Monday, March 31, 2014
Raising Digital Awareness
It's important to attract visitors to your blog because you can actually help people if they read posts from your blog. If they are intersected in joining the military and they read my blog they could gain some good information because a lot of my posts are about the military and I could know more about the military than they do. I'm addressing visitors needs by posting about the military. The only person that would really benefit from my blog would be someone that is intersted in joining the military. I can improve the value of my sight by posting more consistently. I would say human interaction is much more important than digital. Posting on a blog is pretty easy. You have a lot of time to think before you post. If your talking to someone your usually more honest because you have to answer a lot faster.
Friday, March 28, 2014
Lit analysis #3
My book "No Easy Day" by Mark Owen is an autobiography about the authors career as a US Navy SEAL. He goes into a lot of detail about his career serving in the SEAL teams, operations he took part in and the fellow SEALs he served with. The highlight of the authors career was taking part in Operation Neptune Spear, or the Osama Bin Laden raid. The author served for ten years in the Navy. He went to BUD/S right after basic training and joined SEAL Team 5. He served with ST5 for a few years before going through additional training and joining Naval Special Warfare Develepment Group or DEVGRU for short, SEAL Team 6.
Mark Owen most likely wrote this book to shed light on DEVGRU, which very little is known about. DEVGRU is very secretive and information is tightly controlled by the Pentagon. Mark Owen chose to write about his experiences not to give out information about DEVGRU, but to honor the fellow operators that he served with.
I originally chose this book because very little is known about DEVGRU and I wanted to learn more about it because I love learning anything about the military. I found it to be a very interesting book that I had trouble putting down sometimes. The stories he told from BUD/S, green team and his deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan were unreal!
Most of the characters from "No Easy Day" were fellow DEVGRU operators that were friends of Mark Owens. All of the names were changed even his own because those men don't want their names leaked to the media, in fear of Al Qaeda reprisals. 3 operators he talks about the most are Charlie, Phil and Steve. Charlie and Mark went through green team together (DEVGRU Training). After graduation they went to separate squadrons. After Phil, who was Mark Owens team leader was shot on a deployment to Afghanistan, Charlie was sent in to be the new team leader. Phil was a good friend of Marks they served with each other at DEVGRU the whole time Mark was their.
The author doesn't describe places that well because they really aren't that hard to imagine. Like mountainous Afghanistan, the Indian Ocean, Virginia and San Diego.
I will never forget a lot of things from this book. Especially the bravery and heroics of DEVGRU operators. The sacrifice those men made is unreal. They went into the most dangerous places in the world to kill terrorists and Taliban fighters to keep us Americans safe. That's why I think everyone should read this book!
Mark Owen most likely wrote this book to shed light on DEVGRU, which very little is known about. DEVGRU is very secretive and information is tightly controlled by the Pentagon. Mark Owen chose to write about his experiences not to give out information about DEVGRU, but to honor the fellow operators that he served with.
I originally chose this book because very little is known about DEVGRU and I wanted to learn more about it because I love learning anything about the military. I found it to be a very interesting book that I had trouble putting down sometimes. The stories he told from BUD/S, green team and his deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan were unreal!
Most of the characters from "No Easy Day" were fellow DEVGRU operators that were friends of Mark Owens. All of the names were changed even his own because those men don't want their names leaked to the media, in fear of Al Qaeda reprisals. 3 operators he talks about the most are Charlie, Phil and Steve. Charlie and Mark went through green team together (DEVGRU Training). After graduation they went to separate squadrons. After Phil, who was Mark Owens team leader was shot on a deployment to Afghanistan, Charlie was sent in to be the new team leader. Phil was a good friend of Marks they served with each other at DEVGRU the whole time Mark was their.
The author doesn't describe places that well because they really aren't that hard to imagine. Like mountainous Afghanistan, the Indian Ocean, Virginia and San Diego.
I will never forget a lot of things from this book. Especially the bravery and heroics of DEVGRU operators. The sacrifice those men made is unreal. They went into the most dangerous places in the world to kill terrorists and Taliban fighters to keep us Americans safe. That's why I think everyone should read this book!
Tuesday, March 11, 2014
Entrepreneur
A. My expert is not an entrepreneur. He was a soldier in the US Army, he wasn't in business for himself, he worked for the federal government.
B. I am not an entrepreneur. I'm joining the Army I won't be in business for myself.
C. Most entrepreneurs are experts in whatever they sell.
B. I am not an entrepreneur. I'm joining the Army I won't be in business for myself.
C. Most entrepreneurs are experts in whatever they sell.
Monday, March 10, 2014
10 questions
1. When did you decide you wanted to join the Army?
2. What's the most rewarding thing about serving your country?
3. What did you do to prepare yourself for Special Operations?
4. How does the Army prepare you for the civilian world?
5. When did you decide you wanted to make the Army a career?
6. What's the best thing about being in the Army?
7. What's the worst thing about being in the Army?
8. What do you do in your spare time while on deployments?
9. What do you do in your spare time while in garrison?
10. What motivated you and kept you going while going through training/deployments?
2. What's the most rewarding thing about serving your country?
3. What did you do to prepare yourself for Special Operations?
4. How does the Army prepare you for the civilian world?
5. When did you decide you wanted to make the Army a career?
6. What's the best thing about being in the Army?
7. What's the worst thing about being in the Army?
8. What do you do in your spare time while on deployments?
9. What do you do in your spare time while in garrison?
10. What motivated you and kept you going while going through training/deployments?
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