Rowan's Lesson: The Readin Lessons

For an example, Lieutenant McDonough had to learn how to deal with enlisted men for the first time. His soldiers were used to a distant, unpresent platoon leader who left all the leadership to the non-commissioned officer, so when he arrived, they treated him like a the clueless officer that they had before him. McDonough had to earn trust with his men and show them that he was willing to go out on patrols with them and reprimand them if they were being insubordinate. He struggled with this balance of trust and authority especially with the new soldiers he was sent after losing some of his originals in battle. He knew he had to utilize his NCO platoon sergeant, Hernandez, but Hernandez felt usurped because, when the previous platoon leader was in charge, he had most of the command of the soldiers in battle, and Lieutenant McDonough seemed to have taken some of that from him. McDonough, although having done his job, had to make repairs to that relationship with his

What also happens is people just lose things and have no idea until later when they need it. Marines lose things because of a few reasons. Probably the most common is when they are being hurried, which is pretty much 100% of the time. The other common reason is because a lot of junior Marines are young, irresponsible, and inexperienced. I’m pretty confident that most of the senior Marines here didn’t start at the level of responsibility or leadership that they are currently at, but have been through what the younger marines are going through and learned from their mistakes, and now trying to teach us so we don’t make them as much as we

The privilege to command units afloat and ashore provided me with intimate exposure to the challenges experienced by our workforce and their families. Often accompanied by a myriad of ethical dilemmas, these challenges provided a wealth of experience and a better understanding of the impact a leader has on the workforce and their families. Similarly, my experience as the Boatswain’s Mate “A” School Assistant School Chief afforded me vital insight into the Coast Guard’s formal training system, Human Performance Technology and the development of future enlisted leaders. These experiences provided invaluable opportunities for me to interact with our workforce and understand their views, perform thorough assessments of complex situations, and provide accurate, sound, and practical counsel in order to achieve the best outcome for the unit and our Coast

I feel that marines of all ranks should read this book. Near the end of boot camp, I remember my Drill Instructors telling my platoon about how terrible marines sometimes acted when they were clearly taught otherwise in boot camp. I remember them telling me that they wanted to be a Drill Instructor because they wanted to make a positive and long lasting impact on people. They also told us that no matter how hard they’ve trained and honed us in the way they wanted us to be, as soon as we leave, we would still be whoever we wanted to be, it would be our choice whether or not to keep those teachings with us. And they were right, I’ve met a lot of marines that have abandoned them. This book emphasizes on the importance of keeping our transformation, not only for our Marine Corps career but also for the good of our

-Justice:   A leader should be fair, and not play favorites with Marines.   It is also important a leader hands out a fair punishment to a disobedient Marine.

SSgt Diaz, words cannot describe how much I agree with you on this post.  I believe one of the biggest issue in the Marine Corps is the ability to be humble.  From all levels, there are Marines who believe their way is right even if an idea that presented in front of them could ease a process or that is much safer. There has been countless times to where I have run into Marines who have this type of mentality and seeing the Marines they lead that are miserable and they want to get out of the Corps because of this.  We are all taught to have a sense of pride in what we do, but sometimes we must step back and see the big picture in order to fulfill the mission.  In order to do this, we must be humble and be willing to take the good, bad, and

He believed in his Sailors and they had a lot of them sitting around doing nothing these days. Hundreds had gone AWOL feeling that the US Navy was all but dead. Fort Story was a joint operation base with Naval Amphibious Base Battle Creek. The Navy there was deeply embedded with Army and recently were deployed along with the Soldiers. The Army command there had set up a crash course in combat survival for the Sailors, they were re-trained by the Army to patrol and fight along with the Soldiers. That’s what he needed, then it hit him, ‘why couldn’t the Marines do the same thing here? Granted they were all aviation Marines but weren’t all Marines combat rifleman first?’ Then there was the company of Marines that was on one of the ships in port that were now being used to provide security.

Reading and writing have many connections when it comes to everyday life and school. Students would do better with by both reading and writing being taught together instead of separately rather than being taught as two separate lessons. The article lists and discuss multiple ways for teachers to integrate both reading and writing into their lessons. The article The Reading and Writing connection: Merging Two Reciprocal Content Areas discuss the connection of reading and writing. It also discusses the integration of the two can help struggling readers as well.

Just as Mother Nature lets the weak and infirm fall by the wayside so did that great bastion of the US Marine Corps, our appointed Drill Instructor, for he did not tolerate by even one degree, or part thereof, any form of weakness, nor failure. In his mind it was either live or die in that black or white military thinking, where shades of grey do not exist.

The constant distractions of everyday life that make reading a difficult challenge are examined in David L. Ulin’s article, “The Lost Art of Reading.” People are often too involved with daily activities such as checking their latest notification, browsing the internet, or playing apps on their phones to gain the focus required to interact with well composed literature. David L. Ulin wrote the article to spread awareness of the increasingly more challenging concept of concentrating while reading. Furthermore, he exposes a paradox when he writes “in giving up control we somehow gain it.” This paradox is what Ulin is truly trying to explain to his audience, because it describes the impact of reading thoughtfully and with a purpose.

Throughout this time, I noticed that our subordinates seemed to be the only ones working on getting everything done. This was a time where everyone needed to be working to complete our deadlines. One of my peers yelled at the Marines to hurry up and finish but had not did a single task all day. Many of my peers were sitting around and not doing much to help get the tasks we needed done. Instead of confronting them in front of our junior Marine I waited

How I learned to read was by my mother who would read Dr. Seuss books. I would listen to her read the books and look at the pictures to help me understand what she was saying to me. We kept working and working learning how to read before kindergarten. We would read about every night when she got off work to help me.

I was in first grade when I first fell in love with the idea of reading. It all started with a teacher who left an everlasting impression in my head and on my heart. Her name, was Mrs. Sullivan. This teacher was not a reading or writing teacher, but in fact, the elementary Spanish teacher. She made me fall in love with reading by opening up a whole new world for me and she made me see language and culture in a different way. My favorite part of her class was listening to her read a series of books called, Skippy Jon Jones. Although, I am not completely sure on what the books were about, I do know that they changed my perspective on books for me. Those books would grab my attention and brighten up my day in a way that most people could not

Are reading and writing connected? Reading and writing have always been strong elements, in our lives, studies have shown that reading affects writing and vise-versa. Stephen King said, “If you could put together a model car or assemble a piece of furniture from directions you could write a sentence”. He states the importance of two powerful elements, reading and writing, and by putting them together we could make something out of them. I can come to terms with the fact that reading and writing are the key elects to many opportunities although it has not always been easy to convey. Reading and writing together are both the path to improving our vocabulary and expanding of our knowledge, even though certain people will argue differently, and say that only one (reading or writing) of them is the key element.

The constant distractions of everyday life that make reading a difficult challenge are exploited in David L. Ulin’s article- The Lost Art of Reading. People are often too involved with daily activities such as checking their latest notification, browsing the internet, or playing apps on their phones to gain the focus required to interact with well composed literature. Although Ulin expresses the difficulty to read in today’s world, he is not correct on everything. The distractions are only temporary, and can be avoided through certain actions, yet these actions are not included in the article. Although Ulin may have implied some action to take, he never clearly stated any of them. As well-constructed as The Lost Art of Reading may be, it