Scott Daly Reflection

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

After the Vietnam War ended, the Marine Corps’ main focus changed from broad scale operations, to being an Expeditionary Force in Readiness. Although this was no new role for the United States Marine Corps (USMC), there have been many changes in society, technology and tactics that affect how the Corps operates. However, over the last 36 years one thing has remained the same, and that is the role of the Marine Non Commissioned Officer (NCO). With the world changing ever so rapidly, the strong values and responsibilities of the Marine NCO are now, more than ever, necessary to carry out the operations being assigned to United States Marines. The role of the NCO is characterized by their

In my opinion, Chris McCandless was more centered around the fixed mindset. The experiences he took on, were a reflection of the way he handled his growth. To elaborate, an example of this was his passion for running. “McCandless viewed running as an intensely spiritual exercise, verging on religion. He believed doing well was all mental, a simple matter of harnessing whatever energy was available.” (pg. 112). His teammates noticed his intensity for the sport and when McCandless felt that he was not doing well enough, he would beat himself up for it. From this, it is evident that he believed that being successful was more important than the effort to achieve that or process of getting there. This goes onto my next point, that

This quotation is recorded from just one of the many letters sent in after Christopher McCandless’s story was published in the magazine entitled Outside. Many people believed that in order to do something as insane as he did that he must be “mentally disturbed”. While people native to Alaska saw him as just another person unprepared for the elements he was about to face. Despite the negative aura that surrounded the story of Chris some people still wondered how all this affected his parents. Any number of people believe that it takes a truly evil person to up and leave like Chris did. In some ways these people have an argument, to see your parents for the last time and not let them know it is the last time is pretty rude and selfish, but there

In the memorable commencement speech given by Naval Adm. William H. McRaven, ninth commander of U.S. Special Operations Command, at the University of Texas, he addresses the graduating class of 2014 as they begin their journey into adulthood. Craven uses the experiences he learned in basic SEAL training to give advice he believes is necessary to bring onto this new ship the graduates are embarking. Throughout his speech, he reinforces his lesson and experiences by using the rhetorical devices diatyposis, anaphora, and apostrophe. Further, allowing the reader to comprehend what he believes life is about and how they could make the world a better place.

The subject of this book has affect my life by serving as a reality check of what my Marine predecessors went through in order for me to be able to obtain the deep-rooted fighting tactics today. I will never have to deal with and survive the adversities that the Marines of Fox Company did. It also affected me by teaching me that as a Marine, no matter what struggles may present themselves, I will always thrive and keep fighting.

Daniel Tammet sees the world a bit differently than most, and his uniqueness always made him stand out. His story tells of how the things that made others look down on him in his past now make him someone I and many others look up to. While his experience is so rare and only few people have gone through, somehow, his journey, his struggles, and passions are relatable. It’s quite ironic actually, while Daniel suffered from a disability which made socializing and empathy difficult, he was able to share his story in a way where I felt like I’ve had very similar experiences. I believe I loved this story so much mainly because I have quite a few things in common with Daniel. He’s a gay Christian who has a mental illness and I’m a gay Christian raised young man whose parents both suffered from mental illnesses. It was astounding to me to read about how much Daniel was able to grow personally, not even to mention the other things he was able to accomplish because of that growth.

During my project I learned a lot about what it was like for American veterans when they came home from the war. I also was able to have conversations with my grandma, depicting what it was really like for people when they came back. She described it as a “dark time”, where people who didn’t want to be at the war were being drafted to go. At the time she was in college, and she mentioned they tended not to draft people who were educating themselves. Which is ironic because at the beginning of the novel, Tim O'Brien has offers to go to grad school at Harvard. I felt like with the appropriate amount of work time in class, it was easy to finish our project on time and communicate with our partners. However, it was very difficult to post things

Petty Officer Findley proved to be a dynamic leader. As Naval Radio Transmitter Facility (NRTF) Awase Leading Petty Officer, his leadership led to 15 Awase Watch Supervisor qualifications, five Maintenance, Material and Management (3M) 301 qualifications and three Sailor of the Quarter (SOQ) selections. Additionally, he conducted 24 Electronic Key Management System (EKMS) training sessions leading to zero reportable hits during the Fiscal Year (FY) 2016 Naval Information Warfare EKMS inspection.

In the fall of 2018, I will be attending John Carroll University to pursue a degree in Biology. In addition to obtaining my degree in Biology, I am also looking forward to the liberal arts opportunity at John Carroll to leverage my leadership and social skills to fully develop as a well-rounded individual.

I think the entire experience of leading the class in a discussion about this short story was really fun and interesting. We not only were able to help guide the class with the questions but also were able to explore other unique viewpoints to analyze the theme and literary techniques used in the story. In the process of preparing for the lesson, we decided it was important to mention O’Brien’s history and experience in the Vietnam War and connect it to key events from United States involvement in the war. However, during the presentation, I felt that we focused too much on somewhat unrelated specific details about the history and almost ran out of time in the end. This prevented us from completely analyzing the tone and multiple themes of

Eight weeks ago, thinking about jazz conceptually was foreign to me. I had never heard about Charles Olson or the democracy thesis. My biggest exposure to jazz music was listening to it on radio stations that I didn’t typically listen to. Over the course of the last eight weeks, my understanding of jazz music has been completely revolutionized. I have incorporated this understanding into my portion of our jazz aesthetic film project.

My nomination was based on the notion that Mr. Langford has implemented numerous empirical treatment modalities and methods into Ashland Day Treatment in a very short amount of time (under a year).This was achieved while encouraging and motivating staff to increase their personal expectations and commitment to the facility. Ashland Day Treatment now appears to be revitalized and becoming a major impact in our small community. Since Mr. Langford’s arrival at ADTC it appears to have brought an increase of positive energy and support that has become contagious to everyone involved in the program. He is a major supporter of family involvement and is constantly including family members to the maximum extent possible into our curriculum. Recently

According to Ray Kroc, “The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves”. As developing leaders, do we reflected the same standards we set upon ourselves to other? I thought I knew Kasey Rivera before asking others about her. The reflection that people saw of Kasey was different from what she was seeing. On the surface, Kasey Rivera is an eighteen year old college pursuing her bachelor's degree in order to success in the future. However, there is more than just a college student in her whether it is from my perspective or others.

For his recognized superior combat experiences, the Engineer School Commandant selected LTC Lyle to serve as Training Integration Officer in 2012. LTC Lyle was given the mandate to synchronize the lessons learned from CALL, CTCs, FORSCOM, and Labs – along with his