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Point Of View Thoughts And Feelings
1,684 words"What am I doing here?" Rick thought to himself. Just yesterday morning he had gotten out of his warm bed. He had kissed his wife goodbye and told her that he would be home around lunch time. He had explained to her that, because it was the Christmas season, he only had to work a half-day schedule until Now, eighteen short hours later, he and one hundred and nineteen other paratroopers are packed like sardines in a military airplane bound for Panama. He has a parachute strapped on his back and i...
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Fellow Jew Biloxi Ms Jerome
429 wordsBiloxi Blues begins in a train where a boy by the name of Eugene Morris Jerome is sitting writing in his journal. He is heading for Biloxi, MS for boot camp. Also on the train are some of his fellow platoon members. There was Roy Selridge, Joseph Wykowski, Arnold Epstein, Don Carney, James Hennesy, and others. Jerome says this is his first time away from home, and he seemed like the nervous type. When the troops get to Biloxi, Ms. , Sgt. Merwin J. Toomey greets them. Jerome is put on the spot wh...
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Inversely Proportional Fair Share
1,342 words4. You are not Superman; Marines and fighter pilots take note. 5. A sucking chest wound is Nature's way of telling you to slow down. 6. If it's stupid but it works, it isn't stupid. 7. Try to look unimportant; the enemy may be low on ammo and not want to 8. If at first you don't succeed, call in an airstrike. 9. If you are forward of your position, your artillery will fall short. 10. Never share a foxhole with anyone braver than yourself. 11. Never go to bed with anyone crazier than yourself. 12...
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Rock Two Charlie Lapse In Concentration Bunker
880 wordsAs I reflect upon my experience in the Persian Gulf War I can recall the fighting all too clear. The time was 2110 hours on 16 January 1991. The ground war had been underway for five days and I was mentally exhausted. My platoon had been assigned the duty of clearing bunkers. During the last portion of our briefing we were given explicit instructions to ensure that we all made it back alive. We were also instructed to take prisoners if we could, if not, do what you were trained to do, "kill." Th...
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World War 11 World War Travis
389 wordsTravis was a quite a bit older than the other soldiers who enlisted for service during World War 11. He was in his early thirties, but most of the soldiers were in their late teens or early twenties. Travis had been working since he was a boy, so he felt that he knew something about how the world worked. He enlisted because he not only felt it was his duty to do so, but he also was looking for adventure. He was a tall, friendly man, with a booming voice and a good sense of humor. Soon, the young...
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Knocked Unconscious Barbed Wire
1,285 wordsJuly 1 st 2001 Sweat poured down my rugged unshaved face, bathed in my camouflage, and dripped on my MP 5 sub-machine gun. As I ran for my God-forsaken life I spit out my fresh chew and screamed at my division sniping in the nearby trench, GET THE HELL OUT! ITS GONNA BLOW! ! Once I gained their attention it was too late. BAWOOSH! I tried to glance at my four other companions but I only caught a glimpse their distraught visages a split second before debris covered my sight and I was luckily blown...
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War In Vietnam Heart Of Darkness
1,454 wordsVietnam was a war fought by the unwillingly, for the ungrateful, led by the unqualified. Apocalypse Now is Coppola's film based on Heart of Darkness, but set in the Vietnam jungle. The major theme in the novel is the examination of Americas involvement, militarily, in Vietnam. However, like Conrad's novel, it also shows the potential inherent darkness in all human hearts. Coppola retains the basic structure of Conrad's novel for his film. As Marlow, in Heart of Darkness, travels up the Congo eve...
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Fallen Angels By Walter Dean Myers
1,549 wordsFallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers Dedicated to his older brother, whom the author of Fallen Angels - Walter Dean Myers lost during Vietnam conflict, this books narrates the story of the out of school graduate from Harlem, seventeen year old Richie Perry. Richie's father has left little Richie with his brother and alcoholic mother a long time ago, and having nothing to be looking for at the dead-end streets of Harlem Richie decides to join US Army campaign in Vietnam. The goal is rather simple: ...
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Full Metal Jacket Stanley Kubrick
1,680 wordsThe Vietnam War, was not even a war, it was a Police Action. The young men who fought for their country had other views of what it was. This war showed how power hungry the U. S. was to influence the world. I thought the Vietnam War was a serious misallocation of troops, money, resources and time. The Vietnam War was a perfect platform for the U. S. to show the world how belligerent we were to stop the spread of communism. Some observers in the United States questioned the administrations policy...
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Things They Carried Jimmy Cross
1,251 wordsThe Things They Carried What is it that really helps troops survive war? It is said that faith in humanity and religion are known to fizzle amongst times of wars; therefore almost every man will tell you it was the hope of coming back to loved ones and family. Ask any man that has been to war what it was like, what was going on inside his head, what he felt when he smelled death, what he felt when he caused death. The answer, inevitably, will be one that could never be put to words, an answer th...
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Full Metal Jacket Battle Scenes
1,596 wordsCinema Combat: Braveheart vs. Full Metal Jacket War is an ever-present entity in the world of cinema. The films Braveheart and Full Metal Jacket show strikingly similar, yet different aspects of war. Braveheart is an epic tale of love lost and how the circumstances surrounding that loss contributed in sparking one mans emotions, eventually leading to a bloody rebellion and his countrys emancipation for a dictatorial England. Set in 13 th century England and Scotland, the film portrays the legend...
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Saving Private Ryan Steven Spielberg
553 wordsIn critiquing Steven Spielberg? s movie Saving Private Ryan, I realized that you can not base a move only on realism. A good movie has got to have some kind of character or formalism to carry the viewer through these realistic scenes. Spielberg not only uses these tools but also showed stereotyped images in his characters. In my critique I wish to point out some uses of realism, formalism, and stereotypes in the movie Saving Private Ryan. In my eyes Saving Private Ryan is a masterpiece. Even tho...
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Homosexual Acts Armed Forces
2,140 wordsHomosexuals in the Military Homosexuals have been excluded from our society since our countrys beginning, giving them no equal protection underneath the large branch of the law. The Emancipation Proclamation gave freedom to blacks from slavery in the 1800 s and women were given the freedoms reserved for males in the early 1900 s with the womens suffrage movement. But everyone still knows the underlying feeling of nation in dealing with minorities and women, one of contempt and utter disgust. Hat...
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United States Navy O Neil
1,965 wordsWomen in military positions is an issue that has been very controversial for many years. Today, the typical occupational field of female service members is mainly administrative or medical but filmmakers are attempting to show otherwise. In the 1997 hit movie G. I. Jane, directed by Ridley Scott, one female whose determination reaches heights beyond anyone s expectations smashes this image of females in the military. The portrayal of women in the movie G. I. Jane not only suggests that women can...
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Armed Forces Coast Guard
641 wordsThe role of the officer in the armed forces is to provide leadership for all operational commands. Military officers are expected to command the managerial, executive, scientific and technical centers of high-level military operations. In the U. S. Army, the officer will command a fort or a brigade. In the Navy, he or she will command a ship, submarine, or aircraft squadron. In the Air Force, officers command space shuttles or engineering, airlift wing, medical staff, or logistics centers. In th...
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Inversely Proportional Fair Share
1,492 wordsMURPHYS LAW OF COMBAFriendly fire isnt. 2. Recoilless rifles arent. 3. Suppressive fires wont. 4. You are not Superman; Marines and fighter pilots take note. 5. A sucking chest wound is Natures way of telling you to slow down. 6. If its stupid but it works, it isnt stupid. 7. Try to look unimportant; the enemy may be low on ammo and not want to waste a bullet on you. 8. If at first you dont succeed, call in an airstrike. 9. If you are forward of your position, your artillery will fall short. 10....
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Lai Massacre Vietnam Veterans
666 wordsMy Lai Massacre What Americans refer to as the My Lai Massacre happened in the quiet village of Son My, only a kilometer from the coast of Vietnam in Quang Ngai Province. On March 16, less than two months after the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese launched their famous 1968 Tet Offensive, Bravo and Charlie Companies of the 11 th Infantry Brigade of the 23 rd Infantry Division entered the hamlet of My Lai and killed at least 347 Vietnamese, mostly women and children. The official Vietnamese death t...
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Body Count Isn T
857 wordsThis story starts out with Calley talking about his trial. He receives orders and a plane ticket and was told he was going to Washington, D. C. In Washington Calley is met and questioned the Chief of Staff. He later finds out that he s being questioned for murder at My Lai 4. Word gets out to the media about his actions and he receives loads and loads of letters. He received many letters from past war veterans supporting his actions in My Lai. At the same time he received just as many letters ca...
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U S Military North Vietnam
590 wordsThe Vietnam War was a military struggle fought in Vietnam from 1959 to 1975. It began as a determined attempt by Communist society (called Vietcong) in the South, backed by Communist North Vietnam, to overthrow the government of South Vietnam. The struggle widened into a war between South Vietnam and North Vietnam and eventually into an international conflict. The United States and about 40 other countries supported South Vietnam by supplying troops and munitions for their fight, and the USSR an...
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Saving Private Ryan Tom Hanks
965 wordsSaving Private Ryan Oh my god! Thats really about all I can say about Saving Private Ryan, Steven Spielberg's new World War II epic. Im afraid I wont be able to do justice to this movie in my review. My senses are still numb from experiencing the film. Not watching, experiencing. Because Spielberg throws you right down there in the middle of all the action, and you have no choice but to experience it. You are there, on Omaha Beach, as you watch thousands of civilians, with homes and families, ge...
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