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Tmd Seal: Design Elements
1 How the Texas Military Department Saved the Symbols of Texas The Texas Military Department Seal is derived from the Texas Coat of Arms. This Coat of Arms and the closely related design of the State Seal have a long and storied history in their development, adaptation, misinterpretation of design, and eventual correction thanks to the efforts of the Texas Military Department successor the Adjutant Generals De- partment. The Texas Coat of Arms design predates Texas’ entry to the United States. In 1839 the offi- cial description of the coat of arms was registered as a “White star of five points, on an az- ure ground, encircled by an olive and live oak branches.” the seal would expand on this de- scription to include the words Republic of Texas encircling the entirety of the design. The design would be proposed and passed alongside the proposal of the iconic Lone star flag. No significant changes were proposed to these designs after 1839. Even admission to the union only resulted in a change from “Republic of Texas” to “The State of Texas” in 1845. As the state grew new departments, agencies, local governments and private citizens would customize versions of the seal, some including significant design interpretations not found within the accepted description of the seal. This often included the use of Post Oak leaves in place of Live Oak leaves, the addition of stars and diamonds as design flourishes and inclu- sion of T,E,X,A,S alternating between the point of the star. In 1946, the National Guard Bureau directed state Air Guards to develop a unique symbol to affix to aircraft fuselages, identifying which state owned the aircraft. -
Texas Army National Guard Education Benefits Handbook
0 Fiscal Year 2021-2022 Texas Army National Guard Education Benefits Handbook 2200 W. 35th Street, Bldg. 15 (512) 782-5515 (M-F, 0800-1600) Austin Texas, 78763 [email protected] TABLE OF CONTENTS TXARNG Education Benefits Page 3 State Tuition Assistance Program Page 4 Hazlewood Act / Hazlewood Legacy Act Page 5 Federal Tuition Assistance Program Page 7 Credentialing Assistance Program Page 9 GI Bill Comparison Chart Page 11 Montgomery GI Bill – Selective Reserve, CH 1606 Page 12 Accessing Your NOBE Page 13 Montgomery GI Bill “Kicker” Page 14 Post 911 GI Bill, CH 33 Page 15 Harry W. Colmery: Forever GI Bill Page 17 Transfer of Education Benefits Page 19 How to Apply for GI Bill Benefits Page 21 Testing Services (DANTES) Page 23 Army Personnel Testing Page 24 Contacts & Resources Page 25 2 Return to Table of Contents TXARNG Education Benefits State Tuition Assistance (State TA) • Successfully complete basic training: Hazlewood Act/Hazlewood Legacy State Education • Serve 181 days of qualifying Active Duty Service Benefits • Receive a DD 214 at time of discharge Federal Tuition Assistance Program (FTA) • Successfully complete AIT or BOLC Army Credentialing Assistance Program (CA) Education • Successfully complete AIT or BOLC Benefits Montgomery GI Bill-Selected Reserve CH 1606 • Sign a 6 year contract with a Reserve Component VA • Successfully complete Initial Active Duty for Training Education (IADT) Benefits Montgomery GI Bill-Kicker • Contract-Specific Benefit (Signed w/enlistment or extension contract) Post 9/11 -
Magnolia- Spring 2002
Magnolia Bulletin of the Magnolia grandiflora Southern Garden The Laurel Tree of Carolina Catesby’s Natural History, 1743 History Society Vol. XVII No. 3 Spring 2002 Gardening with Mrs. Balfour: An Antebellum Vicksburg Gardener By John Sykes, Baton Rouge, Louisiana clan on the Walnut Hills near the confluence of the n May 1853 Emma Balfour wrote her sister-in- Yazoo and the Mississippi Rivers.3 The commanding I law: “I wish you could see my garden location was the site of an early Spanish fort. now. It is really beautiful. The Some two hundred feet above the high roses are as fine as they can well be & I water mark of the river, the rolling hills have such a variety of other flowers presented an incredible vista across that the whole garden as one miles of flat delta land sweeping looks at it from the gallery West and North. A 19th- above or from the street looks century visitor commented on like a mass of flowers. It is the unusual geography: so complimented that I “There [is] only one way to begin to feel very account for the hills of proud.” 1 Throughout Vicksburg — after the the 1850s, Emma Lord of Creation had Harrison Balfour made all the big pursued her passion for mountains and ranges of gardening at her new hills, He had left on His home in Vicksburg, hands a large lot of Mississippi. For her scraps; these were all garden Emma Balfour dumped at Vicksburg . conducted an extensive ”4 The entrepreneurial search for plants from Parson Vick envisioned a friends, local nurseries town on the hills and and those available down managed to sell a lot before river from New Orleans. -
United States Air Force and Its Antecedents Published and Printed Unit Histories
UNITED STATES AIR FORCE AND ITS ANTECEDENTS PUBLISHED AND PRINTED UNIT HISTORIES A BIBLIOGRAPHY EXPANDED & REVISED EDITION compiled by James T. Controvich January 2001 TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTERS User's Guide................................................................................................................................1 I. Named Commands .......................................................................................................................4 II. Numbered Air Forces ................................................................................................................ 20 III. Numbered Commands .............................................................................................................. 41 IV. Air Divisions ............................................................................................................................. 45 V. Wings ........................................................................................................................................ 49 VI. Groups ..................................................................................................................................... 69 VII. Squadrons..............................................................................................................................122 VIII. Aviation Engineers................................................................................................................ 179 IX. Womens Army Corps............................................................................................................ -
Texas Military Department Sunset Self-Evaluation Report
Self-Evaluation Report Texas Military Department Self-Evaluation Report Submitted to the Sunset Advisory Commission September 2017 September 2017 Texas Military Department Self-Evaluation Report TABLE OF CONTENTS I. Agency Contact Information ......................................................................................................................................................... 1 II. Key Functions and Performance .................................................................................................................................................... 1 III. History and Major Events ............................................................................................................................................................ 12 IV. Policymaking Structure ................................................................................................................................................................ 14 V. Funding ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 16 VI. Organization ................................................................................................................................................................................ 20 VII. Guide to Agency Programs .......................................................................................................................................................... 26 Domestic Operations -
George W Bush Childhood Home Reconnaissance Survey.Pdf
Intermountain Region National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior August 2015 GEORGE W. BUSH CHILDHOOD HOME Reconnaissance Survey Midland, Texas Front cover: President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush speak to the media after touring the President’s childhood home at 1421 West Ohio Avenue, Midland, Texas, on October 4, 2008. President Bush traveled to attend a Republican fundraiser in the town where he grew up. Photo: SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images CONTENTS BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE — i SUMMARY OF FINDINGS — iii RECONNAISSANCE SURVEY PROCESS — v NPS CRITERIA FOR EVALUATION OF NATIONAL SIGNIFICANCE — vii National Historic Landmark Criterion 2 – viii NPS Theme Studies on Presidential Sites – ix GEORGE W. BUSH: A CHILDHOOD IN MIDLAND — 1 SUITABILITY — 17 Childhood Homes of George W. Bush – 18 Adult Homes of George W. Bush – 24 Preliminary Determination of Suitability – 27 HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION OF THE GEORGE W. BUSH CHILDHOOD HOME, MIDLAND TEXAS — 29 Architectural Description – 29 Building History – 33 FEASABILITY AND NEED FOR NPS MANAGEMENT — 35 Preliminary Determination of Feasability – 37 Preliminary Determination of Need for NPS Management – 37 CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS — 39 APPENDIX: THE 41ST AND 43RD PRESIDENTS AND FIRST LADIES OF THE UNITED STATES — 43 George H.W. Bush – 43 Barbara Pierce Bush – 44 George W. Bush – 45 Laura Welch Bush – 47 BIBLIOGRAPHY — 49 SURVEY TEAM MEMBERS — 51 George W. Bush Childhood Home Reconnaissance Survey George W. Bush’s childhood bedroom at the George W. Bush Childhood Home museum at 1421 West Ohio Avenue, Midland, Texas, 2012. The knotty-pine-paneled bedroom has been restored to appear as it did during the time that the Bush family lived in the home, from 1951 to 1955. -
PRESS RELEASE Amended June 6, 2005
2005 BRAC Commission Schedule Base Closure and Realignment Commission PRESS RELEASE Amended June 6, 2005 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Robert McCreary Deputy Director of Communications 703 – 699 – 2964 [email protected] 26 MAY 2005 BRAC Commissioners Release Schedule for Installation Visits Arlington, Virginia, May 26, 2005—Today the 2005 Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission is releasing the schedule for the Commissioners’ visits to major bases recommended for closure or realignment by the Department of Defense (DoD). Chairman Principi stated, “The 2005 BRAC Commission is not going to serve as a rubber stamp; we will look at the DoD recommendations carefully and closely to see if they complied with, or substantially deviated from, the selection criteria and force structure against which all bases are to be measured.” “We have been given the mandate to provide an independent, fair, and equitable assessment and evaluation of both the DoD BRAC proposal and the data and methodology used to develop that proposal,” the Chairman remarked. “My Commissioners and I have pledged to provide that assessment openly and transparently.” The Commissioners plan to visit military installations which have been recommended by DoD to lose either 300 civilian jobs, or a total of 400 civilian and military jobs. The fact-finding visits will involve briefings by base representatives as well as tours of facilities and will be conducted for the primary purpose of determining the military value of the installations. Although military value will be the primary basis for the decision to close or realign a military facility, the Commission was created to also take into account the economic, environmental, and other effects the closure or realignment of a base would have on the surrounding community. -
DEMA Annual Report 2015
ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF EMERGENCY AND MILITARY AFFAIRS 2015 Annual Report Office of the Adjutant General 5636 E. McDowell Rd Phoenix, AZ 85008 Web site: dema.az.gov Social Media: Arizona National Guard AZNationalGuard AZNationalGuard RSS Arizona Division of Emergency Management ArizEIN azein AzEINvideo azeinblog RSS Cover: Soldiers and Airmen from the Arizona National Guard assemble in a mass formation during the Arizona National Guard Muster Dec. 7 at Arizona State University's Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe, Ariz. More than 4,000 Guard Members from throughout the state were present for the historic muster formation. (U.S. Army National Guard Photo by Staff Sgt. Brian A. Barbour) 2 Soldiers and Airmen from the Arizona National Guard assemble in a mass formation during the Arizona National Guard Muster Dec. 7 at Arizona State University's Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe, Ariz. More than 4,000 Guard Members from throughout the state were present for the historic muster formation. (U.S. Army National Guard Photo by Staff Sgt. Brian A. Barbour) INTRODUCTION AND EXECUTIVE SUMMARY On September 2, 1865, the Arizona National Guard was established with the first muster of the First Infantry Regiment of Arizona, comprised of five companies of more than 350 enlisted Soldiers and nine officers. From that first muster to serving as the acting Guard of Honor for President Woodrow Wilson during the treaty negotiations ending World War I to the 158th “Bushmasters” being recognized by General Douglas MacArthur as “No greater fighting combat team has ever deployed for battle” to our recent deployments to Afghanistan and Iraq, the Arizona National Guard has established a long and distinguished history of service to Arizona and our nation. -
The Texas Grid and U.S. National Security
NATIONAL CENTER FOR POLICY ANALYSIS The Texas Grid and U.S. National Security Backgrounder No. 182 by David Grantham May 2016 America’s electric power grid is arguably the most vulnerable part of our nation’s infrastructure. Divided among three geographical regions, the U.S. network remains dangerously exposed to a host of potentially devastating natural disasters and foreign attacks. Yet, Texas finds itself in a unique position to act. Utilities in the Lone Star State operate their own, self-contained grid. And, because it is confined within state borders, the Texas government has authority to preempt catastrophe by “hardening” the system. The state government has the responsibility for public safety, the financial resources and access to the latest technologies necessary to accomplish this mission. The Threat Cannot Be Overstated. In 2010, the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) released a translated copy of an Iranian military doctrine publication. The “Passive Defense” textbook PROVIDE FOR advocates for a variety of Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) attacks THE COMMON as a means of blacking out an enemy’s electric grid, suddenly and DEFENSE NOW! anonymously. Former CIA Director James Woolsey explains that the most devastating EMP options remains the high-altitude detonation Go to ncpa.org/petition to of a nuclear weapon.2 Such an operation could theoretically be show your support! accomplished by simply launching a single, unsophisticated ballistic missile from a freighter floating off the American coast. Other Dallas Headquarters: delivery systems include low-orbit satellites and crude nuclear 14180 Dallas Parkway, Suite 350 devices. North Korea actually practiced a nuclear EMP attack in Dallas, TX 75254 April 2013, and the U.S. -
USAF Counterproliferation Center CPC Outreach Journal #126
#126 16 Nov 2001 USAF COUNTERPROLIFERATION CENTER CPC OUTREACH JOURNAL Air University Air War College Maxwell AFB, Alabama Welcome to the CPC Outreach Journal. As part of USAF Counterproliferation Center’s mission to counter weapons of mass destruction through education and research, we’re providing our government and civilian community a source for timely counterproliferation information. This information includes articles, papers and other documents addressing issues pertinent to US military response options for dealing with nuclear, biological and chemical threats and attacks. It’s our hope this information resource will help enhance your counterproliferation issue awareness. Established here at the Air War College in 1998, the USAF/CPC provides education and research to present and future leaders of the Air Force, as well as to members of other branches of the armed services and Department of Defense. Our purpose is to help those agencies better prepare to counter the threat from weapons of mass destruction. Please feel free to visit our web site at www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/awc-cps.htm for in-depth information and specific points of contact. Please direct any questions or comments on CPC Outreach Journal to Lt Col Michael W. Ritz, ANG Special Assistant to Director of CPC or Jo Ann Eddy, CPC Outreach Editor, at (334) 953-7538 or DSN 493-7538. To subscribe, change e-mail address, or unsubscribe to this journal or to request inclusion on the mailing list for CPC publications, please contact Mrs. Eddy. The following articles, papers or documents do not necessarily reflect official endorsement of the United States Air Force, Department of Defense, or other US government agencies. -
Kelly Field Comprehensive Plan Working Paper #1 August 2020 DRAFT
Kelly Field Comprehensive Plan Working Paper #1 August 2020 DRAFT Prepared for Alamo Area Council of Governments 8700 Tesoro Drive, Suite 160 300 South Meridian Street San Antonio, Texas 78217 Indianapolis, Indiana 4662 VC-2019-2790-JLUS-KELLYFIELD-CHA-R1 www.chacompanies.com KELLY FIELD (SKF) COMPREHENSIVE PLAN TABLE OF CONTENTS Kelly Field Executive Summary: National Airport, National Asset ................................................... I Introduction ........................................................................................................ 1-1 1.1 Project Description ...................................................................................................... 1-1 1.2 Purpose and Objective ................................................................................................. 1-2 1.3 Kelly Field Background ................................................................................................. 1-2 1.3.1 History .......................................................................................................................... 1-3 1.3.2 Airport Organization and National Role ...................................................................... 1-4 1.3.3 Impact on National Defense ........................................................................................ 1-5 1.3.4 Annual Aircraft Operations .......................................................................................... 1-6 1.3.5 Surrounding Aviation Community .............................................................................. -
Other Procurement Army 1
DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY Procurement Programs Committee Staff Procurement Backup Book Fiscal Year (FY) 2005 Budget Estimates OTHER PROCUREMENT, ARMY Tactical and Support Vehicles Budget Activity1 APPROPRIATION February 2004 *** UNCLASSIFIED *** DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY EXHIBIT P-1 FY 2005 PROCUREMENT PROGRAM DATE: 15-Jan-2004 16:21 President's Budget 2005 APPROPRIATION Other Procurement, Army ACTIVITY 01 Tactical and support vehicles DOLLARS IN THOUSANDS FY 2003 FY 2004 FY 2005 LINE NO ITEM NOMENCLATURE ID QTY COST QTY COST QTY COST TACTICAL VEHICLES 1 TACTICAL TRAILERS/DOLLY SETS (DA0100) A 10,071 17,844 11,940 2 Semitrailers, Flatbed: (D01001) A 36,443 26,696 9,242 3 Semitrailers, tankers (D02001) A 4,357 11,016 667 4 HI MOB MULTI-PURP WHLD VEH (HMMWV) (D15400) 334,879 369,250 303,692 5 TRUCK, DUMP, 20T (CCE) (D16001) 18,617 6 FAMILY OF MEDIUM TACTICAL VEH (FMTV) (D15500) 658,943 344,679 505,664 7 FIRETRUCKS & ASSOCIATED FIREFIGHTING EQUIPMENT (D15800) 26,503 25,676 2,198 8 FAMILY OF HEAVY TACTICAL VEHICLES (FHTV) (DA0500) 257,983 217,469 84,038 9 ARMORED SECURITY VEHICLES (ASV) (D02800) 17,041 5,558 10 TRUCK, TRACTOR, LINE HAUL, M915/M916 (DA0600) 46,455 48,192 15,314 11 Towing Device, 5th Wheel (D15901) A 3,628 12 TRUCK, TRACTOR, YARD TYPE, M878 (C/S) (D16000) A 4,752 5,372 13 HVY EXPANDED MOBILE TACTICAL TRUCK EXT SERV PROG (DV0021) 116,614 24,654 19,204 14 MODIFICATION OF IN SVC EQUIP (DA0924) 81,207 58,027 25,848 15 ITEMS LESS THAN $5.0M (TAC VEH) (DL5110) 2,844 243 247 16 TOWING DEVICE-FIFTH WHEEL (D09900) 1,943 1,907 SUB-ACTIVITY