LABCOM, U.S. Army Laboratory Command.

Shipping list no.: 91-254-P.

Group US Army military portrait including Dr. William Levison (top row, third from left); Schofield Barracks, Hawaii Portraits Groups Men

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Group US Army military portrait including Dr. William Levison (top row, third from left); Schofield Barracks, Hawaii Portraits Groups Men

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Off-Duty Resilience: Re-orienting Tourism, Leisure and Recreation in the US Army BOSS program

Understanding how US imperial strategy is sustained by tourism and militarism requires an account of how American soldiers learn to understand themselves in relation to a variety of marginalized others. This paper explores how the US Army’s ‘Ready and Resilient’ (R2) campaign constructs soldier / other relations by mobilizing off-duty time through the ‘Better Opportunities for Single Soldiers’ (BOSS) program. BOSS’s first two platforms of ‘Well-Being’ and ‘Community Service’ feed into the R2 agenda by producing highly-skilled leaders (who govern a disengaged rank and file) and benevolent humanitarians (who provide charity for abject civilians). When these dispositions are transposed into BOSS’s third platform of ‘Recreation and Leisure’, soldiers turn away from the goals of leadership and humanitarianism to reveal the privileged narcissism underscoring the R2 agenda. This self-focus is intensified by familiar power relations in the tourism industry as soldiers pursue self-improvement by commodifying, distancing and effacing local tourist workers. Using the BOSS program as a case study, this paper critically interrogates how the US Army is assimilating off-duty practices of tourism, leisure and recreation into the wider program of resilience training.

US Army order of battle, 1919-1941 /

Includes bibliographical references.

Water resources development by the US Army Corps of Engineers in Oklahoma.

Description based on: 1981.

"Black Hawks", three decades of service to the nation : a brief history of the 86th United States Army Reserve Command.

Mode of access: Internet.

United States Army Materiel Command, Field Assistance in Science & Technology Program.

Mode of access: Internet.

Water resources development in Wyoming ... by the US Army Corps of Engineers.

Description based on: 1981.

Water resources development in Montana ... by the US Army Corps of Engineers.

Description based on: 1981.

The new contractors guide; an aid to civilian agencies seeking business from the United States Army Materiel Command.

Mode of access: Internet.

Procedures for US Army and US Air Force airfield pavement condition surveys.

"July 1989."

Contract pricing : material prices overstated on Ground/Vehicular Laser Locator Designators: report to the Commander, U.S. Army Missile Command, Department of the Army /

"B-219741"--p.1.