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All enlistees, both as personalities and members of definite service and public structures (including those with a negative impact on discipline), their relations and degree of activity form in the aggregate the disciplinary system of an element (unit).

The function of the military forces for the United States has had no choice but to evolve as wars wax and wane. As the rise of militant terrorist groups became a threat to the United States and its allies, the armed forces of the United States were deployed by the President to countries such as Afghanistan, Iran, and Iraq. Instability in these countries threatened bordering allies, and after September 11, 2001, the threat was brought to U.S. soil. Each president from Clinton to Obama has had to shape the policy of how the armed forces fit into civil-military policies abroad and overseas. In a war time environment, such as Iraq, the purpose of how the military should be deployed is easier to clearly state. But in times when there is no imminent threat, it is much more difficult to transition

The argument that the military recruiters target minorities and the less fortunate is the frame work behind the notation to restrict military recruiting events on school campuses and is far from the truth. According to (Wyant, 2012) there is a history of diversity in the armed forces. A 2008 study from Syracuse University examines the extent to which the poor and minorities are disproportionately selected into the military. The author noted, that the study done in 1980 found that from 1940 to 1973 blacks were less likely to join the military than whites, while in more recent years, a 2006 study concluded that blacks are overrepresented in the military. The same 2006 study found that people who served in the military come from more well-off neighborhoods than those who have not joined the military – although, the economic elite are underrepresented in the armed

Thesis: Although the U.S. military has been a leader in desegregation and in other social matters, during World War Two fear and prejudice keep many highly qualified people from serving. This weakened every branch of the military by limiting it to a less diverse and therefore less flexible fighting force.

The United States has always taken great pride in its military. Our soldiers have been the focal point of keeping our country not only safe, but the beacon of freedom for others to come to in time of need. However, the military was one of many places that weren’t welcome to African Americans in a brewing civil war. The North and South were at each others necks with the moral question: Are black people truly Americans? The bravery and perseverance of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry protesting for better wages and equal rights pushed the United States to seeing not only African American soldiers, but its citizens in a more positive light, paving the way to the Civil Rights Movement and eventual protests of the modern era.

JRTN has approximately 1,500 to 5,000 members throughout Iraq. Due to the leadership’s prior military experience, the group is broken down into subordinate units in the same manner as a modern army. After recruitment, members undergo extensive military training. JRTN operates primarily in Northern and Central Iraq. Despite all this training and experience within JRTN, JRTN typically contracts their attacks to other insurgent groups (SITE). They do so in order to have plausible deniability if innocent Iraqi civilians die. In exchange for these attacks, JRTN provides finance, logistics, and intelligence.

This paper recalls the military service of my great grandfather PFC Heyward Cuffie, a Buffalo Soldier and World War II veteran. He exemplified the Warrior Ethos: displayed resilience in a time of crisis; challenged social norms; led by example; trained to standard and fought until he couldn’t physically fight anymore. PFC Cuffie’s legacy is a part of a larger legacy of minorities who paved the way for desegregation in the Armed Forces and serves as a testament for future leaders to follow.

In 2014, according to the Department of Defense (DoD) there were 2.2 million Americans serving the military (Hurt, By the Numbers). At the dawn of 2014, there were 317 million members of the American society (Schlesinger, 2014 US). This means less than 1 percent of Americans were serving within the Armed Forces. This small group of the nation’s population comes from every corner of the country and from all walks of life; each one carrying their own set of morals, work ethic, intellect and aspirations. Unfortunately, many of them will have a value system not consistent with the military tradition. These subpar members will not be discovered until years after entrance to the DoD. There is a problem with the current process for entering the military. In order to combat this issue, the DoD should be more selective and discerning during its screening process in order to thwart predators, deny incompetent individuals access to firearms and increasing the quality of troops for the nation to depend on.

The American Army 's history, composition, and structure predisposed the leadership to a rigid fixation on conventional warfare. In contrast to the British army-as-force-projection model, the American Army found its first task a matter of national survival. This historical trend - the continued perception of the Army fighting a war of annihilation - helped in many ways to keep the Army purely focused on its military objectives. Unconditional surrender was the name of the game, and smaller political goals were seen at best as derivative to, and at worst, preventative of the fabled 'total victory '. The varied composition of personnel which make up the US army also ensured a degree of formality, and a deference to rank. The structure, born of open-combat wars at large scale, was constituted around large divisions, which often rotated officers and manpower in and out. In short, everything within the Army was organized -rigidly- around the principle of a large scale conventional war. What worked against the Germans would work against the Russians.

For many years immigrants or foreign nationals have been able to join the US military weather they be legal or illegal (Times, A. T., 2014). The Military Accessions in the National Interest, or MAVNI, are now more open to immigrants without proper

He also describes the social relationship between ones willingness to perform a military service and one’s acceptance as a citizen. He says Morris Janowtiz view that “military service was the hall mark of citizenship and citizenship as the hall mark for political democracies “, should not be mistaken for people’s willingness to join the military. He also discusses the past struggles of African American to join the military and how racism has limited the possibility of African Americans to join the military. He supported his argument by making some historical narrative about the struggle of black slaves to join the military in other to be recognized as citizens, not only that but to serve their nation, by highlighting on Bernard C. Natty claim, of how slaves were disarmed in the past centuries and for that reason was restricted from joining the military. He also claims that slaves started getting entry in the military after the civil war and during the reconstruction

The United States Army consists of soldiers from many diverse cultures. Citizenship is not a requirement to join the Army, so people enlist from across the United States as well as from many countries around the world. The Army has its own unique culture that is a conglomeration of the many cultures that make up its population. Each new soldier is expected to adapt to this new culture and integrate as a member of a larger team. Helping new soldiers make this adaptation as quickly as possible and with few difficulties is a challenge for the leaders of new soldiers throughout the Army.

Force management, or what is really otherwise known as planned comprehensive change, is in reality a complex and interwoven process. Though it was designed within the confines of a systemic approach referred to as the DOTMLPF (Doctrine, Organization, Training, Materiel, Leadership & Education, Personnel and Facilities), in reality it is meant to enable both dutiful and well-thought out change as well as faster, more urgent adjustments in accordance with the evolving nature of war and information gathering tactics. The Army, as one branch involved in this initiative, focuses most of its attention in this regard on the organizational sector because of the way it facilitates an adequate and democratic step-by-step system of review (Student Reader, F102:2). But the fact is that even this initiative remains multi-faceted and appears to be rather bureaucratic in nature (it has five phases, which seems antithetical to an urgent change process), which might not be surprising since implementing the type of changes that are demanded can have major implications of all sorts. Still, it does appear that this concentration is being well received and that it will eventually serve its goal even if it does not appear that way when detailed on a point by point basis.

As military service has transformed from a force that was conscripted or drafted to the all-volunteer force of today, one can trace this back through family lineage. In keeping an all-volunteer force, you can see that it usually goes back through many generations, in military families. 50 years ago, as a result of the draft, around 2.7 million people entered into military service from almost every segment of our society, which accounted for one-half of 1 percent of the population, compared to surveys of today, which show that nearly 80 percent of those who

The group that I was describing was the Missile Defense Agency (MDA). MDA is comprised of about 1300 people, one third of which is active duty military, another third is prior military and the last has never been associated with the military. With this mix of personnel is makes sense that there is a certain amount of oppositional and a large amount of people attempting to attain power. To this point the OCI survey below is extremely accurate. What I have learned about this survey is that it can be a very useful tool in describing what you can expect when you mix a certain amount of personnel together.