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thundramay:

you are beautiful, and strong and amazing. No one can ever understand the things you go through, and how strong you truly have to be to do it.

mylifeinthearmy:

Reception

The first week of your army training will be spent standing in lines. If you’re not in line, you may have to face punishments like sit-ups, a jog, and chin-ups. Punishments are a part of the army training to inculcate discipline.

The Red Phase

The Red Phase in the army training includes academic, physical, and practical training. In this phase you will undergo rigorous physical fitness training and do more of army workouts. This phase teaches you rock climbing, rappelling, river crossing etc. The red phase of army training prepares you for some activities during a war. In the academic section of your army training, you will learn the about the core values of the army. Values like duty, loyalty, selfless service, respect, honor, personal courage and integrity are the core of US Army.

The White Phase

The white phase in the army training lasts for two weeks and teaches things like using weapons, physical combat, advanced physical training, SWAT-style building clearing etc. This phase also teaches recruits to fire and handle their weapons. Several trainings regarding standing, breathing, and aiming positions are also given. You will develop a unique form physical fitness due to endless repetitions of the 6-mile tactical marches during army fitness training.

Blue Phase

Blue phase is the time when recruits move onto the advanced levels and learn to handle automatic weapons, grenades, etc. Several vital skills like night time operations are taught in the forests. Recruits in this phase of the army training, do an additional 10-mile tactical march along with the 6-mile tactical march.

Graduation

Once you have finished the entire course of army training, and met all those requirements of becoming a United States Army soldier, the day of graduation occurs. It is now time for you to put on that prestigious army uniform. It is important that recruits maintain their levels of integrity and remember all those core values taught during army training.

found here: http://www.myarmytraining.com/army-training-2/united-states-army-training/

i cant wait! -pv2 green www.mylifeinthearmy.tumblr.com

mylifeinthearmy:

The United States of America has been fighting two wars for the last nine years and despite what officials might tell you, we’re not successful in either one of them. But no one is telling you we’re fighting a third war—at home—and this one is proving to be another losing battle.

US Army is at it’s breaking point and soldiers are coping with the stress with drugs abuse and violence that often leads to their death. And because of the repeated deployments and inadequate support for soldiers when they return, these soldiers are ticking time bombs. The proof is in the statistics:

• 1/3 of soldiers are taking prescription drugs including anti-depressants, anxiety medications, and pain killers. Amphetamines use has doubled between 2006 and 2009.
  
  
• Sexual offenses tripled since 2003. Every year an increase of 5,000 misdemeanors are committed every year which means approximately 55,000 offenses are expected for 2010. 
  
  
• Domestic abuse is up 177% in the past six years.
  
  
• More soldiers died from non-combat injuries than war including accidents and “high risk behavior.”

No Support
Army soldiers are in desperate trouble and Army leaders are failing to aid those who need help while in combat or when they return home. ABC News reports the statistics suggests leaders are focusing only on preparing soldiers for their next deployment too quickly without allowing them sufficient time to reset after time in war. Currently soldiers are asked to return to war after one year of combat and two years at home instead of the necessary three years at home.

Suicide
Suicide details are even more dramatic. Suicides are only discovered weeks after they occurred.

Of 1,038 non-combat soldier deaths between 2006 and 2009, the report found that 88 percent were due to high-risk behavior. Of that figure, 46 percent involved drug or alcohol use at the time of death and 20 percent were due to overdose.

Nearly 80 percent of Army suicides take place in the United States, most typically among married 23-year-old, caucasian, junior-enlisted males who have deployed at least once, according to the study.

Drug Abuse
Many drugs prescribed to soldiers are open-ended with no expiration dates and are distributed as needed. In addition, soldiers have been allowed to remain in the Army despite frequently failing drug tests.

Crime
ABC News reports…

“Crime is on the rise and discipline is seemingly going unchecked. In fact, approximately 1,054 soldiers who have committed two or more felony offenses are still serving in the Army today,” the study says.

In 2009 alone, 15,074 cases of soldier misconduct faced no known disciplinary or corrective action, or referral to law enforcement, it found. Only a fraction of domestic abuse cases were referred to law enforcement.

After Death
The psychological damage is real, but the lack of support continues even after death. Military families expecting death benefits are getting scammed by insurers at Prudential and MetLife. 

They tell bereaved relatives that they’ve opened a convenient, interest-bearing account for their money that’s a nice, safe place to keep it and they give them a “checkbook.” But it’s not a normal checkbook, they don’t open individual accounts for each soldier, and they skim off most of the interest the money is making—giving beneficiaries 1% while it’s earning 4%.

These “convenient accounts” are simply corporate accounts at Prudential or MetLife and it is not insured by FDIC. If the well runs dry, these families are out of luck and the insurance companies walk away with fat pockets. 

That information is baffling! Where is the support for the US soldiers? Anyone over 30 who has a Vietnam vet relative can tell you they are psychologically not all there. There’s historic proof that war damages a person mentally, yet we’ve yet to create a structure to rehabilitate them. 

So our country wants to recruit healthy young people to join their organization, yet they’ve failed to prove they will support them if something goes wrong. This sounds like a freak’n scam and it’s legal!

-Monique “Marvelous Mo” Balcarran | Email: News@Roc4Life.com

SORCE:http://www.roc4life.com/profiles/blogs/how-us-army-neglect-their

Hopefully the army can get on top of this and the suicide rate will go down. We need to find new and effective ways to help soldiers cope with stress and depression. -pv2 green www.mylifeinthearmy.tumblr.com