Browsing by Subject "military"
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(Elsevier, 2020-07)Colleges and universities across the country have been developing robust programs and services to support student veterans, including veteran-specific orientations. The Texas A&M University Libraries received a grant from ...
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(Chandos Publishing, 2018)At Texas A&M University, the Corps of Cadets is the largest and oldest student organization on campus. Each summer, nearly 1,000 freshman recruits participate in the Corps' Freshman Orientation Week (FOW), a military-style ...
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This thesis will be examining the policies enacted in the contemporary period - contemporary defined as the time period after the events of the Cold War - and will do so empirically. This thesis will analyze contemporary ...
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(2011-08-08)Research is needed on desistance from crime using samples of males and females. Through the use of three waves of the National Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent Health (Add Health) data which represents a diverse and ...
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(2015-10-05)This dissertation examines how access to care is changing in today’s military and how these changes impact various populations. Three topics are examined, which cover pre-existing personality disorder discharges, mental ...
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(Elsevier, 2021-07)College and university library programs and services for military-affiliated populations are typically aimed at student veterans and service members and not their spouses or children who are also students. However, librarians ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2006-10-30)This study examines the historical significance of the Virginia Military InstituteâÂÂs (VMI) first superintendent, Francis Henney Smith, and his influence not only at his home institution but also on his broader social, ...
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(2016-04-14)This study identifies factors associated with rapid promotion rates among elite United States Army officers. It is particularly interested whether officer mobility rates are affected by the military experience of the ...
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(1995)Over the past several years, spread spectrum radio communication systems have been increasingly viewed as attractive alternatives to more common methods of radio communication. The military has long valued spread spectrum ...
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A Matter of Perspective: A Comparative Analysis of Field Grade and General Officer Lesson Learning (2017-05-08)The U.S. Army that emerged from the Cold War was largely an untested one, a condition which would quickly be altered by deployments throughout the 1990s. First in Panama, then in Iraq, Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia and elsewhere, ...
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(2015-08-17)Postmodern sociological theory surfaced in the 1960’s and has remained a dominant field of study among cultural theorists up to present day. Postmodernism serves as the basis for an examination of “collective opinions” in ...
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(American Library Association, 2018-06-24)Student veterans and military service members are a unique population on college and university campuses. They are non-traditional students and often transfer students who can feel isolated among a large population of ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2006-04-12)The U.S. Army Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) dates back to the fall of 1947 and evolved from severe professional nursing shortages of World War II. Today, as in the past, to sustain U.S. Army readiness the highly medically ...
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(2012-09-27)As men and women return from serving on the frontlines of Operations Enduring Freedom (OEF; Afghanistan) and Iraqi Freedom (OIF; Iraq), many struggle with emotional or behavioral difficulties stemming from the stresses of ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2005-11-01)This study examines community involvement in major U.S. military base closures and realignments from 1988 to 2001. There were four waves of base closures during this time. They were in 1988, 1991, 1993, and 1995. Community ...
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(Taylor & Francis, 2017)Veterans are a unique population that can be found in libraries across the United States. Libraries of all types are developing new approaches to the veterans in their patron populations in the wake of the wars in Iraq and ...
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Telling the Open Secret: Toward a New Discourse with the U.S. Military’s Don’t Ask Don’t Tell Policy (2010-10-12)This qualitative dissertation in Counseling Psychology considers the open secret, an under-researched phrase describing an interesting phenomenon that is experienced by some, but not all, LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, ...
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(2021-07-05)Review of Ethan Blue, Michael Levine, and Dean Nieusma’s Engineering and War: Militarism, Ethics, Institutions, Alternatives, San Rafael, CA: Morgan and Claypool, 2014.