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The U.S. Army Coast Artillery Corps (CAC) was an administrative corps responsible for coastal, harbor, and anti-aircraft defense of the United States and its possessions between 1901 and 1950. The CAC also operated heavy and railway artillery during World War I.
John O'Connor was born in Philadelphia on January 15, 1920, the fourth of five children of Thomas J. O'Connor, and Dorothy Magdalene (née Gomple) O'Connor. Thomas was a painter and Dorothy was the daughter of Gustave Gumpel, a kosher butcher and Jewish rabbi. [1]
NAS Atlanta is also the site of the Navy Lake Site, a military recreation area open to active, reserve, and retired military, located in a 25-acre (100,000 m 2) park on Lake Allatoona reservoir. Not to be outdone, the Army has its own Lake Allatoona Army Recreation Area, an 85-acre (340,000 m 2 ) resort on another part of the same lake at ...
Header of an unclassified Department of State telegram with the "SIPDIS" tag marked in red. The Secret Internet Protocol Router Network (SIPRNet) is "a system of interconnected computer networks used by the U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. Department of State to transmit classified information (up to and including information classified SECRET) by packet switching over the 'completely ...
After the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, the Navy's military construction program amounted to global proportions, expanding far beyond the continental United States and its prewar possessions to Europe, North Africa, Asia and the far corners of the Pacific. To provide supervisors for this huge wartime effort, more than 10,000 Reserve ...
U.S. Army Coast Artillery Corps, a U.S. Army corps; Casualty Assistance Center, assists to next-of-kin of critically injured, ill or deceased U.S. Army soldiers, retirees, and veterans; Combined Action Company, a joint unit of the Combined Action Program of U.S. Marines and South Vietnamese Regional Forces during the Vietnam war
The New Zealand Navy did not exist as a separate military force until 1941. [1] The association of the Royal Navy with New Zealand began with the arrival of James Cook in 1769, who completed two subsequent journeys to New Zealand in 1773 and 1777. Occasional visits by Royal Navy ships were made from the late 18th century.
Cooperative Engagement Capability (CEC) is a sensor network with integrated fire control capability that is intended to significantly improve battle force air and missile defense capabilities by combining data from multiple battle force air search sensors on CEC-equipped units into a single, real-time, composite track picture (network-centric warfare). [1]