The Importance of Cleaning Your Room

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The Importance of Cleaning Your Room 18FEB2013 3-38th CAV-C Company-Team 2/3 It is important to maintain a clean and sanitary living environment for multiple reasons. One of the reasons is that it is a threat to the health of other people living with you. If even just one person is living in an unsanitary condition, then through frequent contact throughout the day with other people, that one person, if they become sick, could cause others to become sick as well. In the military, when one soldier becomes the source of other soldiers being sick, then that soldier could be face possible punishment under Article 134 of the Universal Code of Military Justice for Article 134 states as follows: 934. ART. 134. GENERAL ARTICLE Even though it is not specifically mentioned in this chapter, all disorders and neglects to the prejudice of good order and discipline in the armed forces, all conduct of a nature to bring discredit upon the armed forces, and crimes and offenses not capital, of which persons subject to this chapter may be guilty, shall be taken cognizance of by a general, special or summary court-martial, according to the nature and degree of the offense, and shall be punished at the discretion of that court. And whenever soldiers are being unsanitary in their living quarters and causing other soldiers to become sick, then they are bringing discredit upon their Squad Leader, their Sergeant, their First Sergeant, their Commander, the Army and the Armed Services as a whole and also upon everyone who has ever served with dignity and respect for their country. Unsanitary conditions usually exist when people neglect to
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