In this essay, I will explain an unfortunate situation that occurred to me due to being negligent and irresponsible. The way I handled a certain situation also leads me to be speaking about the importance of keeping your items safe inside your barracks room and securing your items. I will be explaining a recent theft that happened to me and how it could have been avoided, had I followed regulations listed in the barracks handbook. Unfortunate things happen when proper measures are not taken. I have witnessed firsthand what it is like to lose important items because of being careless. In this essay I will also be showing the proper way to secure your items in the barracks and why this is important not only inside of the barracks, but …show more content…
That is something I will not be doing again. If I would have been more careful and responsible, none of these unfortunate things would have occurred and I would not have been robbed by my fellow barracks mates. The regulation in the barracks handbook states the following with regards to Keys:
“Either metal or card keys are issued to residents. Residents must carry keys with them at all times as doors automatically lock when closed.
Propping the door open or tampering with the door latch in any fashion is unauthorized.”
Whenever you leave your room, you are supposed to make sure you remember to secure all of your high cost items into your assigned wall lockers, more importantly you have to be sure to lock your door when you leave. When you choose not to lock up your valuables and lock your barracks room door, then you volunteered yourself to be a victim of burglary. Regularly, I would keep my barracks key with me in a secure place, as to not lose or misplace it. Unfortunately, one day I lost track of it and was not able to locate it. It was my negligence and lack of consideration for my personal belongings and valuable items in my barracks that lead to the events that followed. Because I was not able to find my barracks key, I left my room unlocked. This was a mistake that I would dreadfully pay for. When I returned to my barracks, all of my valuable items had been stolen and were nowhere to be found. The sinking feeling of being robbed is something
I have been tasked with writing this 1000 word essay on the importance of accountability of sensitive items within the military. The reason I have been assigned to do this task is due to my failure of being attentive and securing my weapon and having it with me at all time. I failed by leaving my M9 Berretta at home in my safe before I left in support of the Boston Marathon. I was told by certain individuals to leave it at home, but I failed as an NCO to ask my section leader on how to properly secure my weapon. I did what I thought was best and left it to at home limit the amount of time I traveled with it. In doing so was wrong, if anything would have happened to that weapon there would have be severe consequences that not only myself
The Army has many standards that Soldiers must meet on a daily basis. Maintaining your barracks room to Army standards is a responsibility every Soldier must adhere to. It is extremely important to maintain the healthiness and cleanliness of one’s room.
The Army Field Manual 7-22.7 states that, “Sharp appearance, efficient performance, and excellent maintenance are important considerations that affect you directly. They are the earmarks of a good organization and one you should be a proud member of. First line leaders should inspect their soldiers daily and should regularly check soldiers’ rooms in the barracks.” A task in which, I, as PFC Kennedy’s first line supervisor, failed to accomplish. Good order and discipline as well as health and welfare are key aspects in the importance of holding room inspections. Ensuring your living area is clean and serviceable helps promote discipline and reinforces the Army’s importance of
The Army has many standards that Soldiers must meet. Maintaining your barracks room to Army standards is a responsibility every Soldier must adhere to. It is extremely important to maintain the healthiness and cleanliness of ones room
One evidence based practice technique that I have seen utilize in my healthcare setting is the use of locked doors on the psychiatric unit. All the doors are kept locked and you have to access them with a key to unlocked them. All visitors have to go through a lobby and check in and then have access to the unit by a healthcare staff member. Having a locked unit ensures the patient are kept safe. According to the article, Psychiatric care behind locked doors, locked doors are used to regulate patients and any other people to have access on and off the unit. This helps protects the community from the patients and protect the patients from the community. This is a major safety issue. If anyone access to the unit they could bring the patient things
In “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien one is subjected to the in workings of a soldiers mind during the Vietnam War. Although on the surface it may seem just a story of what soldiers carried with them throughout the war, tangible or not, a deeper understanding of what these men faced shines through. As a veteran of the Vietnam war O’Brien has insight that many will never know except through his many writings. His experience throughout the war was seen to shape his stories and “The Things They Carried” is no different. In this story one finds a comparison between the material and immaterial baggage accompanying the soldiers, the soldiers motivation due to their fellow soldier, the uncaring attitude that the war has imparted on the
The 3rd Infantry Regiment also called the Old Guard is responsible for the security of Washington D.C during times of national emergency or civil disturbance. It’s also the oldest unit in the U.S. Army service since 1784. Its primary responsibilities these days were far more ceremonial than combat related, although they did rotate units in and out of Iraq and Afghanistan. It guards the tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington; it conducts memorial affairs as in participating in the burial of our fallen Soldiers. It has the Fife and Drum Corps they are a U.S. Army marching band that wears continental army uniforms in which it wears during performances.
David Tuff is a security guard of Blue Mountain which is a company that manages and operates retail shopping malls. As a security guard he is required by law to report to the police all serious accidents and crimes, including felonies, occurring within the premises in which he is working. However, fourteen months after his date of employment Blue Mountain created a new company policy requiring the security guards to escort intoxicated persons, including drunk drivers, from the parking lots onto the public road. The company policy did not instruct the officers to arrest the drivers or contact the police. Tuff complained against this new company policy. He says that it is contrary to the oath he swore to uphold as required by law. When
We had been laying out Alpha sections truck when they pulled up. They proceed to hand over keys and locks to the vehicles so we could lay them out. The platoon immediately began to download these truck to finish out this long process of accounting for equipment. Most things had been pretty beat up and SSG Thomas had asked about replacements. It was about 1700hrs when a runner form the SQDN came and ask for SFC James to call the S-3. SFC James had been gone for about an hour and we had been counting BII for the trucks we had received from this poorly skilled scouts. SFC Lackey was waiting for him so they could both move through the equipment and check it. SFC James came back with an urgent mission according to him. Right then, we had to start pulling the trucks back together and getting our gear from the rooms. We had been spun up because there was a IED that the IA had found. We rushed to put together the trucks and rushed to get gear on. We spun up four trucks in less than 20 minutes. The senior guy was SSG Fielder, point man was SSG Thomas, and I was going to be the middle truck. When we pulled up to SQDN and SSG Thomas pulls me aside to speak to me about taking lead. That he wasn’t feeling taking lead. So I told he him I would and went up to meet SSG Fielder. I meet him in the ops center of SQDN and he asked where Thomas was. I told him SSG Thomas At that point SSG Fielder had gone to talk to the S-2 and the IED the IA had
In the book NewJack: Guarding Sing Sing, the book discussed the life of a guard. Most people feel that the guards are bad guys in the criminal justice system and with the politics of the criminal justice systems there are many assumptions of the way in which the stereotype of prison guard’s life should be. The author Ted Conover explains first hand on the experiences behind the scenes that many guards experiences throughout their careers that is an untold story of the truth in the prison system. Conover was curious about the subculture of the prison guards’ duties and wanted to know the truth about if the assumptions that most have about the prison guards is truthful. Conover entered the Academy with many other young men and a few women who wanted good jobs with security. The training was modeled after boot camp for the military. Those who had been in the military fared better than those who had not been so initiated. Once Conover crossed the training hurdle, he was tossed over to Sing Sing for his first assignment.
War Stories conducted a sample of 89 officers within two organization. One being on the original police academy, and state Highway patrol academy. Each individual in each academy gets to hear war stories which is a class that is taken during find training. Contain analysis is carried throughout the research and in this essay I will explain the role respondents played and
It is too late to think about residential security flaws after the break–in. People commit some common mistakes when it comes to home security and later repent it. A break–in and the damages caused by the intruder can make the homeowner distressed. To avoid any such thing happening, avoid the following flaws in your home security.
The military environment in which this essay is based on has no exception to the fourteen principles, even thought being mainly a
When we were younger we were always told by our parents to behave and follow the rules in school and to be nice to the other children. At school they had a set of rules that we were meant to follow and abide by them. Here in the Marine Corps is no different there are many rules and regulations that are meant to be followed under the UCMJ Articles. It’s important to keep following the orders you are given and that you follow these rules exactly like you are ordered to do so. In this essay I will be talking about the following: Disobeying an Order, Disrespect, Discipline, Chain of Command, Unauthorized Absence, and Leadership Principles and Leadership Traits. I will try my best’s efforts to explain everything and show what I have learned in
The purpose then is to keep soldiers acting as soldiers so the correctional philosophy in the military has evolved in such a way to do just that. In discussing the UCMJ and corrections, the following topics are significant.