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* The Department of Defense orders over 100 combat aircraft, including fighters, bombers, and support aircraft to military bases in the Persian Gulf.
Also in 1857, the U. S. War Department asked Lieutenant Joseph Ives to lead an expedition to assess the feasibility of an up-river navigation from the Gulf of California.
As part of that project, 23 murals, in the form of paintings and mosaic tiles, were created in cooperation with the Art Department, Perkinston campus of Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College and are on public display throughout the county.
The military installation was originally composed of three separate entities: the Huntsville Arsenal and the Huntsville Depot ( later the Gulf Chemical Warfare Depot ), which were operated under the auspices of the Chemical Warfare Service ; and the Redstone Ordnance Plant, operated by the Army Ordnance Department.
Major General Benjamin F. Butler, commanding Union forces in the Department of the Gulf, launched an expedition into the Bayou Lafourche region to eliminate the Rebel threat from that area, to make sure that sugar and cotton products from there would come into Union hands and, in the future, to use it as a base for other military operations.
Gen. Weitzel, Butler's protégé, with 5 regiments from the Reserve Brigade, Department of the Gulf ( numbering about 4000 men ), left Carrollton, 7 miles above New Orleans, on Oct. 24, and went up the river in transports conveyed by gunboats.
On May 18, 1864, Canby assumed command in Simmesport, but Banks retained the nominal title of commander of the Department of the Gulf.
Also during the 1991 Gulf War, Dutch hackers stole information about U. S. troop movements from U. S. Defense Department computers and tried to sell it to the Iraqis, who thought it was a hoax and turned it down.
In December he sailed from New York with a this large force of raw recruits to replace Maj. Gen. Benjamin Butler at New Orleans, Louisiana, as commander of the Department of the Gulf.
Despite the low death toll, over 180, 000 US veterans would later be classified as " permanently disabled " according to the US Department of Veterans Affairs ( National Gulf War Resource Center ; see also Gulf War Syndrome ).
The trafficking in Persons Report of 2007 from the US Department of State says that sexual slavery exists in the Arab states of the Persian Gulf, where women and children may be trafficked from the post-Soviet states, Eastern Europe, Far East, Africa, South Asia or other parts of the Middle East.
He also served briefly as the Assistant Inspector General of the Department of the Gulf.
Consisting of the IV Corps, XIII Corps, the African-American XXV Corps, and two 4, 000-man cavalry divisions commanded by Brig-Gen. Wesley Merritt and Maj-Gen. George A. Custer, it aggregated a 50, 000 man force on the Gulf Coast and along the Rio Grande River to pressure the French intervention in Mexico and garrison the Reconstruction Department of Texas.
Fortifications and Battery Positions, Port Hudson, Louisiana, Department of the Gulf, 1864
Major General Nathanial Banks was diverted from a possible expedition to Texas and given Benjamin Butler ’ s command of the Department of the Gulf.
In December, 2006, in Iraq there were thought to be at least 100, 000 contractors working directly for the United States Department of Defense which is a tenfold increase in the use of private contractors for military operations since the Persian Gulf War, just over a decade earlier.
David Fairchild of the Department of Agriculture successfully introduced the tree in 1905 in the U. S. Gulf States from Florida west to eastern Texas.
( Lieutenant-Colonel, U. S. V., Assistant Adjutant-General, Department of the Gulf ) " The Red River Campaign ", from Battles & Leaders of the Civil War, Volume 4
In 1994, he headed the Department of Defense's Task Force on Persian Gulf War Health Effects, which investigated Gulf War Syndrome.
The records of the Navy Department showed she performed more service than all the rest of the Gulf squadron put together.
** Department of Texas ( originally part of the Department of the Gulf ) Texas after 1865.
* Department of the Gulf ( 1862 – 1865 ; created by the U. S. for the Civil War ) Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, and Texas.

Department and was
The War Department wrote Mr. Manuel a letter and said he was a hero.
It is doubtful if Morgan was able to take home much money to his wife and children, for his pay, as shown by the War Department Abstracts of early 1778 was $75 a month as a colonel, and that apt to be delayed.
Another optimistic sign, this one from the Labor Department, was the report that the long rise in unemployment compensation payments `` was interrupted for the first time in the week ending Feb. 25 ''.
He was delighted to learn that the Post Office Department is now going to expand this service to deliver mail from Representatives in Congress to their constituents without the use of stamps, names, addresses or even zone numbers.
In addition Rep. Frelinghuysen's brother Harry was on the Korean desk of the State Department in World War 2.
As a result, your criticism of Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and the Department of Justice was inaccurate, unwarranted and unfair.
It was organizationally the responsibility of the Department of Public Works and was financed on a rotary fund basis with each agency of government contributing to the pool's operation.
In 1951 the pool's operation was transferred to the newly-created Department of Administration, an agency established as the central staff and auxiliary department of the state government.
He claims that he was denied due process of law in violation of the Fifth Amendment, because ( 1 ) at a hearing before a hearing officer of the Department of Justice, he was not permitted to rebut statements attributed to him by the local board, and ( 2 ) at the trial, he was denied the right to have the hearing officer's report and the original report of the Federal Bureau of Investigation as to his claim.
Petitioner was not denied due process in the administrative proceedings, because the statement in question was in his file, to which he had access, and he had opportunities to rebut it both before the hearing officer of the Department of Justice and before the appeal board.
Petitioner was not entitled to have the hearing officer's notes and report, especially since he failed to show any particular need for them and he did have a copy of the Department of Justice's recommendation to the appeal board.
Petitioner was not entitled, either in the administrative hearing at the Department of Justice or at his trial, to inspect the original report of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, since he was furnished a resume of it, did not challenge its accuracy, and showed no particular need for the original report.
Petitioner, who claims to be a conscientious objector, contends that he was denied due process, both in the proceedings before a hearing officer of the Department of Justice and at trial.
He says that he was not permitted to rebut before the hearing officer statements attributed to him by the local board, and, further, that he was denied at trial the right to have the Department of Justice hearing officer's report and the original report of the Federal Bureau of Investigation as to his claim -- all in violation of the Fifth Amendment.
His claim was therefore `` so highly exaggerated '', the Department concluded, that it `` cast doubt upon his veracity and, consequently, upon his sincerity and good faith ''.
The recommendation of the Department -- as well as the decision of the appeal board -- was based entirely on the local board file, not on an FBI report.
Mr. Devey first came to Sprague in 1953 as a Product Specialist in the Field Engineering Department, coming from the Office of Naval Research in Washington, D. C., where he was an electronic scientist engaged in undersea warfare studies.

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In 1924 in the UK the chemist Harold Plenderleith began to work at the British Museum with Dr. Alexander Scott in the newly created Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, thus giving birth to the conservation profession in the UK.
In 1997, the state legislature created the Metropolitan Highway System and transferred responsibility for the Central Artery and Tunnel " CA / T " Project from the Massachusetts Highway Department and the Massachusetts Governor's Office to the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority ( MTA ).
Approximately 500, 000 deserters were arrested in 1919 and close to 800, 000 in 1920, by troops of the ' Special Punitive Department ' of the Cheka, created to punish desertions.
The Capability Maturity Model ( CMM ) ( a registered service mark of Carnegie Mellon University, CMU ) is a development model created after study of data collected from organizations that contracted with the U. S. Department of Defense, who funded the research.
Two years later, the governor created a new bureau for immigrant issues in the Department of Labor and appointed reformer Frances Kellor to head it.
DARPA was created as the Advanced Research Projects Agency ( ARPA ) by the Supplemental Military Construction Authorization ( Air Force ) ( Public Law 85-325 ) and Department of Defense Directive 5105. 15, in February 1958.
# He created the Department of Labor ; introduced regulation of the labor practices in the textile industry ; and oversaw the creation of the Casa del Obrero Mundial (" House of the World Worker "), an organization with anarcho-syndicalist connections, that would play a major role in the subsequent Mexican labor movement.
GPS was created and realized by the U. S. Department of Defense ( DoD ) and was originally run with 24 satellites.
Large-scale emigration, principally to the United States, and Canada ( predominantly to Quebec, with other areas of the country )-but also to Cuba, other areas of Europe and the Americas such as France ( with French Guiana ), Spain, Belgium, the United Kingdom and Ireland ; and Venezuela, the Dominican Republic, the Bahamas and other Caribbean neighbors-has created what Haitians refer to as the Eleventh Department or the Diaspora.
He appointed a commission that set aside 3, 000, 000 acres ( 12, 000 km² ) of national parks and 2, 300, 000 acres of national forests ; advocated tax reduction for low-income Americans ( not enacted ); closed certain tax loopholes for the wealthy ; doubled the number of veterans ' hospital facilities ; negotiated a treaty on St. Lawrence Seaway ( which failed in the U. S. Senate ); wrote a Children's Charter that advocated protection of every child regardless of race or gender ; created an antitrust division in the Justice Department ; required air mail carriers to adopt stricter safety measures and improve service ; proposed federal loans for urban slum clearances ( not enacted ); organized the Federal Bureau of Prisons ; reorganized the Bureau of Indian Affairs ; instituted prison reform ; proposed a federal Department of Education ( not enacted ); advocated $ 50-per-month pensions for Americans over 65 ( not enacted ); chaired White House conferences on child health, protection, homebuilding and home-ownership ; began construction of the Boulder Dam ( later renamed Hoover Dam ); and signed the Norris – La Guardia Act that limited judicial intervention in labor disputes.
* In the United States, the Department of Homeland Security was created soon after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, as a means to centralize response to various threats.
* 1870 – United States Department of Justice US Congress created the Department of Justice
A separate Department of women & child Development was set up under the newly created Ministry of Human Resource Development
Examples: The New School in New York City ( the first Media Studies Program in the country, created in 1975 ), The Paley Center for Media in New York City, Comparative Media Studies at MIT, Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago, Media and Cultural Studies at the University of California, Riverside, Rhetoric and Media Studies at Willamette University, Media Studies in Communication at Kennesaw State University, the Instructional Technology and Media Program at Columbia University, and The Department of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University.
* Stub created from US State Department Report, 2007.
* Office of Strategic Influence, a short-lived former American government agency created in 2001, part of the Department of Defense and focused on psychological warfare
The War Department took over the Secret Intelligence ( SI ) and Counter-Espionage ( X-2 ) Branches, which were then housed in a new office created for just this purpose — the Strategic Services Unit ( SSU ).
* Political Intelligence Department, a British clandestine body created to produce and disseminate propaganda during WWII.
Other cities followed around the country until early in the 20th century, when the short lived Office of Air Pollution was created under the Department of the Interior.
The Printing Department, run from a single printing plant in Leiden, was created to allow the circulation of the Court's publishings.
Civilian employees of the U. S. Department of Defense who are killed or wounded as a result of hostile action may receive the new Defense of Freedom Medal, created shortly after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
President Jimmy Carter had begun phasing out price controls on petroleum, while he created the Department of Energy.
There was little communication between New York City Police Department and fire department commands even though an Office of Emergency Management ( OEM ) had been created in 1996 in part to provide such coordination.

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