impact on military career or special benefits gained after discharge, veterans do not report a ...