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I don't know how his multi-tasking would go if, say, three fish bit at the same time. I suppose he wouldn't fret an unlikely disaster like that.
Fifteen New York Army National Guard Soldiers assigned to Combined Joint Task Force - Horn of Africa received their United States citizenship during a historic naturalization ceremony at the United States Embassy in Djibouti, Mar. 10. The Soldiers, all belonging to the 27th Infantry Brigade Combat Team are in the midst of a 9 month deployment to CJTF-HOA conducting security and crisis response operations, and are slated to return to the U.S. this summer. The ceremony is the first of its kind in the newly constructed U.S. Embassy, and is a historic event for CJTF-HOA, who has never before seen so many of its members become naturalized citizens at once. Maj. Gen. Jami Shawley, the CJTF-HOA commander, and the honorable Jonathan Pratt, the United States Ambassador to Djibouti, spoke at the ceremony and were among the first to congratulate the new citizens. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by 1st Lt. Joshua Castillon)
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the king's horses and all the king's men
Couldn't put Humpty together again.
– Nursery rhyme
In order to become once more a participant in society, Philoctetes must leave behind both the spiritual and physical contours of the savage Lemnian landscape. The task, however, is not one-sided. Society must also be reshaped to receive the hero whom it once so cruelly rejected. The social order conceived by Odysseus is based on success in achieving specific goals irrespective of individual protest or suffering. This cannot be the spiritual home of the pain-wracked outcast, nor could Philoctetes accept a place in such a world.
– Charles Segal, Tragedy and Civilisation: an interpretation of Sophocles, ch.10.
Damage in individuals can take so many forms. Sometimes it's simple and physical, like the ripped-up piece of paper, Humpty Dumpty's fall and Philoctetes' snake bite. Or, it can be emotional/social, like Philoctetes' exile on Lemnos. In either case, trauma involves the severance of the individual from what until then appeared to represent order. At the least, the instantiation of damage is evidence that damage actually can occur. It is a vivid - and more often than not, unwanted - reminder that our hold on the things we cherish and believe to be invulnerable is so immensely frail. At worst, some traumata set the individual entirely apart from his society, thereby robbing him of those integral parts of being human that cannot be lived except in a community of men.
Philoctetes' story is highly metaphorical. A Greek soldier during the Trojan wars, he suffers a snake bite that becomes infected. To save themselves of the bad stench and the bad luck he is supposed to bring, the Greeks leave the ailing Philoctetes on Lemnos and abandon him. Years later, Odysseus and Achilles' son Neoptolemus return to Lemnos, to goad him into giving up Heracles' bow, which has been his sole possession on his island exile. His story is about damage - the damage he suffered from the snake bite, but also the damage he suffered by being exiled, severed from his community, degraded into a primitive forager dwelling in a cave, his great deeds as a hero and archer unrecognised, his social role all but annihilated. But more profoundly, his story is about healing. It is about his return to society, his reintegration into his former role, and the healing of the physical wounds that represent his deeper, innermost pain.
Some loss can never be healed. Sometimes a torn piece of paper can never be perfectly reunited, and even if it can, it will never be perfect. Sometimes Humpty Dumpty can never be put back together again. But more often than not, there is a chance for healing and restoration. Maybe not perfect restoration to the pre-trauma state, but to a 'different, new kind of normal'. There's always the hope of healing, the hope that with God's help, the threads once severed will be reunited once more. And if there's anything to being human, it is the belief in those miraculous, crazy, improbable, wonderful moments when just that happens.
Philoctetes: Farewell, thou chamber that hast shared my watches, farewell, ye nymphs of stream and meadow, and thou, deep voice of the sea-lashed cape—where, in the cavern's inmost recess, my head was often wetted by the south-wind's blasts, and where oft the Hermaean mount sent an echo to my mournful cries, in the tempest of my sorrow!
But now, O ye springs, and thou Lycian fount, I am leaving you—leaving you at last—I, who had never attained to such a hope!
Farewell, thou sea-girt Lemnos; and speed me with fair course, for my contentment, to that haven whither I am borne by mighty fate, and by the counsel of friends, and by the all-subduing god who hath brought these things to fulfilment.
– Sophocles, Philoctetes
Paratroopers of the 407th Brigade Support Battalion, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division prepare for the chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear defense lane of the Battalion's Paratrooper Essential Task List competition on Fort Bragg, N.C., Oct. 15, 2015. The PETL Stakes verified which squad had the right to call themselves the most tactically and technically proficient within the Golden Griffin Battalion. (82nd Airborne Division photo by Staff Sgt. Jason Hull)
U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Michael D. Turello, commanding general of Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa, meets with Italian Navy Rear Admiral Armando Paolo Simi, force commander of Operation Atalanta, outside Djibouti City, Djibouti, Oct. 21, 2019. Operation Atalanta is a counter-piracy naval military operation off the Horn of Africa. (U.S. Air Force Photo by Senior Airman Codie Trimble)
Members from Joint Task Force Atlantic’s Immediate Response Unit conduct Type III wildland firefighting under Operation LENTUS 23-02 in Shelburne County, Nova Scotia on 14 June 2023. The Immediate Response Unit, made up of soldiers from 2nd Battalion, The Royal Canadian Regiment, are in Nova Scotia following a Request For Assistance to provide support to wildfire response efforts in the Province.
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Des membres de l’Unité d’intervention immédiate de la Force opérationnelle interarmées (Atlantique) mènent des opérations de lutte contre les feux de végétation de type III dans le cadre de l’opération LENTUS 23-02, dans le comté de Shelburne, en Nouvelle-Écosse, le 14 juin 2023. L’Unité d’intervention immédiate, composée de soldats du 2e Bataillon, The Royal Canadian Regiment, s’est rendue en Nouvelle-Écosse à la suite d’une demande d’aide visant à fournir un soutien aux efforts de lutte contre les feux de forêt dans la province.
Photo: Cpl Brian Watters, 5th Canadian Division Public Affairs
Secretary of the Army Dr. Mark T. joined Army Futures Commanding General Mike Murray, Pennsylvania Sen. Bob Casey, and Carnegie Mellon University President Dr. Farnam Jahanian at the Artificial Intelligence Task Force Activation Ceremony at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Penn., Feb. 1, 2019. Esper also conducted PT with 3 Rivers ROTC Battalion, toured the Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing and National Robotics Engineering Center at the Campus, rode in an autonomous vehicle, and held a joint press conference. He additionally met with Pittsburg Chamber of Commerce President Matt Smith and Pittsburgh Board of Education Assistant-Superintendent of Student Support Services Ms. Melissa Friez to discuss partnerships and opportunities for U.S. Army recruiters and future Soldiers in Pittsburg. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Nicole Mejia)
U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Daniel Reynolds, a human resources specialist assigned to Task Force Orion, 27th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, New York National Guard, participates in a morale run at the Tower Barracks Physical Fitness Center in Grafenwoehr, Germany, Sep. 11, 2022. The run was held to honor the 21st anniversary of the September 11 terror attacks and recognize the sacrifices of first responders and lives lost on that day. (U.S. National Guard photo by Maj. Avery Schneider)
Senator Mark Udall invited Sandy Gutierrez (left), the president and CEO of the Latino Chamber of Commerce of Pueblo, to a Senate Democratic Hispanic Task Force meeting in Washington, D.C., to talk about innovative ways to encourage job growth across Colorado and especially in Latino communities.
Photo Credit: Senate Democratic Multimedia Center
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CAMP SINGO, Uganda (Feb. 24, 2017) Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technician 2nd Class Garrison Lathrop, assigned to Task Force SPARTA, trains a Ugandan People’s Defense Force soldier on the use of handheld mine detectors during a counter improvised explosive device course at Camp Singo, Uganda, Feb. 24, 2017. U.S. 6th Fleet, headquartered in Naples, Italy, conducts the full spectrum of joint and naval operations, often in concert with allied, joint, and interagency partners, in order to advance U.S. national interests and security and stability in Europe and Africa. (U.S. Navy photo by Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technician 1st Class Daniel Steinchen/Released)
members of the Philippine Army Taskforce Zamboanga....
i admire these guys...they are the people who go to war and fight the bad guys in the far flung areas of mindanao...too bad they are not well supported(i mean they are not compensated very well enough)....but they still do their job...to fight for the country even at the cost of their own lives...
i salute you guys...im proud of you...
A Nebraska National Guard Soldier turns in his civil disturbance equipment, Washington D.C., Jan. 22, 2021. At least 25,000 National Guard men and women have been authorized to conduct security, communication and logistical missions in support of federal and District authorities leading up and through the 59th Presidential Inauguration. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. Herschel Talley)
ARTA, Djibouti (August 13, 2012) - Task Force Raptor Soldiers participate in the third Spur Ride held in the Horn of Africa. The spur ride is a cavalry tradition in which a trooper must pass a series of tests that evaluate physical, leadership, technical and tactical proficiency in a high stress environment in order to earn his spurs and become a member of the Order of the Spur. Task Force Raptor is deployed in support of Combined Joint Task Force - Horn of Africa. (U.S. Army photo by Cpl. Candy Hatch).
Después de diez semanas en las que Ni arte ni educación acogió 9 dispositivos, 4 encuentros, 22 acciones/activaciones, 14 propuestas de cesión ciudadana y una gran cantidad de microexperiencias, celebramos con todos el cierre de este proceso que continuará en modo de reflexión en el 2016.
Para ello, se celebró Task Party, una performance en forma de evento improvisado en el que os invitamos a jugar y compartir de forma creativa a través de la estructura que nos propone Oliver Herring, en la que la dimensión relacional y la participación de los asistentes son claves.
El artista nos acompañó vía skype mientras Jessica Hamlin (co-directora de programas en arte+educación de la Universidad de Nueva York y Directora de Educación durante 13 años de la organización Art21) estuvo físicamente en la exposición para activar la performance en el espacio.
Crédito: Paco Gómez / Matadero Madrid
Rangers from A Company, 2nd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment, conducts live fire and night operation and Fast Rope Insertion and Extractions (FRIES) training during 2nd Battalion’s Task Force Training at Yakima Training Center, Washington, 31 March 2013. (U.S. Army photo by SGT Mikki Sprenkle) Released by LTC Brian DeSantis