HW 11/7

I was twenty years old when I decided that I was going to join the Air Force. I was not fitting with college at the time and I felt restless for something outside my hometown. I knew the military would be something new and exciting but I didn’t know at the time how foreign it would be either. I had signed up for an extreme case of discourse community. My own clothes were removed and I was given a uniform that everyone in my new community must wear. The uniform is marked with a rank to show your place in the hierarchy. I was instructed how to conduct myself and how to speak to effectively to communicate. Everyone volunteered to be in this community and all were there for a clearly defined purpose. A member of this discourse would quickly be removed if they did not adhere to its many rules and regulations. We also had additional judicial guidelines called the UCMJ or Uniformed Code of Military Justice. I would elaborate more on how this applied to daily life in a coming draft. The UCMJ is a legally binding set of of regulations that all in the discourse of the military must adhere to and they are supplemental to civilian laws.