Military families

I came of a military family and have a naturally pugnacious character, the more violent manifestations of which I have to keep continually under control. My religious teaching as a child was of the orthodox kind that rubber-stamps any war that happens to be going. I don t believe in sitting down and being walked on I believe in non-violent resistance because I believe it to be the only form of resistance that can be really effective, in that it does not perpetuate the evil it aims at eliminating.30... 

Any building or portion of a building, regardless of population density, in which 11 or more unaccompanied personnel are routinely housed, including temporary lodging facilities and military family housing permanently converted to unaccompanied housing. 

Chlordane in Military Family Housing," National Academy of Sciences, 1979. 

Safety professionals should be aware that there are a number of proposed amendments to the FMLA, including the Family and Medical Leave Enhancement Act of 2009, ° Paid Vacation Act, Domestic Violence Leave Act, Military Family Leave Act of 2009, ° and Living Organ Donor Job Security Act, " among a number of proposed legislative changes that can impact the safety function if passed. 

The Chemical Warfare Service was a product of the changing technology of war. Only reluctantly did the War Department provide for its activation. Many years would elapse before the new organization would be fully accepted in the military family. In fact, it would require the experience of a second world war to convince the War Department of the real need for a separate chemical service. 

Military families are unique in many ways as compared to their civilian counterparts (see Isay, 1968 LaGrone, 1978). On average, a military family will move every 3 years, often to locations overseas. Children are therefore required to change schools and make new friends on a frequent basis. In many families both parents are in the military, potentially compounding disruptions at home. There are also many single-parent military families. Often children go exclusively to schools dominated by military children and recognize that their lives are different from those of civilian children. Military parents are required to have a plan that specifies who is to take care of their children if they are deployed, and deployment itself places enormous strain on the military family. 

These stresses clearly operate in the lives of military families in Hawaii, where the 25th Infantry Division of the U.S. Army operates. Deployment for soldiers from this division occurs on a fairly frequent basis. Often the children are cared for by the other parent, a relative, or, at times, by a good family friend. Many times the nonmilitary spouse and children move back to the mainland to be with relatives, an event that is difficult for the children s social and academic adjustment. Whenever there is a national crisis, many children begin to worry if their parents are going to leave and, more importantly, if they will return. 

Vision To develop and implement a comprehensive array of school-based programs and services to support students, family, and community. Goals (1) To provide a full continuum of mental health promotion and intervention programs and services to include early identification and intervention, prevention, evaluation, and treatment. (2) To remove barriers to learning and improve the academic success of students. (3) To enhance strengths and protective factors in students, families, and the school community. (4) To promote the quality of life and wellness in military families. (5) To provide training, staff development, and research opportunities to improve children s mental health and education. 

In preparing this chapter we were struck by how limited the literature is on the psychosocial needs of military families. In particular, we found no other articles on school-based mental health programs in military schools. Thus, while our efforts at Solomon elementary school are beginning we are excited about the project s potential to both improve the lives of students and families in the school and serve as an example to spur the improvement and expansion of school mental health in military schools. 

LaGrone, D. M. (1978). The military family syndrome. American Journal of Psychiatry, 135,1040-1043. 

The son of a tailor, Joseph Fourier was a member of a large family. Both of his parents died by the time he was nine. His education began at a local, church-run, military school, where he quickly showed talent in his studies and especially in mathematics. His school persuaded him to tram as a priest. While preparing to take holy orders he taught his fellow novices mathematics. Fourier may well have entered the priesthood, but due to the French Revolution new priests were banned from taking holy orders. Instead he returned to his home town of Auxerre and taught at the militaiy school. His friend and mathematics teacher, Bonard, encouraged him to develop his mathematical research, and at the end of 1789 Fourier travelled to Paris to report on this research to the Academic des Sciences. 

The family s precarious financial situation prompted Siemens to choose a military career as a way to advance his education in mathematics. 

It seemed like we were rapidly acquiring a crowded kennel of chemical breeds, sufficient in number to parade past the military judges. And even more were in the offing. Some were from other chemical families and had different effects, but their potency tended to be too low or they failed to meet some other practical requirement. They might last too long, for example, or have too many side effects. 

Methyl methacrylate is only one of a family of monomers, including the various esters of acrylic, methacrylic, and ethacrylic acids, which are polymerized to produce the thermoplastic resins known as the acrylates. A wide variety of reactions and starting materials may be utilized for their production however, the principal commercial product is polymethyl methacrylate, sold by Du Pont and Rohm Haas under the trade names of Lucite and Plexiglas, respectively. These materials were introduced to the United States market in 1936 (44) and have received widespread acceptance due principally to their outstanding optical properties. Production in 1949 was reported as about 22,000,000 to 25,000,000 pounds and peak wartime capacity was above30,000,000 pounds. While this can account for only about 2% of the current production of propylene for chemical purposes, the acrylate resins are of considerable commercial importance as they are sold at a relatively high price and are the only materials available that will meet the requirements for certain military and civilian products. 

Sadi Carnot (full name Nicolas Leonard Sadi Carnot, Sadi after a Persian poet) was bom into one of the most emdite and influential families of the turbulent Napoleonic period. Sadi s father, Lazare Carnot, was a leading scientist and mathematician of his time, as well as a noted military commander who achieved high ministerial office under Napoleon. The father s profound intellectual influence on Sadi is apparent from parallels between Lazare s 1803 treatise, Fundamental Principles of Equilibrium and Movement, and Sadi s famous 1824 monograph, Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire (Reflexions sur la puissance motrice du feu), which applied similarly general and abstract analysis to purely mechanical and thermomechanical devices, respectively. Among other accomplishments of this remarkable family, Sadi s younger brother, Hippolyte, became a noted writer and statesman, and the latter s eldest son, Marie Francois Sadi Carnot, later became a president of the Third Republic. 

The foregoing characteristics enable the configuration of a whole new family of high-power microwave and high-temperature electronics that can withstand high radiation for military and commercial systems. 

As previously mentioned, the nickel—titanium alloys have been the most widely used shape memory alloys. This family of nickel—titanium alloys is known as Nitinol (Nickel Titanium Naval Ordnance Laboratory in honor of the place where this material behavior was first observed). Nitinol have been used for military, medical, safety, and robotics applications. Specific usages include hydraulic lines capable of F-14 fighter planes, medical tweezers, anchors for attaching tendons to bones, eyeglass frames, underwire brassieres, and antiscalding valves used in water faucets and shower heads (38,39). Nitinol can be used in robotics actuators and micromanipulators that simulate human muscle motion. The ability of Nitinol to exert a smooth, controlled force when activated is a mass advantage of this material family (5). 

The company offers its employees medical, dental and vision 401 (k) savings and a stock ownership plan a pension plan short- and long-term disability coverage leaves of absence for military duty, family or medical needs and educational assistance and college degree recognition programs. 

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