Royal Marines

1. I note with pride and am pleased to commend you for your performance of duty while assigned to Coast Guard Station Yaquina Bay, Newport, Oregon from December 2014 to June 2018. Through relentless pursuit of excellence, dedication, and outstanding responsibility, you quickly certified as a 47’ MLB Coxswain, Boarding Officer, and OOD. During your tenure, you accumulated over 760 underway hours during more than 450 missions, and prosecuted over 75 search and rescue cases. Your underway Operational Risk Management and professional ability was evident in August of 2016 when your skills were called to action during a 12 hour search for a missing kayaker off Waldport, OR in 6-8 foot seas and 200 yards of visibility while exhausting your search…

Alternative Body Composition Assessment The Navy is processing Sailors out for unjust reasons. Under the Body Composition Assessment (BCA) factor, Sailors are failing to meet the BCA standards because when “taped”, the member’s body fat percentage is too high. Senior Enlisted Leaders (SEL) should knowledgeable of the BCA standards. SELs should also be aware of alternative tests to prevent from separating the qualified Sailors. This essay describes the background, provides the Alternative…

leaders and organizations how to inspire people (Simon Sinek INC n.d.). Mr. Sinek developed a concept called the Golden Circle, which is a concept that epitomizes why the Marine Corps is the most premiere fighting organization in the world. The Marine Corps started out with limited resources, a small amount of manpower, and a concise mission statement. According to the book First to Fight, “The initial mission of the Marine Corps was to provide security for the ships in which Marines were…

As a Marine, the civilian world sees us as an immaculate figure to the United States. In a way giving us the respect and honor we so proudly earn. Inside the Marine Corps we learn to honor these values and morals we received since boot camp. It molds us to become disciplined and show this figure to others. If we loose focus as a Marine we sadly decline that and become to be a lesser than normal civilian. The discipline and the honor fades immediately. One example of this is disrespecting…

The following day we start to learn more about the group. Judging by their clothing and how they act and the fact that is also stated in the movie, the 30 boys are military-schooled, dressed in formal blue jackets, matching trousers and combat boots and referring to certain characters of higher authority as ‘Sir’ or ‘ Colonel’. We discover the group have no resources other than a ‘survival knife’ a couple of glow sticks and their own clothes. The first task of the morning was to find a source of…

Only a little more than half of the people who try out for the Coast Guard are physically in shape for the challenges they need to face in training. Rescue swimmers should not feel safe in the water, however they should have confidence ("Rescue Swimmer"). In fact, the Coast Guard makes it very hard for females to be in the Coast Guard because the women have to be fully capable of everything the males are doing. The Coast Guard requires everyone to be physically fit, be able to participate in…

Carlos Hathcock Carlos Hathcock always dreamed about becoming a Marine. So on the date May 20th, 1959 of his 17th birthday, he enlisted in the Marine Corps. Before, he deployed to Vietnam, Carlos Hathcock had won several shooting championships. At that time in Vietnam War, Carlos Hathcock had 93 verified kills of the North Vietnamese people. The Vietnamese people set out a $30,000 bounty to go after Carlos Hathcock. Also, the Vietnamese Army’s sniper’s called Carlos Hathcock “White Feather…

Chapter 7 begins shortly after the Patriots evacuated New York City with McCullough describing Washington and his troops completing one of the most dreadful, intolerable and draining retreats the Continental Army undergoed which ended up with Washington's troops crossing through New Jersey. Then, in complete despair Washington practically begged General Lee, by writing letters, to have him join Washington and his troops, but Lee declined his offer several times mostly due to Joseph Reed’s…

In reinforcing the claim that Simcoe was indeed forward thinking, a look at his latter governing position in northern Canada provides much insight. In his journal he writes, “The Governor is very anxious to oblige and please the Indians; his only son, a child of four years old, is dressed as an indian, and called Tioga, which name has been given by the Mohawks. This harmless farce may be of use in the intercourse with the Indians.” While the Americans typically destroyed relations with the…

Carlos Hathcock was a natural marksman. It was always something that he had always had a knack for. He grew up shooting a .22 caliber J.C. Higgins single shot rifle. Dreaming of being a marine, he couldn’t wait to till he turned 18 and enlisted when he was 17. He faced many dangers in the marines as he fought in the Vietnam War, became a famed sniper and faced a life threatening injury. Carlos Hathcock loved the marines. Because his father was one and fought in World War II, he thought that it…