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The National Guard Mobilization Act, 1933 Made the National Guard a component of the Army. The National Defense Act of 1947 Section 207 (f) established the Air National Guard of the United States, under the National Guard Bureau. The Total Force Policy, 1973 Requires all active and reserve military organizations be treated as a single force.
The G.I. Bill, formally known as the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, was a law that provided a range of benefits for some of the returning World War II veterans (commonly referred to as G.I.s ). The original G.I. Bill expired in 1956, but the term "G.I. Bill" is still used to refer to programs created to assist American military veterans.
Status of forces agreement. A status of forces agreement ( SOFA) is an agreement between a host country and a foreign nation stationing military forces in that country. SOFAs are often included, along with other types of military agreements, as part of a comprehensive security arrangement. A SOFA does not constitute a security arrangement; it ...
This article originally appeared on Austin American-Statesman: List: 80+ bands pull out of SXSW in protest of US Army sponsorship. Subsonic Eye, Birthday Girl, Groa, Winona Forever, Little Marzan ...
Reported by the joint conference committee on June 2, 1948; agreed to by the Senate on June 2, 1948 ( 63–13) and by the House on June 18, 1948 ( 133–266) Signed into law by President Harry S. Truman on June 25, 1948. The Displaced Persons Act of 1948 ( 80th Cong., 2d Sess. Ch 647, PL 774) authorized, for a limited period of time, the ...
Also called the Dick Act, for sponsor Charles W. F. Dick, The 1903 law updated the Militia Act of 1792, though it left unresolved the key question of how to compel service of the militia outside the borders of the United States, which did not fall under the Constitutionally permitted uses of the militia "to execute the laws of the Union ...
The Mutual Defense Assistance Act was a United States Act of Congress signed by President Harry S. Truman on 6 October 1949. [1] [2] For U.S. foreign policy, it was the first U.S. military foreign aid legislation of the Cold War era, and initially to Europe. [3] The Act followed Truman's signing of the Economic Cooperation Act (the Marshall ...
The Army’s sponsorship is part of our commitment to bring forward ideas that shape our world. In regard to Collins Aerospace, they participated this year as a sponsor of two SXSW Pitch ...