The Importance Of Military Experience In The Military

Military personnel are deployed as part of their job. Usually deployments are out of the country, where most service members are leaving their family behind. With deployment, sometimes you don’t know where military personnel will be going and how long the person may be gone. The most important question is “Are they safe where they are going?” Not only does the person in the military ask these question, but the significant others such as partners and kids worry about these questions, knowing that sometimes these questions won’t have a straight answer. Not only do military personnel suffer from certain emotions and become affect from being away from their family; the family also goes through the same storm. Some are under the assumption that because the family back at home have the benefits provide by the military, they have nothing

War creates a great amount of stress on families that go beyond the regular struggles that occur in every day family life. When a family member is deployed to a war, no one is left unaffected. Just as the soldiers themselves go into the war unaware of what effects it will cause neither does their families. War instills vulnerability throughout families as it is not certain that the enlisted family member will return home again. Robert Ross from Timothy Findley’s

The military has so many benefits. It is a great place to go when you do not know what to

The person I interviewed was the daughter of a Vietnam War veteran. The interview was conducted where I gave her questions about the life her father had and how it felt when she was in the United States going to elementary, high school, and college. She was not a veteran but the effects of her father’s participation in the war affected her greatly throughout her school and personal life.

Family is something that is always on a soldier or a sailor's mind. They think about them every waking second and getting home to them becomes a number one priority. Interestingly, while a service member is deployed, their family becomes a motivation instead of a grievance from the separation. A soldier's family becomes something they can fight for, something that they know they can protect by the things that they are doing. And ironically, although some can be deployed for more than a year sometimes, the time apart can often make a family stronger, strengthening the bonds between them when they reunite (PTSD). The way that this can happen is only truly understandable by someone who has gone through it; and although there have been many written and told accounts, when a deployee finally meets his family again after being deployed for any amount of time, the feeling of relief and happiness among all the family members is something that isn't felt lightly. For many, once deployed, their new mission is to come back home

Imagine not knowing when you would hear from your loved on gain or them having to just leave at random times getting calls at Randoms hours imagine missing a call from them and not knowing when or if you will ever get a call back. They could be on the other side of the world or not even knowing where they are. While other families are enjoying weekends together at the park, going out to dinners, and vacations many military families are doing the same, but now with a large void. November is National Military Family Appreciation Month, a time to honor the sacrifices made by the military community and their loved ones spouses, children, parents, siblings and grandparents. People in the armed force are also very much impacted emotionally and physically impacted too. Even though they volunteered themselves for such an experience but nothing can prepare them from the things they see or how they are treated when they are serving for their country. such as being raped or harassed and get treated or talk down to by people higher or by fellow soldiers and seeing innocent people being harmed in front of them and they often come back with many mental problems which has to do with the time spent serving such as a very common illness called PTSD can affect their lives forever some have lost limbs or became blind or deaf some have also lost to everything drug addiction or alcohol abuse which they used to cope with

Lots of them come home and can’t be around loud noises because it reminds them of bombs and guns going off. Others come home with mental issues. They think they are still in war and not home. They may leave the battlefield but they have wounds that can’t be healed. They will never be the same. Yet these veterans know this before they go. They go just for our country. So that we will never have to suffer or be slaves. Many of them have to be assisted after they come home because they’re not healthy or “fit” enough to be alone. They give up their lives for us. Many veterans have to get lots of surgery after to coming back to try and help them but many of them can’t afford this treatment so they have to live with the constant reminder of the war and the pain that they went through during it. Most of these soldiers can never live a normal life after coming home from

As mentioned above the military family members go through many challenges. The service member when deployed leaves the other parent to the care of the family and home. Many divorces happen due to one parent being away from the home for long periods of time and the stress placed on the one parent at home. With one parent left to take on the role for both parents, this can either become a stressor for that one parent or strength building time. The children may receive less attention because the one parent is doing the duty of two. They become self-sufficient during this time. The service member that is deployed is focusing on the duty at hand. This may be patrolling the boundaries of the

As we look at the over, arching aspect of family implications, the most common aspect associated to this is the number of service member deaths. By the numbers alone, those killed in conjunction to the operations of the past 14 years do not hold a candle to the sheer numbers of World Wars I and II, Korea, or Vietnam. We must look past these numbers and look at all injuries, which will then significantly increase the casualty numbers. Many of the millions of wounded warriors resulting of their service, both the physical and emotional trauma, will affect them for the rest of their lives. (Morin, 2011) With casualty rates today we can no longer only look at the service members themselves, the burdens and joys of life continue even in their absence. Now, in today’s families, the decision to serve, or the continuation of service affect everyone within the household.

The military lifestyle is simply one of a kind. Our military places enormous stress not only on each of its members, but on each of their families as well. Long periods of separation, lengthy training, and combat deployments affect those in the battlefield and their loved ones at home. Our military has changed forever after the infamous terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. With continuous, hateful threats from our enemies, the demands placed upon our service members have become even more pronounced. Tours have become longer and more frequent. Marriages to military members are constantly burdened with these conflicts. Despite these increased hardships with recent conflict in Afghanistan and Iraq, military marriages are becoming more resilient and are more likely to prevail.

Being in the military I have sat through several different speeches by people all over the world. I can recall being in the audience and when the speaker hit the stage and start talking I caught on to every word. I can remember sitting back thinking to myself “Wow! This is a really good speaker”. I have also been in an audience other times finding myself cringing in my seat waiting for the speaker to leave the stage. Not that they were bad speakers but the delivery wasn’t very good. I think what make good speakers really good is preparation, knowledgeable about the information that they are presenting, and being comfortable in front of the audience they are speaking to. I feel it’s vice versa for not so good speakers. Many times people

“Camping fifty miles from Death Valley has its benefits,” I said into my radio as I stared straight up at what felt like my own personal light show. The sand still radiated from the blistering daytime heat of the Mojave Desert. The outpost slept with the exception of my platoon. I rested at a remote checkpoint during an otherwise vigilant patrol, silently taking in my surroundings before studying the cosmic chaos above. For what felt like a few short seconds I had lain undisturbed on the bank of a sand dune. A meteor shower is the kind of small pleasure you learn to appreciate in the Marine Corps. I let my eyes and mind wander through the infinite sky. “How did I get here? Where am I going?” These are the two questions I always ask myself. My radio crackled to life, bringing me back to the present. After pulling myself to my feet I radioed in, “En route to checkpoint Bravo.” I tightened my helmet strap and tapped the bottom of my magazine mostly out of habit before moving toward my next stop.

There are many ways that soldiers lives are the same and different from the civil war and the wars that we fight today. Soldiers back in the older wars had very hard times dealing with injuries and going home after the. We still have that problem today with our soldiers but we have better ways to deal with it. Today for soldiers we have people that soldiers can come and talk to about what happened while they were over there and to help them feel better. Also we have trainers that will come to homes to help them get back on their feet if they were injured in the war. There are so many more ways to help out these days then there was back when the civil war and vietnam war were going on. The people back home also support there troops a lot. So

I have wanted to go into the military since i was very young. Most children say that they want to be a firefighter or a doctor, but i said that i wanted to be in the military. I remeber looking at pictures and learning about military officers and i felt called to be one of those men. My decision and dreams never changed, as most childrens do when they realize the work required. But for reasons beyond my comprehension, my desire of a miltary life never wavered. Both of my parents' fathers served in the military, one n the Air Force and one in the Army. They told me stories of their days in the military, bragging of their different branhes and I took what they said and choose a school that woud lead to a career in neither of their branches.

Imagine you are eighteen, just graduated high school. You decide to enlist into the United States Army. It is your first time away from home, your first real job outside of a summer job. This is your first time away from home, everything you grew up to know, your friends and family. This is the case with many newly enlisted Soldiers. The Army is their first real world experience away from home and the feeling can be overwhelming. Not only do they need to figure out how to be a Soldier but also an adult, a functioning member of society. So what do they do? They will rely on the guidance and experience of another, a Mentor.