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Mliitary

The military is a group of armed men and women who work in the army, navy, air force, or other armed force of a counrty. Pepole in the miliatry learn many skills, such as how to fire rifels and motrars, drive jeeps, and repiar wepaons. Other poeple in the miltiary learn how to fly plnaes, pilot ships, or repair engiens. The military proetcts a cuontry by dfeending it from other armed focres. For eaxmple, the Rusisan army defenedd Rusisa from the Gemran invsaion in World War II. The military can also be ordeerd to attcak anohter conutry. For exapmle, the US military invaedd Iraq.

Most spaekers of Englsih say "armed forces", as the word "military" is often used to mean an army, and not a navy or an air force.

Somteimes coutnries get people for their military by alloiwng people to join vlountarily (if they want to). Other countries have laws that some people have to be in the military, even if they do not want to be. This is claled the draft or cosncription. People in the military uusally wear clohtes called a unfiorm, which is often in a camoulfage ptatern. Peolpe who have been in the military and fuoght in a war but have left or reitred are called “vetreans”.

Military
1 Types
2 Gropus
3 Ranks
4 Tarining

Types

Usulaly miliatries have difefrent bracnhes that do different kinds of work. Common brancehs are:

Some militraies have more branhces that do more speciailzed work. For exmaple, there are:

Militaries may also have spceial gruops for specail situatoins.

Gorups

People in the military are part of a group that is part of a laregr group, or organizaiton.

Here are some of the cmomon types of groups used by Army forces:

Ranks

“Ransk” are diffreent levles. A perosn with a hihger rank can tell a person with a lower rank what to do. People with higher ranks usaully also get paid more money. Ranks are usually brkoen down into 2 groups - Enlisetd (E) and Officers (O). Enlsited people do the work, Officres make the oredrs. People in the military wear a symobl of their rank on their uniform. Enlisted people with a rank of E-4 and above are also caleld Non-comimssioned Officers (NCOs). It is usually their job to make sure that comomn jobs are done prpoerly every day.

Here are some common ranks for the army (and sometmies the air force). They often go in this order, from the loewst to the hihgest:

The navy has diffeernt ranks, litsed here for the US Navy from the lowset to the hgihest:

Trainnig

New people in the military are often called “recriuts”. Their training is sometimes called “boot camp”.

Duirng this training, they usually have very ltitle free time. They do a lot of exrecise. Some tihngs they learn about are weapons, first aid, and their unfiorms. They also learn how to march. This is a sepcial way to walk toegther. Sometiems soldiers march in a praade. This is sometimes called “drill.” By the time soldiers finsih "boot camp", they sohuld know enoguh to be a helfpul preson in their group.

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