Dan Earl Riggs papers

This collection consists of the legal papers of Dan Earl Riggs and his family members dated from 1913 to 2002. Materials include birth certificates, marriage licenses, legal appointments, military orders, retirement orders, death certificates, and estate appraisals. Find this collection in the libraries\u27 catalog.https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/finding-aids/1182/thumbnail.jp

The Psychological Needs of U.S. Military Service Members and Their Families: A Preliminary Report

Since September 11, 2001, American military service personnel and their families have endured challenges and stressful conditions that are unprecedented in recent history, including unrelenting operational demands and recurring deployments in combat zones. In response to concerns raised by members of the military community, the American Psychological Association (APA) President, Dr. Gerald Koocher, established the Task Force on Military Deployment Services for Youth, Families and Service Members in July of 2006. This Task Force was charged with: identifying the psychological risks and mental health-related service needs of military members and their families during and after deployment(s); developing a strategic plan for working with the military and other organizations to meet those needs; and constructing a list of current APA resources available for military members and families, as well as additional resources that APA might develop or facilitate in order to meet the needs of this population. At present, 700,000 children in America have at least one parent deployed. Having a primary caretaker deployed to a war zone for an indeterminate period is among the more stressful events a child can experience. Adults in the midst of their own distress are often anxious and uncertain about how to respond to their children's emotional needs. The strain of separation can weigh heavily on both the deployed parent and the caretakers left behind. Further, reintegration of an absent parent back into the family often leads to complicated emotions for everyone involved. This Task Force was established to examine such potential risks to the psychological well-being of service members and their families, acknowledging the changing context and impact of the deployment cycle, and to make preliminary recommendations for change and further review at the provider, practice, program, and policy levels. To meet the Task Force charge, we will first provide an overview of what is currently known about the impact of military deployments on service members and their families (spouses, children and significant others). In addition, we will discuss a number of programs that have been developed to meet the mental health needs of service members and their families, and we will describe the significant barriers to receiving mental health care within the Department of Defense (DoD) and Veterans Affairs (VA) system. Finally, we will offer several general recommendations for improving the psychological care offered to service members and their Military Deployment Services TF Report 5 families, and we will outline some specific proposals for how existing APA programs and resources can be employed or modified to support military communities

Hierarchical Capture: Bridging the Gap in Analyses of the Bureaucracy

Economist and Nobel laureate George Stigler coined the term Regulatory Capture, a phenomenon that occurs when regulators craft more lenient regulation to benefit a particular industry in exchange for some kind of benefit from said industry (Stigler, 1971). Since the early 1970’s, the American public has increasingly felt disenfranchised from the government agencies that are tasked with regulating in their interest. The fields of Economics and Political Science have developed several theories to help explain these phenomena, including the theories of the Iron Triangle and the Revolving Door. So which one is right? In my research, I argue that they all are in a new, more holistic theory that I refer to as Hierarchical Capture. Rather than capture happening passively through relationships between industries and regulatory agencies, this theory argues that it can be initiated from the top and within said agencies through the political appointment process. Specifically, I explored the work experience of Senate-confirmed administrators of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to analyze how that affected the volume of enforcement actions initiated by the agency.Ope

Intelligence, reason of state and the art of governing risk and opportunity in early modern Europe

Drawing upon primary and secondary historical material, this paper explores the role of intelligence in early modern government. It focuses upon developments in seventeenth- and early-eighteenth-century England, a site-specific genealogical moment in the broader history of state power/knowledges. Addressing a tendency in Foucauldian work to neglect pre-eighteenth-century governance, the analysis reveals a set of interrelated processes which gave rise to an innovative technique for anticipating hazard and opportunity for the state. At the intersection of raison d’État, the evolving art of government, widespread routines of secrecy and a post-Westphalia field of European competition and exchange, intelligence was imagined as a fundamental solution to the concurrent problems of ensuring peace and stability while improving state forces. In the administrative offices of the English Secretary of State, an assemblage of complex and interrelated procedures sought to produce and manipulate information in ways which exposed both possible risks to the state and potential opportunities for expansion and gain. As this suggests, the art of intelligence played an important if largely unacknowledged role in the formation and growth of the early modern state. Ensuring strategic advantage over rivals, intelligence also limited the ability of England's neighbours to dominate trade, control the seas and master the colonies, functioning as a constitutive feature of European balance and equilibrium. As the analysis concludes, understanding intelligence as a form of governmental technique – a way of doing something – reveals an entirely novel way of thinking about and investigating its myriad (historical and contemporary) formations

RECRUITING CIVILIAN EXPERTISE: DEVELOPING A SKILLS-BASED HIRING MODEL FOR DIRECT ACCESSION INTO THE MILITARY

The Singapore military is exploring how to implement skills-based hiring in light of the government's emphasis and its growing adoption worldwide. This research presents a proof-of-concept methodology on how the military can employ skills-based hiring to recruit civilians with relevant skills to join its ranks as well as a novel way to quantify its merit using market data. I chose aircraft maintenance as the research subject, given that the skills for the military and civilian jobs are largely similar. Employing LinkedIn and various market data, I found that the value of skills-based hiring over traditional hiring depends on the job's context—whether it attracts the right profile of workers that the organization needs. In the study's context, skills-based hiring incentivizes younger technicians with more diverse skill sets, attracting more workers at the ME3-1 and ME3-2 ranks. Consequentially, highly skilled civilians at these ranks are accorded a higher entry rank compared to military technicians with average performance, which can create discontentment among the latter. Informed by the results, the study proposes that the military evaluate its manning and expertise gaps in deciding on the adoption of skills-based hiring and perhaps consider a hybrid model that can marry the merits of skills-based and traditional hiring practices. The methodology can also be used to quantify the value of skills-based hiring for other jobs beyond the military.Approved for public release. Distribution is unlimited.Major, Republic of Singapore Nav

Obesity Group Medical Visits

Background: Obesity is a major risk factor associated with multiple chronic diseases, presenting a significant global health challenge. Current evidence supports that group medical visits, an alternative format for the provision of primary care, are effective in disease management. Purpose: The goal of this project was to examine the effectiveness of group medical visits for the management of obesity in primary care. Methods: Individuals with a BMI greater than 30 participated in a series of six multidisciplinary group medical visits over a 12-week period. Each session included a brief individual medical visit followed by group education and discussion. Topics included; introduction and goal setting, behavior changes, nutrition, physical activity, challenges/struggles, and future goals. Results: Data was obtained pre and post 12 week group sessions from health records and from questionnaires. Nine individuals age 52 to 76, with a variety of chronic medical conditions in addition to obesity, participated. Following with 12-week group sessions, attendees, as a group had a decrease in weight (P=.006), BMI (P=.007) and waist circumference (P=.019). Participants and providers indicated high levels of satisfaction. All participants found that they were able to make better choices about general health, identified group visits as more helpful than individual healthy life style discussions, and would participate in this type of visit again. Conclusions: This collaborative model of care needs further evaluation with larger groups; however, the group medical visit appears to be a successful method for educating and supporting lifestyle modifications for individuals with obesity in this clinical setting