The Military Community

2012 ◽  
pp. 68-111
Author(s):  
David Simpkin
Keyword(s):  
Military Community ◽  
The Military

scholarly journals Civilian Structures as Military Restrictions

Vulcan ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-63
Author(s):  
Petter J. Wulff
Keyword(s):  
Second World War ◽  
Critical Component ◽  
Heavy Vehicles ◽  
World War ◽  
Military Community ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Military ◽  
Second World

The military community is a secluded part of society and normally has to act on the conditions offered by its civilian surroundings. When heavy vehicles were developed for war, the civilian infrastructure presented a potential restriction to vehicular mobility. In Sweden, bridges were seen as a critical component of this infrastructure. It took two decades and the experiences of a second world war for the country to come to terms with this restriction. This article addresses the question as to why Swedish tanks suddenly became much heavier in the early 1940s. The country’s bridges play a key role in what happened, and the article explains how. It is a story about how a military decision came to be outdated long before it was upgraded.

scholarly journals Preventing Obesity in the Military Community (POMC): The Development of a Clinical Trials Research Network

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 1174-1195 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Spieker ◽  
Tracy Sbrocco ◽  
Kelly Theim ◽  
Douglas Maurer ◽  
Dawn Johnson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Trials ◽  
Research Network ◽  
Military Community ◽  
The Military

Perceptions of family acceptance into the military community among U.S. LGBT service members: A mixed-methods study

2021 ◽  
pp. e20210019
Author(s):  
Katherina S. Sullivan ◽  
Jessica Dodge ◽  
Kathleen McNamara ◽  
Rachael Gribble ◽  
Mary Keeling ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Online Survey ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Mixed Methods Study ◽  
Service Members ◽  
Family Services ◽  
Family Acceptance ◽  
Lgbt Families ◽  
Chain Of Command ◽  
Military Community ◽  
The Military

Lay Summary There are approximately 16,000 families of lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBT) service members in the U.S. military, but very little is known about how accepted they feel in the communities in which they live. This study begins to address this question by considering the perspectives of LGBT service members, which they shared both in response to an online survey and in interviews. Findings suggest that many service members believe their spouses and families are accepted by their chain of command. However, a smaller but important group continued to express concerns about their family being accepted in their military community. Many service members appear concerned that family services available to them through the military are not appropriate for LGBT families. Altogether, this article highlights the need for more research to understand the well-being and needs of this group.

Huddled Masses

2019 ◽  
pp. 169-189
Author(s):  
Andrew Marble
Keyword(s):  
Humanitarian Intervention ◽  
Refugee Camp ◽  
Premature Baby ◽  
Humanitarian Assistance ◽  
Baby Girl ◽  
Modus Operandi ◽  
Humanitarian Mission ◽  
Military Community ◽  
The Military ◽  
Inherent Part

The chapter is set on April 19, 1991, during Lieutenant General John Shalikashvili’s very first inspection of a mountain refugee camp (Isikveren). The chapter demonstrates the absolute misery of life in the camps and outlines the suffering and looming potential for massive death. It reviews the progress the international humanitarian mission has accomplished so far and the upcoming shift in mission goal from “humanitarian assistance” to “humanitarian intervention,” which means Shalikashvili now faces the herculean task of moving all 500,000+ Kurds out of the mountains. Seeing the misery in the camp, Shalikashvili recalls his own suffering when he’d lost people he loved, particularly his loss, within weeks of each other, of both his premature baby girl and his cancer-stricken wife. It explains how all these blows—these “betrayals” by people he loved—are what helped push him to make the military his closest family, to make caring for and even loving the military community an inherent part of his leadership modus operandi.

Ethics and the Military Community

1980 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 23
Author(s):  
Richard A. Gabriel ◽  
Malham M. Wakin
Keyword(s):  
Military Community ◽  
The Military

Finding Resilience: The Mediation Effect of Sense of Community on the Psychological Well-Being of Military Spouses

2015 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 164-174 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mei-Chuan Wang ◽  
Pius Nyutu ◽  
Kimberly Tran ◽  
Angela Spears
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Positive Affect ◽  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Military Spouses ◽  
Mediation Effect ◽  
Psychological Well Being ◽  
Military Community ◽  
And Control ◽  
The Military

The goal of this study was to identify positive factors that increase the psychological well-being of military spouses in the areas of environmental mastery. We proposed that positive affect and social support from family and friends would have indirect effects on psychological well-being through their association with a greater sense of community with the military culture. Participants were 207 female spouses of active-duty service members. Data were analyzed using MEDIATE to test the mediational effect. Results indicated that social support from friends and positive affect did predict a sense of community, which in turn was associated with increased feelings of psychological well-being. The findings suggest that a perceived sense of military community helps military spouses gain a sense of mastery and control in a constantly changing environment.

“Behind Every Good Soldier…”

1981 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Palmer
Keyword(s):  
Research Literature ◽  
Host Community ◽  
Community Relations ◽  
Residential Communities ◽  
Military Community ◽  
Unexplored Area ◽  
Common Goals ◽  
The Military ◽  
Good Soldier ◽  
And Training

unexplored area in Australian research. Literature on the topic of military base-host community relations in specific is practically nonexistent, in Australia and elsewhere. Those case-studies which have been made (Barth, 1952; Hunter, 1952; Palmer, 1977) reveal that the military community represents a kind of foreign settlement in a civilian locality, that relations more often than not are uneasy and even exploitative in such matters as housing, and that the military style of life in general thwarts civil-military social integration.The communal nature of the military organisation in its own right has been noted by Kilmartin (1974; 444):“Military organisation may be thought of as communities in two senses: spatial and psychological. The latter means simply the affective bonds between members which occur as a result of common experiences, common goals and, in some cases, public antipathy or indifference ... The second sense in which military organisations are communal is in the form of more visible, spatial communities such as those residential communities on or near service bases and in barracks and training camps... These physical arrangements symbolize the relative impermeability of the (civil-military) boundaries — from either side.”How the wives and families of servicemen experience service lifestyle, military communalism and isolation from civilian host comunities is the concern of this paper.

scholarly journals Social Factors and Psychological Predictors of Life Satisfaction at Military Institutes

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 763-769
Author(s):  
M. V. Sysolyatin
Keyword(s):  
Subjective Assessment ◽  
Value Orientations ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Positive Assessment ◽  
Military Community ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Military ◽  
Lifestyle Satisfaction ◽  
Junior Students ◽  
The Way

The research identifies the relationship between satisfaction with the way of life and various socio-psychological factors. The study involved 1–5-year male cadets of a military university (N=255, average age = 20,2 years). To identify factors that influence cadets' satisfaction with their lifestyle, the authors used proprietary techniques, a questionnaire for diagnosing the level of social frustration by L. I. Wasserman modified by V. V. Boiko, and the methodology of the study of value orientations by M. Rokich. The study showed the dependence of the factors determining the cadets' satisfaction with the way of life on the year of study. For junior students, it was the military team factors and the place of the individual in the team. For graduates, the most significant factors were those that emphasized their belonging to the military community. The most significant predictors of lifestyle satisfaction were the characteristics of a subjective assessment of one’s status in a military team, a positive assessment of professional choice, and conditions of service and prospects after graduation.

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