The ability to write a professional Army memo is a necessity for any service member. The Army sets high standards and provides specific guidelines for non-ambiguous, clear writing in Army Regulation 25-50, "Preparing and Managing Correspondence." It’s essential to set an example for subordinates...
Even in today's world of casual emails, knowing how to format a professional letter is necessary. You may need to write a formal letter to apply to -- or resign from -- a job, convince someone to see things from your point of view or even just to express an opinion, such as in a...
If you write that the committee is looking for a new "chairman," for example, the golden squiggle will suggest that you use a gender-neutral term like "chairperson." If you're writing a memo to your boss that requires a certain degree of formality, the gold squiggle will flag words that...
All his life,William Manchester writes, Churchill loved to look at maps, “as much for their utility as for their ability to stoke his imagination. Maps and naval charts lifted him away to far-off places and conjured images of heroic adventures long past.” Many have felt...
And my recommendation, like, here, I’ll give one simple thing that somebody would probably want to write down. Hey, when you’re jumping into advanced voice mode, isn’t it annoying how ChatGPT interrupts you? Well, did you know that you can tell ChatGPT, “Hey, just say, ‘Mm-hmm...
“I just had decided myself, because I’m not in the Coast Guard anymore, that I can write my own narrative now,” said Klement, who served in the Coast Guard from 2012 to 2015 and currently works as a photographer in Oregon. “We really wanted people to see it.”...
Can you prepare yourself to be waterboarded? According to psychologists, ex-torturers and people who underwent waterboarding, there isn’t any way to prepare yourself for it. However, until 2007 the US army’s Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape (SERE) training program prepared its parti...
They denote a word that would be stressed if spoken: “Stop the car — Ireallyhave to go to the bathroom.” They indicate a word being introduced as itself, not as an idea: “Write,right, andriteare all pronounced identically.” Terms of more than one word are often enclosed in quotat...
And how does a whole organization write a book? Mitch Warner Oh, great question. The Arbinger Institute is an organization that helps other organizations transform their culture. And the way we help people transform their culture is by helping people transform their people, specifically, at the ...
Over the next 25 years, Iran’s financial and militarysupportfor Hezbollah enabled it to amass an army with tens of thousands of foot soldiers, more heavy armaments than most nation-states and approximately 120,000 rockets and ballistic missiles that could strike Israel and U.S. interests in ...