* Lackland Air Force Base, Medina Annex ( San Antonio, Texas, US )

* Gary Air Force Base, San Marcos, Texas

More prosaically, Clark cites Bill Moore, who asserts that " the Men in Black are really government agents in disguise ... members of a rather bizarre unit of Air Force Intelligence known currently as the Air Force Special Activities Center ( AFSAC ) ... As of 1991, the AFSAC, headquartered in Fort Belvoir, Virginia ," and " under the operational authority of Air Force Intelligence Command centered at Kelly Air Force Base in Texas.

Civil Air Patrol's Texas Wing also regularly uses the camp for training events.

In addition, Paris Junior College provides post-secondary education, and hosts the Texas Institute of Jewelry Technology, a well-respected school of gemology, horology, and jewelry, and the Industrial Technology Division which offers programs in Air Conditioning Technology, Refrigeration Technology, Agricultural Technology, Drafting and Computer-aided Design, Electronics, Electromechanical Technology, and Welding Technology.

* August 2 – Delta Air Lines Flight 191 crashes near Dallas, Texas, killing 137 people.

He was accepted into the air cadet basic training program at Randolph Air Force Base in Universal City, Texas.

Before he became widely known as an astronaut, the film Air Cadet ( 1951 ) starring Richard Long and Rock Hudson briefly featured Grissom early in the movie as a U. S. Air Force candidate for flight school at Randolph Field, San Antonio, Texas.

* Edward H. White Hall is a dormitory at Sheppard Air Force Base in Wichita Falls, Texas.

After attending flight school at Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida and Naval Air Station Kingsville, Texas, Chaffee was awarded his aviator wings in early 1959.

Coordinated from a central operation in Chicago, this eventually had three levels: Pre-Radio School, mainly at Chicago Junior Colleges ; Primary School, initially given by six engineering colleges across the Nation ; and Secondary ( or Advanced ) School at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington D. C., at Treasure Island in the San Francisco Bay, and at Naval Air Technical Training Center Ward Island, near Corpus Christi, Texas.

The sale was approved by government oversight with the proviso that General Dynamics would continue to operate out of Air Force Plant 4 in Fort Worth, Texas.

In 1948 he became a flight instructor at Naval Air Station Corpus Christi, Texas, then attended the amphibious warfare school and received a staff assignment.

After completing multi-engine flight training in November 1946, Allen was assigned to Strategic Air Command's 7th Bombardment Group at Carswell Air Force Base, Texas, where he flew B-29 Superfortress bombers, and then the new and very long-range Convair B-36 bomber.

On 1 September 1982, the headquarters of the 602nd Tactical Air Control Wing ( TAIRCW ) and its subordinate 23rd Tactical Air Support Squadron ( TASS ), a unit responsible for the Air Force's tactical air control system west of the Mississippi River transferred from Bergstrom Air Force Base, Texas, and stood up at D-M, bringing 16 OA-37B aircraft and numerous new personnel to the base.

The Texas Department of Criminal Justice operates the Correctional Institutions Division Region IV Office on the grounds of Chase Field Naval Air Station in unincorporated Bee County.

The name " Branch Davidian " is most widely known for the Waco Siege of 1993 on their property ( known as the Mount Carmel Center ) near Waco, Texas, by the ATF, FBI, and Texas National Guard, which resulted in the deaths of their leader, David Koresh, as well as 82 other Branch Davidians and four ATF agents.

This approach is presumed to have been employed in the case of Dan Rather over a story that he ran on 60 Minutes in the month prior to the 2004 election that attempted to impugn the military record of George W. Bush by relying on allegedly fake documents that were provided by Bill Burkett, a retired Lieutenant Colonel in the Texas Army National Guard.

* Texas State Guard

Currently, Camp Maxey is maintained by a Texas Army National Guard unit, who regularly conduct training exercises, although the Camp itself is garrisoned normally by a force of only 10 men.

* January 21 – In one of the largest drug busts in American history, the United States Coast Guard intercepts a ship with over 9, 500 pounds ( 4. 75 tons ) of cocaine aboard headed for Houston, Texas.

During the 1993 Waco Siege of the Branch Davidians, elements of the Alabama and Texas Army National Guard were called in to assist the ATF and the follow on effort by the FBI ; the National Guard's involvement was limited to several specific areas ; surveillance and reconnaissance, transport, maintenance and repairs, training and instruction, helicopters, unarmed tactical ground vehicles.

This includes 534 dead from the 131st Field Artillery Regiment ( Texas Army National Guard ) and 133 from USS Houston ( out of 368 survivors of its sinking in 1942 ).

The Texas National Guard organized the 56th Cavalry Brigade in 1921, and four years later Brigadier General Jacob F. Wolters was given a grant to construct a training camp for the unit.

Vienna, Austria immigrant Erath ( 1813 – 1891 ) was a Texas Ranger and member of Billingsley ’ s Company C, 1st Regiment of Texas Volunteers, under the command of Col. Charles Burleson at the Battle of San Jacinto, and a member of the Confederate Home Guard.

President Wilson mobilized the National Guard to reinforce the Army, and by the end of 1916 an estimated 116, 957 guardsmen were stationed along the border from California to Texas.

After transitional training in the F-102 Delta Dagger at the former Perrin AFB, Texas, he was assigned to the 147th Fighter Interceptor Group ( now 147th Reconnaissance Wing ) of the Texas Air National Guard at Ellington Field Air National Guard Base, Texas.

Following the actions of September 11, 2001, soldiers of D Company / 1-126th Armor were mobilized stateside under Operation Noble Eagle for U. S. Air Port and Air National Guard Airbase security enforcement, and in support of Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom to Texas and California.

of land was bought from the State of Texas for $ 750. 00 by the federal government and the Life Saving Station was built on the same site that the United States Coast Guard station stands on today.

These positions include individuals, a unit from the Wyoming National Guard and dual-mission units from the Texas Army National Guard.

* Texas comedian Bill Hicks referred to the " Elite Republican Guard " in some of his routines.

He was also a photographer for the Texas Air National Guard where he was an Airman 2nd Class.

Lilly spent two weeks in 1967 as part of the Texas National Guard at the Rhein-Main Air Base in West Germany.

* 1990 – 1997: St. Edward ’ s University, Austin, Texas

In Texas, " Confederate Heroes Day " is celebrated on January 19, the birthday of Robert E. Lee ; Jefferson Davis ’ birthday had been officially celebrated on June 3 but was combined with Lee's birthday in 1973.

The first convention was held in 1917, the first year of the club ’ s existence, in Dallas, Texas.

* The foremost contribution, which is the raison d ’ etre for Moore's law, is the invention of the integrated circuit itself, credited contemporaneously to Jack Kilby at Texas Instruments and Robert Noyce at Intel.

They ’ re a regional band out of Texas that takes regular songs and changes the way you think about them.

In Texas and Points West: Papers in Honor of John A. Hedrick and Carol P. Hedrick, edited by Regge N. Wiseman, Thomas C. O ’ Laughlin, and Cordelia T. Snow, pp. 117 – 134.

The Texas Annexation resolution had required that if any new states were formed out of Texas ’ lands, those north of the Missouri Compromise line would become free states.

In 1869, other investors and he purchased an old steamship onto which they loaded one of Lowe ’ s refrigeration units, and began shipping fresh fruit from New York to the Gulf Coast area, and fresh meat from Galveston, Texas back to New York.

The Cattlemen ’ s Texas Longhorn Registry ( CTLR ), is the recognized breed registry dedicated to preserving the purest Texas Longhorn bloodlines.

St. Joseph ’ s Church was built by German immigrants in 1859-60 and is the oldest wooden church building in Galveston and the oldest German Catholic Church in Texas.

Many in the North were also upset with the Walker tariff which reduced the tariff rates ; others were opposed to Polk ’ s veto of a popular river and harbor improvements bill, and still others were upset over the Oregon settlement with Great Britain where it appeared that Polk did not pursue the northern territory with the same vigor he used to acquire Texas.

The key element of this defeat, which carried over into the congressional and local races in 1845 and 1846 throughout the South, was the party ’ s failure to take a strong stand favoring Texas annexation.

To them Soil Democrats the movement to acquire Texas, and the fight over the Wilmot Proviso, marked the turning point, when aggressive slavemasters stole the heart and soul of the Democratic Party and began dictating the course of the nation ’ s destiny.

" Asked whether it was against the law in Texas to call a Marine a " sissy ," Lynde quipped, " I guess I ’ ll have to take the law into my own hands.

* Texas State Library ’ s Juneteenth page

After the elder Pierce ’ s death, the family, which included a younger brother, Sanders, moved to Montgomery, Alabama and then to Dallas, Texas.

He had become famous for his all-night trucker ’ s show which was heard at that time over the clear channel 50, 000 watts signal of WBAP broadcasting from Fort Worth, Texas.

After the election results became known in August, his departure to Texas was delayed by a court appearance in the last week of October as co-executor of his deceased father-in-law ’ s estate, and he finally left his home near Rutherford in West Tennessee on Nov. 1, 1835, with three other men to explore Texas.

Founded by the Society of Mary ( Marianists ) in 1852, St. Mary ’ s is the oldest Catholic university in Texas and the American Southwest.

In addition, the Bill Greehey School of Business is accredited by AACSB International, to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, making St. Mary ’ s the only Catholic university in Texas to achieve this status.

St. Mary ’ s students have completed internships in Texas, around the country, and all over the world.

Since 1951, men ’ s teams have captured 26 Big State and Heart of Texas conference championships and made 16 NAIA National Tournament appearances.