Reflection Of Military Cultures In The Military Language Community

To be early, is to be on time, to be on time, is to be late, and to be late, is out of the question. Being able to adhere to a given deadline in a group situation, demonstrates responsibility, time management, group cohesion, and progress. However, being that a group is a collection of individuals with separate lives, there are times when members of the group may be experiencing extenuating circumstances preventing the group from completing a task on time. In such a scenario, communication within the chain of command is essential. Failing to communicate problems that may arise, and inhibit group progression towards a task will result in failure to communicate the task, group division, distrust between the chain of command and the group,

Thesis: Understanding the ideology of a nation’s way of life is fundamental to successful military operations. Ireland has endured fighting, famine, and struggle for centuries, making the people of Ireland both tough and rugged. Era after era of invasions of Ireland created a culture that is resilient, comprehends survival, and fully understands guerrilla warfare.

As I was growing up, I was reminded constantly by my parents, to never forget the language that I was born with. The language that I speak is part of who I am and where I came from; it does not defines what kind of person I am as a whole. I went to school and was taught everything in English. When I come home, I speak Vietnamese to my parents and all my family members. Now that I am older

In the America I believe in military plays a huge role in America. Service men and women serve our country, not because they are forced to but because they want to. Back in the 1930s and 1940s, the Nazis would drag people out of their homes and burn their houses after they took them to concentration camps. These camps would torture and brutally beat Jews for their religious beliefs. These actions would never occur in America. America was founded on religious freedom.

A profession may be defined as an occupation in which the members use their acquired knowledge and experience to solve some problems that may be faced within the society. From this definition, it is seen that different elements need to be satisfied to a trade to be considered as a profession. Professions provide vital and unique services to the different constituencies that they serve. The provision of service is based on acquired knowledge and experience meaning that professionals apply their acquired knowledge and experience in provision of the services. Professionals are expected to act in an ethical manner, to help them earn the trust and respect of the society. Through this, the society will grant the professionals the independence

I think the United States military is a great example of a social group. Our text says “Every human society is a group whose members perceive them as having a common identity because of the culture that binds them together”. (Crapo, 2013). The military certainly establishes a common trait such as organization, ranks and respect. We can also include the customary attire the military personal has to wear uniforms and similar hairstyles. Many of these individuals go on to main this type of life style even after retiring and are so given the honorary name Veterans. This establishes them as a personal that has served their country and to be treated with the upmost respect.

In my mind, I am a developing polyglot. For the first six years of my life, I was raised in the rural part of Vietnam; there was no difficulty to communicate in the everyday life, because everyone spoke the same language-Vietnamese. A transition to the suburbs of Orange County was a dread for me because I was comfortable where I was situated. However, the various languages and cultures that America have opened my mind, have allowed me to explore myself as well as the world around me.

The overall objective of the Army Profession of Arms campaign is for Soldiers and leaders to refine their understanding of what it means to be professionals--expert members of the Profession of Arms--after nine years of war and to recommit to a culture of service and the responsibilities and behaviors of our profession as articulated in the Army Ethic.

Picture this: you can smell the incoming rain on a cool October day, you can hear the leaves peacefully falling. You can also hear 65 screaming kids playing on the playground at lunch recess; you yearn to get going to pack for your camping trip that you know will be fun. You quickly throw your clothes, three pairs of boots (you insist that 2 pairs will simply not be enough), your helmet (knowing that you will be riding your horse), and 4 sweatshirts. You throw your bag(s) into the car and start calling to the rest of your family to hurry up. You throw yourself into the car and anxiously wait for them. Feeling like they are taking an eternity, you call, again, for them hurry up. Finally, after what felt like forever, they finally get into

Communication defined is “a process by which information is exchanged between individuals through a common system of symbols, signs, or behavior”. The military has been improving on the sources we us to communicate with one another for years. Technology today has allowed us to purse ways to do that. Good and effective communication starts by the platforms we use to deliver information to our personnel, units, and organizations. These platforms can be internal or external forms of communication.

Most military writings are not written for the general population. They are long, drawn out, overly complicated pieces of work; that are full of acronyms and military jargon. When writing my own piece, I would make sure the sentences are concise and to the point, all the language and words used are properly explained, and present my information in a way that my target audience will enjoy learning about things that may have never been introduced to before.

When Japan entered the twentieth-century, late Meiji period, the military-style uniform culture was born, which was one of the most representative symbols of modern Japan. The military uniform as the collective imagination of the nation also represented the example par excellence of the modern subject in Japan. After the First Sino-Japanese war in 1895, Japan had developed as a visible highly disciplined and military society. The idea “Good citizens were ultimately soldiers” had rooted among ordinary people. The purpose of military uniform was displaying, and impressing foreign countries. During this period, girls’ uniform was designed as navy uniform, which was the original type of famous “sailor suits”. From the impractically Kimono to the

I remember talking on the phone with my dad in elementary school and my friends asking me, “Who is ‘Baba’?” or, “Why do you call your dad ‘Baba’?”. Although I was born an American, moments like those made me feel like an alien. I became so ashamed of this language, which I love so dearly today, that I started calling my dad “Dad.” Needless to say, the “Dad” kick didn’t last very long- it just didn’t feel right to me.

As a military spouse of 12 years and someone who has had the privilege to serve the military community through my professional work as a therapist, my notion of community expands beyond the corners of my local, city, state and country. Bound by a common thread of service, sacrifice, shared values and commitment, the military community spans the world. While it may seem challenging to create hope in a community so expansive, as an optimist and one who is dedicated to serving this community, I believe it is possible. The question, “Upon completion of your NCU MFS degree program, what plan(s) would you develop to make a difference in your community that creates hope?” can be viewed in a two-dimensional manner. Creating hope in this community may be accomplished on a smaller scale through effective, military culture informed therapy and also on a larger scale through research and programming. Upon completion of

One fundamental principle in discourse analysis is the concept of intertextuality. Julia Kristeva’s coinage of the term, back in 1986, represents an attempt to synthesize Ferdinand de Saussure’s semiotics with Bakhtin’s (1981) dialogism and his examination of the multiple meanings, or ‘heteroglossia’, the interrelatedness and existence of language and discourses, by which meaning is not transferred directly from writer to reader but instead is mediated through, or filtered by ‘codes’ imparted to the writer and reader by other texts. It is beyond doubt that military communication benefits from and even dwells on the concept of intertextuality, given that the weight and essence of the ideological concepts inherent in the discourse of the military largely depend on the background information characteristic to a specific social, political or cultural context.