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.
Treating War’s Toll on the Mind Response Paper – By Aisha Pitt 03/12/2010 In reading this article written by Betsy Streisand it is apparent that thousands of soldiers suffer from Post Traumatic Stress disorder during and after combat. When they suffer from being traumatized during the war, and when they are still in combat, little help is made available to the soldiers and they are soon pushed back into the war before they have the chance to fully heal. When a soldier returns home with PTSD they have the inability to turn the switch from soldier to a regular citizen. They can return with depression and anxiety because they can feel like there is a complete lack of safety for them and their family. Soldiers have a hard time integrating
Stand at attention in rain and snow forbidden to talk or move, some prisoners have been known to drop dead right there from sickness, fatigue or malnourishment. The days in camp are filled with exhausting work, little food and water and a chance of being beaten or killed for just about any reason. When waking up at 4 a.m. in the morning, the first thing the prisoners would have to face is seeing all the people that didn’t make it through the night and then pray that someone didn’t steal their shoes. If someone took their shoes and they couldn’t find any that would fit they would be severely beaten or killed because they would not be able to work. Once they find their shoes, they would
So he applied for the job himself and three years later got the call to start boot camp like training to become a newjack himself. In Newjack, Conover takes us through an overwhelming and shocking journey, that most readers haven’t experienced, into the harsh culture of prison life and the incredibly demanding and abysmal working conditions of a Sing Sing corrections officer. Conover begins by taking us through a grueling description of the training that he had to endure while preparing for his trip to Sing Sing, where most newjacks start their career. He describes it as an almost boot camp like environment similar to the army. The training officers came off as aggressive and as Conover says, “assholes.” The CO training was built to prepare the soon-to –be officers not to become soft while guarding the prison.
As I looked up from my computer to hear the constant chatter of my co-worker, SSgt Smith telling yet another one of his unnecessary stories to the rest of my office two desks away from me, a sudden thought dawns on me, “What am I doing?” It is currently eight thirty in the morning, the sun is up, and I can fell the warmth from the window behind me. I am grumpy as usual and still trying to wake up. I have completed the morning listing, but the jabbering of stories being told two desks away from me has my blood boiling. Conductively working vigorously to make sure the office runs smoothly. I finally understand what I have to do to make sure I will not fall behind in my career progression.
Life of a student is a very stressful one, as you drag yourself to school around 7:40 you desperately try to find friends that have completed a large sum of the mound of homework we were given the day before. Everyone lines themselves in the hallways trying to urgently scribble down answers. It comes to a point when you don’t even care if they are right or wrong as long as there is something there. The bell becomes your enemy, it is the sound of, “your screwed, ” blaring through your ears. Everybody
However, at all times I stand ready to accept the fact that I could receive that phone call telling me to pack my bags, I am being deployed. Many people do not understand what soldiers go through both physically and mentally while on serving or how close they come to dying every single day to keep us safe here in America. Therefore, when I hear the word “Hero,” a soldier is the first person that comes to mind. Public Safety personnel are just ad heroic as soldiers, just in a different way. While soldiers protect us outside the United States, public safety personnel protect us inside the United States, in our hometowns.
Is Homework Overpowering Students? All around the country, students from year 8 to year 14 are victims of an overload of busy work to stuff into their schoolbags to take home and complete. With the opinion that this work needed to be done outside of school is beneficial and will reinforce the subjects that were just taught, teachers are assigning students at least thirty minutes of homework per subject, resulting in a ridiculous pile-up of work for all subjects. The school system is unjustified in allowing teachers to give unlimited amounts of homework because they don’t take into consideration the things students deal with outside of school and it ends up having negative effects on children mentally, physically, and emotionally. As students get older, the amount of work they receive gets larger.
CPO Griffin instructed me that I was leaving first thing the next morning for boot camp. My personal affairs had to be in order before I left for the Navy. I had to pack lightly too. I hurried home and prepared myself for what was going to be my first day in the Navy. After a long night of no sleep, I scurried out of bed and got ready for the day.
To leave your country and go to another one is a big step to take. You are leaving behind family and friends that you have known for your whole life. There could be old people who die or new children born that you never get to see while you are gone. Your whole life you are used to having your friends that you are comfortable with and who understand you, but when you study in a new place, you do not have those friends to support you and you have to start over meeting new people. These problems can make it hard for international students to focus on their school when they are missing their friends and family.