Personal Narrative: My Experience In The Army

Article 92 of The Uniform Code of Military Justice covers failure to follow orders. The consequences for violating article 92 can very depending on rank, time in service, accomplishments, work example, behavioral history, and most importantly the chain of commands opinion of the offending solider. The minimum punishment for failure to follow orders can be a verbal counseling possibly joined with a corrective action such as writing essays or carrying more weight and negative effects such as a written counseling statement probably combined with a corrective action, a letter of reprimand removed upon reassignment, permanent letter of reprimand, or the maximum being article 15. Given factors such as listed previously, the article 15 can have varying degrees of severity. From minimum to maximum, these are the article 15s one can get for failure to follow a lawful order. Summarized Article

To start off I was 8 years old and I always liked the military. In a way, I looked up to anyone who was in it. But there again, I always knew that the marines were different from all the other armed forces. I think I got this impression from watching movies, videos, and seeing one in real life. The Marines carried themselves differently, and I realized that they had a certain discipline that set them apart. I couldn't exactly pinpoint it, but luckily my grandma's dad was a drill sergeant for the Marine Corps, so she knew a great deal about it and she would tell me stories about how her father passed this discipline down to her, and this model is what carried onto who she is her today. Unfortunately, my great grandfather passed away before I

I was never really good in school. I graduated high school with a 2.15 GPA, and I blame that on my struggle to focus for long periods of time. Furthermore, I struggled with math and science in high school. I failed geometry twice and chemistry once. To overcome these educational barriers, I employ two things I learned in the military: get the task done and get it done right the first time, and hold yourself accountable for your actions.

When I joined the Army, I never imagined it would be like this. We’re Americans. We are supposed to be invincible. On December 31st, 1941 we got to the peninsula and a few days later the battle began. We defeated the first wave of Japs after a couple of months and things got quiet for a while. Food supplies began to dwindle. Soon after we arrived, our rations were halved. A month later, they were halved again. We were near starving to death on miniscule amounts of fish and rice. We ran out of medication and soldiers contracted malaria and started dying. Before we knew it, the Japanese were back. We held them, but our line was never solid. A month later, the Japanese made it through our lines. We tried to run from them, but there

It was one calm Sunday morning December 7, 1941, the widows were open and could hear the sound of cars driving past in the distance. I sat alone in the bunker dining hall waiting for my call to go on duty. Being up early it would be a while before anyone else was up and ready to go over briefing so I decided to go for a little walk outside. The fresh-air woke me up a tad as I paced up and down the grass across the road from the dining-hall. The clouds over Oahu started to clear up and the sun started to shine bright. I looked over my left shoulder as I saw a tall figure walking towards me. As the figure came closer, I realized who he was, lieutenant Bruce Cameron. "General Myers" He gave me a salute as he stopped by my side in his dark

Overall, my extracurricular the most important thing I did while I was in high school, I joined this nation's Military when I was 17 years old. My experience in the Military has changed my life for the better, not for the benefits, but in the pride I feel to be able to be apart of something bigger than myself. Not only do I feel pride when I wear the uniform, but when my 8 year old brother tells me that he wants to be in the Army to make me proud. In a sense the Military made me put my head on straight and start to care about the important things. As I became more responsible and realized what the Military was trying to teach me and enrolled myself in an EMT Certification Course so that I have a chance to improve myself and others by serving

When I joined the military I never thought I would have to repel from a 50 foot structure. The day we went to warrior tower was one of the must terrifying days of my life. I didn’t think I was going to be able to repel from the top because of my fear of heights. Many factors from that day have changed who I am like mini warrior tower, repelling down the tower, getting to the ground and what I learned from this

Throughout my career in the military I have received a tremendous amount of feedback on just about everything I did. Every single time I went to work I was judged on how I performed, my correspondence, and my leadership. My superiors would always be the one critiquing me. In my four years of experience in my job I’ve learned a lot about myself. I specifically learned about what kind of leader I am. Every quarter I was given a counseling on my proficiencies and conduct. When I got the counseling’s, there was not a lot of negative feedback. I was very pleased with what and how I was told about my overall work ethic. When I did receive criticism, it was something I knew already knew I had to work on. I never believed any criticism I received was

I spent 18 months deployed in the Arabian Gulf near the coast of Afghanistan on an

Have you ever felt like you weren't really sure what to do with your life? Especially during senior year, with so many options to choose from. I felt that same exact way. I didn't know what school i wanted to go to or even what career I wanted to pursue. So I just decided to join the U.S. Army.

I recall a few leaders that I have worked for. Unfortunately, not all of them were pleasant to work with. Some abused their powers for their benefits. Or, Some hardly ever showed any affiliation with me and my peers. I want to become a leader who can present a better standard to soldiers. I believe this scholarship and skills that I have been acquiring from my current military career will help me get there.

As a kid, we are asked, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" Like any other kid, for a long time I wanted to be a famous singer or soccer player. As I got older, the question of "What do you want to be when you grow up?" turned into "What is your plan once you graduate high school?" In my opinion, I think it is outrageous for us to ask sixteen and seventeen year old kids to decide what they are going to do with their future, when we are still trying to figure out who we are.

Growing up with a parent in the military can be hard sometimes. In 2010 my dad got deployed to Iraq for six months. He left in August and was not home until February 2011. I was in seventh grade, and only twelve years old when he left. When he was gone my family and I worried about him a lot. Many people at the age of twelve do not worry about a lot of things. They might worry about their school work, what to wear, or maybe even what the new kid in their class thinks about them. When I was twelve, not only did I have to worry about simple things that other young kids my age worried about, I had to worry about my dad. A lot of people might think that you should not worry about things that you can not control, but it is never as simple as it

It was time for war. I’m peter and my friends and me are fighting with an army. My friends: Jake, Mack , Luke, Matt, Brian, and Dan. We marched down to the battlefield which took place in Texas. Fog was all over then a shot was fired. It wasn’t us that fired a shot. Then Are leader Larry got shot. I then said no!. Peter it’s okay he will live said Luke. Okay i said. Then A Dog came up and bit mack. They had released a bunch of dogs. They were biting people on my team. Mack was dead. I shot a dog in the eye. The dog died and his eyeball was on the ground. I picked it up with my cold glove and put it in my pocket on my shirt. Then I shot an enemy. We saw a mountain that had sniping bases. We now head up to go to the sniping bases. Then a bunch of

Hi I am Daniel and I am on the train right now It is not an open wagon I sit on a seat and thankfully I just turned eighteen and right now I am thinking of all the memories of all the times with my family my mom dad and siblings and I am also looking in my book for the times we had fun and I am looking at the time we had arrived in Buchenwald we eat some soup and told we had to stay there for three weeks of quarantine actually I isn’t that bad of a time were having we get to be somewhere