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Marine Corps, one-year as a Marine Reservist, and years in the Air National Guard, retiring with years total service. He served in Vietnam and Desert Storm. As a civilian, Chris was a paramedic, a federal police officer, then a municipal police officer for a suburb of Detroit, Michigan. He is retired with years of law enforcement experience. Chris now lives in Florida with his youngest daughter, son, and two short-haired Chihuahuas, while his oldest daughter serves in the U. Where did you grow up, and how did this influence your writing?
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I grew up in Detroit, Michigan. I had a rather adventurous working life as a Marine, paramedic, Air National Guardsman, and police officer. My two books are about my working life as my personal life is too boring.
- Christopher Tipton.
- Controlling-Praxis im Mittelstand: Aufbau eines Controllingsystems basierend auf Lexware, DATEV oder SAP (German Edition).
- The Economist Guide to Decision-Making: Getting it more right than wrong.
- Your Personal Journey Into Miracle Faith!
- IN THE SHADOW OF LOVE.
- A Narrative of Personal Experiences and Impressions during a Residence on the Bosphorus throughout the Crimean war. [With plates.];
When did you first start writing? Of course, I was forced to write the usual twaddle in high school that failed to interest me about writing in any fashion.
- UNC Charlotte Boot Camps?
- Fairy Tail Vol. 19.
- Pirateria (Italian Edition).
- Where You Come From.
As a Marine military policeman, spelling did count in the units I served with. Eventually, I branched out into more technical writing, creating policies and procedures, lesson plans, speeches, and even short law enforcement-related magazine articles.
As I grew older, I began contemplating the thought of writing a book or two for the heck of it, nothing spectacular, just to see if I could do it. In addition to discipline and physical fitness, leaders also wanted technical and tactical proficiency in warrior tasks and battle drills.
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After working out the details in a pilot at Fort Jackson , South Carolina, the Army has approved a new POI that Frost hopes will better instill into recruits exactly what it means to be a soldier. One new aspect features a series of history vignettes of major battles that the Army has fought in, from Valley Forge in the Revolutionary War all the way to Iraq in Baghdad, Frost said. The new standardized booklet will be given to each recruit along with their Blue Book at the beginning of training.
Recruits will also learn discipline by doing more practice at a skill that may be as old as soldiering itself -- drill and ceremony.
The drill and ceremony is going to be interwoven into when they move to and from places It will be an hour field training exercise with about 40 miles of tactical road marching that is conducted through a series of tactical events and mini field training exercises. The Forge will include a night infiltration course and a medical evacuation mass casualty exercise.
There will be ethical dilemmas soldiers have to negotiate as well as a battle march and shoot, a resupply mission which involves moving supplies, ammo, water to a link-up point, patrol base activities, combat patrols as well as an obstacle course, Frost said. The new BCT POI weeded out "lot of redundant areas and areas that have crept in that did not get after the basics" -- shoot, move, communicate and protect or survive, Frost said.
For weapons qualification, recruits will be required to qualify with backup iron sights instead of just on close-combat optic sights. Physical fitness standards will also be increased, requiring each soldier to score at least 60 points on all three events of the Army Physical Fitness Test instead of 50 points on each as a graduation standard.
Recruits will receive an increased amount of tactical combat casualty care training such as basic combat lifesaver. The course will also teach "some of the basics that we had kind of lost with respect to communications such as basic hand and arm signals, and we have doubled the amount of basic reporting on the radio communications" such as MEDEVAC and similar requests, Frost said.
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The new BCT does, however, do away with hand grenade qualification and land navigation course qualification as graduation requirements. It's taking three to four times as much time In 10 weeks, we are on a hour period; you are just not going to be able to teach someone how to throw if they haven't thrown growing up.
The new changes to BCT, Frost said, will hopefully make new soldiers better prepared for their advanced individual training, first unit of assignment and result in a lower, new-soldier attrition rate.