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You May Also Like. Wilmer Valderrama on Remembering our Military this Veterans Day and Every Day "Whenever I have the honor of spending time with our troops, I am inspired and strengthened by their honor and resolve. My Profile News Home Page. Only real heroes sacrifice to lightens the mind and gives him a sense of peace and joy. They are people who put themselves on the line and sacrifice their safety for the greater good and others, and anyone in any profession whose concern is the welfare of other people instead of the individual is inspiring.
As soon as, sacrifice becomes a duty and necessity to mankind. I see no limit to the horizon which opens before him. What we do for ourselves dies with us. Nevertheless, what we do for others and the world remains immortal. It is almost impossible for a country to survive without a great army to defend it in times of war. Behind every strong soldier, they have an even stronger woman who stands behind him, supports him, and loves him with all her heart. Being deeply loved by ancestry gives them strength.
Outrightly, regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death whose words of thanks will not be heard. It is always found that tough times never last, but tough people do.
I can imagine no more rewarding a career. With cutting-edge technology increasingly being developed not by government agencies or traditional manufacturing firms but by start-ups, that is a problem. A small number of military crossovers such as Newell already perform valiant efforts. After leaving the Army, he founded the Palo Alto-based innovation company BMNT and teamed up with Blank to launch Hacking for Defense—a course now taught at 22 universities, where students solve real-world government problems.
Hackathons for university students also foster invaluable exposure between the worlds and could be expanded. Another model is the—very small— summer program for year-old programmers run by the FRA, the Swedish signals intelligence agency, which is part of the armed forces.
Secondments pose another opportunity. Young military officers could be lent to key companies for, say, a year. The U. Navy already operates such a program, the three-year-old Secretary of the Navy Tours with Industry , though it includes only a very small number of young officers and noncommissioned officer, as does a similar program in the British Army.
That model could be scaled up. To be sure, young officers must focus on gaining field experience, and secondments also pose the risk that those sent become more tempted by the opportunities of the private sector than a military career. But seconding a limited number of specialists from all services to key companies—and vice versa—would bring mutual benefits. Ministry of Defense is developing a promising new concept labeled the Enterprise Approach, with which it wants to develop closer relations with industry and jointly produce leaders with particular expertise.
Navy runs a tiny initiative with similar goals, the Navy Reserve Direct Commission Officer program , which allows civilians to become Navy reserve officers specializing in public affairs. Last year, the program accepted candidates. It also invites a small number of business leaders for brief visits on aircraft carriers. According to the military participants, the executives love the experience.
Far from being the heroes of recent wars, American troops are among their victims. No rational person can blame the soldier, the Marine, the airman, or the Navy man for the stupid and destructive foreign policy of the U. It also makes conversations about the sexual assault epidemic, or the killing of innocent civilians, impossible.
The same principle of clear-eyed scrutiny applies to law enforcement agencies. Police departments everywhere need extensive investigation of their training methods, qualifications for getting on the job, and psychological evaluation. None of that will happen as long as the culture calls cops heroes, regardless of their behavior. Given the dubious and dangerous nature of American foreign policy, and the neglect and abuse veterans often suffer when returning home wounded or traumatized, Americans, especially those who oppose war, should do everything they can to discourage young, poor and working-class men and women from joining the military.
The men and women who do enlist deserve better than to die in the dirt and come home in a bag, or spend their lives in wheelchairs, and their parents should not have to drown in tears and suffer the heartbreak of burying their children. The catastrophes become less common when fewer people join the military.
Calling all cops and troops heroes insults those who actually are heroic — the soldier who runs into the line of fire to protect his division, the police officer who works tirelessly to find a missing child — by placing them alongside the cops who shoot unarmed teenagers who have their hands in the air, or the soldier who rapes his subordinate.
It also degrades the collective understanding of heroism to the fantasies of high-budget, cheap-story action movies.
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