Sentences with phrase «of joining the military»

One can talk all day about the benefits of joining the military.

im thinking of joining the military when I get out if job search and everything doesn't go well.

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Silicon Valley entrepreneur Steve Blank spoke to graduates of his realization that he wanted to do more than just be a «cog» after leaving the military as a youth and joining a big tech company.

Some said they joined the military with the hopes of gaining financial security and community support that they had difficulty finding elsewhere.

After Hurricane Harvey devastated parts of the Gulf Coast and brought up to 50 inches of rain to parts of Houston, the US military and state National Guard joined in rescue and recovery efforts.

The president denied telling the widow of Army Sgt. La David Johnson that he «knew what he was signing up for» when he joined the military.

People's Liberation Army chiefs aim to ensure that applicants are in tip - top condition to join the rank and file of the world's largest military force.

Carter also had given the military services until July 1 of this year to present plans for allowing transgender individuals to join the military.

That delay of TSP matching contributions doesn't impact those who joined the military before Jan. 1, 2018 and opt in.

His use of military jets for international travel, on which his wife, Betty, joined him, cost taxpayers more than $ 500,000, the outlet reported.

The source of Orwell's Big Brother poster, Alfred Leete's recruitment poster, showed Kitchener, his moustache dark and heavy as ever, jabbing his finger at the viewer and pinning him with a severe gaze, while beckoning him to fulfill his duty as a citizen and join the military.

Frost has since cofounded AngelHack, a hackathon with angel investors as judges, and joined the board of directors of VictorySpark, a seed accelerator for military veterans.

Meet a few of the military spouses who have joined Starbucks since the company announced its commitment to hire at least 10,000 veterans, reservists and military spouses by the end of 2018.

Jeff Danley, director of Maryland region operations for Starbucks, recruited Pappas to join the Armed Forces Network last spring and has been wowed by the contributions she and others from the military community bring to the company, beginning with professionalism and integrity.

Mr. Cruz was quiet in class but opened up during their project, Mr. Minoff said, telling him that he had been kicked out of two private schools, had been held back twice and aspired to join the military.

Campbell is one of 3,700 partners (employees) with a military affiliation who have joined Starbucks since the company announced its commitment to hire at least 10,000 veterans and military spouses by the end of 2018.

To join you must either have military experience, work for a government agency, be a relative of a servicemember or qualified government employee, or pay a one - time $ 17 fee to join a non-profit partner.

Coral Gables, which also joined the lawsuit, dropped a plan last month to ban the sale of military - style rifles, saying it would open the city up to lawsuits.

Just because we join the military and are far from our home and places of worship, shouldn't mean we have to give up our beliefs.

@D When you join the military, you lose the luxury of privacy in these matters.

Of his decision to join the military, the general gives a typically low - key account: «I looked upon it as a kind of temporary relief [from family pressures] but once I got in there, I kind of liked it.&raquOf his decision to join the military, the general gives a typically low - key account: «I looked upon it as a kind of temporary relief [from family pressures] but once I got in there, I kind of liked it.&raquof temporary relief [from family pressures] but once I got in there, I kind of liked it.&raquof liked it.»

Gee they're NOT even joining the Military after the repeal of DADT.

I am joining the US military because I believe in Democracy and Freedom, and we will overcome the ignorance that pervades this society through the strength of our actions - not through paltry words and stunted thinking.

I take offense to that portion of your comment because because I am a US Marine and have been one for a long time and have served in combat and none of us remotely said or thought we were going to war in the name of God, so you are not only bearing false witness, you are also condemning military service (Exodus 20 and Matthew 22; Matthew 7:1 - 3) without understanding that many join the military because of the poor job markets.

I joined the military after 4 years of marriage and our lives got better and marriage was a lot better.

(i) a woman's right to an abortion; (iii) medical immunization of teen girls (and boys) against HPV; (iv) assisted suicide; (vi) gay marriage; (vii) my right to view art and theatre deemed «offensive,» «blasphemous» or «obscene» Catholics; (viii) basic $ ex education for older school children; (ix) treating drug abuse as principally a medical issue; (x) population control; (xi) buying alcohol on a Sunday in many places; (xii) use of condoms and other contraceptives; (xiii) embryonic stem cell research; (xiv) little 10 year - old boys joining organizations such as the Boy Scouts of America, regardless of the religious views of their parents; and (xv) gays being allowed to serve openly in the military.

Anticipating an attempt to repeal this law, several retired flag and general officers from all branches of the military created an organization called The Flag and General Officers for the Military Project, and set about asking their retired colleagues to join them in signing a letter to the President and Members of Cmilitary created an organization called The Flag and General Officers for the Military Project, and set about asking their retired colleagues to join them in signing a letter to the President and Members of CMilitary Project, and set about asking their retired colleagues to join them in signing a letter to the President and Members of Congress.

Toppled Moammar Gaddafi: In March 2011, joined a coalition of European and Arab governments in military action, including air power and naval blockade, against Gaddafi regime to defend Libyan civilians and support rebel troops.

He joined an opposition organization (primarily made up of aristocratic and military conservatives) that planned to arrest Hitler and thereby transfer power to others in an orderly, Lutheran way.

When I first joined the military, I noticed a lot of the younger folks were highly opinionated and not aware of what was happening around them.

I do not need the government or media to tell me how to live my life, I spent over ten years in the active military I joined when it was an honor to serve and as soldiers we did not have to follow bureaucratic system of rules that are in place now we had something the liberals will never have honor and morality.

Of course, the subset of those who neither join the military nor get married is growing as the others are shrinkinOf course, the subset of those who neither join the military nor get married is growing as the others are shrinkinof those who neither join the military nor get married is growing as the others are shrinking.

First on joining the military where my individual perception of myself was deconstructed then reconstructed as identifying as part of a body.

there are far worse things and far worse of a life one can have than joining the military, and serving in any capacity has its own rewards.

Horton's father ground spices until he joined the military for five years at the start of World War II.

Of the two that did not, one had a child and went straight to work, and the other joined the military.

Part of the reason I would never have looked to join the military is because I KNOW sooner or later there could come an order that I would take issue with, and I wouldn't want to compromise myself OR the chain of command by putting myself in that position.

Despite the fact that he would be available only for two years on the time of signing, owing to the fact that he would join the military two years later, he was the only striker purchased in the transfer window, and it remains one of the strangest transfers made by the club.

And it's just as easy to categorize the 40 - year - old Broadwell, author of a glowing hagiography of Petraeus, «All In: The Education of General David Petraeus,» as a military groupie who was too ambitious in her attempts to join Washington's national security elite and saw Petraeus as her way in, a jealous, adulterous temptress who would stop at nothing to remove any woman who would get in between her and her lover (but obviously not his wife), or a devoted mom of two young boys and wife who made a mistake by falling in love with her mentor.

Rebuilding a home in one week's time may not be typical of the projects Obama envisioned when launching her «Joining Forces» initiative for military families, but it provided proof of what can be accomplished when communities, businesses and individuals step up to give something back to service members.

Along with having the opportunity to experience both the onsite and online benefits of the program, they were able to network with their peers throughout the region during the training and now join more than 4,000 recreation professionals from across the country, and on U.S. military bases worldwide, who have earned the CYSA credential.

If the TA were reinstated as Haldane intended and governments curtailed their love of military adventurism, small employers would not need to fear employees joining.

The NLC, joined by the state chapter of National Union of Teachers (NUT) defied a combined team of military and police personnel deployed to stop the protest.

Part of the commitment to perpetual neutrality is the ban on joining military alliances, such as NATO.

Also on Friday, Trump directed the Pentagon to extend indefinitely a ban on transgender individuals joining the military, but he appeared to leave open the possibility of allowing some already in uniform to remain.

From here (2002) it's just a short skip and a jump to the next rebellion (CNDP — 2004 - 2009), and the rebellion after that (M23 now), both of which are dominated by precisely those Rwandaphone Congolese officers brought into the military by the peace deals which ended the war (as this makes clear, about half of the leadership of CNDP has now joined M23).

The Critical Analyst's investigation have further revealed that, Brig Gen Odoi, a self - styled Real Estate mongul and owner of fleet of trotros, who is currently posted as the Military Advisor in New York, confiscated the Wife's Passport because he does not want her to join him at his post in New York for inexplicable reasons.

Arguably, one joining the military gives up their right of liberty and pursuit of happiness... unless someone derives happiness from pushups and swabbing out latrines.

Chair of the Senate Veterans, Homeland Security and Military Affairs Committee, Senator Greg Ball, joined us to discuss.

Updated at 12:35 p.m. ET on 7/16 Washington (CNN)-- An effort to remove sexual assault cases from the military chain of command received a bipartisan boost Tuesday as conservative Republicans joined the bill's main backer, Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, to voice their support for the measure.