Its never a good thing to get lax with the people who are supposed to be your daily leaders. Other wise, if in a combat situation, things would probably not work the way there supposed to and it
Not only because the physical requirements are much higher, but the recruits are also required to learn and memorize a startling amount of information. My friend Anthony Kim, enlisted a few months after graduating High School. He met a little over the physical requirement needed and wasn't in the greatest shape when he went off to boot camp. He said to me that boot camp was pretty difficult for him. The physical and mental stress of being away from his family and friends was too much he said.
As the United States shifted its attention to combat operations. The priorities concentrated on battle drills, physical conditioning and as time went on the military started promoting people quicker to keep Soldiers in the ranks and prevent them from ETSing from the military. This was to keep leaders, good or bad in the ranks. Basic Training, AIT, and NCOES courses lowered the standards to keep the flow of Soldiers coming into the army and graduation rates at an all-time high. This caused a ripple effect in the army as we promoted inexperienced Soldiers to Sergeant, these leaders were now training new Soldiers, this led to Soldiers not getting the proper leadership and not conducting inspections and other basic soldiering skills like haircuts, cleanliness & serviceability of the uniform and ensuring that good basic discipline was being upheld at all levels.
I had an answer, but I struggled terribly with putting it down on paper because I wanted this interview to “be perfect”. I was too worried about what I looked like or sounded like, so ultimately I had lost “my voice.” I went to my dad for more help. I had wasted a whole hour stressing over how to answer a few questions about myself. My dad told me something very important that day, he said, “The best way to impress someone is to be you”. After meditating on what he said to me I had at least something to put down.
For those who are lied to so they join and those who join freely knowing what they are getting into their training in basic and the treatment they first receive at their new unit is crucial to their perception of military life and way of thinking. Many new soldiers do not have thick skin in the beginning, who can’t handle criticism from their peers become callus and resort to alcohol or even drugs to take the edge off. Now they go to war and spend up to a year in combat where their feelings of callus and their own disregard for other people and their wellbeing are intensified by their actions that they must do to survive. Now theses soldiers who return home and thrown back into public life with just 7 half days of reintegration and classes and one day to go over any medical and mental issues. Many soldiers lie about their mental wellbeing just so they can get done early and hit the bar.
I joined General Wilsons Regiment, of which Captain Folletts Battery was in charge. Although my decision to enlist had been predetermined, there was an overwhelming abundance of propaganda that was downright humerous. Even before I began training, I knew I was less than ideal in terms of fitness; the training was nasty work. Most soldiers found more monotony than the excitement they were expecting, but I was prepared in terms of my mindset. Unfortunately I wasn’t so in training.
Kyle Goff INTRODUCTION As a personal trainer, when I speak with other people in my field we often discuss training programs and methods, exercises, and how to motivate people. However, the biggest and most shameful void in my profession is that of injury prevention. When I am personal training people in the weight room, I have one on one time with that person to show them proper form and technique. I give all new clients an orientation and make it a point to let them know when their form is incorrect no matter how experienced they are. However, as a group fitness instructor it is much harder to do this in a class setting.
For many years I was scared to go to college because I thought I wasn’t college material. Hearing Capitan Mark Kelly speak about being an underachiever, and a “not so great” student really helped me see that light at the end of the tunnel. When final build up the courage with in myself, I enrolled into San Jacinto College. The only thing that stood in the way was that standardize test. I had to take the entry exam after five years of not being in school.
Literacy Autobiography Playing sports, socializing with friends, and working – All reasons why I am an alliterate reader and writer. I never realized the importance of paying attention in school to learn to read and write properly when I was younger. Although I graduated from high school and have a diploma, the lack of initiative and motivation in school has led me to be an alliterate reader and writer today. While in high school, playing sports was more important then learning how to read and write properly. Socializing with friends and going out to have fun was another reason why I did not learn how to write proficiently.
I now look at the stress I have had in my past and can see how some of that stress has given me the motivation to succeed and conquer the tasks, which has caused an abundance of happiness and pride once I actually accomplish success and beat the stress. I can relate all this information back to times during my career playing football, where I was told often by coaches and others that I would not ever start or play or have a chance to get any further than high school , because I was very undersized, but I turned all that stress from them telling me that and used it as motivation to work harder, practice ore, and prove all of them wrong. I now can proudly say I succeeded and received a full academic and athletic scholarship to the University of Alabama and proved to all of them that I could make it and that stress they caused me never discouraged me from reaching my