The downside is that the Peace Corps acceptance rate isn’t as high as one might expect: sometimes we had to tell people right off the bat that Peace Corps wasn’t the right opportunity from them – for example, you must be a US citizen to become a Peace Corps volunteer, ...
halcyon daysA time of peace and prosperity; palmy or golden days. The halcyon was a bird, usually identified as a type of kingfisher, which bred in nests floating on the sea. The ancients believed that these birds charmed the winds and waves of the sea into tranquillity during their breedin...
Bringing Their Spirit Home; Colleges Guide Ex-Peace Corps Volunteers into Teaching Jobs
In part thanks to the actions of Marine General “Mad Dog” Mattis and in accordance with his wishes. I hope that motherfucking, oath-breaking, insurrectionist is fucking happy. It’s not my place, but the rest of the Marine Corps should declare the first ex-Marine. And not just the M...
At the top of the military command structure are the chiefs of staff for the Army and Air Force, the chief of Naval Operations, and the Commandant of The Marine Corps. They also serve as the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the committee gives advice on military matters to the President, the Secre...
Vivian Benjafield served throughout the First World War on the hospital ships in the Australian Army Medical Corps as a surgeon and administrator in Gallipoli. He volunteered to join in the service in September 1914, he was sent toNo.2 Australian GeneralHospitalafter he passed the examining for...
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Jobs for the Boys: Civilian Peaceforce Is Far from Neutral [Kosovo Protection Corps]Things are off to a shaky start for the Kosovo Protection Corps (known as the TMK) which aims to...Miglierina, Tomas