...Good morning all my name is TSgt. Emanuel B. Coley. I am here to tell you my Air Force story. What that entails; Why I joined, what I do and why I continue to serve in the United States Air Force. Let me tell you why I joined the Air Force. It was go to school and just get by. I wanted to get out the dead end situation I was in. Working jobs that did not offer any stability. I saw the military as a means to an end to satisfy a need. I found out that the military offered many different careers and job specialties. Cardiopulmonary Technician is the profession that I chose to pursue in the military. My duties as a technician is not just taking care of the heart, lungs and breathing but also taking care of people. I do stress tests for your heart to check for any abnormalities that could occur. I do Performance Fitness Tests for your lungs to make sure your getting maximum effort when you exhale, and for breathing I make sure if your on a ventilator that your breathing is not labored. The feeling I get when I have assisted others in getting healthier and going home to there families,1 gives me that sense of accomplishment. Thats the joy I get from taking care of people and this is why I am still here. The mentoring I have had over the years has transformed my outlook on the Air Force. What it means and what it represents to me. Changing it from being a scapegoat to get by to it being my way of life. Now my life exemplifies Air For Core Values “Integrity First, Service Before Self...
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...3 Long Term Goals Within the next 5-10 years my long-term goals are get my masters in marketing communications, become a certified sports agent, and serve 2-3 years in the air force. I have chosen these long-term goals because these are the three aspects in my life I want to aim towards in order for me to become successful. These three will not only help me but also benefit me in an ample amount of ways. My first long-term goal involves with me getting my masters. Now in order for me to obtain my masters I first must obtain my bachelor’s in marketing communications. It will take a while but to it is worth it because I haven’t seen many people at my level go further with there college career and try to obtain a master’s. I feel as if, if I am one of those who aren’t like the rest and I actually obtain a master’s, it can give me an edge over a lot of others when applying for a job, because it looks well presentable on a resume. Becoming a certified sports agent is my secondary long-term goal for the next 5-10 years. Reason being is, well, long story short, I am a sports fanatic. I always loved watching all types of sports. And I have a great knowledge for it, especially for basketball. Basketball is a sport that I love, but I could never play the game as well as coach or debate about it in discussions with others. But I always wanted to be involved around it in my professional career. The thing with sports agents is that they can be an agent of a big time player and...
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...millions of stories to be told and many lessons to be learned. This is my story. I was born in San Bernardino, California to a first generation British mother and a second generation Italian father. Although, the morals my mother and father would emphasize were mostly similar, over time I would find that they had very different views on what was most important. We would move quite a bit in my youth until we finally decided to settle down in Phoenix, Arizona. Here is where I would set in my roots and develop most of my ways that I understood my surroundings. However, those roots would soon be lifted and torn as soon as I joined the United States Air Force and began my worldly travels. My adventures in Japan and South Korea would transform the way I looked at the world. My mother would teach me that being there for your children and religion were a paramount importance in life. As soon as I was born, my catholic journey began as I was immediately baptized and given Godparents. Every Sunday for the rest of my adolescent life, my mother would drag me to church. Eventually I would have my first communion, my first confession, and my confirmation into the Catholic faith. If my parents hadn’t gotten divorced I would probably be a much stronger Catholic to this day. The church taught me so many things, however, the most important to treat others the way you want to be treated. My mother would also teach me the value of supporting your children when they needed you. Unlike my father, she...
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...3 March 2015 Informative Speech Outline Title: Informative Speech Main Idea: Suicides and the Military Thesis Statement: At the end of my informative speech, my audience will know more about the Military Suicide Issue and how the number of military or veterans deaths by suicide has been increasing at an alarming rate, the common misconceptions about the possible reasons why current and former military members are taking their own lives and finally what is being done to try and resolve this issue. I. Introduction a. Attention-getter: Across the US there’s thousands upon thousands of members of an exclusive club that nobody wanted to join. I know it was a group I never wanted to join. We are known as Suicide Survivors, we are the surviving family members of the military members and veterans who have taken their own lives and each day our group grows in size. In one collective voice we scream for answers to the seeming unanswerable question… Why? b. Preview: In 2012, TIME Magazine published an article titled “One a Day” referencing to the rate of active duty suicides. According to an article in the Government Executive the VA reports an average of 22 Veteran suicides per day. A look at some of the statistics and commonalities can help provide a clear idea of the contributing factors. II. Body c. Main Idea 1: Statistics: According to TIME Magazine since 2001 there have been more active duty deaths from Suicide than there have been due to overseas...
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...different than the lifestyle I was used to, being attached to a special forces unit of Army Green Berets was different since I am in the Air Force, and facilitating operational missions with the special forces team showed me what it's like to be apart of the mission instead of supporting it. As I reflect back, I don’t think I’ll ever be put in any kind of situation that’ll test me more than my deployment did. I will discuss the many challenges I faced during my deployment, and also explain the deployment events and experiences in sequential order. After I’ve told my story, I’ll briefly discuss how the deployment changed me as a person. First, after a deployment to Afghanistan, I never looked at life the same because having to adapt to a deployment lifestyle was significantly different than the lifestyle I was used to. The beginning of my deployment was a culture shock when my boots first hit the ground in Afghanistan. I had no idea what to expect and the reality of the situation happened so quickly. I can remember one of the first moments when I exited the helicopter; the team chief asked who I was and what I was doing there. I told him I was the cook sent to his site and he must have been expecting a mechanic to fix the vehicles, because he was not happy with my presence. That same night, I was already put into the rotation for pulling guard (security) on the roof and in the control center for one-hour shifts. My initial reaction to everything happening was a little panic because...
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...The Vietnam War was an extremely controversial and divided time in American History. From the government lying to the public, media favoring an anti-war viewpoint, to the graphic images and stories of what was occurring an ocean away, many people were affected by the war and lives were changed from it. Many are still alive today to tell their stories. Two different people were interviewed, one who experienced the war from the eyes of an teenager at home, and the other an Air Force veteran that served in the war. Their stories and the thousands of others from the time will help us to learn more of the mistakes, triumphs, and the effects on the people from the Vietnam War. The first person that was interviewed was my grandfather, Roy Lenza. Roy...
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...February 7, 2013 Inquiring about the inner energy as a unconscious source of Creativity Opposite Forces: Inner Inquiring about the inner energy as a unconscious source of Creativity Opposite Forces: Inner Opposite forces: inner The question of how to access the creative source as an artist is a constant and many times difficult search to understand for me. I have learned to let go of structures and to draw inspiration from intuition and my "inner space," that quiet place I can go to rest, dream, and energize. I can go there through meditation, reading poetry, listening to music, or just sitting quietly observing nature, and many times through dreaming. I have approached the exploration of the opposites “inner/outer” by answering the call of nature. I have intuitively been investigating the “inner” energy for a few months without being aware of it. I started to recognize it when pulling recent artwork discovered that I have been working with water, the ocean, and mountains. These elements were very much present in most of them. With the vast open space represented by these places at first I misread the inner as the outer and was confused for a while not feeling where to go with it now. The “outer self” was not manifesting, then I seem to feel the ocean waves inside of me getting to the realization that the energy calling was from my inner self in a sacred space near my heart. Both, mountains and ocean bring deep feelings of joy, nostalgia, and sadness at the same...
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...Management Time: Who’s Got the Monkey? In Ocken’s and Wass’ short story, “Management Time: Who’s Got the Monkey?”, a manager seems to be overwhelmed with the amount of problems that ha been brought to him by his subordinates. They approach him with a problem, or “monkey” and expect him to fix it, making it his problem, or his “monkey”. By the end of the day, he has too many monkeys on his back and too little time to “feed” them. His subordinates, ensuring that he has not missed the point will occasionally check up on him. This is what we call supervision (4). Instead of the manager being the one in charge, his subordinates have become his superiors. There are three kinds of management time to be considered. Boss-imposed time- used to accomplish tasks that can only be accomplished by the manager. If disregarded by the manager, there will be swift penalty. System-imposed time- used to suit demands from associates for dynamic backing. Ignoring these solicitations will additionally bring about punishments, however not generally as immediate and quick. Self-imposed time- used to take on tasks initiated by the manager. This type of time has portions that are taken up by the subordinate which is considered subordinate-imposed time. The portion left remaining belongs to the manager and is called discretionary time. No penalties are faced with self –imposed time because it was not known the intention of the manager to take on a task in the first place (Oncken and Wass 4). ...
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...Ezekiel talks of encountering a flying object near Cheber River Chaldea, in today’s Iraq. "Now as I looked at the living creatures, I saw a wheel upon the earth beside the living creatures, one for each of the four of them. As for the appearance of the wheels and their construction: their appearance was like the gleaming of beryl” (1, Ezekiel 1:16 English standard version, 2010). Perhaps it sounds like something out of a science fiction movie, but many historians have taken this biblical account seriously. He described what he saw with words and phrases from the reality and time he was living in. Even so, there is enough information there to conclude that he was witnessing a craft of some kind and its occupants. There is also the famous story most people know of; the crashed UFO in Roswell, New Mexico that happened in July, 1947. This happened the same year Kenneth Arnold spotted nine mysterious, high-speed objects while flying his private plane near Mt. Rainier,...
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...Is the Use of Drone Military Tactics or not? In 2002 of February 4th history was made that allowed CIA and military to use such extraordinary equipment that made it safer for pilots and national security defense to use to spy on our enemies around the world without being noticed or even harming a human life at stake. But what can we really say that these drones let alone can be worth so much money of the tax payers that we don’t see the results that they are really made for.The drone was made and it was made for just that purpose in that world to help aid in the fight in counter-terrorism let alone not let any more of our military pilots put their lives at risk in dangerous zones. But due to recent events that lead to a sort of downfall in using these pilot less drones, is it actually worth the billions we spend on it to be used in the military or is it even worth having though due to some malfunctions of the drone killed innocent civilians not only from other lands, but our own American civilians as well. Does America really needs these drones that can help with the war on terror and costing us so much money let alone deaths, or do we need something different or not even the drones at all. Back in 2008 while I was serving in Afghanistan and right now I am gearing up for another tour right after the final week of school has ended, I remember hearing about the drones and what the purpose was for. At the time I could never really see one up close and let alone be in the same...
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...The book Sully: My Search for What Really Matters shares the life story of Captain “Sully” Sullenberger. Chesley B. Sullenberger was raised by his mother and father on the outskirts of Denison, Texas. His mother instilled in him an appreciation for learning, and his father taught him the value of working hard by involving the whole family in continual home improvement projects. He also learned to put family first from his father. His dad would spontaneously take days off work and drive the family to Dallas, Texas to get dinner and see a movie. Sullenberger knew he wanted to be a pilot by age five. He doggedly started toward that goal by taking flying lessons from his neighbor Mr. Cook. He got his private pilot certificate at age seventeen, on October 28, 1968. He was then given a merit based congressional appointment to the Air Force Academy in 1969. When he graduated, in 1973, he was named “Outstanding Cadet in Airmanship”. He went on to earn his Master of Science degree in industrial psychology from Purdue University. Then he went to Undergraduate...
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...constant velocity, the net force on it is zero. Why, then, do you continue running your engine? The engine continues to run because there is force working against the vehicle. The tires rolling along the pavement create friction, as well as wind resistance hitting your windshield, create a force that can only be counteracted by the engine creating an equal or greater opposing foce. 17. You hold an apple over your head. a. Identify all the forces acting on the apple and their reaction forces. b. When you drop the apple, identify all the forces acting on it as it falls and the corresponding reaction forces. A. My arm is a force holding the apple in the air, and gravity is pulling the apple downward. B. When I drop the apple, my arm is no longer a factor, but gravity still pulls the apple downward toward the Earth. 25. Suppose the two carts, one twice as massive as the other, fly apart when the compressed spring that joins them is released. How fast does the heavier cart roll compared with the lighter cart? Newton’s Second Law states that Force=mass times acceleration. So to find acceleration, you will divide force by mass. This means that the heavier cart will have half of the acceleration as the lighter cart. 33. Why is it that a cat that falls from the top of a 50-story building will hit a safety net below no faster than if it fell from the 20th story? As the cat falls, it begins to accelerate due to gravity. Wind resistance acts as an upward force and increases as acceleration...
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...Ma. Bernadette B. Valdez Airline Operations BSTM III-3D Ms. Luzviminda Tugade AIR FORCE ONE The movie air force one revolves around a country president who would put his life on the line for the sake of his family and the people working for him. I am not actually a fan of an action packed thriller movie but this one really caught my interest. The plot was somehow suspenseful and some scenes were truly tense which made it breathtaking and more exciting to watch. Harrison Ford as the USA president was really convincing, believable and very realistic. His average joe personality made him a very credible president. It made me think if there was a president of any country that acts like him nowadays. On the other hand, the hijacking scene seems impossible to do. Although the security was really tight when it comes to protect the leader of the country, a bunch of terrorists were able to get on the president’s plane but the film manage to do it more realistically and shockingly than I expected. Aside from the heroic deed of the president, I appreciate the Russian terrorist’s intentions of making an extreme commotion just to get their leader free from the prison. They would do anything to save their leader even if it meant war. I was also surprised with the scene where the president was rushed down to the escape pod but as a wise leader, he managed to escape from the escape pod and stayed on the plane to knock off all the terrorists and save everyone on the plane...
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...Also bear in mind that this is a research project, not a high school report; it should center around a thesis that you will prove in your paper. Example: I am interested in World War II, but I’m pretty sure that I can’t cover six years of global warfare in fifteen pages of text. Let’s see...I’m more interested in the War in Europe than in the Pacific, so that narrows that down some, but I need something tighter. I like airplanes, so something about the air war would be interesting, and there was this documentary on the History Channel about the Battle of Britain last month...but even the Battle of Britain is too big for twelve pages. Right, have to narrow it down some more here...do a little preliminary research and reading. Ah, here it is: the German Air Force started out trying to destroy the Royal Air Force by bombing RAF airfields, but then switched to targeting British cities. This decision cost them the battle, because it let the RAF rebuild its fighter strength and shoot down enough German bombers to force the Germans to call off the offensive. Wait a minute. That would just be a report. Got it! WHY did the Germans decide to change targets? There’s a thesis. And so you would write your paper on “Why did the Germans decide to change targets during the Battle of Britain and what effect did this decision have on the outcome of the battle?” II. Writing an Abstract: Once you have a topic and a thesis, you need to work that question into a...
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...In my mind, I thought of all the ways it would affect me and how I wanted my future to be like. All this time in a way I was sort of selfish in my thoughts. Although, little did I know how this decision and the things I did to accomplish it would affect the people around me most importantly my brother. When I was a kid, I was always infatuated with science and learning how the world around us worked and what other things were there that I had never known existed. My mom would constantly tell me to study hard and do well in school if I wanted to have a good economically sustainable job that I would be happy in and make a difference. As I grew older during high school, I began to think more about this and decided I wanted to do something to help others. My mother would sometimes tell me stories about when she was a phlebotomist and how it was all so fascinating, and there were always interesting new cases of the patients that went to the hospital. These stories made me lean towards a career in medicine....
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