I served as a US Peace Corps volunteer in Thailand, Mongolia, Nepal, and now serving in Armenia. I created this website to help others thrive as a PC volunteer.
–This is one of the most difficult questions to answer. How was what? After 2.5 years away, I’ve done a few things. There was the Peace Corps thing, the AfrikaBurn thing, and the travel around Asia thing among other things.
Peace Corps is known as the “toughest job you’ll ever love,” but it’s not for everyone. Whether you’re a high school student, or want to volunteer in a country that Peace Corps doesn’t serve, or even if you’d like tovolunteer for a week or during your summer vac...
The Peace Corps is a volunteer program run by the United States government. The stated mission of the Peace Corps includes three goals: providing technical assistance; helping people outside the United States to understand American culture; and helping Americans to understand the cultures of other c...
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I am sure you have a million questions, and I do, too. Simply, Peace Corps ended my service because of a security incident. It took me this long to tell you because I still wish this was a nightmare that I could wake up from, and I wish that waking up would be in my bed in ...
The US Peace Corps (PCs) |was the brainchild of American President John F Kennedy Jr, as he initiated it on March 1961. The idea was that volunteers (PCVs), usually with a college degree, applied and after a training period of three months, they were sent to different parts of the ...
I spent ten years in the Marine Corps and went to war three timesbefore realizing the courageto stand against those unjust, immoral, and counterproductive wars. Since 2009, I have fought not only against the war machine but also against the systemic political and financial rot that underlies an...
After the relocation, Guam will possess 25% of US Marine Corps Air Ground Task Force in Asia-Pacific area, and US military personnel stationed in Guam have also increased from 15,000 to 39,000.16 At the same time, the United States also dramatically uplifted Australia's position in US ...
And not just the Marine Corps, but they’re ordering allUS militaryout of their ‘country’ by 9/11. They probably want us out before whatever horrible terrorist attacks are going to happen on 9/11 so we’d have to decide to go back, get ready to go back and then actually go back...