Battle Buddy

Between 150 people, we had two horse trailers to fit on. We carried two large duffle bags, one on our back and another on our front. Our face crammed in our bags, getting screamed at by who we would shortly find out is the company’s Senior Drill Sergeant, and all you could smell is sweat, fear, and tears. When we arrived to Echo Company we were placed into platoons and shoved and pushed off of the trailer. Everyone got in a single file line and dropped their bags dress right dress. A lot of people struggled with this for some reason, between drill sergeants a little too close to you and getting screamed at for looking around some cracked under the pressure. The first three weeks of Basic Training is “Red Phase.” During Red Phase you receive death by power point everyday on anything that has ever happened in the Army, and the fundamentals of what you are expected to do over the next 9 weeks. During red phase your Drill sergeants work 20 hours of the day. They hate Red Phase just as much as you do. They tell you when to wake up, utilize the latrine, eat, and put you to bed every day. This is the phase that you lean everything you need to know when it comes to talking to a noncommissioned officer and anyone else of a high ranking in the military. “White Phase” is four weeks long. This is where you are given your first shot at freedom, or what your Drill Sergeants consider freedom. You are not around a drill sergeant

Some students are fortunate enough to be offered English as a Second Language classes (abbreviated ESL) or bilingual programs in school. Sandy Yanes, a third grade

ESL is stands for English as a Second Language, which is a program that?s mainly developed to supplement the Bilingual Education in order to give extra help to the immigrants to learn English. ?The profession of teaching English as a second language within the United States began to expand in the 1960s in response to increasing numbers of immigrant and refugee children entering the country, as well as to the growing numbers of international students attending U.S. universities? (Collier and Ovando, 1998). Students in the ESL program receive the instruction of their level of English proficiency, so they can learn the English from the very basic level. Once they get better with their English skills, they will be able to move out the ESL program and be as competitive as the native speakers of English in other subject classes. The first decades of ESL programs fails to help students with academic work in math, science, social studies, and other curricular areas but English. In order to improve this situation, ESL programs started to focus more in helping students with their academic works during the 1950s and 1960s (Collier and Ovando, 1998).

When I began attending school my primary language was Spanish. My parents did not speak English in the home and when I went to school I knew and understood a little bit of English. I believe that having an older sibling helped me understand English. She began school a year before I did and picked up English from school and at home would speak to me in English. My parents encouraged this in our home and saw the need to begin learning basic English. My sister did not have learning disabilities growing up and from what I remember she did not have a problem learning English. Academically

When a man or woman joins the United States military they are all fighting for the same core reason, freedom for their country. Which leads into the cohesiveness of military units, the effectiveness of a particular unit relies heavily on the cohesion or cooperativeness of units within the armed forces. Sharing a core reason for fighting is one of the most important factors that keeps a units cohesive. Other reasons they are cohesive are because the units create emotional bonds like friendships, when members of a unit not only work together, but they also spend some of their social time together, they will actually work better together in action. The reason being is they care for one another so they are more likely to have each others backs and communication more effectively together. When in the book War Junger asked the soldiers about their allegiance to each other, “they said they would unhesitatingly risk their lives for anyone in the platoon or company” (Junger, 242). Furthermore, it is also the support of the troops from citizens of our country that boosts morale within the armed troops, and helps push them to do their jobs. Seth Moulton, a Marine Corps officer who graduated from Harvard, talks in the article “The Tragedy of the American Military” about how although Americans are very supportive of the troops

School board members across the country want to better serve the students who are English language learners. Because countless English language learner students spend part of their academic day in a regular classroom, the general education teachers need to be trained to understand instructional strategies and techniques to aid in advancing this population of students (Stover, 2015). Consequently, it would also be beneficial for school board members to support the bilingual and English Language Learner Specialist in training all teachers in the district on ways to better serve this population.

actually a term of endearment and respect. Of course the military has a lot of traveling, family

The U.S. Army will provide EO and fair treatment for military personnel and family members without regard to race, color, religion, gender, or national origin, and provide an environment free of unlawful discrimination and offensive behavior. The assignment and utilization of female soldiers are the only exceptions to our non-biased personnel management process. AR 600-13, Army Policy for the Assignment of Female Soldiers, prescribes policies, procedures, responsibilities, and the position coding

“The battle buddy system is a pairing of soldiers of the same sex for mutual assistance and support. The system helps to reduce stress, teaches teamwork, develops a sense of responsibility for fellow soldiers, and improves/encourages safety. The battle buddy system applies to all Soldiers in training at all times, on and off post on and off-duty hours. The battle buddy system is established IAW TRADOC Reg. 350-6.”

Despite having researched the educational challenges ESOL students face, it was only by actively engaging with students that I came to understand the disjunction between the resources available and the requirements for progress in the educational system. ESOL students, lacking familial support and economic resources, are deterred from advancing in their efforts to learn English, thus leading them to become discouraged and

Regardless of the recent policy changes, the distinction between combat and support roles are still unclear. “Since women are permitted to serve in such support units, a major barrier designed to keep them away from combat has vanished.” (Mackenzie) In today’s war there is no clear front line or a safe area in the rear, making combat support operations

”Rule: Service members are eligible to be assigned to all positions for which they are qualified, except that women shall be excluded from assignment to units below the brigade level whose primary mission is to engage in direct combat on the ground, as defined below.

Reflecting back on my field experience, I was able to gain quality insight as well as a better understanding of the teaching and the learning process of ESOL in a mainstream classroom. My experience in Mrs. Little’s classroom has shown that the role of the ESOL teacher is to educate students in functional language skills, offer content that is academically challenging, and helps students acculturate to the new language and culture.

For many of today’s adult immigrants, gaining longevity is not enough. Nor are they motivated by political forces or the global economy of the advanced world around them; in reality, it is the unbeatable desire to start a new life with certain basic abilities to apply their needs. They simply strive to fulfill their daily activities that have suddenly turned into an arduous toil because of language barrier. As a matter of fact, the insufficient English language proficiency, a lack of communicational and listening skills may result contributing factors to comply with the survival needs among elderly immigrants. A debate has lingered recently by researchers on how the available ESP instruction can be beneficial to address adult learners’ goals and needs by building proper speaking and listening skills.

ESL students are students that speak English as a second language. Presently, there is many different system to characterize this type of students (qtd in Shi, Steen 63). For example, they can be seen as “English Language Learners (ELL), English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL), English Language Development (ELD), English Language Service (ELS), and