World in Conversation�FACILITATOR RECRUITMENT
World in Conversation��BLOCK 2��First names H – M�registering now��Starting globals – do NOT miss
CLASS 19��Tuesday – March 25th��BEGIN - XXXX
Achievement �through merit
Lt. Col. Mark Kormos, Ret.��27 years U.S. Army
Logistics Officer��Assistant Professor
in Military Leadership,
Fort Belvoir Satellite Campus
CLASS 19��Tuesday – March 25th��END - XXXX
Ian from Kansas City, Kansas
(not Missouri) asked on the YouTube
Live Stream Chat:
“Being raised as a military brat
I feel my parents instilled manners
that aren't common in civilian life.
Examples: Saying “yes sir, no sir”, standing at attention when facing the flag, etc.
Do the Lt. Col. and students
feel the same?”
David from Ohio commented on the YouTube Live Stream Chat:
“I served in USAF from 1992-2000.
The military was the most socially, racially, religiously, and generally culturally diverse environment I've ever been in.
It was more merit based than civilian life.
Do you see any flaws in human created metrics with human written reviews?”
Timmy Kearns from Baghdad, Iraq commented on the YouTube Live Stream Chat:
“I know someone touched on this earlier but could you talk about the way the military is depicted in movies vs how it really is?”
Questions and comments from yesterday’s class that we didn’t get to.
Megan from Minneapolis, MN asked on the YouTube Live Stream Chat:
“I was never in the military,
but I have a lot of family
on both my mom and father's side,
and my father was in the military.
My question is how did it affect close family dynamics?”
Ian from KCK asked on the YouTube Live Stream Chat:
“Do any of the students that were in the military plan on re-enlisting as an NCO (Non-Commissioned Officer)?”
David from Ohio (USAF 92-00) commented on the YouTube Live Stream Chat:
“Civilians don't understand how important non-deployed support personnel are to the troops in combat.”
Jason from Northern California, USA asked on the YouTube
Live Stream Chat:
“In the 60s and 70s the military
viewed families as…
"If we wanted you to have a family, we would have issued it in your Sea Bag.”
Does that hold true today, as well?”
Ian from KCK asked on the YouTube
Live Stream Chat:
“Do we think that we should have women in the draft?
Since about 80% of jobs in the military aren’t combat roles, wouldn’t that make it a better argument for having women in the draft as well?”
Comments from the comment section
benayakoren5045 commented on the comment section:
Important to remember that the story people tell about their culture is not necessarily reality. The Israeli intelligence has a strong anti hierarchical open minded ethos, and until something goes wrong you wouldn't hear about how it fall short of that ethos.
fabianvietmeyer6496 commented on the YouTube comment section:
Is it possible that DEI have an underlying problem with a oppressed vs oppressor mentality?
Questions from today’s Stream
Eric Sell from the Philly region asked on the YouTube Live Stream Chat:
If one were to view the IDF as a proxy branch of US military - because we provide substantial funding to them every year - how can one support genocide?
Axel from Germany asked on the YouTube Live Stream Chat:
Did you read about stopping DEI program from different big companies in Europe? After Letters from US government about DEI program. Swiss UBS (Bank) take the DEI Information from there website.
G00-eye from California asked on the YouTube Live Stream Chat:
Are there any sociology truths
or is every belief we hold
based entirely on our social constructs?
What defines “right and wrong?” Could it be anything as long as it is socially acceptable?
Axel from Germany asked on the YouTube Live Stream Chat:
Is the U.S. Military the biggest educational institution in U.S. history?
Jason from Northern California
asked on the YouTube Live Stream Chat:
Have you seen examples of
lowering requirements
in order to enter an area of service
that would be unavailable otherwise?
Patrick commented on the YouTube Live Stream Chat:
It's a mix of losing the support structure & having difficulty letting go. not letting having been in the military be your ID is a big part of the healing process & being ok with it.
Axel from Germany asked on the YouTube Live Stream Chat:
How important is the Corps of engineers in US ?
Eric from Philly asked on the YouTube Live Stream Chat:
What socio-economic status is most likely to join the US military?
In the past the military gave a lot
of money and opportunities for
poor families, assuming they
survived the war.
Eric from Philly asked on the YouTube Live Stream Chat:
What's frequency of of drug and alcohol abuse when comparing civilians and the military?