Word: missions
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...bullied her about her weight. And she was shocked by the abuse that senior sergeants routinely levied on subordinates. "I'd never been in a unit before where soldiers publicly humiliated other soldiers," says Montalvo, who left the Army in 2002 after 16 years. "If they don't make mission, they're humiliated and embarrassed...
...Houston battalion commander complained to subordinates of "getting numerous calls on recruiters being called 'dirtbags' or 'useless' when they do not accomplish mission each month." He'd heard that recruiters who had been promised birthdays or anniversaries off were being "called back to work on the day of the anniversary and during the birthday and/or anniversary party when they already had family and friends at their homes." To improve morale, the battalion's leadership decided to hold a picnic last July 26. "Family fun is mandatory," read an internal e-mail...
When Flores' station failed to make mission, his superiors ordered him to attend what the Army calls "low-production training" in Houston on Saturday, Aug. 2. "When you're getting home at 11 and getting up at 4, it's tough, but it's the dressing down that really got to him," says a recruiter who worked alongside Flores. "They had him crying like a kid in the office, telling him he was no good and that they were going to pull his stripes...
...been fearlessly devoted,” VES Professor Drew Beattie says. “Teaching isn’t a job for her. It’s a mission. It’s a devotion, not a job. Not all teachers are like that, not even at Harvard...
...most recent upset in what have been difficult times. The imminent change has not only troubled ardent supporters of the painting instructor, and alumni, but also unearthed longstanding, deeper anxieties concerning the direction in which the department is headed. Yet if VES is to continue to fulfill its mission to provide the best education possible to its students, then the troubling perception that the position of a more traditional, hands-on approach to art education has been rendered precarious by a move towards the theoretical must, at least, be brushed upon...