The Bronze Star Medal may be awarded by the Secretary of a military department or the Secretary of Homeland Security with regard to the Coast Guard when not operating as a service in the Navy, or by such military commanders, or other appropriate officers as the Secretary concerned may designate, to any person who, while serving in any capacity in or with the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, or Coast Guard of the United States, after 6 December 1941, distinguishes, or has distinguished, himself by heroic or meritorious achievement or service, not involving participation in aerial flight —

During 1996, the Ministry of Public Security established the Fuerza Pública or Public Force which reorganized and eliminated the Civil Guard, Rural Assistance Guard, and Frontier Guards as separate entities ; they are now under the Ministry and operate on a geographic command basis performing ground security, law enforcement, counter-narcotics, and border patrol functions.

Government paramilitary forces. Two agencies, the Central Security Forces and Border Guard Forces, are under the control of the Ministry of Interior.

In 2007 the Home Guard became the Sri Lanka Civil Security Force.

Its mission statement is to " defend the sovereign good of The Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, contribute to the development of the national community and support the State in the fulfillment of its national and international objectives ". The Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force is made up of four distinct arms, The Regiment / Army, the Coast Guard, the Air Guard and the Defence Force Reserves, which all fall under the authority of the Ministry of National Security.

The U. S. Coast Guard, in its peacetime role within the Department of Homeland Security, and the National Guard, when not in Federal Service, are specifically not limited by this act.

In this capacity, he serves as a military adviser to the President, the Secretary of Defense, the National Security Council and is the Department of Defense's official channel of communication to the Governors and to State Adjutants General on all matters pertaining to the National Guard.

According to Homeland security research, the U. S. federal Homeland Security and Homeland Defense includes 187 federal agencies and departments, including the United States National Guard, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the United States Coast Guard, Customs and Border Protection, U. S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, the United States Secret Service, the Transportation Security Administration, the 14 agencies that constitute the U. S. intelligence community and Civil Air Patrol.

MBP also had control over 41, 000 soldiers of the Internal Security Corps, 57, 500 officers of the Citizens ' Militia, 32, 000 officers of Border Troops and 10, 000 Prison Guard and also 125, 000 members of the Volunteer Reserve Citizen Militia.

The MSW was responsible for administrative duties, but eventually it took over the control of Internal Security Corps, Citizens ' Militia, Border Troops, Prison Guard and also members of the Volunteer Reserve Citizen Militia.

Whenever the United States Coast Guard operates as a service within the Department of the Navy, the Secretary of the Navy has the same powers and duties with respect to the Coast Guard as the Secretary of Homeland Security when the Coast Guard is not operating as a service in the Navy.

It is represented by the United States Navy ( Department of Defense ); the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ( Department of Commerce ); and the United States Coast Guard ( Department of Homeland Security ).

After three years of searching for an occupant, the Department of Homeland Security ( DHS ) announced on March 20, 2007 that it would spend approximately US $ 4. 1 billion to move its headquarters and most of its Washington-based offices to a new facility on the site, beginning with the United States Coast Guard in 2010.

On 11 October 1990, as the political, ethnic, and religious situation in the former Yugoslavia became tense ( see Log Revolution ), Arkan created a paramilitary group named the Serb Volunteer Guard, possibly under the auspices of the Department of State Security.

* United States Coast Guard – transferred to Department of Homeland Security in 2003

* Marine Security Guard, Marines posted as guards at U. S. embassies abroad

* April 7 – The United Kingdom asks the United Nations Security Council for authority to use force to stop oil tankers that violate the embargo against Rhodesia ( authority is given April 10 ).

In " A Proportional Response ", President Bartlet finds himself in similar circumstances ( Syrian intelligence shot down a U. S. plane in Jordan and killed numerous Americans, including a young Naval officer who the President had decided would be his personal physician ) and, seated in the White House Situation Room with his own National Security Council asks: " What is the virtue of a proportional response?

Finally, The " Security Guard " asks, " What are you doing here?

The next year at a new mall in Phoenix, Willie's alcoholic rants arouse the suspicions of mall Manager Bob Chipeska, who asks Security Chief Gin Slagel to investigate.

Sinclair meets Pierce and asks the reason for his sudden arrival, Pierce tells him that he and his ship were headed to the Vegan outpost when they received orders from EarthForce Command to come to Babylon 5 on the authority from the Office of Planetary Security to assume control.

* July 12 – The Department of Homeland Security asks the Justice Department's office of legal counsel to research on the legal requirements for postponing the November elections, stating that they are concerned that terrorists might disrupt the elections.

As part of the " hiring process ", the fraudster also asks for the victim's Social Security number and date of birth.

Archer then asks his Security Chief, Lt. Reed, to seal off Daniels ' cabin.

Happy then asks a very simple question about Beauregard himself, and not about any subject in a book, namely, what is Beauregard's Social Security number.

In the preface to the 1977 English translation Murray Rothbard called " The Production of Security " the " first presentation anywhere in human history of what is now called anarcho-capitalism " though admitting that " Molinari did not use the terminology, and probably would have balked at the name.

While the President was recovering in the hospital, McFarlane met with him and told him that representatives from Israel had contacted the National Security Agency to pass on confidential information from what Reagan later described as the " moderate " Iranian faction opposed to the Ayatollah's hardline anti-American policies.

Instead, they argued that the resolution simply declared what the Assembly's powers already were, according to the UN Charter, in the case of a dead-locked Security Council.

Security video footage later released shows that Moqed was wanded, but the screener did not identify what set off the alarm, and both Moqed and Mihdhar were able to proceed without further hindrance.

" The leak, dubbed ' Military Meltdown Monday ,' includes 90, 000 logins of military personnel — including personnel from USCENTCOM, SOCOM, the Marine corps, various Air Force facilities, Homeland Security, State Department staff, and what looks like private sector contractors.

The U. S. Social Security system: what does sustainability imply?

On November 4, 2011, Ventura said at a press conference about the dismissal of his court case against the Transportation Security Administration for what he claims are illegal searches of air travelers, that he is " thinking about " running for President.

Lin Jiang Huai, the head of China's " Information Security Technology " office ( which is in charge of the project ), credits the surveillance systems in the United States and the U. K. as the inspiration for what he is doing with the Golden Shield project.

Secretary of State Colin Powell and National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, as well as U. S. Department of State specialists, argued for what was essentially the continuation of existing U. S. foreign policy.

It has been repeatedly alleged that in 1997 the United States National Security Agency ( NSA ) had backdoored the export version of Lotus Notes, but this is a mis-characterization of what actually happened.

In 2006, a United States Department of Veterans Affairs employee's stolen laptop represented what was described as " potentially the largest loss of Social Security numbers to date .".

This subsequently became the primary location of the U. S. operations of British Intelligence, British Security Coordination ( BSC ) during the War, with Room 3603 becoming the principal operations center for Allied intelligence, organized by William Stephenson, as well as the office of the future head of what was later to become the Central Intelligence Agency, Allen Welsh Dulles.

The " Social Security Trust Fund " comprises two separate funds that hold federal government debt obligations related to what are traditionally thought of as Social Security benefits.

The federal government appointed the National Commission on Social Security Reform, headed by Alan Greenspan ( who had not yet been named Chairman of the Federal Reserve ), to investigate what additional changes to federal law were necessary to shore up the fiscal health of the Social Security program.

Thereafter, since Social Security is only authorized to pay beneficiaries what it collects in payroll taxes dedicated to the program, program payouts will fall by an estimated 25 %.

The program's sustainability depends upon the payout rates and Social Security tax rates, the number of workers supporting each retiree, the rate of productivity growth among the remaining workers and the mechanics of how the excess contributions to the Trust Fund are handled ( e. g. a " lock box " and for what sort of asset ).

A General Assembly request for an advisory opinion, Resolution ES-10 / 14 ( 2004 ), specifically cited resolution 181 ( II ) as a " relevant resolution ", and asked the International Court of Justice ( ICJ ) what are the legal consequences of the relevant Security Council and General Assembly resolutions?

The Security Council also held sessions on what was then the Bronx campus of Hunter College ( now the site of Lehman College ) from March to August 1946.

* Fewer cryptographic mechanisms: IKEv2 uses cryptographic mechanisms to protect its packets that are very similar to what IPsec Encapsulating Security Payload ( ESP ) uses to protect the IPsec packets.

* The Observer publishes what it claims is a leaked memo dated January 31, 2003 ordering members of the NSA to spy on UN Security Council members, focussing especially on members from Angola, Cameroon, Chile, Mexico, Guinea, and Pakistan to try to determine how they will vote.

The Security Council shall determine the existence of any threat to the peace, breach of the peace, or act of aggression and shall make recommendations, or decide what measures shall be taken in accordance with Articles 41 and 42, to maintain or restore international peace and security.

Unable to bring the issue of the partition of Ireland to the UN ( because of Britain's veto on the Security Council ) and because of unwillingness of other Western nations to interfere in what these Western nations saw as British affairs at that time ( the US taking a more ambiguous position ), Aiken ensured that Ireland vigorously defended the rights of small nations such as Tibet and Hungary, nations whose problems he felt Ireland could identify with and had a moral obligation to help.

This July 8, 2004 Social Security Handbook chapter 10, section 1002. 1 defines what is an " interstate instrumentality.