** Minuteman Project

* The Minuteman Project has been described as vigilantes dedicated to expelling people who cross the US-Mexico border illegally.

* From Border Stories, a profile of a Minuteman Project volunteer in Campo, CA

What had started as a local issue became national news when the Minuteman Project anti-illegal immigration group joined the local groups opposing the day laborers and watchdog group Judicial Watch sued the town and county to block the center's construction.

* Minuteman Project, 2005 action to deter illegal immigration

* Jim Gilchrist, founder of the controversial Minuteman Project

*" Christian Science Monitor failed to note Minuteman Project volunteer's white supremacist ties " by MediaMatters

* Minuteman Project

* Minuteman – Frank Stiles was a scientist who worked on the Manhattan Project in World War II.

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More recently PLP has also targeted the Minuteman Project and Save Our State.

The success of Proposition 200 in Arizona was followed in April 2005 by the Minuteman Project, in which volunteers came to Arizona to help patrol the border, although this project did not have the support of the United States Border Patrol and generated some controversy.

The organizers of the Minuteman Project have announced plans for similar projects in other states including Texas, California, and Michigan.

* Minuteman Project, an organization that monitors illegal immigrants on the United States – Mexico borders.

The Minuteman Project is an activist organization started in April 2005 by a group of private individuals in the United States to monitor the United States – Mexico border's flow of illegal immigrants.

The Minuteman Project describes itself as " a citizens ' Neighborhood Watch on our border ", and has attracted media attention to illegal immigration.

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James " Jim " Walter Gilchrist, Jr. ( born January 13, 1949 ) is the American co-founder and president of the Minuteman Project, an activist group whose aim is to prevent illegal immigration across the United States's southern border.

Jim Gilchrist and Chris Simcox are widely recognized as the founders of the Minuteman Project.

Specific sites of contestation over citizenship and belonging are also examined, such as organ transplants for immigrants, the Minuteman Project ’ s spectacle of surveillance along the Arizona-Mexico border, and the marches for immigrant rights of 2006.

Minuteman Project founder Jim Gilchrist was eventually chosen for the American Independent Party nomination.

The American Independent Party candidate, Minuteman Project founder Jim Gilchrist, fell only 2. 3 % short of overtaking Brewer in the open primary.

Chris Simcox ( born 1961 ) is the American co-founder of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps ( MCDC ) and the project's main spokesperson.

In December 2004, Simcox teamed with James Gilchrist to organize the Minuteman Project, which brought nationwide attention to the southern border.

Based on his industry experience on Air Force missile projects, Mueller realized some skilled managers could be found among high-ranking officers in the US Air Force, so he got Webb's permission to recruit General Samuel C. Phillips, who gained a reputation for his effective management of the Minuteman program, as OMSF program controller.

Additionally, the US Air Force itself was well into the process of developing the Minuteman missile, whose improved accuracy reduced the need for any bomber attacks.

For each test a Minuteman missile was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California carrying a single mock re-entry vehicle targeted for Kwajalein lagoon more than away.

An early mass-produced embedded system was the Autonetics D-17 guidance computer for the Minuteman missile, released in 1961.

NUTS theory can be seen in the US adoption of a number of first strike weapons, such as the Trident II and Minuteman III nuclear missiles, which both have an extremely low circular error probable ( CEP ) of about 90 meters for the former and 120 meters for the latter.

As a result of this both American and Soviet sites reached a state of " super hardening " involving principle defenses against the effects of a nuclear weapon — springs or a counterweight ( in the case of the R-36 ) mounted control capsules, thick ( three to four feet for the Minuteman command capsule ) heavily reinforced with rebar and steel.

It was intended as a replacement for the LGM-30 Minuteman, but it suffered from a long development time, and was retired in 2005 before the Minuteman because of arms reduction treaties.

Launch silo LF-23 is used for ongoing silo testing, with target missiles consisting of surplus inert Minuteman ICBM second and third stages being launched from the Kwajalein Meck launch site in the Pacific Range.

It is now used for the Minuteman Bikeway.

With the development of the three-stage, solid-fuel Minuteman I missile in the late 1950s SAC began searching for sites to deploy this revolutionary weapon.

Because Malmstrom ’ s location placed most strategic targets in the Soviet Union within range of Minuteman, the base was selected to become a command and control center for ICBMs located in central Montana.

In fact, the Minuteman missiles at Malmstrom were able to substitute for Jupiter and Thor missiles based in Turkey, which were removed under a secret accord, thus allowing the Soviets to remove their missiles from Cuba, and replace them with submarine-based missiles and longer-range ICBM's based on Soviet territory.

One hangar and a portion of the Malmstrom flight line remain operational for aviation purposes as heliport for Malmstrom's 40th Helicopter Squadron ( 40 HS ) and its UH-1N Twin Huey helicopters supporting the 341st Space Wing's Minuteman III ICBM sites.

The 91st Missile Wing ( 91 MW ) of the Air Force Global Strike Command ( AFGSC ) is responsible for maintaining the Minuteman III nuclear missiles located in three main fields across North Dakota.

In 1961, the Air Force selected the land around Minot for a new Minuteman I ICBM complex.

* Steven Kampmann as Kirk Devane, a chronic liar who owns the Minuteman Café across from the inn, and holds an unrequited infatuation for Leslie.

Under conditions of the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, all of the 44th Missile Wing's Minuteman silos and launch control centers were slated for demolition with the exception of Sites Delta-01 and Delta-09.

These latter two sites were subsequently turned over to the National Park Service for preservation as part of the Minuteman Missile National Historic Site.

The others — Dayton, Ohio, becoming synonymous with peace in the Balkans ; helping the Russian defense minister blow up a Minuteman missile silo in Missouri ; watching United States and Russian troops training together in Kansas ; welcoming former Warsaw Pact troops in Louisiana ; operating a school at Garmisch, Germany, to teach former Soviet and East European military officers about democracy, budgeting, and testifying to a parliament ; dismantling the military specifications system for acquisition ; cutting the ear off a pig in Kazakhstan ; and eating rendered Manchurian toad fat in China.

Ballard began working for Andreas Rechnitzer's Ocean Systems Group at North American Aviation in 1962 when his father, Chet Ballard, the chief engineer at North American Aviation's Minuteman missile program, helped him get a part-time job.

" The Midnight Sun " was telecast on the day the U. S. consolidated its drive for " push-button warfare " with the first successful launching of a Minuteman missile from an underground silo.