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Yesterday I completed my official instructor certification training for the Army. I am now officially instructor qualified.
This is the instructor badge that instructors are supposed to wear at the Army Medical Department (AMEDD) Center and School. My peers call it "The Push-to-Talk Button."
The instructor training doesn't really teach you anything - it's more a test to make sure you are an OK public speaker and you know not to fraternize with the students. After more than 20 years, I think I had that figured out.
Getting this badge for me was sentimental and exciting.
Sentimental because when I came on active duty as an officer in 1992, I remember all of the instructors wearing these badges and thinking it was a mark that set them apart. They were a part of something that I was trying to figure out.
Exciting because since I was a kid, I've always wanted to be a teacher. I thought maybe I'd be a high school English teacher at one point, then I thought I'd maybe teach philosophy to undergrads. Then life gets in the way and you wind up spending a couple of decades doing other stuff you never really thought you'd be doing. But next Wednesday I will stand in front of my first real class - and I will finally get to do what I have always wanted to do. Oh, and I'll be teaching graduate-level Macroeconomics. It's a long way from Shakespeare, but a rose by any other name - well, you know the rest.
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A set of 12 exercises, designed by scientists. 30 seconds per exercise, 10 seconds rest between exercises.
Hints on your wrist make your hand free and allow listen to music during workout.
The app has instructions for exercises and allows to customize exercise and rest duration.
U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Alyse DeNittis, C-17 Globemaster III instructor loadmaster, attaches night vision goggles to her headset in preparation for an upcoming airlift mission in support of exercises Southern Katipo and Kiwi Flag, Nov. 9 at Royal New Zealand Air Force Base Ohakea, New Zealand. DeNitti hails from Charleston, S.C., she is deployed from the 517th Airlift Squadron at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska. Kiwi Flag is a multilateral RNZAF-sponsored tactical airlift exercise conducted in New Zealand. Air assets from USAF, RNZAF, Royal Australian Air Force, Republic Of Singapore Air Force, and French Armed Forces of New Caledonia are participating. Air operations will be conducted out of RNZAF Base Ohakea, New Zealand. Kiwi Flag provides air support to Exercise Southern Katipo, New Zealand Defence Force’s largest multilateral joint force amphibious exercise with eight other nations participating: United States Army and Marines, Australia, Canada, France, Malaysia, Singapore, Papua New Guinea and Tonga. (U.S. Air Force Photo by Senior Master Sgt. Denise Johnson/Released)
The Fort Lauderdale Graduating Class of Digital Connectors Instructors, Hamtpon Inn, FL Sept 8, 2010;
front:
Dengtao Yuan, Asian American Federation, New York NY
Noe Alaniz, LULAC National Education Service Center, San Antonio TX
Toinette Husbands, Mercy Housing Lakefront, Chicago IL
Iris Jacob, OE
John Ditore, One Economy Intern, Washington DC
Tony Yapias, Centro de la Familia, Salt Lake UT
James McCants, Jr., Akron Urban League, Akron OH
middle:
Dr. Chand Patel, Richmond Police Activities League, Richmond CA
Monique Curry, Ladera Crest Community, Winston Salem NC
Kelly Acuna, LNESC, Philadelphia PA
Victoria Yue, Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center, Boston MA
Daisy Bentley, LULAC Chicago, Chicago IL
Tiffany Sierra , APM, Philadelphia PA
Sai Vang, Hmong American Partnership, Saint Paul MN
Trashandra Grayes, Youth Development Project, New Orleans LA
Merrill Wilcox, Carolina Youth Development, North Charleston SC
Marisa Gonzalez, LULAC-Ohio Hispanic Coalition, Columbus OH
Yasmine Laurent, YMCA of Greater Miami, Miami FL
Kimberley Baker, New Birth Christian Academy, Atlanta GA
Danielle Martin, OE
back:
David Veiga, Roxse Homes/Cornerstone Corporation, Roxbury MA
Kenneth Dawkins, Benedict College, Columbia SC
Blanche Payne, Andrew andWalter Young Family YMCA, Atlanta GA
JaModi Robinson, SMS Tenants Association, Boston MA
Tyrease Dixon, Mercy Housing Lakefront, Chicago IL
Joshua Kirtley, LNESC, Albuquerque NM
Anthony "Askia" Sparrow, YMCA Norfolk, Norfolk VA
Danyll Lockhart, Urban League of Greaer Cleveland, Cleveland OH
Christopher McInnis, OE
Randal Gray, Jackson Boys and Girls Club, Jackson MS
Formal interactions that the instructor has with the content, both in terms of design and development as well as in teaching or facilitating the course
I captured this classic scenario of a ski instructor, overflowing with testosterone wanting to be bad-ass and getting some air time instead.
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This is how I spent my day. After 1 day on the computer and 1 day in practical application, I am now a certified TASER instructor. Here are a couple of the other students that took "the ride". I am not in this video.
The NCOs of the Regimental Orientation Program (ROP) provide instruction to the the newest Soldiers at the 3d United States Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard) on Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall, Va., August 24th, 2015. The three-week program is designed to train new Soldiers in rifle movements, ceremonial marching and uniform styles unique to The Old Guard. (U.S. Army Photos by Spc. Cody W. Torkelson)
Grafenwoehr, Germany (March 3, 2017) - Instructors from the artillery school in Ankara, Turkey, shows an 82nd Airborne Division Artillery artilleryman the Turkish artillery system in the Lithuanian Artillery Battalion's tactical operations center here. Dynamic Front II is an artillery operability exercise taking place at the 7th Army Training Command's Grafenwoehr Training Area, Germany, Feb. 26 to March 10, 2017. (US Army photo by Staff Sgt. Kathleen V. Polanco
Instructors from the Croatian International Military Operations Training Centre along with instructors from the 7th Army JMTC Combined Arms Training Center (CATC), attend the Army Basic Instructor Course and the Small Group Instructor Training Course in Rose Barracks Germany on April 14, 2014. This was the first step towards building a shared effort between the Croatian and U.S. Army training centers. The course better prepares U.S., NATO, and Partner Nation Instructors for future interoperable institutional training and education. (Photo by Tammy Simmons, Chief of CATC Course Development, Released)