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flying cadet. Washing out of flight school, he was discharged from the Army Air Force (AAF) but re-enlisted in May of 1941 as an aviation cadet. He trained to be a bombardier at Barksdale, Louisiana, receiving his commission as a second lieutenant on December 16, 1941. Miller was assigned to the 37th Bomb Squadron, 17th Bomb Group based at Pendleton, Oregon. In early February, the Group was transferred to Columbia Army Air Base (CAAB) in Columbia, South Carolina for patrol duty on the East Coast. While

decided upon would use the Army Air Force and the Navy. Their mission would be to deliver bombers modified to take off from carrier vessels within striking distance of Japan. Then the bombers would launch, fly to, and bomb the cities of Tokyo and Nagoya.2 This mission would come to be known as the Doolittle raid, named for Lieutenant Colonel James "Jimmy" Doolittle, who planned the mission.3 He was selected by Gen. Henry H. Arnold, Chief of Staff of the Army Air Forces.4 The selection of Doolittle

Medal of Honor Recipient CW4 Michael J. Novosel When most people hear the word hero, they think of a larger than life character, someone who is large in stature and has a very strong presence when they enter a room. However, that is not necessarily the case. In fact, heroes come in all shapes and sizes and from all lifestyles. Most heroes do not set out to be heroes. Situations arise and where they must act and place their life on the line for the sake of others. CW4 Novosel is one of those

In today’s world, many people witness all these mass shootings, through their local news or through their own reliable source, and all these things that could easily make someone become very depressed. Unfortunately when some people become depressed or when things in life start to go severely downhill, alas, they turn to suicide instead of trying to get help from a dependable person. This happened to Hunter S. Thompson who committed suicide on February 20th, 2005. He was killed by what was diagnosed

In this paper, we will discuss the practices of successful project managers, their leadership skills, and management roles. We will evaluate Judy Stockley’s level of success in developing a culture of trust while implementing her drawdown plan as Eglin Air Base’s new Advanced Medium Range

The State of Florida takes pride in pioneering the nation in Florida's Government-in-the-Sunshine Law, enacted in 1967, which establishes a basic right of access to most meetings of boards, commissions, and other governing bodies of state and local governmental agencies or authorities ((Statutes & Constitution :View Statutes : Online Sunshine). On March 2, 2012, five members of the Crestview City Council were charged with violating Florida’s Sunshine Law. The council members were discussing

Origin of the Tokyo Raid In the late 1930’s to early 1940’s tension between the United States and Japan was rising. Japan invaded China and by 1931 was at war with China (Scott, 2015). The United States opposed the invasion and ceased to give Japan oil, equipment, and fuel. Dependent on the United States for oil, Japan saw this as an act of aggression. Japan started to invade western countries territories in the Pacific in order to get resource needed for war with China. Japan was certain this would

Vietnam War Chemical Herbicides After the Vietnam War, very few things were more controversial than the use of the chemical herbicides. In the Post-Vietnam-Era, multiple studies were done on the long-term effects of exposure to the herbicides. The main target of these studies were the American Veterans. Despite all of the research done on the chemicals, many questions still have yet to be answered. To this day, no one truly knows what effects occurred as a result of the chemical herbicides. Often

Young Adulthood While I was in college, I met my now husband. I was in my young adult years at this point of my life. In Erikson’s theory one is emerging in relationships due to positive or living an exclusive life due to negative outcomes of life bestowed by Wong, Hall, Justice, and Herndez (2015). When I turned 20 I got pregnant, eventually, I had to quit school or work. I quit school, I was working to pay for school nevertheless a baby is on the way. We got married and eventually we got an

A detonation on the Deepwater Horizon mobile offshore wells-exploratory platforms unit near the Gulf of Mexico, operated by British Petroleum, on April 20, 2010, or known as BP oil spill. The BP oil catastrophe ignited due to high-pressure methane gas by drilling a deep exploratory at Macondo well, reported by Up Stream Online news. The Gulf of Mexico oil spill still outlasts as a great size accidental marine oil spill in the records of the petroleum industry. The date, report details, and location