Spartan Daily, October 22, 1943

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Admission of Deaf Soldiers to the Military: Rethinking the Undifferentiated Soldier Paradigm

Keith Nolan, a deaf man with undergraduate and graduate degrees, asked to be admitted to military training to become a uniformed American soldier. The military said no, and the issue was joined. Nolan’s application presents the Department of Defense (DOD) with an opportunity to reconsider its historical bar to people who are deaf. The Article suggests a new paradigm in thinking about the selection criteria used to screen out deaf applicants for military service, a paradigm rooted in a disability studies framework. With a few exceptions in the Civil War, the United States armed forces have barred people with disabilities, including those who are deaf, from serving in the military. The current recruitment model is based on the “undifferentiated soldier,” which requires an applicant for military service to become combat-ready, that is, someone who can serve on the front line of fighting even if ultimately the soldier never enters the theater of war in his or her military career. As Keith Nolan’s case demonstrates, the military assumes deaf applicants are incapable of military service because they cannot become combat ready. These assumptions underline a DOD report to Congress last year that militates against deaf soldiers in the United States armed forces. It is time to rethink these assumptions

For Our Information, July & August 1952, Vol. V, no. 1-2

An official publication of the ILR School, Cornell University, “for the information of all faculty, staff and students.

Special Libraries, April 1962

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Spartan Daily, November 21, 1944

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Spartan Daily, December 7, 1948

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How an air academy can train officers to improve American public relations abroad

Thesis (M.S.)--Boston Universit

Spartan Daily, September 30, 1948

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Marine Corps Cultural Similarities to Native Americans

According to the 4-field approach to anthropology, a people can be defined by its archaeology, culture, biology and linguistics (Hicks, 2013). Native Americans and Marines have striking similarities as a people when using this approach, especially in cultural and linguistic analysis