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Communication Support And Religious Support In Managing Occupational Stress In Military Careers: A Career-Span Approach, Shantonee' Malee Mitchell

Communication & Theatre Arts Theses

This thesis reports an exploratory and descriptive study of communication support and religious support used by military personnel to manage occupational stress over the course of a career and their perceived effectiveness at helping to manage occupational stress. Drawing on a lifespan communication approach, this study employed a careerspan perspective where occupational stressors and sources of support (human and religious) are examined over the course of military careers. Results find three different groups of sources of communicative support were used in different ways to help manage military occupational stress: sources within the military, sources outside of the military, and religious …

U.S. Army Enlisted Soldiers' Adherence To Prescribed Malaria Chemoprophylaxis In Afghanistan, Michael Paul Brisson

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Over the past 13 years, the United States Army has been engaged in armed conflict within Afghanistan. Unfortunately, the United States Army has been forced to evacuate soldiers from the battlefield because of malaria, a parasitic disease that is endemic in Afghanistan. Even though the U.S. Army has adopted an effective chemoprophylaxis protocol, soldiers' adherence to their prescribed medication has been historically low. This research addressed a gap in literature regarding the adherence rates of U.S. Army enlisted soldiers to their prescribed oral malaria chemoprophylaxis. In addition, this research investigated self-reported reasons for soldiers' nonadherence to this medication. The study …

Exploring The Inner Experience Of Veterans With Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Stacy Reger

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

Military veterans have returned from combat changed by exposure to trauma for as long as history has been recorded. The field of psychology contains a vast literature describing and attempting to understand Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and its detrimental effects on the lives of individuals with the disorder. Despite the volume of study dedicated to PTSD in the literature, in-depth accounts of the lived experience of individuals with PTSD are rare. The current study utilized Descriptive Experience Sampling (DES), a method based on apprehending high-fidelity accounts of momentary inner experience, to explore the inner experience of eight Operation Iraqi Freedom …

Ua1c11/36 Robert Johnston Photo Collection, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Photographs donated by Robert Johnston.

2013 Study On Children Of Seriously Wounded Service Members, Mary Jo Schumann, Erika Nash Cameron, Laura Deitrick, George Reed, Dezaree Doroliat

Military

Over the course of one year, researchers from The Caster Family Center for Nonprofit and Philanthropic at the University of San Diego interviewed a total of 125 participants, including seriously wounded service members, their spouses and children, as well as military, civilian and nonprofit professionals who work with this population. The study included two phases to ensure a comprehensive understanding around the population and its unfulfilled needs: The first phase focused on understanding the specific needs of children of seriously wounded service members through interviews, focus groups, and reviews of existing research; the second phase focused on an assessment of …

Manning Up: A Look At Women In The Military And Their Sense Of Self, Kari Elizabeth Davis

All Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Other Capstone Projects

The purpose of this study is to uncover identity shaping in women of the military. I interviewed eleven women from various branches of the military to uncover changes in their sense of self, emotion management, and role person merge. Six of these my respondents were deployed to combat zones. The women of this study went to basic training and learned how to be a soldier. They go through a process of "manning up" where they leave behind prior behaviors and beliefs and display a masculine front in order to be successful in their military careers. They also demonstrate a role …

Bad Apples Or Bad Policies?, Daniel J. Whelan

Human Rights & Human Welfare

In a scene from the Woody Allen film Hannah and Her Sisters, the haughty and cantankerous character Frederick (Max von Sydow) is telling his girlfriend (Barbara Hershey) how he spent the evening flipping through channels on television. Ever the arrogant social critic, Frederick remarks,

You missed a very dull TV show on Auschwitz. More gruesome film clips. And more puzzled intellectuals declaring their mystification over the systematic murder of millions. The reason they can never answer the question: “How could it possibly happen?” is that it’s the wrong question. Given what people are, the question is: “Why doesn't it happen …

September Roundtable: Introduction

Human Rights & Human Welfare

An annotation of:

“The Other War: Iraq Vets Bear Witness” by Chris Hedges and Laila Al-Arian. The Nation, July 30, 2007.

Occupational Hazard, Michael Goodhart

Human Rights & Human Welfare

“The Other War” describes how the patrols, supply convoys, checkpoints, raids, and arrests, which make up the daily routines of U.S. soldiers in Iraq, sometimes involve degrading and abusive treatment of Iraqi civilians. Through interviews with some of those soldiers, the article portrays the everyday tragedy of the Iraq war and demonstrates how the very policies used to “secure” the country are creating greater insecurity and sparking Iraqi resentment of the occupation. The authors’ main point is that such abuses are inevitable under what they call “misguided and brutal colonial wars and occupations” like Iraq, “the French occupation of Algeria… …

Facing Up To The Truth, Susan E. Waltz

Human Rights & Human Welfare

American GIs who liberated Dachau from the Nazis in April 1945 exist in our collective memory as iconic representations of the American soldier-hero: competent and capable, disciplined, principled and fundamentally good. From their collective example, we expect American soldiers to reveal, report, and excoriate war crimes. This makes it difficult to acknowledge that Americans may also commit war crimes—and on a regular basis.

Be All You Can Be (Without The Protection Of The Constitution), Keith M. Harrison

Law Faculty Scholarship

[Excerpt] “Despite the generous inclusion by President Reagan of the many soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines in the concept of "the people" of this republic, it is not altogether dear whether one whose status has changed from ordinary "citizen" to "a member of the armed forces" can legitimately claim any of the constitutional protections of citizenship until he or she is no longer a member of the armed forces. In the course of this nation's history the Supreme Court has denied some or all of the protection of the Constitution to many groups of people, including African-Americans, 2 women,3 Native …

Ua60/3/3 May Commissioning Exercises Program, Wku Military Science

WKU Administration Documents

Program for ROTC commissioning exercises.

Ua60/3/3 August Commissioning Exercises Program, Wku Military Science

WKU Administration Documents

Program for ROTC commissioning exercises.

Ua60/3/3 May Commissioning Exercises Program, Wku Military Science

WKU Administration Documents

Program for ROTC commissioning exercises.

Ua60/3/3 Annual Award's Ceremony Program, Wku Military Science

WKU Administration Documents

The Reserve Officers Training Corps of the United States Army Annual Award's Ceremony program.

Ua60/3/3 December Commissioning Exercises Program, Wku Military Science

WKU Administration Documents

Program for ROTC commissioning exercises.

Ua60/3/3 August Commissioning Exercises Program, Wku Military Science

WKU Administration Documents

Program for ROTC commissioning exercises.

Ua60/3/3 May Commissioning Exercises Program, Wku Military Science

WKU Administration Documents

Program for ROTC commissioning exercises. This seal on the front cover of this program was cut out, no names were damaged on the interior of the program.

Ua60/3/3 Annual Award's Ceremony Program, Wku Military Science

WKU Administration Documents

The Reserve Officers Training Corps of the United States Army Annual Award's Ceremony program.

Ua60/3/3 December Commissioning Exercises Program, Wku Military Science

WKU Administration Documents

Program for ROTC commissioning exercises.

Ua60/3/3 August Commissioning Exercises Program, Wku Military Science

WKU Administration Documents

Program for ROTC commissioning exercises.

Ua60/3/3 May Commissioning Exercises Program, Wku Military Science

WKU Administration Documents

Program for ROTC commissioning exercises.

Ua60/3/3 Annual Award's Ceremony Program, Wku Military Science

WKU Administration Documents

The Reserve Officers Training Corps of the United States Army Annual Award's Ceremony program.

Ua60/3/3 December Commissioning Exercises Program, Wku Military Science

WKU Administration Documents

Program for ROTC commissioning exercises.

Ua60/3/3 May Commissioning Exercises Program, Wku Military Science

WKU Administration Documents

Program for ROTC commissioning exercises.

Ua60/3/3 Annual Award's Ceremony Program, Wku Military Science

WKU Administration Documents

The Reserve Officers Training Corps of the United States Army Annual Award's Ceremony program.

Ua60/3/3 December Commissioning Exercises Program, Wku Military Science

WKU Administration Documents

Program for ROTC commissioning exercises.

Ua60/3/3 May Commissioning Exercises Program, Wku Military Science

WKU Administration Documents

Program for ROTC commissioning exercises.

Ua60/3/3 Annual Award's Ceremony Program, Wku Military Science

WKU Administration Documents

The Reserve Officers Training Corps of the United States Army Annual Award's Ceremony program.

Ua60/3/3 Real Offer To Command, Wku Military Science

WKU Administration Documents

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