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Flat feet, also called pes planus or fallen arches, is a postural deformity in which the arches of the foot collapse, with the entire sole of the foot coming into complete or near-complete contact with the ground. Sometimes children are born with flat feet (congenital).
Colombia maintains a large and well-funded military, often focused on counter-insurgency. [49] There is an obligatory military draft for all young men. [50] Nevertheless, according to Public Radio International, two types of draft evasion are widespread in Colombia; one is prevalent among the relatively well-off, and another is found among the ...
Desertion from the U.S. military was not on the list of crimes for which a person could be extradited under the extradition treaty between Canada and the U.S.; [49] however, desertion was a crime in Canada, and the Canadian military strongly opposed condoning it. In the end, the Canadian government maintained the right to prosecute these ...
Historically, flat feet have been of interest to defence forces. In a paper titled “The Longstanding Problem of Flat Feet”, Bennett and Stock described the problem that flat feet have posed for recruitment into the British army over 300 years, and the methods by which the British army responded to this problem.
Some troops leave the battlefield injured. Others return from war with mental wounds. Yet many of the 2 million Iraq and Afghanistan veterans suffer from a condition the Defense Department refuses to acknowledge: Moral injury.
Walter Scott "Smokey" Gordon was born in Jackson, Mississippi.He enrolled at Millsaps College around 1940, attending there for 2 years. [2]Due to colorblindness and flat feet, the Marines and the Navy had rejected him, so he joined the Army. [3]
Most people enter military service “with the fundamental sense that they are good people and that they are doing this for good purposes, on the side of freedom and country and God,” said Dr. Wayne Jonas, a military physician for 24 years and president and CEO of the Samueli Institute, a non-profit health research organization. “But things ...
Drill instructors hammer into recruits a rigid moral code of honor, courage and commitment with the goal, according to the Marine Corps, of producing young Marines “thoroughly indoctrinated in love of Corps and Country … the epitome of personal character, selflessness, and military virtue.” The code is unyielding.