Blog #25 Cold War outcomes and the Sequestration

Good morning Cadets.  Since we are learning about the cold war, the one outcome of WWII was the creation of the Marshall Plan that helped rebuild and restore war ravaged/damaged Europe and speed their economic recovery.  Along with that, the United States started to spend more money on Foreign Aide for countries around the world. With Sequestration in place, we are required now to decrease spending to help foreign governments.  Your goal this week is to select a country from around the world and find out how much money the US is sending that country for foreign aid. Along with that, you need to find out what that country does with the money that we send them.  As usual, post your URL for the website where you obtained your information and also comment on other cadet's work.  You must complete all 3 tasks to receive full credit for this work.  Good luck and here is my posting:
Foreign Aid to China  . According to this article, we are giving China $12,000,000 in foreign aid, $4,000,000 for environmental issues.  That is right, 12 Million Dollars to a country that we owe money.  Wow, I am surprised.

Here is the link to download the Cold War/Military Booklet we are using in class as well:
Cold War & Military History JROTC Let2

Army JROTC Chain of Command

Blog #24 Drugs, drugs, & more drugs. What's your choice to learn about and teach?

Good morning Cadets.  This week you are involved with teaching about the different drugs that you may come into contact during your life. Each student is required to work as a team and use Google-Docs. You have created your presentation and will show your group work and knowledge in your classroom setting. Your task for this blog is to post the Drug that you and your group is teaching about.  You must identify information that you learned while researching about the drug and then must post the URL for the site that you collected your information.  If you have a video that you used, please post the URL link to that video as well.  Once you have accomplished these tasks, your final one is to comment on other students works.  Remember that you will get extra bonus points for creating a video yourself using your material as well as making a wall poster for our classroom.  Good luck and here is a video that I chose about music and Psychedelic drugs from the sixties.

Although some of these songs are not related to drugs, the bands music played a major part in expanding the use of mind expanding drugs in our culture during the sixties.