MESS NIGHT Sgt Castillo, F. J. ADCOM 2320 Write an Analytical Essay GySgt Trantham September 9, 2017 Mess Night is a formal dinner attended by all Marines including the officers and noncommissioned officers of a unit. A tradition going back decades, that started with the Roman Legions. Mess Night should be practiced more at 2nd Battalion 8th Marines because, it helps with getting to know our Marines, increases spirit the corps, and helps keep traditions relevant. It is not practiced enough in 2nd Battalion 8th Marines, and talking to others across battalion they are running into the same situation. The first thing to be covered will be, the fact that Mess Night enables you to get to know your Marines. It puts the Marines …show more content…
It will help us get to know our Marines, Increase Espirit De Corps, and keep our traditions relevant. Conducting mess night helps us get to know our Marines on a personal level. As well as build on our units Espirit the Corps, which will give us a greater sense of belonging and pride. Also helping us with keeping our traditions relevant, allowing us to stay in touch with our history. The maintenance of this tradition of the Corps is our duty. References Sonnenberg, Frank, et al. “7 Reasons Why Traditions Are So Important.” Frank Sonnenberg Online, 15 July 2017, www.franksonnenbergonline.com/blog/7-reasons-why-traditions-are-so-important/. Accessed 17 Sept. 2017. HQMC (Headquarters Marine Corps). 2011. MCDP 1-0, Marine Corps Operations. Quantico, VA: HQMC. Accessed April 1, 2015. http://www.marines.mil/Portals/59/Publications/MCDP%2010%20Marine%20Operations.pdf. McQueen, Chad. 2014. “U.S. Marines, Moldovan Army Partnerships Strengthened through Advanced Weapons Workshop.” United States Marine Corps. Accessed December 22, 2014.
The Marine Corps today has developed itself into an elite fighting force based on strong naval traditions. The basic Marine is amphibious, which means that the warrior is capable of fighting on land and sea. The idea of an amphibious landing was developed through the training of the Marine Raider Battalions, which was tested and perfected in combat. Although there were two Raider Commanders with very different views on how to prepare their marines, Evans Carlson and Merritt Edson were responsible for training lightly armed Marines for amphibious assaults.
The short stories "The Interlopers" and "The Story of an Hour" are both great stories. The Interlopers stars Ulrich von Gradwitz and Georg Znaeym along with their decades-long family grudge. The Story of an Hour includes Mrs. Louise Mallard and the unfortunate death of her husband. To compare and contrast these stories, we need to know where their plots overlap and where they are set apart.
Sherlock Holmes was not accountable for the demise or killing of Dr. Grimsby Roylott. The story “The Adventure of the Speckled Band” was written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Dr. Roylott had intimidated Sherlock Holmes after his daughter, Helen Stoner, had gone to Holmes about a whistle she heard. Helen Stoner appointed Holmes and Watson to assist her from mysterious happenings. Sherlock Holmes could not have anticipated that Dr. Roylott was sitting in a chair in which the ventilator was right on top of the chair. Even though Dr. Roylott used to be a generous, polite man, he was now an ignoble and arrogant man.
Thomas Ricks, author of “Making the Corps”, gives a description about the United States Marine Corps’ basic military training. The book’s main focal point is Platoon 3086 at Parris Island, S.C., in 1995. Their story is about their eleven weeks boot camp training to become a full-fledged marine. Mr. Ricks writes about what separates the marines from American society, he writes how the Marine Corps differ from other branches of the Unites States military, as well as life after boot camp.
As a Marine, it is imperative to have leadership skills along with being capable of working with others. This book was written to enhance the reader’s mentality of how the Marines operate. It informs those who are looking into the service, and provides an in depth look into the trials and tribulations it has been through—as well as conquered. This book substantially explains the vigorous training platoon 3086 went through in order to earn the title of being a Marine.
When a person's faith is also an alternative for their culture and morals, it proves challenging to take that sense of security in that faith away from them. In Night, Elie Wiesel, a Jewish student living in Sighet, Transylvania during the war of 1942, uses his studies in Talmud and the Kabbalah as not only a religious practice but a lifestyle. Elie and his fellow civilians are warned, however, by his Kabbalah teacher who says that during the war, German aggressors are aggregately imprisoning, deporting, and annihilating millions of Jews. When Elie and his family are victim of this aggression, Elie realizes how crucial his faith in God is if he is to survive the Holocaust. He vows after being separated from his mother and sisters that he will protect he and his father from death, even though as death nears, Elie gradually becomes closer to losing his faith. In the end, to Elie's devastation, Elie makes it out of the Holocaust alone after his father dies from the intense seclusion to malnutrition and deprivation. Elie survives the Holocaust through a battle of conscience--first by believing in God, then resisting his faith in God, and ultimately replacing his faith with obligation to his father.
You must be able to reach them in a timely manner, in case the plan of the day has changed. The Marine Corps cannot function without its most important tool, the MARINES. One of the smallest and most important aspects of being Marines, being where you are supposed to be and doing what you are supposed to be doing. If your leadership is unaware that you are doing these things then they are to assume you are not completing the task assigned or never made it to the required event. As Marines we are designed to be a force in readiness, able to deploy and execute missions within a limited time frame. Getting an entire unit up and ready to deploy requires a lot of moving parts which make communication and accountability on all levels important. Formations and gear inspections have become so ingrained in the USMC culture because you need to have the proper personal and equipment to complete the mission. Without the proper personnel in the proper place at the proper time the Marine Corps as a whole cannot
Every day, people are denied basic necessary human rights. One well known event that striped millions of these rights was the Holocaust, recounted in Elie Wiesel’s memoir, Night. As a result of the atrocities that occur all around the world, organizations have published declarations such as the United Nation’s Declaration of Human Rights. It is vital that the entitlement to all rights and freedoms without distinction of any kind, freedom of thought and religion, and the right to a standard of living adequate for health and well-being of themselves be guaranteed to everyone, as these three rights are crucial to the survival of all people and their identity.
After reading Mark Haddon’s “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time” and re-examining what was discussed in class it is clear that Christopher John Francis Boone lies to the right of the autism spectrum with conditions similar to those which used to be classified as Asperger’s. Christopher’s actions and logic show that he struggles greatly with empathizing and that he lives his life in a very systematic way with a clear theory, of which he understands, underlying all of his actions. It can be argued that Christopher lies closer to the middle of the spectrum due to his social skills although, most of the evidence shows that his behavior was consistent with people who have high functioning autism.
The tell tale signs of an approaching Halloween include your favourite candies having undergone a spooky makeover, horror movie marathons on the television for you to watch alone (or are you?) late at night, haunted houses popping up seemingly out of nowhere and of course, who could forget the infamous jack-o-lanterns?
Though many may not often think about why we sleep, most of us know that sleep makes us feel better, it refreshes the body and makes it better able to function following a good night of sleep. However, the fact that sleep makes us feel better and that going without sleep makes us feel worse only begins to explain why we need sleep.
In the short story, The Last Night of the World by Ray Bradbury, a man who has a dream about the world coming to an end. As the man proceeds with discussing the dream with his wife, they are both surprised at their own actions and reactions to accepting the reality of discovering the world is coming to an end that night resulting in their own immediate deaths. Remarkably he discovers that everyone has had the same dream and the dream has accepted the real event. In the remaining hours of being alive, the man and his wife do discuss the reasons why life might be ending, what they had done to deserve this fate, how they feel about the end and what do they want to do on their last night alive. As every second, minute, and hour passes on the clock,
During morning PT on Ft. Campbell, CSM Hambrick was a regular fixture along the run route and throughout the Brigade’s footprint. He always encouraged leaders to participate in daily PT with their subordinates and regularly joined them as well. CSM Hambrick showed up during an APFT and asked me what my best run time was. After receiving my answer, he told me that he believed I could do better and he would run with me to prove it. I took an entire minute off of my run during that APFT. After the APFT he gathered the present NCOs and explained the importance of breathing excellence into your subordinates. He always stressed that it was important for Soldiers to know that their leader supported them and expected greatness. In reflection, I realize that he was also demonstrating that an effective leader leverages every available opportunity as a teaching
The Dining has been around for a very long time; it goes back as far as roman times and is still done today. Today we still practice it in all branches of the military Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force, and Coast guard. There may be differences in the way each branch holds their dining ins but they are essentially similar and hold the same purpose. The dining in or mess night, as they call it in the Marine Corps, is a formal event held by a unit or regiment where there is socialization, eating, dancing, awards ceremonies, special speeches, and last but not least drinking. The purpose of a military dining in is for a unit or regiment to come together and socialize and get to know other soldiers in the unit not just in a formal working environment. It is even held the Junior and Senior Reserve Officers Training Corps units all around the country, which again goes to show the importance of soldier coherence and build a comfortability working with others.
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