Infobox Military Award name Meritorious Service Medal image Image Meritorious Service Medal UnitedStates .png 150px caption awarded by UnitedStates Armed Forces type Medal eligibility Military Personnel ... or service to the UnitedStates subsequent to January 16, 1969. Effective 11 September 2001, this award ... Service Medal , is intended for similar services performed under joint service with the UnitedStates ... Service Medal . President of the UnitedStates President Lyndon B. Johnson established the Meritorious .... The reverse has the encircled inscriptions UNITEDSTATES OF AMERICA and MERITORIOUS SERVICE . The ribbon ... recipients class wikitable Country Rank Name Post Nominals Service Notable Awards UnitedStates Admiral Dennis C. Blair UnitedStates Navy USN Admiral Jeremy Michael Boorda USN Major General Patrick Henry Brady UnitedStates Army USA Medal of Honor Lieutenant General Ronald L. Burgess, Jr. USA First ... total posthumous recipients individual higher Purple Heart same Meritorious Service Medals br Defense Meritorious Service Medal Joint Service , Branch Service lower Air Medal related image2 Image Meritorious Service ribbon.svg caption2 Meritorious Service Medal ribbon The Meritorious Service Medal is a Awards and decorations of the UnitedStates military military decoration presented to members of the United ... Medal ref An ad hoc committee was formed by the UnitedStates Secretary of Defense Secretary of Defense .... The eagle , symbol of the UnitedStates, stands on Bay laurel laurel branches denoting achievement ... Colonel Chuck DeVore USA Staff Sergeant Thomas Andrews Drake UnitedStates Air Force USAF Lieutenant ... UnitedStates Coast Guard USCG Colonel Robert L. Howard USA Medal of Honor Lieutenant Commander ... Rice USAF General Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr. USA Rear Admiral Patrick M. Stillman UnitedStates Coast ... Meritorious Service Medal US interservice decorations Category Military awards and decorations of the UnitedStates Category Awards established in 1969 de Meritorious Service Medal fr Meritorious ... more details
process combat operations . UnitedStates Army In the UnitedStates Army , the term combat service ... forces on the battlefield . Within the UnitedStates Army, the traditional combat service support branches are the following Acquisition Corps UnitedStates Army Acquisition Corps of which the United ... Combat Service Support Category Military logistics Category UnitedStates Army ja sv Underh llstj nst ... ref Adjutant general UnitedStates Adjutant General s Corps Chaplain Corps UnitedStates Army Chaplain Corps Finance Corps Judge Advocate General s Corps, UnitedStates Army Judge Advocate General s Corps Army Medical Department UnitedStates Medical Corps of which the UnitedStates Army Dental Command is a subordinate command Ordnance Corps UnitedStates Army Ordnance Corps Quartermaster Corps UnitedStates Army Quartermaster Corps Transportation Corps Replaced by Sustainment Combat service support ..., fires, command and control, and protection. ref name FM3 0 UnitedStates Marine Corps See Marine Corps Logistics Command Logistics Combat Element In the UnitedStates Marine Corps , combat service support has a similar definition to that of the UnitedStates Army. The Marine Corps Logistics Command ... and strategic prepositioning to the operating forces of the UnitedStates Marine Corps and other ... , combat engineer s, List of vehicles of the UnitedStates Marine Corps motor transport , medical ... support . Logistics Groups There are four logistics groups in the UnitedStates Marine Corps 1st Marine ... Battalion List of UnitedStates Marine Corps Combat Logistics Companies Combat Logistics Company 11 List of UnitedStates Marine Corps Combat Logistics Companies Combat Logistics Company 16 Combat Logistics ... Battalion List of UnitedStates Marine Corps Combat Logistics Companies Combat Logistics Company 21 List of UnitedStates Marine Corps Combat Logistics Companies Combat Logistics Company 23 Combat ... 3rd Maintenance Battalion 3rd Medical Battalion List of UnitedStates Marine Corps Combat Logistics ... more details
Image UnitedStates Army Pigeon Service.jpg thumb A war pigeon at Signal Pigeon Center Tidworth UK , UnitedStates Army Pigeon Service. The UnitedStates Army Pigeon Service List of acronyms and initialisms A AK a.k.a. Signal Pigeon Corps was a unit of the UnitedStates Army during World War I and World War II . Their assignment was the training and usage of homing pigeon s for communication and reconnaissance purposes. ref name Levi cite book last Levi first Wendell title The Pigeon year 1977 publisher Levi Publishing Co, Inc location Sumter, S.C. isbn 0 85390 013 2 ref During WWII, the force consisted of 3,150 soldiers and 54,000 war pigeon s, which were considered an undetectable method of communication. Over 90 of US Army messages sent by pigeons were received. ref name Monmouth cite web author U.S. Army Communications Electronics Museum title Famous Pigeons url http www.monmouth.army.mil museum pigeons.shtml ref The pigeon G.I. Joe pigeon G.I. Joe received the Dickin Medal for gallantry that saved at least 1,000 lives. From 1917 until 1957, the US Army Pigeon Breeding and Training Center was based at Fort Monmouth , N.J. The US Army discontinued using pigeons as message carriers in 1957. ref name Monmouth References reflist External links http history.amedd.army.mil booksdocs wwii vetservicewwii chapter18.htm Army Signal Pigeons War pigeons Category Domestic pigeons Category Military units and formations of the UnitedStates Army Pigeon Service Category Military units and formations of the UnitedStates in World War II US mil hist stub US Army stub de UnitedStates Army Pigeon Service ... more details
SCOTUSCase Litigants Dolan v. UnitedStates Postal Service ArgueDate November 7 ArgueYear 2005 DecideDate February 22 DecideYear 2006 FullName Barbara Dolan v. UnitedStates Postal Service, et al. USVol ..., Souter, Ginsburg, Breyer Dissent Thomas NotParticipating Alito LawsApplied 28 UnitedStates Code U.S.C. 1346 b 1 , 2674, 2680 b Federal Tort Claims Act Dolan v. UnitedStates Postal Service , Court citation 546 U.S. 481 2006 , was a case decided by the Supreme Court of the UnitedStates , involving the extent to which the UnitedStates Postal Service has sovereign immunity from lawsuit s brought ... placed on her porch by an employee of the UnitedStates Postal Service , suffering serious ... States Executive branch executive branch of the Government of the UnitedStates , ref Under the Postal Reorganization Act , 39 UnitedStates Code U.S.C. 101 et seq. ref the UnitedStates Postal Service ... nor damage to its contents. The Court found support for its interpretation in Kosak v. UnitedStates , 465 U.S. 848 1984 , a case involving a claim against the UnitedStates Customs Service . The Court ... text of the Court s decision DEFAULTSORT Dolan V. UnitedStates Postal Service Category UnitedStates ... States Postal Service Category UnitedStates federal sovereign immunity case law Category 2006 in United ... 4132 Docket 04 848 Prior Motion to dismiss granted, UnitedStates District Court for the Eastern District ... Third Series F.3d 285 UnitedStates Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit 3rd Cir. 2004 certiorari ... 18, 2002. On October 15, 2002, Dolan filed a complaint against the UnitedStates and the USPS in the UnitedStates District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania . ref Judge Mary A. McLauglin ... b . ref Dolan appeal ed, and the UnitedStates Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit affirmed the dismissal. ref Dolan v. UnitedStates Postal Serv. , 377 Federal Reporter Federal Reporter.2C Third Series F.3d 285 UnitedStates Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit 3d Cir. 2004 . Judges Anthony ... more details
For other versions of UnitedStates military service numbers, see Service number UnitedStates armed forces UnitedStates Coast Guard service numbers were first created in the later half of 1921. In 2004 the UnitedStates Coast Guard Coast Guard began using Employee Identification Numbers, or EMPLIDs ... Identification Numbers EMPLID publisher UnitedStates Coast Guard ref Notable service numbers Significant ... of the UnitedStates Coast Guard Academy and other Regular Guard appointees. The Regular Coast Guard officer service number range had yet to be reached in 1974 when service numbers were discontinued. Coast Guard officer numbers above 20,001 were reserved for members of the UnitedStates Coast Guard ... million service number series was the highest but not the last enlisted service number of the UnitedStates Coast Guard. In addition to the special duty service numbers, regular enlisted service numbers ... June 2009 References Reflist US Coast Guard navbox Category UnitedStates Coast Guard Category Military ... service numbers were unique amongst the military branches in that the entire range of officer numbers was declared upon the initial creation of the service numbers. The officer range extended from 1 to 100,000 and these numbers had yet to be exhausted by the discontinuation of Coast Guard service numbers in 1974. Like the Navy and Marine Corps, the Coast Guard set aside the early service numbers ... and never issued retroactive officer service numbers. Thus, officer numbers 1 through 999 remained un issued with the first Coast Guard officer service number being 1000 which was issued to Joseph ... numbers from 20,001 to 60,000 were used into the 1950s and, by February 1957, non regular officer service numbers had reached 60,393. The 1960s and early 1970s saw the issuance of service numbers into the 70,000 and 80,000 range while 80 and 90 thousand service numbers had been used since 1948 for special ... of Coast Guard officer service numbers Coast Guard enlisted numbers The first Coast Guard ... more details
For other versions of UnitedStates military service numbers, see Service number UnitedStates armed forces UnitedStates Marine Corps service numbers were created in 1920, the same year as Navy service ... Category Military life Category Identifiers Category UnitedStates Marine Corps personnel ... Marine Corps officer service numbers were intended for retroactive presentation to World War I veterans ... number was issued to retired Major James Ackerman. Ackerman was issued the service number 01 with the policy ... yet to issue more than one thousand officer service numbers. In 1931, the number of possible officer ... War II in 1941. During World War II, the officer service number range was extended to 50,000 and, during ..., the Marine Corps extended the officer service numbers a final time to 125,000. Officer service numbers were then discontinued in 1972. File USMCONumbers.jpg thumb center 625px Final distribution of Marine Corps officer service numbers Marine Corps enlisted numbers Marine Corps enlisted service numbers were also issued retroactively however, numbers 1 through 20,000 were never assigned. Thus, the first Marine Corps enlisted service number was 20,001 and was assigned to a Marine named Alexander Schott. Service numbers upwards to 49,999 were also retroactive and assigned to discharged or retired Marines who had served between 1905 and 1917. The enlisted service numbers between 50,000 ... Marines who were assigned service numbers fell into the range of 100,000 to 199,999 as it was these numbers which were assigned in the 1920s to the enlisted force of the Marine Corps. In 1935, with the service ... cap of 350,000. It was in this range that service numbers were being issued upon the outbreak of World War II. During the early part Second World War, the Marine Corps extended their enlisted service ... standard Marine Corps enlistees joining for wartime service. Numbers 670,900 to 699,999 were never issued and 700,000 to 799,999 were reserved for female enlisted personnel. The female enlisted service ... more details
Infobox Government agency agency name UnitedStates Public Health Service logo phs.svg logo width 140px ... Service Act of 1944 structured the UnitedStates Public Health Service PHS as the primary division of the UnitedStates Department of Health, Education and Welfare Department of Health, Education and Welfare HEW , which later became the UnitedStates Department of Health and Human Services . The PHS ... Health Service Commissioned Corps UnitedStates Public Health Service Commissioned Corps . ref ... Health Services Administration SAMHSA UnitedStates Public Health Service Commissioned Corps main UnitedStates Public Health Service Commissioned Corps The UnitedStates Public Health Service Commissioned .... As one of the UnitedStates seven Uniformed services of the UnitedStates uniformed services , the PHS Commissioned Corps fills public health leadership and service roles within UnitedStates ... of the UnitedStates Surgeon General was created to administer the Service, and John Maynard Woodworth ... The Doctors Of The UnitedStates Public Health Service Have Found A Way Of Curing And Preventing It journal ... Category UnitedStates Public Health Service Category UnitedStates Department of Health and Human Services agencies Public Health Service de UnitedStates Public Health Service ka ... K. Koh chief1 position Assistant Secretary for Health parent agency UnitedStates Department of Health and Human Services Department of Health and Human Services child2 agency UnitedStates Public Health .... Officers of the Corps wear uniforms similar to those of the UnitedStates Navy with special ... StatesUnitedStates Navy Navy , UnitedStates Coast Guard Coast Guard and NOAA Corps from Ensign rank ensign to Admiral UnitedStates admiral , U.S. uniformed services pay grades uniformed services ... Corps is to protect, promote, and advance the health and safety of the UnitedStates. According ... created to care for the seamen were located along the East Coast of the UnitedStates East Coast ... more details
The Board of Governors of the UnitedStates Postal Service is an eleven member board comparable to a board of directors of a private corporation, except in service of the American postal system. Nine members are appointed by the President of the UnitedStates , subject to confirmation by the Senate. The nine presidentially appointed Governors choose the UnitedStates Postmaster General Postmaster General , who also serves as a member of the Board. These 10, in turn, choose a Deputy Postmaster General, who becomes the 11th member of the Board. The Postmaster General and Deputy Postmaster General serve at the pleasure of the Governors. Each Governor is appointed to a nine year term or to the remainder of an unexpired term created by the death or resignation of a sitting Governor. Terms of the Governors are staggered to expire each year on December 8. A Governor whose term has expired may continue to sit on the Board for up to one year until a successor has been appointed. No more than five of the nine Governors may be of the same political party. On December 20, 2006, President George W. Bush signed the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act, P.L. 109 435, which changed the terms of subsequently appointed Governors from nine to seven years. The Board generally meets once a month. Each January, the Governors elect a Chairman and a Vice Chairman. Each Governor receives 300 per day for not more than 42 days of meetings each year and travel expenses, in addition to an annual salary of 30,000. The Governors employ a full time Corporate Secretary who serves as the primary staff assistant to the Board. Louis J. Giuliano , Chairman Thurgood Marshall Jr. Vice Chairman Patrick R. Donahoe , Postmaster General and CEO Ronald A. Stroman , Deputy Postmaster General Mickey D. Barnett ... about.usps.com who we are leadership board governors.htm DEFAULTSORT Board Of Governors Of The UnitedStates Postal Service Category UnitedStates Postal Service ... more details
Image US Life Saving Service.gif framed right The UnitedStates Life Saving Service was a Federal government of the UnitedStatesUnitedStates government agency that grew out of private and local humanitarian ... merged with the Revenue Cutter Service to form the UnitedStates Coast Guard in 1915. Early years ... cite web author UnitedStates Coast Guard USCG title U.S. Lifesaving Service History publisher .... ref name USCG Legacy cite web last Noble first Dennis L. title A Legacy The UnitedStates Life Saving Service page 9 publisher UnitedStates Coast year 1976 url http www.uscg.mil history articles ... Lakes . See also UnitedStates Coast Guard Revenue Cutter Service Houses of Refuge in Florida .... D. The UnitedStates Life Saving Service , http www.archive.org details popularsciencemo15newy The Popular ... s fiction. Stonehouse, Frederick, Wreck Ashore The UnitedStates Life Saving Service on the Great ... uslss.pdf A Legacy The UnitedStates Life Saving Service http www.uscg.mil history h index.asp U.S. ... Saving Service Category Defunct agencies of the UnitedStates government Category History of the UnitedStates Coast Guard Category UnitedStates Life Saving Service fr UnitedStates Life Saving Service ... for its chief advocate, New Jersey UnitedStates House of Representatives Representative William A. Newell . Under the Newell Act , the UnitedStates Congress appropriated 10,000 to establish unmanned ... also received funds from the UnitedStates Congress for life saving stations on the Massachusetts ... The stations were administered by the UnitedStates Revenue Marine later renamed the UnitedStates ... Carolina Hurricane of 1854 , swept through the East Coast of the UnitedStates , causing the deaths ... Kimball was appointed chief of the UnitedStates Department of the Treasury Treasury Department s Revenue ... to appropriate 200,000 to operate the stations and to allow the UnitedStates Secretary of the Treasury ... of life saving stations were formally organized as a separate agency of the UnitedStates Department ... more details
For other countries version of a service number, see Service number Service numbers were used by the UnitedStates Armed Forces as the primary means of service member identification from 1918 until 1974. Service numbers are public information available under the Freedom of Information Act UnitedStates ... by year of creation, these were Service number UnitedStates Army UnitedStates Army service numbers 1918 Service number UnitedStates Navy UnitedStates Navy service numbers 1920 Service number UnitedStates Marine Corps UnitedStates Marine Corps service numbers 1920 Service number UnitedStates Coast Guard UnitedStates Coast Guard service numbers 1921 Service number UnitedStates Air Force UnitedStates Air Force service numbers 1948 The following are the original service numbers which ... personnel 2007 ref R 1 Arthur Crean First service number of the UnitedStates armed forces O 1 John J. Pershing First officer service number of the UnitedStates Army 100 00 01 Clayton Aab First enlisted service number of the UnitedStates Navy 532 Samuel R. Colhoun Earliest recorded officer service number of the UnitedStates Navy 01 James Ackerman First officer service number of the UnitedStates Marine Corps 20001 Alexander Schott First enlisted service number of the UnitedStates Marine Corps 1000 Joseph F. Farley First officer service number of the UnitedStates Coast Guard 100000 Mason B. Herring First enlisted service number of the UnitedStates Coast Guard 4A Hoyt Vandenberg Earliest recorded officer service number of the UnitedStates Air Force The original ... military service number for UnitedStates armed forces personnel. Beginning in 2002, the military ... Department of the Navy ref Service Number Format The general design of UnitedStatesservice numbers ... recorded Air Force officer number was 4. The entire range of UnitedStatesservice numbers extends ... Guard of the UnitedStates National Guard which used service numbers solely in the range ... more details
For other versions of UnitedStates military service numbers Service number UnitedStates armed forces ... thumb 350px right The first service number of the UnitedStates armed forces Service number s SNs were first created in 1918 as a result of the UnitedStates Army becoming involved ... exactly held the last service number of the UnitedStates Army. The highest service number for the draft ... of the UnitedStates Army ref National Personnel Records Center , Military Operations Branch, Service ... used by the UnitedStates Army from 1918 until 1969. Prior to this time, the Army relied on muster ... rolls maintained by the UnitedStates War Department . In the nineteenth century, the Army also used ... officers who were aviators in the UnitedStates Army Air Corps Army Air Corps . The Army officer ..., conscription had been introduced and the Army of the UnitedStates was founded to serve as a mixed ... were unassigned and used by various recruiting stations outside the UnitedStates. The District of Columbia ... of the Officer Reserve Corps the predecessor to the UnitedStates Army Reserve By 1942, the Army ... Records Center fire of 1973. The remaining enlisted draft force of the Army of the UnitedStates ... from outside the UnitedStates with the third number following the 30 determining the extra US ... of the Second World War, the UnitedStates Army was reorganized into the following components Regular Army The voluntary force of the UnitedStates Army Army Reserve The combined force formed from the older Enlisted and Officer Reserve Corps Army of the UnitedStates The peacetime draft force .... The UnitedStates Air Force was also founded in September 1947, with enlisted personnel transferring ... States Department of Veterans Affairs VA Index Card of Frank Gorshin showing a fifty million service ... of the UnitedStates or who enlisted into the Army Reserve. As with the older 30 million numbers ... or had enlisted. Numbers beginning with 50 specified an entry location outside the UnitedStates ... more details
For other versions of UnitedStates military service numbers Service number UnitedStates armed forces UnitedStates Navy service numbers were created in 1920, one year after the close of the First World War. The creation of Navy service numbers coincided with those of the Marine Corps, as the Marines were under the authority of the Department of the Navy . Navy officer service numbers Navy officer service numbers were simple in design since the Navy officer corps in 1920 was relatively small and there was little need for a complex service number system. The first Navy service numbers, which ranged ... Military Service Numbers , 28 June 2009 References Reflist US Navy navbox Category UnitedStates ... World War, Navy officer service numbers were extended to 350,000 these numbers were simply issued by entry date into the Navy officer corps without regard to membership in the Regular Navy or UnitedStates Navy Reserve . In 1945, with the service number cap now reached, the Navy extended officer ... should receive Navy service 1, with suggestions ranging from George Dewey to John Paul Jones . In the end, the Navy never proceeded with the retroactive presentation of officer service numbers and the first five hundred numbers remained un issued. The service numbers 501 to 999 were reserved for officers who were then serving on active duty in 1920. The first thirty service numbers 501 531 ... records of which officers held these numbers. The first service number of file was 532 which was issued to Samuel R. Colhoun who was a Captain UnitedStates Captain in the Navy Supply Corps UnitedStates Navy Supply Corps with service in both the Spanish American War and the American Civil War Civil War . The Navy continued to issue further service numbers to other officers based on seniority within the Navy. In 1922, the Navy extended the service number range of officers to 10,000 and by 1925 had extended the range again to 100,000. The issuance of service numbers was based simply by date of commission ... more details
Image AFMS.jpg thumb Seal of the Air Force Medical Service The UnitedStates Air Force Medical Service AFMS consists of the five distinct medical corps of the UnitedStates Air Force Air Force and enlisted ... medicine Dental corps Army Medical Department UnitedStates Dental Corps DC Army Dental Corps Navy Dental Corps Medical corps Medical Corps UnitedStates Army U.S. Army Medical Corps Medical Corps UnitedStates Navy U.S. Navy Medical Corps Medical service corps Army Medical Department UnitedStates Medical Service Corps MS Medical Service Corps U.S. Army Army Medical Department UnitedStates Medical ... navbox Category Military medical organizations of the UnitedStates Category UnitedStates Air Force Medical Service Category Medical units of the UnitedStates Air Force ... Surgeon General of the UnitedStates Air Force Surgeon General , Maj. General Malcolm C. Grow 1887 1960 , convinced the UnitedStates Army and President Harry S. Truman that the Air Force needed its own medical service. In the summer of 1949, Air Force General Order No. 35 established a medical service ... Service Corps, Air Force Nurse Corps, and Women s Medical Specialist Corps. The AFMS is led by The Surgeon General of the Air Force, who holds the rank of Lieutenant general UnitedStates lieutenant ... or a further, post graduate degree. The chief of the Dental Corps is a Major general UnitedStates ... become a Flight Surgeon . The Chief of the Medical Corps is a Brigadier general UnitedStates brigadier ... 15th Medical Support Squadron See also Portal UnitedStates Air Force multicol In general Exceptional ... Corps U.S. Navy multicol break Nurse corps Army Medical Department UnitedStates Nurse Corps AN U.S. ... States Navy Hospital Corpsman Hospital Corpsman U.S. Navy UnitedStates Navy Chaplain Corps Navy ... Force, the U.S. Air Force Reserve , and the Air National Guard . Headquartered at The Air Staff UnitedStates Air Staff , Bolling Air Force Base , Washington, D.C. , AFMS senior leaders can be found ... more details
TOC right The Military Service Institution of the UnitedStates was a voluntary organization of officers ... of appointment. The Journal The Journal Of The Military Service Institution Of The UnitedStates , was the oldest ... York Times September 9, 1889 DEFAULTSORT Military Service Institution Of The UnitedStates Category UnitedStates military support organizations Category Fraternal service organizations Category Organizations established in 1878 Category 1878 establishments in the UnitedStates ... United Services Institute of great Britain. The design of the Military Service Institution contemplated ... interests of the UnitedStates. The Rooms or Headquarters were located at Governors Island ... to membership by ballot all officers of the UnitedStates Army Army and Professors and Cadets of the UnitedStates Military Academy U. S. M. A . without ballot officers of the UnitedStates Navy Navy and UnitedStates Marine Corps Marine Corps are also entitled to full membership without ballot, but shall ... of the officers of the National Guard of the UnitedStates National Guard by a member or associate member, by ballot of the Executive Council. Officers of the Militia UnitedStates Organized Militia ... and campaigns in which the UnitedStates has been engaged, as well as models and specimens of the latest ... Department. Annual Prizes Gold And Silver Medals Image MSIUS Gold Medal.jpg right thumb Military Service Institution of the UnitedStates Gold Medal. First Prize. Gold Medal 100 and Life Membership. Second ... of the UnitedStates, Governor s Island, N.Y.H., Wynkoop Hallenbeck Crawford co., 1906. ARMY ... Guards of the States , fostered by Generals William Tecumseh Sherman Sherman and Philip Sheridan ... and Art of War. In his Annual Report 1892 , Major General John Schofield , Commanding General of the UnitedStates Army commanding the Army . The Institution It was organized on September 28, 1878 ... and devoted to the interests of all branches of the service. It contained original papers by officers ... more details
Current Distinguished Service Cross awarded by UnitedStates Army type Medal eligibility The Distinguished ... Guard Navy Cross br Air Force Air Force Cross UnitedStates Air Force Cross lower Distinguished Service ... Service Cross DSC is the second highest Awards and decorations of the UnitedStates military military decoration that can be awarded to a member of the UnitedStates Army and previously, the United ... of Honor . The Distinguished Service Cross is equivalent to the Navy Cross UnitedStates Navy Navy , UnitedStates Marine Corps Marine Corps , and UnitedStates Coast Guard Coast Guard and the Air Force Cross UnitedStates Air Force Cross UnitedStates Air Force Air Force . The Distinguished Service ... is distinct from the Distinguished Service Medal UnitedStates Distinguished Service Medal ... of the UnitedStates Armed Forces of the UnitedStates for valorous service rendered in like manner ... UnitedStates 2nd Division , had received his first Distinguished Service Cross in 1918, received two ..., Jr., whose second Distinguished Service Cross came as commanding general of the Seventh UnitedStates ... UnitedStates 25th Infantry Division , Hobart R. Gay , whose first Distinguished Service Cross was earned ... of the Distinguished Service Cross UnitedStates Creighton Abrams Creighton W. Abrams, Jr ... Army Air Service U.S. Army Air Service , later UnitedStates Army Air Forces USAAF with one Oak Leaf ... aviator Douglas Campbell , UnitedStates Army Air Service U.S. Army Air Service with four Oak Leaf ... Army Dust Off pilot, Vietnam, posthumous George Kenney George C. Kenney , UnitedStates Army Air Service U.S. Army Air Service , later UnitedStates Army Air Forces USAAF with one Oak Leaf Cluster Robert ... while engaged in an action against an enemy of the UnitedStates while engaged in military operations ... engaged in an armed conflict against an opposing Armed Force in which the UnitedStates is not a belligerent ... of the UnitedStates in a duty of great responsibility. Description A cross of bronze , 2 inches ... more details
Infobox Law enforcement agency agencyname UnitedStates Postal Inspection Service nativename nativenamea nativenamer commonname Postal Inspection Service abbreviation USPIS patch USPIS Patch.jpg patchcaption ... Chief Postal Inspector parentagency UnitedStates Postal Service child1agency unittype unitname ... footnotes reference The UnitedStates Postal Inspection Service or USPIS is the law enforcement arm of the UnitedStates Postal Service . Its jurisdiction is defined as crimes that may ... and customers. They make arrests for crimes committed against the UnitedStates Postal Service ... abuse child exploitation , the UnitedStates Department of Justice honored the Postal Inspection Service ... http postalinspectors.uspis.gov USPIS web site Category UnitedStates Postal Service Category Organizations based in Washington, D.C. Category Organizations established in 1772 de UnitedStates Postal ... dissolved superseding employees 3,500 approx volunteers budget nongovernment country UnitedStates ... and state investigations. History The Postal Inspection Service has the oldest origins of any federal law enforcement agency in the UnitedStates . It traces its roots back to 1772, ref http www.usps.com postalinspectors ischrono.htm Chronology of U.S. Postal Inspection Service accessed on 2007 01 08 ref when colonial UnitedStates Postmaster General Postmaster General Benjamin Franklin first appointed a surveyor to regulate and audit the mails. Thus, the Service s origins in part predate the UnitedStates Declaration of Independence Declaration of Independence , and therefore the UnitedStates ... areas in the UnitedStates and its territories. These uniformed officers provide a visible deterrent ... accessdate 1 March 2012 ref . See also Portal box UnitedStates Law enforcement Law enforcement ... ICE Letter bomb List of UnitedStates federal law enforcement agencies Mailbox baseball Mail ... Inspection Service was the first federal law enforcement agency to use the title Special ... more details
terrorism strategies employed by the UnitedStates of America the operations of the Special Collections Service have experienced significant growth in scale and complexity. References reflist External ... Organizations in cryptography Category UnitedStates Department of Defense agencies crypto stub es Servicio de Recolecciones Especiales de los Estados Unidos fr Special Collection Service ... more details
File US CivilServiceCommission Seal EO11096.jpg right 200px The UnitedStates Civil Service Commission was a three man commission created by the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act , ref http millercenter.org ... was created to administer the civil service of the UnitedStates federal government in response to the assassination ... books.google.com books?id VcIdAAAAMAAJ&pg PA120 Fourth Report of the UnitedStates Civil Service Commission ... of the UnitedStates Civil Service Commission Washington Government Printing Office, 1915 p. 116 ... Thirty Sixth Annual Report of the UnitedStates Civil Service Commission Washington Government Printing ... of the UnitedStates Civil Service Commission Washington Government Printing Office, 1922 p. 121 ... Kathie Ann Whipple 2009 See also UnitedStates civil service References reflist Civil service US gov stub Category Civil service in the UnitedStates Category Defunct agencies of the UnitedStates government ... of political patronage and partisan behavior. ref Creating America A History of the UnitedStates ... the Office of Personnel Management and the UnitedStates Merit Systems Protection Board Merit ... 20thReport http books.google.com books?id ZDkeAAAAMAAJ&pg PA7 Twentieth Annual Report of the UnitedStates Civil Service Commission Washington Government Printing Office, 1904 p. 7. ref John C. Black ... Commission in Public Papers Of The Presidents Of The UnitedStates Washington Government Printing ... of the UnitedStates Congress publisher Senate Historical office and House Legislative Resource ... to take the civil service exam in order to be given certain jobs it also prevented elected officials ... Stat. 3783 and the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 . In addition, other functions were placed under ... servants would be selected on the basis of merit system and the career service would operate in a political neutrality fashion. Civil Service Commissions typically consisted of three to seven individuals ... service reform movement New York G.P. Putnam s Sons. 1919 , p.8 ref Nov 1, 1885 resigned ref Cleveland ... more details
Use mdy dates date September 2010 main UnitedStates Forest Service File Pinchot Roosevelt.jpg thumb ... Forest Service Category History of forestry in the UnitedStates ... land from the public domain as forest reserves, managed by the UnitedStates Department of the Interior ... it possible for the national forest system to expand into the eastern UnitedStates. Significant federal legislation affecting the Forest Service includes the Weeks Act of 1911, the Multiple Use ... to assess the state of the forests in the UnitedStates. 1881 The Office of the Special ... Forests in the Eastern UnitedStates and the protection and restoration of millions of acres ... U.S. Forest Service accessdate 2011 10 19 ref See also List of legislation governing the UnitedStates Forest Service Notes references group nb References reflist Further reading Refbegin cite journal ... Service Starting in 1876, and undergoing a series of name changes, the U.S. Forest Service grew ... ASPNET USFHSHome.aspx title U.S. Forest Service History Collection publisher Forest ... title History work U.S. Forest Service accessdate 2011 10 19 ref History In 1876, Congress created the office of Special Agent in the Department of Agriculture to assess the state of the forests in the UnitedStates. Franklin B. Hough was appointed the head of the office. In 1881, the office was expanded ... Service . Gifford Pinchot was the first Chief Forester of the US Forest Service. ref cite book title The USDA Forest Service The First Century last Williams first Gerald W. year 2000 publisher U.S. Department ... changes to the Forest Service. 1905 1945 National forest management focuses on protecting lands ... title to privately owned land located within national forest boundaries. 1944 The Forest Service begins ... 1980 In response to shifting public values, the Forest Service shifts focus to managing land as integrated ... adjacent to forests. List of Forest Service Chiefs class wikitable Forest Service Chief ... more details
Infobox military unit unit name Air Service, UnitedStates Army image Image Prop and wings.svg 150px caption Prop and Wings branch insignia of the Air Service dates May 24, 1918 July 2, 1926 country UnitedStates of America allegiance branch UnitedStates Army type role Aviation support to ground operations ... mascot battles World War I notable commanders Mason Patrick anniversaries The Air Service, UnitedStates Army ref name ASWWI was a forerunner of the UnitedStates Air Force during and after World War I . It was established as an independent but temporary wartime branch of the UnitedStates Department of War War Department by two Executive order UnitedStates executive orders of President Woodrow ... changed from ASSC Aviation Section, Signal Corps to AS, USA Air Service, UnitedStates Army . ref ... Aeronautics Background of the wartime Air Service Although war in Europe prompted UnitedStates Congress ... ref most used in observation units. The facilities of the Air Service in the UnitedStates totaled 40 ... the armistice. The Air Service, Third UnitedStates Army Third Army was created immediately after ..., 1919, formally consolidated the BPA and DMA into the Air Service, UnitedStates Army . ref harvnb ... Service in the continental UnitedStates comprised the 1st Bombardment Wing World War II 1st Wing . In January ... the status of combatant arm of the line of the UnitedStates Army , with a major general in command .... The Army s senior leadership from World War I , the UnitedStates Navy , and the majority of the nation ... Germany on April 6, 1917, putting the UnitedStates in World War I , came too quickly less than ... in training, leaving the UnitedStates totally unprepared to fight an air war in Europe. The Aviation .... ref Hennessy, Juliette A. 1958 . USAF Historical Study No. 98 The UnitedStates Army Air Arm, April ... given as 250 A History of the UnitedStates Air Force, 1907 1957 , Alfred Goldberg, editor USAF ... States Department of War War and the UnitedStates Department of the Navy Navy Departments ... more details
The UnitedStates Antarctic Service Expedition 1939&ndash 1941 , often referred to as Byrd s third Antarctic Expedition , was an expedition jointly sponsored by the UnitedStates Navy , UnitedStates Department of State State Department , UnitedStates Department of the Interior Department of the Interior and UnitedStates Department of the Treasury The Treasury . Although a US Government sponsored expedition, additional support came from donations and gifts by private citizens, corporations and institutions. Rear admiral UnitedStates Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd donated many of the supplies which he had gathered for his own expedition, the largest item being the Bear of Oakland , commissioned the Bear ship USS Bear . A second ship, the USMS North Star , a 1434 ton wooden ice ship built for the Bureau of Indian Affairs was supplied by the Department of the Interior. A total of 125 men departed from the UnitedStates in the two ships of the UnitedStates Antarctic Service Expedition. Most of the men who made up the expedition were solicited from the military ranks, civilian agencies of government and from scientific institutions. A few volunteers were employed by the Department of the Interior for 10 per month, food and clothing included. A total of 59 men, divided initially into three groups, wintered in Antarctica. The objectives of the Expedition were outlined in an order from President Franklin D. Roosevelt dated November 25, 1939. The President wanted two bases to be established East Base, in the vicinity of Charcot Island or Alexander I Land, or on Marguerite Bay if no accessible site could be found on either of the specified islands and West Base, in the vicinity of Edward VII Peninsula King Edward VII Land , but if this proved impossible, a site on the Bay of Whales at or near Little America was to be investigated, and delineation of the continental coast line ... Category 1939 in the UnitedStates Category Antarctic expeditions Category UnitedStates and the Antarctic ... more details
For other versions of UnitedStatesservice numbers, see Service number UnitedStates armed forces File FourServiceNumbers.jpg thumb right 350px A collection of service numbers from a UnitedStates Air Force officer s service record. From left to right top to bottom A Regular Air Force officer number ... Army enlisted number. UnitedStates Air Force service numbers were created in the spring of 1948, approximately ... 1948 until the discontinuation of Air Force service numbers in 1969. For a brief time in the 1950s until 1965, cadet s at the UnitedStates Air Force Academy were assigned a special range of service ... stations outside of the UnitedStates. The service number range of 11 000 000 to 19 000 000 ... service numbers Significant UnitedStates Air Force service numbers include ref National Personnel ... for Regular Air Force personnel, who had enlisted from inside the UnitedStates, with the first two ... Force personnel who had enlisted from within the UnitedStates with the first two numbers a geographical ... UnitedStates Air Force Category Military life Category Identifiers Category UnitedStates Air Force ... of the Air Force , TRF ORDER 1, 26 September 1947 ref Air Force officer service numbers The first regulation of Air Force service numbers applied to numbers held by Air Force officers. In 1947 ... officer service numbers ranged from 1 to 19,999 and were reserved for Regular Air Force officers who had crossed over to the UnitedStates Air Force. A complication to early service number issuance was that some senior Air Force officers such as Henry H. Arnold choose to simply retain their Army service numbers and did not apply for a new Air Force service number. Thus, the earliest Air Force officer service number was 4 which was assigned to Hoyt Vandenberg numbers one through three were apparently never issued. After the initial issuance of the first Air Force officer service numbers, the service ... of the regular Air Force service number system. The service numbers 100 000 to 1 799 999 were never ... more details
, and travel security. See also Portal box UnitedStates Law enforcement Law enforcement topics Federal law enforcement in the UnitedStates Diplomatic Security Service U.S. Diplomatic Security Service ... est. 2008 nongovernment country UnitedStates countryabbr federal Yes map mapcaption sizearea sizepopulation legaljuris Throughout the UnitedStates, 11 Regions Nationwide, U.S. Government Law Enforcement Interests governingbody UnitedStates Government governingbodyscnd constitution1 speciality ... of UnitedStates Department of Homeland Security U.S. Department of Homeland Security , National ... is a Federal law enforcement in the UnitedStates federal law enforcement agency , and currently ... of the UnitedStates Federal buildings, courthouses, and other properties administered by the General ... a highly trained and multi disciplined police force. Recent Image Federal Protective ServiceUnited ... has seen its budget and staff cut since it became a part of the UnitedStates Department of Homeland ... of all buildings owned and occupied by the UnitedStates. In 1949, Congress enacted the Federal ... the newly created General Services Administration. The FPS force, known at the time as the UnitedStates ... instigated a Mariel boatlift wave of emigration from Cuba to the UnitedStates using the harbor town ... government facilities throughout the UnitedStates. ref http www.fiercehomelandsecurity.com story ... a warrant for any offense against the UnitedStates committed in the presence of the officer or agent or for any felony cognizable under the laws of the UnitedStates if the officer or agent has ... D serve warrants and subpoenas issued under the authority of the UnitedStates E conduct investigations ... of Columbia Category protective security units Category UnitedStates Department of Homeland Security ...For the Russian Federal Protective Service Federal Protective Service Russia Infobox Law enforcement agency agencyname Federal Protective Service nativename nativenamea nativenamer commonname Federal Protective ... more details
service. Throughout its entire existence, the service operated under the authority of the UnitedStates Department of the Treasury . In 1915 the service merged with the UnitedStates Life Saving Service to form the UnitedStates Coast Guard . The need for the service Image Perry Island postcard.jpg ... for which the later U.S. Coast Guard would be best known worldwide. Early service First ten Revenue Service cutters Ten cutters were initially ordered. Between 1790 and 1798, the Revenue Marine was the only armed maritime service of the UnitedStates. Each cutter captain was answerable to and received ... of the UnitedStates Navy, and the cutters themselves were often placed into military service. In the War ... Service in 1942. In 1990, the UnitedStates Coast Guard created a military award known as the Coast ... navbox Category UnitedStates Revenue Cutter Service Category Military history of the UnitedStates Category 1790 establishments in the UnitedStates Category Defunct agencies of the UnitedStates government nl UnitedStates Revenue Cutter Service ...no footnotes date June 2010 Image USRCSlogo.jpg right 175px The UnitedStates Revenue Cutter boat Cutter Service , was established as the Revenue Marine , and so named for over one hundred years, by then Secretary ... after the American Revolutionary War the new UnitedStates was struggling to stay afloat financially ... enforcement of tariff laws, and on August 4, 1790, the UnitedStates Congress , urged on by UnitedStates Secretary of the Treasury Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton , created the Revenue Marine, later renamed the Revenue Cutter Service by act of July 31, 1894 28 Stat. 171 . ref name ... slave ships illegally importing slaves into the UnitedStates. Many slave ships were seized ... the new UnitedStates Coast Guard . The Coast Guard would further incorporate the UnitedStates ... the Revenue Cutter Service by act of July 31, 1894 28 Stat. 171 . All crew pay, requests for supplies ... more details
II, the Military Intelligence Service became the recipient of the Presidential Unit Citation UnitedStates Presidential Unit Citation , the highest honor given to a U.S. military unit. ref cite web url http www.njahs.org misnorcal honors.htm title Military Intelligence Service Honors and Awards accessdate ... Japanese Americans who served in the Military Intelligence Service during the war, as well as the Japanese American 442nd Infantry Regiment UnitedStates 442nd Regimental Combat Team and 100th Infantry Battalion UnitedStates 100th Infantry Battalion . ref name steffen citation last Steffen first ... personnel of Japanese descent Category Military units and formations of the UnitedStates in World ...The Military Intelligence Service lang ja was a World War II U.S. military unit consisting of two branches, the Japanese American Unit described here and the German Austrian Unit based at Camp Ritchie, described partly in Ritchie Boys . The unit described here was primarily composed of Japanese American Nisei , who were trained as linguist s. Graduates of the MIS language school MISLS were attached to other military units to provide translation and interrogation services. Near the end of the war with Japan, the curriculum shifted to focus more on Japanese Civil Affairs civil affairs , in order to assist with occupation and rebuilding after the war. The MISLS initially known as the Fourth Army Intelligence School , and began operation in November 1941, about a month before the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor . The school initially operated at Crissy Field in San Francisco, California San Francisco , but moved to Savage, Minnesota in 1942. There were more than 6000 graduates of MISLS. The first MISLS students came from the army, but later students were also recruited from Japanese ... 1942, the Military Intelligence Division was reorganized as the Military Intelligence Service ... ref References reflist http www.njahs.org misnorcal index.htm Military Intelligence Service ... more details
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