The Very Special Profile of the Military Student

Abstract This article analyses the role of ‘Skogler’ (Ángel Cortés Gracia), a photographer who worked for the insurgent Falangist forces in the city of Zaragoza, the capital of Aragón, from the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. Skogler’s strong and early ties to the fascist movement, going back years before the war, suggest a special profile of an individual who supported the Falangist party by means of visual propaganda and printed photographs. Most of the photographs selected for study here have never been published before. They were shot in the early days of the military uprising against the Republic and help give us a more accurate understanding of armed fascism in the Aragonese capital, which ultimately fell to the rebels. This paper is part of an ongoing research project and exhibition to analyse and describe the contents and physical characteristics of the Skogler Archive, composed of more than 3,500 negatives recovered in diverse chronological phases.

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Training of Army Reserves in the Educational Structures of Military Settlements in the First Half of the 19th Century

Vestnik Volgogradskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta Serija 4 Istorija Regionovedenie Mezhdunarodnye otnoshenija ◽

10.15688/jvolsu4.2021.1.6 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 26 (1) ◽

pp. 53-66

Author(s):

Tatiana Kandaurova ◽

Keyword(s):

Educational Institutions ◽

Noncommissioned Officers ◽

Special Profile ◽

Educational Structures ◽

Army Reserves ◽

Army Service ◽

Russian Military ◽

Army Personnel ◽

The 19Th Century ◽

The Military

Introduction. The article considers the development of military educational structures of the Russian military settlement organization at various stages of their activity. In the 1810s and 1850s, training battalions, squadrons, batteries, and combat reserve units trained children of Cantonese military settlers to serve in the army as Junior and non-commissioned officers. Specialized educational institutions taught topographers, builders, doctors, veterinarians, agronomists and other training specialists to serve in the settlement districts. Methods and materials. The author explores models of developing military educational institutions on the basis of materials of complexes of legislative, statistical and reporting documents applying methods of quantitative analysis (trend models, grouping method), comparative analysis using source-oriented, problem-oriented, and system-structural approaches. Analysis. All this made it possible to trace the evolution of government policy aimed at training army personnel and noncommissioned officers based on changing historical realities (the army’s needs for trained personnel, the reform of the military settlement organization), and the results of its implementation, as well as to show the numerical corps of graduates of training units of military settlements and its growth in time and space. Results. The main stages of the development of military educational structures of settlements and periods of their quantitative growth are also defined, which resulted in the multiplication of the number of graduates for the army service. The formation and expansion of the entire educational system of settlements was carried out as the need for special-profile personnel arose in the settled regiments. In the 1820s – 1850s, new special educational institutions were integrated into it, and primary education developed along a transformed vector.

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An Analysis of Supports for Persistence for the Military Student Population

Online Learning ◽

10.24059/olj.v19i1.500 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 19 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Bruce D Mentzer ◽

Ellen Lowrie Black ◽

R. Terry Spohn

Keyword(s):

Academic Support ◽

Institutional Support ◽

Active Duty ◽

Student Population ◽

Military Students ◽

Support Mechanism ◽

Government Grants ◽

Support Mechanisms ◽

Military Student ◽

The Military

This study sought to describe the correlation of academic, financial, and social supports to the persistence of a military student population: veterans, active duty, and their families. The study also contrasted these relationships with non-military students and looked at the results of the overall group to persistence. Results confirmed the emphasis in the persistence literature on the importance of academic support mechanisms and noted its positive relationship to the military student population. Financial supports varied for the military student population, nonmilitary population, and the overall group with the military student population negatively impacted by loans, nonmilitary by university scholarships, and the overall group by government grants and aid. As an additional finding for this study, institutional support emerged as a key support mechanism. This study recommends enhancing academic and institutional support for the military student population to reinforce their persistence.

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Self-Reported Marital Quality of Military Families Living Off-Post in a Midwestern Community

Psychological Reports ◽

10.2466/pr0.1986.59.2.391 ◽

1986 ◽

Vol 59 (2) ◽

pp. 391-394 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Walter R. Schumm ◽

Phyllis M. Hammond

Keyword(s):

Family Life ◽

Marital Quality ◽

Military Families ◽

Self Report ◽

Military Couples ◽

Military Student ◽

The Military

Military, student, and other wives from a sample of 212 wives and both spouses from a sample of 79 couples from the Midwest are compared on a variety of self-report measures of marital quality. While few significant differences were found among the three groups, those that were significant favored the military couples. In these samples, the strengths of military families appeared sufficient to offset the stresses peculiar to their family life. The results suggest that not all military families can be fairly characterized as problematic or dysfunctional.

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Building an Accelerated Online Graduate Program for Military Officers

Online Learning ◽

10.24059/olj.v19i1.497 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 19 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Royce Ann Collins ◽

Haijun Kang ◽

Susan Yelich Biniecki ◽

Judy Favor

Keyword(s):

Graduate Program ◽

Academic Program ◽

Learning Needs ◽

Military Officers ◽

Military Officer ◽

Online Curriculum ◽

Experience Teaching ◽

Unique Nature ◽

Military Student ◽

The Military

Because of the intense and unique nature of their military life, military officers face challenges that other students do not need to be concerned about when taking courses online. An institution's ability to understand these military officer students, design online programs to meet their unique learning needs, and deliver valuable online curriculum to advance their learning is instrumental to the long-term success of both the military student and the institution. Reflecting on our more than twenty years of experience teaching and mentoring military officer students, this article tells the story behind the development of an accelerated online program and shares the challenges brought along with having military officers in our online classes, including unpredictable deployment schedules, unannounced military exercises, security concerns, and military values and culture. How our faculty creatively and pedagogically addressed these challenges while still maintaining the rigor of our academic program is also discussed.

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Perceived Cohesion in Military Student Groups

International conference KNOWLEDGE-BASED ORGANIZATION ◽

10.1515/kbo-2018-0109 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 24 (2) ◽

pp. 317-323

Author(s):

Crenguţa Mihaela Macovei

Keyword(s):

Factor Structure ◽

Small Groups ◽

Student Groups ◽

Study Support ◽

Military Student ◽

The Military

Abstract The purpose of this study is to examine the psychometric structure of the Perceived Cohesion Scale (PCS). For this, we applied that scale version that was adapted by Chin, Salisbury, Pearson, & Stollak for small groups because we considered that the formulation of the items is very well suited to the type of group represented by the military student platoon. The results of our study support the two-factor structure of the scale proposed by its authors. Both identified factors have demonstrated adequate levels of reliability. This scale proves to be a useful tool in measuring the cohesion of military student groups

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Democrazy—Dem Go Craze, O: Monitoring the 1999 Nigerian Elections

Issue A Journal of Opinion ◽

10.1017/s1548450500005862 ◽

1999 ◽

Vol 27 (1) ◽

pp. 29-33

Author(s):

Darren Kew

Keyword(s):

Transition Program ◽

The Political ◽

High Stakes ◽

Political Class ◽

Soccer Match ◽

The Public ◽

The Military

In many respects, the least important part of the 1999 elections were the elections themselves. From the beginning of General Abdusalam Abubakar’s transition program in mid-1998, most Nigerians who were not part of the wealthy “political class” of elites—which is to say, most Nigerians— adopted their usual politically savvy perspective of siddon look (sit and look). They waited with cautious optimism to see what sort of new arrangement the military would allow the civilian politicians to struggle over, and what in turn the civilians would offer the public. No one had any illusions that anything but high-stakes bargaining within the military and the political class would determine the structures of power in the civilian government. Elections would influence this process to the extent that the crowd influences a soccer match.

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