Workplace Observation

We were told to get in rows and stand at the positon of attention, this was frightening. We were told to run to the bus from here, this is where I was split up with everyone I came with. The base was three hours away from the airport. On the bus ride over there I called and texted everyone I knew for three hours. I called Jed first, he could not talk long because he had a meeting, although I knew if I called my mom or Ayden they would both cry and that would make things harder on me. After I talked to Jed and he convinced me everything was ok after 20 minutes of me crying to him as if he could come pick me up and take me home. After this I texted Boone to be sure he made it on a shuttle, he did. Boone was on the Shuttle behind me. That was the last time I talked to him until the day after graduation. We made it to the reception building at nearly 11 o’clock and briefed until about one. We finally got to bed at 2, and we were woken up at 4:30 the following morning. During reception they checked our dental, blood type, eye sight, etc. this is where we received our uniforms, and most importantly where we met our first Drill Sergeants. In receptions Drill Sergeants are almost done with their contracts, they cannot make you preform corrective action, or give you RBIs, all they can do is get really close to you and scream as loud as they could. I was here for seven days, and then after those seven days were

The Recruit Division Commanders (RDC) that were waiting for the bus storm through the open doors, and start screaming orders at the new recruits. Your grab what little stuff you were told bring, and hurry off the bus before the bulldogs eat you alive. Your are shuffled in to an atrium with about 80 other recruits all scared as you are, and still getting orders yelled at you, half of which you cannot understand so you get yelled at more. As you all fall in, the RDCs start telling you the rules and regulations as fast as they can, and expect you to remember all of them or again get yelled at. You then get shuffled in to gear issue where they separate you by gender. Once in the large room they make everyone one strip down to nothing so they can strip you of all your civilian clothes, and in essence of your civilian life. Once you have all of your issued gear they walk you into another room where you get your first chance to sit down, and semi relax. But there is no relaxing on the first

The Marine Corps Experience, pp. 12 – 31 The Corps today, pp 318 – 335

The breakfast for that day was just milk with waffles and oatmeal. By 6:15 we had to be making our way to the training area. As we got there, there was two soldiers waiting for us, we had to be in 4 rows and have enough space to stretch. As soon as everyone was sedal down training began. We train for a whole week, having the same routine until we were told we were ready to actually participate in war.

in processing I was told that the unit that I was going to was preparing to go to the Nation

Stew Smith wrote an article about mental toughness, he describe his thoughts on it since he was a former Navy SEALs. Navy SEALs has to endure such pain on the body and mind in order to become a SEAL. There is no solution as to acquiring mental toughness when wanting to become a SEAL.

c. Training was an essential task for the system implementation and I was basically assigned duties to get the entire battalion up to speed for the Wave 1 integration of the GCSS-A system. I was involved in several initial planning meetings and

we found out that we were not at basic training yet, we had just arrived at the Reception

Although it was a large obstacle, I was determined to power through. So for 7 days I learned the marching drill. I memorized the music. I played the notes. I tried not to pass out and die. By the end of camp I had accumulated sunburn, a giant bruise on my left shoulder, and a sense of accomplishment. There truly is nothing better than doing something people say you can't

The U.S. Navy’s Bomb Squad faced a very real problem: Its newest members were being selected for training upon merit alone, with no personality or physical screening process. This was a very real challenge, for the aforementioned reasons of required emotional intelligence and physical toughness. The screener had a very clear mission: “safely and effectively screen Midshipmen in their ability to lead small units under stress while introducing them to the NEOD training pipeline through evaluation by their peers, upper-class, and NEOD technicians”

At that point I started to think this is not going to be easy. I arrived at the Air Operations office and managed to get the attention of the Air Operations Officer I showed him my orders and the pilots in the room gathered around, each saying that he should do it since he needed more air time. Believe it or not they set me with my own private flight close to my destination and they scheduled it for 5 P.M. I'm thinking this is easier than I thought. We loaded the equipment on to the C-47 maybe a DC-3. I took my seat, any seat I wanted since I was the only passenger. I sat looking out the window at the lights of the cities we are passing over and, thinking 'is this great or what'. At just about this time the Copilot walks up to me and tells me that we are icing up, and wanted to know if it would be OK with me if we landed at Selfridge AFB. After getting over the shock that they would ask me, a lowly Airman, permission to land. I said sure, but radio ahead and tell them that we have classified equipment on board and to make provisions for its security. Nothing prepared me for what happened next. We landed and were immediately surrounded by at least a dozen Air Police vehicles; with lights flashing that escorted us to a space with even more Air Police with guns. As I walked

On the second day, we learned more formation stances and positions including fall in, fall out, present arms, order arms, attention, at ease, left face, right face, and about face. I also was introduced on how to operate a military-style living space. In the morning when everyone got up at 6:30 am, we were required to make sure nothing personal was visible and fix our beds so they were uniform. To do this, we were required to fix each corner of the bed so it had a “hospital corner,” fold the top over, and have the blanket so tight that there are no wrinkles and one could bounce a ball on the bed.

Conducting classroom observations are very important to the prospective teacher. Observing helps show how experienced teachers manage their classroom. For this observation it was important to notice how the classroom was arranged, how the teacher interacted with the students, the teacher’s management style, and interview the teacher.

“Everybody get off my bus!” the drill sergeant screamed. I woke up terrified for my life. I picked up me stuff and ran towards the front of the bus. I broke left following the rest of the crowd. When I make it to the end my hearts racing, I could feel my heart beat in places I never felt before. There were packs of uniform blobs confused not knowing where to go. I decided to get into a formation not

The main problems with mental toughness are the inconsistency of its definition, and a lack of research into clearly defining mental toughness and what attributes are required to be mentally tough (Jones et al, 2002). The earliest definition of mental toughness was provided by Cattell (1957), suggesting mental toughness was an important personality trait, supported by Kroll (1967). Loehr (1982, 1986, 1994) attempted to define mental toughness, suggesting “mental toughness is the ability to use energy positively during crises and the possession of positive attitudes towards challenging and demanding situations”, although this definition lacked scientific definition regarding positive attitudes (Crust, 2007).