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U.S. Air Force basic military graduation and coining ceremony is held Oct. 29, 2020, for the 324th Training Squadron on Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas. Due to current world events, the graduation ceremonies will be closed to the public until further notice for safety and security of the newly accessioned Airmen and their family members due to coronavirus (COVID-19).
U.S. Air Force basic military graduation and coining ceremony is held Jan. 28, 2021, for the 322nd Training Squadron at the Pfingston Reception Center on Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas. Due to current world events, the graduation ceremonies will be closed to the public until further notice for safety and security of the newly accessioned Airmen and their family members due to coronavirus (COVID-19).
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U.S. Air Force Chief Master Sgt. Charles C. Orf, 673d ABW Command Chief, salutes a headstone at Fort Richardson National Cemetery during the annual Wreaths Across America day, Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, December 16, 2017. Wreaths Across America is a nonprofit organization founded to continue and expand the annual wreath laying ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery begun by Maine businessman, Morrill Worcester, in 1992 when his company, Worecester Wreath had a surplus of holiday wreaths. Wreaths Across America is held annually on the second Saturday of December. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. James Richardson)
El campo de concentración de Auschwitz-Birkenau (en alemán Konzentrationslager Auschwitz-Birkenau escuchar (?·i). Se trata de nombres traducidos al alemán de los originales en polaco Oświęcim [ɔɕvʲ 'ɛnʦim] y Brzezinka [bʐɛˈʑinka], localidades junto a las que se construyó el campo). Fue un complejo formado por diversos campos de concentración, de experimentación médica1 y de exterminio en masa de prisioneros, construido por el régimen de la Alemania nazi tras la invasión de Polonia de 1939, exactamente el 1 de septiembre, al principio de la Segunda Guerra Mundial.
Situado a unos 43 km al oeste de Cracovia, fue el mayor centro de exterminio de la historia del nazismo, donde se calcula que fueron asesinados entre 1,5 millones y 2,5 millones de personas, la gran mayoría de ellas judías, además de eslavos, prisioneros de guerra, etc,1 y también otro medio millón por hambre y enfermedades.1
En la puerta de entrada a uno de los diversos campos que componían el complejo (Auschwitz I) se puede leer el lema en alemán Arbeit macht frei (el trabajo hace libre), donde se puede apreciar el detalle de la "B" de "ARBEIT" puesta boca abajo como muestra de protesta hecha por la persona que fabricó dicho cartel (muy probablemente alguno de los prisioneros),[cita requerida] con el que recibían a los deportados las fuerzas de las SS que estaban a cargo del centro durante su periodo de funcionamiento, desde su apertura en mayo de 1940 hasta el 27 de enero de 1945, cuando fue liberado por el ejército soviético.
Bajo la supervisión de Heinrich Himmler, estuvo dirigido por el oficial de las SS Obersturmbannführer Rudolf Höss hasta el verano de 1943, siendo reemplazado por Arthur Liebehenschel y Richard Baer. Höss, capturado por los aliados, daría testimonio en los Procesos de Núremberg antes de que lo procesaran y condenaran a muerte por ahorcamiento en 1947 delante del crematorio de Auschwitz I. Liebehenschel fue también juzgado por un tribunal polaco y ejecutado en 1948. Baer logró evadirse y vivir bajo una identidad falsa en Hamburgo, hasta que fue reconocido y arrestado. Se suicidó en la prisión poco antes de iniciarse su proceso en 1963.
Como es uno de los lugares de mayor simbolismo del Holocausto o Shoah, la Unesco lo declaró Patrimonio de la Humanidad en 1979.
Auschwitz I fue el centro administrativo de todo el complejo. Fue fundado el 20 de mayo de 1940, a partir de barracas de ladrillo del ejército polaco. Los primeros prisioneros del campo fueron 728 prisioneros políticos polacos de Tarnów. El campo fue utilizado inicialmente para internar miembros de la resistencia e intelectuales polacos; más adelante llevaron allí también prisioneros de guerra soviéticos, prisioneros comunes alemanes, elementos antisociales y homosexuales. Desde el primer momento llegaron asimismo prisioneros judíos. El campo albergaba generalmente entre 13.000 y 16.000 prisioneros, alcanzando la cifra de 20.000 en 1942.
La entrada de Auschwitz I tenía las palabras Arbeit macht frei, "el trabajo hace libre". Los prisioneros del campo salían a trabajar durante el día para las construcciones o el campo, con música de marcha tocada por una orquesta. Dicha inscripción fue robada por cinco desconocidos el viernes 18 de diciembre de 2009 y recuperada por la policía apenas cuatro días después.2
Las SS generalmente seleccionaban prisioneros, llamados kapos, para supervisar al resto. Todos los prisioneros del campo realizaban trabajos, y excepto en las fábricas de armas, el domingo se reservaba para limpieza, duchas, y no se asignaba trabajo. Las durísimas condiciones de trabajo, unidas a la desnutrición y poca higiene, hacían que la tasa de mortalidad entre los prisioneros fuera muy grande.
El bloque 11 de Auschwitz I era «la prisión dentro de la prisión»; allí se aplicaban los castigos. Algunos de ellos consistían en encierro por varios días en una celda demasiado pequeña para sentarse, existen 4 celdas de un metro cuadrado las cuales llegaban a ser ocupadas hasta por cinco prisioneros a la vez. Otros eran ejecutados, colgados o dejados morir de hambre.
En septiembre de 1941, las SS realizaron en el bloque 11 las pruebas del gas Zyklon B en las que murieron 850 prisioneros polacos y rusos. Las pruebas fueron consideradas exitosas y en consecuencia se construyeron una cámara de gas y un crematorio. Esta cámara de gas fue utilizada entre 1941 y 1942, para luego ser convertida en un refugio antiaéreo.
La primera mujer llegó al campo el 26 de marzo de 1942. Entre abril de 1943 y mayo de 1944 se llevaron a cabo experimentos de esterilización sobre mujeres judías en el bloque 10 de Auschwitz I. El objetivo era desarrollar un método sencillo que funcionara con una simple inyección para ser utilizado con la población esclava. El Dr. Josef Mengele experimentó con gemelos en este mismo complejo. Cuando un prisionero no se recobraba rápidamente, solía ser ejecutado aplicándole una inyección letal de fenol.
El campo burdel se creó el verano de 1943 por órdenes de Himmler. Estaba ubicado en el bloque 29, llamado Frauenblock, y se utilizaba para premiar a prisioneros privilegiados. Los guardias seleccionaban prisioneras polacas para este campo, pero podían aceptar «voluntarias» atraídas por las mejores condiciones alimentarias.
uschwitz" and "Auschwitz-Birkenau" redirect here. For the town, see Oświęcim. Distinguish from Austerlitz. Or see Auschwitz (disambiguation)
Auschwitz
German Nazi Concentration and Extermination camp (1940-1945).
The main entrance to Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp
Location of Auschwitz in contemporary Poland
Coordinates50°02′09″N 19°10′42″ECoordinates: 50°02′09″N 19°10′42″E
Other namesBirkenau
LocationAuschwitz, Nazi Germany
Operated bythe Nazi Schutzstaffel (SS), the NKVD (after World War II)
Original useArmy barracks
OperationalMay 1940 – January 1945
Inmatesmainly Jews, Poles, Roma, Soviet soldiers
Killed1.1 million (estimated)
Liberated bySoviet Union, January 27, 1945
Notable inmatesViktor Frankl, Primo Levi, Witold Pilecki, Rudolf Vrba, Elie Wiesel, Maximillian Kolbe
Notable booksIf This Is a Man, Night, Man's Search for Meaning
WebsiteAuschwitz-Birkenau State Museum
Auschwitz concentration camp (German: Konzentrationslager Auschwitz [ˈaʊʃvɪts] ( listen)) was a network of concentration and extermination camps built and operated by the Third Reich in Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany during World War II. It was the largest of the Nazi concentration camps, consisting of Auschwitz I (the Stammlager or base camp); Auschwitz II–Birkenau (the Vernichtungslager or extermination camp); Auschwitz III–Monowitz, also known as Buna–Monowitz (a labor camp); and 45 satellite camps.[1]
Auschwitz had for a long time been a German name for Oświęcim, the town by and around which the camps were located; the name "Auschwitz" was made the official name again by the Nazis after they invaded Poland in September 1939. Birkenau, the German translation of Brzezinka ("birch forest"), referred originally to a small Polish village that was destroyed by the Nazis to make way for the camp.
Auschwitz II–Birkenau was designated by Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler, the Third Reich's Minister of the Interior, as the place of the "final solution of the Jewish question in Europe". From early 1942 until late 1944, transport trains delivered Jews to the camp's gas chambers from all over German-occupied Europe.[2] The camp's first commandant, Rudolf Höss, testified after the war at the Nuremberg Trials that up to three million people had died there (2.5 million gassed, and 500,000 from disease and starvation).[3] Today the accepted figure is 1.3 million, around 90 percent of them Jewish.[4][5] Others deported to Auschwitz included 150,000 Poles, 23,000 Roma and Sinti, 15,000 Soviet prisoners of war, some 400 Jehovah's Witnesses and tens of thousands of people of diverse nationalities.[6][7] Those not killed in the gas chambers died of starvation, forced labor, infectious diseases, individual executions, and medical experiments.[8]
On January 27, 1945, Auschwitz was liberated by Soviet troops, a day commemorated around the world as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. In 1947, Poland founded a museum on the site of Auschwitz I and II, which by 2010 had seen 29 million visitors—1,300,000 annually—pass through the iron gates crowned with the infamous motto, Arbeit macht frei ("work makes [you] free").[3]
Auschwitz I
Auschwitz I entrance
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Map of Auschwitz I, shows Polish Tobacco Monopoly building; 1940
Auschwitz I was the original camp, serving as the administrative center for the whole complex. The site for the camp (16 one-story buildings) had earlier served as Austrian army and later Polish army artillery barracks. It was first suggested as a site for a concentration camp for Polish prisoners by SS-Oberführer Arpad Wigand, an aide to Higher SS and Police Leader for Silesia, Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski. Bach-Zelewski had been searching for a site to house prisoners in the Silesia region as the local prisons were filled to capacity. Richard Glücks, head of the Concentration Camps Inspectorate, sent former Sachsenhausen concentration camp commandant, Walter Eisfeld, to inspect the site. Glücks informed SS- Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler that a camp would be built on the site on February 21, 1940.[10] Rudolf Höss would oversee the development of the camp and serve as the first commandant, SS-Obersturmführer Josef Kramer was appointed Höss's deputy.[11]
Local residents were evicted, including 1,200 people who lived in shacks around the barracks, creating an empty area of 40 km2, which the Germans called the "interest area of the camp". 300 Jewish residents of Oświęcim were brought in to lay foundations. From 1940 to 1941 17,000 Polish and Jewish residents of the western districts of Oświęcim town, from places adjacent to Auschwitz Concentration Camp, were expelled. Germans ordered also expulsions from the villages of Broszkowice, Babice, Brzezinka, Rajsko, Pławy, Harmęże, Bór, and Budy.[12] The expulsion of Polish civilians was a step towards establishing the Camp Interest Zone, which was set up to isolate the camp from the outside world and to carry out business activity to meet the needs of the SS. German and Volksdeutsche settlers moved into some buildings whose Jewish population had been deported to the ghetto.
Main article: First mass transport to Auschwitz concentration camp
The first prisoners (30 German criminal prisoners from the Sachsenhausen camp) arrived in May 1940, intended to act as functionaries within the prison system. The first transport of 728 Polish prisoners, which included 20 Jews, arrived on June 14, 1940 from the prison in Tarnów, Poland. They were interned in the former building of the Polish Tobacco Monopoly adjacent to the site, until the camp was ready. The inmate population grew quickly, as the camp absorbed Poland's intelligentsia and dissidents, including the Polish underground resistance. By March 1941, 10,900 were imprisoned there, most of them Poles.[11]
The SS selected some prisoners, often German criminals, as specially privileged supervisors of the other inmates (so-called kapos). Although involved in numerous atrocities, only two Kapos were ever prosecuted for their individual behavior; many were deemed to have had little choice but to act as they did.[13] The various classes of prisoners were distinguishable by special marks on their clothes; Jews and Soviet prisoners of war were generally treated the worst. All inmates had to work in the associated arms factories, except on Sundays, which were reserved for cleaning and showering. The harsh work requirements, combined with poor nutrition and hygiene, led to high death rates among the prisoners.
Block 11 of Auschwitz was the "prison within the prison", where violators of the numerous rules were punished. Some prisoners were made to spend the nights in "standing cells". These cells were about 1.5 m2 (16 sq ft), and four men would be placed in them; they could do nothing but stand, and were forced during the day to work with the other prisoners. In the basement were located the "starvation cells"; prisoners incarcerated here were given neither food nor water until they were dead.[14]
Block 11
In the basement were the "dark cells"; these cells had only a very tiny window, and a solid door. Prisoners placed in these cells would gradually suffocate as they used up all of the oxygen in the cell; sometimes the SS would light a candle in the cell to use up the oxygen more quickly. Many were subjected to hanging with their hands behind their backs for hours, even days, thus dislocating their shoulder joints.[15]
On September 3, 1941, deputy camp commandant SS-Hauptsturmführer Fritzsch experimented on 600 Russian POWs and 250 Polish inmates by gathering them in the basement of Block 11 and gassing them with Zyklon B, a highly lethal cyanide-based pesticide.[16] This paved the way for the use of Zyklon B as an instrument for extermination at Auschwitz, and a gas chamber and crematorium were constructed by converting a bunker. This gas chamber operated from 1941 to 1942, during which time some 60,000 people were killed therein; it was then converted into an air-raid shelter for the use of the SS. This gas chamber still exists, together with the associated crematorium, which was reconstructed after the war using the original components, which remained on-site.[17][18]
Il campo di concentramento di Auschwitz fu uno dei tre campi principali che formavano il complesso concentrazionario situato nelle vicinanze di Auschwitz (in polacco Oświęcim), in Polonia. Facevano parte del complesso anche il campo di sterminio di Birkenau, situato a Birkenau (in polacco Brzezinka), il campo di lavoro di Monowitz, situato a Monowitz, (in polacco Monowice) ed i restanti 45 sottocampi costruiti durante l'occupazione tedesca della Polonia[1].
Il complesso dei campi di Auschwitz[2] svolse un ruolo fondamentale nei progetti di "soluzione finale del problema ebraico" - eufemismo con il quale i nazisti indicarono lo sterminio degli ebrei (nel campo, tuttavia, trovarono la morte anche molte altre categorie di internati) - divenendo rapidamente il più grande ed efficiente centro di sterminio nazista. Auschwitz, nell'immaginario collettivo, è diventato il simbolo universale del lager.
Dal 1979, ciò che resta di quel luogo è patrimonio dell'umanità dell'UNESCO[3] ed è visitabile dal pubblico.
Auschwitz
Era il Konzentrationslager (campo di concentramento). È stato reso operativo dal 14 giugno 1940 e centro amministrativo dell'intero complesso. Il numero di prigionieri rinchiusi costantemente in questo campo fluttuò tra le 15.000 e le oltre 20.000 unità. Qui furono uccise, nella camera a gas ricavata nell'obitorio del Crematorio N.1, o morirono a causa delle impossibili condizioni di lavoro, di esecuzioni, per percosse, torture, malattie, fame, criminali esperimenti medici, circa 70.000 persone, per lo più intellettuali polacchi e prigionieri di guerra sovietici. Nei sotterranei del Block 11 di Auschwitz, la prigione del campo, il 3 settembre 1941 venne sperimentato per la prima volta dal vicecomandante del campo Karl Fritzsch, per l'uccisione di 850 prigionieri, il gas Zyklon B, normalmente usato come antiparassitario, poi impiegato su vasta scala per il genocidio ebraico.
KZ Auschwitz bezeichnet einen Lagerkomplex, der aus dem größten Vernichtungslager Auschwitz-Birkenau, dem Stammlager sowie dem KZ Auschwitz–Monowitz im damals deutsch besetzten Polen bestand. Diese drei Konzentrationslager wurden von 1940 bis 1945 während der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus bei Kraków (deutsch: Krakau) am Westrand der polnischen Stadt Oświęcim (deutsch: Auschwitz) errichtet. Zu dem Lagerkomplex gehörten auch eine Vielzahl von Neben- oder Außenlagern in der Region. Die europaweit gefangen genommenen Menschen wurden per Bahn in das KZ Auschwitz transportiert. Es handelte sich um die räumlich größte Ansammlung von Konzentrationslagern des Deutschen Reichs, in denen über 1,1 Millionen Menschen ermordet wurden (siehe Opferzahlen der Konzentrationslager Auschwitz). Die Lager wurden am 27. Januar 1945 von der Roten Armee befreit. In der Nachkriegszeit ist "Auschwitz" zu einem Symbol für die Shoa bzw. den Holocaust geworden.
Die noch vorhandenen Teile der drei Konzentrationslager bei Oświęcim sind seit 1947 staatliches polnisches Museum bzw. Gedenkstätte. Seit dem 27. Juni 2007 trägt das Museumsgelände als UNESCO-Weltkulturerbe die Bezeichnung Auschwitz-Birkenau – deutsches nationalsozialistisches Konzentrations- und Vernichtungslager. Damit soll die damalige deutsche Verantwortlichkeit für die in Polen eingerichteten Stätten des Massenmordens auch für die Zukunft verdeutlicht werden.
Das deutsche Stammlager des KZ Auschwitz (oder Auschwitz I), von der SS K.L. Auschwitz genannt, war das erste Konzentrationslager am Ort und diente als Verwaltungszentrum des gesamten Lagerkomplexes (das war die Bedeutung der von der SS benutzten Bezeichnung Stammlager). Die Errichtung dieses ersten Konzentrationslagers war von Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler am 27. März 1940 angeordnet worden. Der erste Häftlingstransport traf am 20. Mai 1940 ein.
Ursprünglich war das Konzentrationslager in einer ehemaligen polnischen Kaserne wegen seiner „günstigen verkehrstechnischen Lage“ als Quarantäne- und Durchgangslager für verhaftete polnische Staatsangehörige aus dem neu gebildeten Oberschlesien geplant worden. Sie sollten als Zwangsarbeiter weiter nach Deutschland verschleppt werden. Die SS übernahm später Reparaturaufträge für die Wehrmacht und vermietete „ihre“ Häftlinge an Privatunternehmen, die sie als Zwangsarbeiter in zahlreichen Nebenlagern und Außenkommandos in der räumlichen Nähe einsetzten. An der Planung war auch der Vorstand der I.G. Farben, beteiligt, der einen geeigneten Standort für die Buna-Produktion mit den dafür erforderlichen Rohstoffen Wasser, Kalk, Salz und Kohle suchte.
Bereits im März 1941 ordnete Himmler eine Vergrößerung des Lagers an. Im Oktober 1941 begann der Bau des Vernichtungslagers Auschwitz II–Birkenau. Auch für dessen Verwaltung war es als „Stammlager“ im organisatorischen Rahmen der SS-internen Verwaltung aller Konzentrationslager durch das Wirtschafts- und Verwaltungshauptamt (WVHA, zuvor die IKL) zuständig.
Schotland, 25 Maart 2019
Het Amfibische transportschip Zr.Ms. Johan de Witt neemt deel aan de oefening Joint Warrior. Samen met de schepen Zr.Ms. Friesland, Zr.Ms. De Ruyter, Zr.Ms. Van Speijk oefenen zij diverse aspecten van maritieme oorlogvoering. Aan boord van Zr.Ms. Johan de Witt zijn de NLMARFOR Battlestaf en zon 200 leden van het Korps Mariniers, ook is een detachement van het 300 Squadron met twee Cougar Helicopters aanwezig.
Schotland, 25 Maart 2019
Het Amfibische transportschip Zr.Ms. Johan de Witt neemt deel aan de oefening Joint Warrior. Samen met de schepen Zr.Ms. Friesland, Zr.Ms. De Ruyter, Zr.Ms. Van Speijk oefenen zij diverse aspecten van maritieme oorlogvoering. Aan boord van Zr.Ms. Johan de Witt zijn de NLMARFOR Battlestaf en zon 200 leden van het Korps Mariniers, ook is een detachement van het 300 Squadron met twee Cougar Helicopters aanwezig.
U.S. Air Force basic military graduation is held Apr. 9, 2020, at the 321st Training Squadron’s Airman Training Complex on Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas. Due to current world events, the graduation ceremonies will be closed to the public until further notice for safety and security of the newly accessioned Airmen and their family members due to coronavirus (COVID-19).
Yesterday (Wednesday 11 March 2020), officers from Greater Manchester Police and the City of London Police’s Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU) executed a number of warrants at Great Ducie Street, Manchester.
Officers from GMP and the City of London Police - the national policing lead for fraud – worked alongside UK immigration, meaning a total of 100 officers and staff members were involved in the operation.
The search warrant, which developed from a previous operation that involved the sale and distribution of counterfeit items, saw thousands of labels, computer equipment and cash seized.
Detectives are currently exploring links between the counterfeit operation and Serious Organised Crime, helping to fund criminal activity beyond Greater Manchester.
15 people were arrested, after officers uncovered an estimated £7.5 million worth of branded clothing, shoes and perfume suspected to be counterfeit.
Chief Inspector Kirsten Buggy, of GMP’s North Manchester division, said: “Yesterday’s operation is one of the largest of its kind ever carried out in the area and has taken a meticulous amount of planning and preparation.
“I am thankful to colleagues from the City of London Police, who as the national policing lead for fraud, have worked in partnership with officers from GMP and helped bring about yesterday’s direct action. I am also grateful to those from UK Immigration for their help.
“Such partnerships are absolutely vital when tackling counterfeit operations, as they bring specialisms from across the country together in a bid to make an impactive and real difference. Steps such as yesterday are often only the start when it comes to investigating the scale of these operations and we will continue to work in conjunction with the City of London’s Intellectual Property Crime Unit to tackle this type of offending to its’ very core.
“It is important to recognise the far-reaching and serious impact of sophisticated and large scale counterfeit operations such as this one; and I would like to take this opportunity to remind members of the public of the repercussions of this kind of offending and the link to organised criminal activity. Please be under no illusion- this type of crime is not victimless.”
Police staff investigator Charlotte Beattie, of the City of London Police’s Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU), said:
“The counterfeit goods business is a deceiving one and the key message to be take away from this operation, is that counterfeiting is not a victimless crime.
“An individual may think that when buying counterfeit goods they are only affecting a multi-million pound brand, and won’t matter, when in fact they are helping to fund organised criminal activity. Counterfeit goods also pose a health risk to individuals as they usually are not fit for purpose or have not gone through the legal health and safety checks.
“Working in partnership has ensured that today’s operation has been a success. We will continue to work with Greater Manchester Police and UK Immigration to tackle the scourge of the counterfeit goods problem.”
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U.S. Air Force Airmen and Space Force Guardians basic military graduation and coining ceremony is held May 20, 2021, for the 326th Training Squadron at the Pfingston Reception Center on Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas. Due to current world events, the graduation ceremonies will be closed to the public until further notice for safety and security of the newly accessioned Airmen and their family members due to coronavirus (COVID-19).
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska (May 15, 2021) - Alaska National Guard Soldiers and Airmen compete amongst one another in a series of marksmanship events at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, May 15, 2021, as part of the 2021 Alaska National Guard Adjutant General Match, or TAG Match. TAG Match is a marksmanship competition comprising several timed pistol and rifle events. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Spc. Grace Nechanicky) 210515-Z-PL215-1030
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U.S. Air Force tactical air control party (TACP) specialists assigned to the 3rd Air Support Operations Squadron descend after jumping from a U.S. Army CH-47F Chinook helicopter during joint airborne training over Malemute Drop Zone, Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, Nov. 9, 2021. Army air crew from the 1-52nd General Support Aviation Battalion and Air Force TACPs conducted the airborne training to maintain operational proficiency in an austere environment. (U.S. Air Force photo by Alejandro Peña)
I got a Disney Descendants Jane body for Dream Dancer today and surprisingly, the proportions match up pretty well to the original body.
Unfortunately the calves were super long so I did the only reasonable thing. I cut off the feet and lower legs, snapped off the original Ballerina feet, removed the rod inside the straight leg and foot and glued it onto the jointed body.
I honestly love the shoe molds on this body and weirdly enough the feet feel solidly glued on after i super glued some elastic over the joint…
U.S. Air Force basic military graduation and coining ceremony is held March 4, 2021, for the 331st Training Squadron at the Pfingston Reception Center on Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas. Due to current world events, the graduation ceremonies will be closed to the public until further notice for safety and security of the newly accessioned Airmen and their family members due to coronavirus (COVID-19).
Captain (Navy) Martin Fluet delivers his morning orders to the ship from bridge during Exercise JOINT WARRIOR on October 13, 2020.
Photo by: S1 Louis-Philippe Dubé, Canadian Armed Forces
Le capitaine de vaisseau Martin Fluet transmet ses ordres du matin à l’équipage, depuis la passerelle, au cours de l’exercice JOINT WARRIOR, le 13 octobre 2020.
Photo : Mat 1 Louis-Philippe Dubé, Forces armées canadiennes
Yesterday (Wednesday 11 March 2020), officers from Greater Manchester Police and the City of London Police’s Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU) executed a number of warrants at Great Ducie Street, Manchester.
Officers from GMP and the City of London Police - the national policing lead for fraud – worked alongside UK immigration, meaning a total of 100 officers and staff members were involved in the operation.
The search warrant, which developed from a previous operation that involved the sale and distribution of counterfeit items, saw thousands of labels, computer equipment and cash seized.
Detectives are currently exploring links between the counterfeit operation and Serious Organised Crime, helping to fund criminal activity beyond Greater Manchester.
15 people were arrested, after officers uncovered an estimated £7.5 million worth of branded clothing, shoes and perfume suspected to be counterfeit.
Chief Inspector Kirsten Buggy, of GMP’s North Manchester division, said: “Yesterday’s operation is one of the largest of its kind ever carried out in the area and has taken a meticulous amount of planning and preparation.
“I am thankful to colleagues from the City of London Police, who as the national policing lead for fraud, have worked in partnership with officers from GMP and helped bring about yesterday’s direct action. I am also grateful to those from UK Immigration for their help.
“Such partnerships are absolutely vital when tackling counterfeit operations, as they bring specialisms from across the country together in a bid to make an impactive and real difference. Steps such as yesterday are often only the start when it comes to investigating the scale of these operations and we will continue to work in conjunction with the City of London’s Intellectual Property Crime Unit to tackle this type of offending to its’ very core.
“It is important to recognise the far-reaching and serious impact of sophisticated and large scale counterfeit operations such as this one; and I would like to take this opportunity to remind members of the public of the repercussions of this kind of offending and the link to organised criminal activity. Please be under no illusion- this type of crime is not victimless.”
Police staff investigator Charlotte Beattie, of the City of London Police’s Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU), said:
“The counterfeit goods business is a deceiving one and the key message to be take away from this operation, is that counterfeiting is not a victimless crime.
“An individual may think that when buying counterfeit goods they are only affecting a multi-million pound brand, and won’t matter, when in fact they are helping to fund organised criminal activity. Counterfeit goods also pose a health risk to individuals as they usually are not fit for purpose or have not gone through the legal health and safety checks.
“Working in partnership has ensured that today’s operation has been a success. We will continue to work with Greater Manchester Police and UK Immigration to tackle the scourge of the counterfeit goods problem.”
To find out more about Greater Manchester Police please visit our website. www.gmp.police.uk
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Passenger Ship of the Compagnie des Messageries Maritimes.
Identical to LAOS. but the eldest of the 3 ships of the so-called Japan ''white Passenger Ships"
CF: Book by Dr. Paul BOIS '';The Grand Century of les Messageries Maritimes''; page 306
Quick joint liner turbines and two propellers, fireplace, two masts, six blocks, eighteen derricks, a short and high central castle with balcony cabins, a curved stem and a round back.
Built by the yards of La Ciotat in 1952
Maiden voyage on July 17, 1953 to the Japan
FEATURES:
162.10 mHT x 22 m - 7.9 m of TE - 15150 GRT - 24000 cv 22 nds.
Like Cambodia (2) and LAOS (2)
PASSENGERS:
1st 117 - 110 in 2de - 120 3rd - 184 in steerage.
CREW:
Officers 18 - Crew 173 men
Embarked as engineer officer of the 20.07.1964 to the 8.3.1965 and the 29.5.1965 to the 23.10.1965
These ships up the Saigon River and be swing at the port of Saigon, their draught and length HT have been adapted to this imperative
1961 Transformation in Marseille. Teugue deleted and replaced by a bridge joined to a largest orlop for 3rd classes that go from 120 to 214 passengers
1966 - Leased to Club Méditerranée but the closure of the Suez Canal breaks the contract after 3 trips on the expected 8.
29.09.1967 - Change of identity by becoming the Pacific from 1967 to 1970
She sailed for Tahiti via Cape Town then because a few connections with the Australia and the far East.
1970 August 27 sold under Pavilion Panamanian Princess ABETO made the transport of pilgrims on the Hajj
1971 sold after bankruptcy becomes MALAYSIA BARU and in 1972 the MALAYSIA KITA
Burns on road to Singapore on May 12, 1974
Refloated in November 1975 irreparable is demolished in Taiwan.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
CDT LANFANT: 'history of the fleet of the Messageries Maritimes 1851-1975'
Dr. PAUL BOIS '';The great century of the Messageries Maritimes''
Mr Xavier ESCALLIER for permission to use photos from his private collection
The Forum of the Messageries Maritimes
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VIET-NAM :
Commandé aux Chantiers Navals de La Ciotat.
1950.07.31 Mis sur cale
1951.10.14 Lancement à La Ciotat. Marraine Mme Graille
1952.10.27 Livré aux Messageries Maritimes. Commandant Juteau
1953 le 17 juillet. Voyage inaugural sur le Japon. Commandant Juteau pour Singapour 2 août – Saïgon 7 août – Hong-Kong 12 août - Yokohama 19 août – Kobé le 21 août. Soit 36 jours pour rallier Kobé.
Premier d'une série de trois paquebots mixtes de type MC destiné à la ligne Marseille-Japon
CARACTÉRISTIQUES :
Longueur : 163.60 m ht et 148.75 m hpp (Longueur limitée par la nécessiter d'éviter en rivière dans le port de Saïgon.)
Largeur : 22 m
Jauge brute : 12200 tjb - Puis 13473 tjb après les modifications de 1961
Port en lourd : 6400 tonnes dont 3900 t pour les marchandises. – Puis 5820 tonnes après modifications.
Capacité : 8780 m3 dont 60 m3 en frigos.
Déplacement : 15240 tonnes
6 cales avec panneaux Mac Gregor single pull.
16 mâts de charge de 5 tonnes
1 bigue de 30 tonnes
1 bigue de 50 tonnes
PROPULSION :
2 groupes turbines C.E.M. Parsons Construits par les Ateliers et Chantiers de Bretagne
3 Chaudières Penhœt P41. Pression 62 kg/cm² - 35 tonnes de vapeur par heure – Surchauffe 480°c – Chauffe au mazout – Tirage forcé – Réchauffeur d'air – Économiseur.
Puissance : 24000 cv aux essais – 18000 cv en service continu
Vitesse : 23 nœuds aux essais – 21 nœuds en exploitation
Puissance avec deux chaudières (marche habituelle) 19500 cv Mise en service avec 3 chaudières pour assurer l'heure d'arrivée.
Deux lignes d'arbres et deux hélices.
PRODUCTION ÉLECTRIQUE :
4 Diesel alternateurs de 933 Kw sous 400 v et 50 Htz -
Diesels 2 temps simple effet à injection mécanique. Marque Schneider 6 cylindres 1280 cv à 428 t/mn
Distribution :
Force 280 volts
Auxiliaire : 300 v
Cuisine : 200 v
Éclairage : 110 volts
Lors des transformations de 1960 un turbo alternateur fut ajouté à Bd au parquet principal.
EAU DOUCE :
500 tonnes en réserve et deux bouilleurs Ateliers et Chantiers de Bretagne fournissant 192 tonnes jours d'eau douce potable. Traitement UV et adjonction de sels minéraux.
DIVERS :
Air conditionné. A l'origine uniquement une partie des premières classes et les salles à manger des 1ères Cl et des Sdes Cl
Après les modifications de 1960 les cabines intérieures des Sdes Cl furent climatisées, ainsi que de nombreux autres locaux passagers. Pour l'équipage, seul le carré des Officiers fut climatisé. Une salle avec de nouveaux compresseurs de climatisation de type York et un circuit saumure froide fut installée à bâbord de l'entrée machine.
Stabilisateurs de roulis Denny Brown.
Décorateur André Arbus.
PERSONNEL :
État-major : 18 officiers.
Équipage : 32 marins au pont – 39 mécaniciens – 102 ADSG
PASSAGERS :
1ères Cl : 90 passagers avant modifications puis 119 passagers
Sdes Cl : 110 passagers
3èmes Cl : 52 passagers
Rationnaires : 260 hommes
TRANSFORMATIONS :
1960 – Suppression de la teugue. Prolongation du pont du gaillard au-dessus du panneau de la cale 2 afin de remplacer les troisièmes classes et les rationnaires par 214 couchettes de classe cabine, avec salle à manger et bar etc. Le tout climatisé.
LIGNES :
Jusqu'en 1967, il restera affecté à la ligne Marseille – Japon. Passant par le Cap de bonne Espérance lorsque le Canal de Suez sera fermé en 1956 et en 1967.
Aux premières escales de la ligne originelle : Port Saïd, Suez, Aden (aller), Djibouti (retour), Colombo, Singapour, Saïgon, Hong-Kong, Yokohama et Kobé. Vont s'ajouter Manille, Karachi, Bombay et Bangkok.
1966 Il est loué au Club Méditerranée. Mais suite à la fermeture du Canal de Suez le contrat est rompu et il ne fera que trois voyages sur les huit prévu par le contrat de location.
1967 le 29 septembre - Le VIET NAM est rebaptisé PACIFIQUE il effectuera un voyage autour du monde. Il appareille de Marseille pour Tahiti via Cap Town. Il effectuera quelques voyages sur l'Australie et l'Extrême-Orient. Mais les voyages ne sont plus rentables et la Compagnie va se résoudre à le vendre.
ÉVÉNEMENTS :
1957 le 10 septembre Il arrive à Marseille avec le Roi Sihanouk et la Reine du Cambodge.
1958 le 12 janvier : Durant le séjour à Marseille (21 jours) le feu se déclare dans une cabine. Extinction automatique par le système Grinell.
1959 le 23 juillet : Au départ de Port-Saïd une avarie de bouilleur l'oblige à retourner à Marseille pour réparation. Il perdra un jour sur son itinéraire.
1961 le 8 août : A Aden par fort vent en rafales une amarre s'engage dans l'hélice tribord. Il prendra 24 h de retard.
1962 du 20 au 23 avril à Yokohama. Il doit passer en cale sèche pour dégager des prises d'eau de mer de réfrigération obstruées par une bâche plastique.
1966 Le Club Méditerrané le loue pour y installer un village dans les emménagements des 1ères Cl, et de la Classe touriste. La classe cabine restant à la disposition des Messageries Maritimes.
1966 Le 4 octobre et 22 décembre. Départs des 2 voyages effectués pour le compte du Club Méditerranée seront assurés les Gentils membres n'effectuant qu'une partie du voyage et étant remplacés par des Gentils membres amené par l'avion charter qui ramènera les débarquant. Au 3ème voyage la guerre des 6 jours ayant fermé le Canal de Suez, le VIET NAM devra passer par Capetown et La Réunion. Les traversées sont trop longues et sans intérêts pour les passagers. L'expérience est abandonnée.
1967 Désarmé à Marseille, il sera réarmé pour effectuer trois rotations sur l'Afrique du Nord, affrété par La COMPAGNIE GÉNÉRALE TRANSMÉDITERRANÉENNE.
RETRAIT :
1970 le 27 août In est vendu à Abeto S.A. Panama il prend le pavillon Panaméen sous le nom de PRINCESS ABETO. Il est utilisé pour le transport des pèlerins sur La Mecque. Mais la Cie fait faillite.
1971 Vendu prend le nom de MALAYSIA BARU puis en
1972 Prend le nom de MALAYSIA KITA
1974 le 12 mai. Prend feu sur rade de Singapour en attendant de rentrer en cale sèche. Remorqué hors du port il se couche et coule en eau peu profonde
1975 en Novembre. Il sera relevé, reconnu irréparable, il partira en remorque à Taïwan pour y être démoli.
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U.S. Air Force Airmen and Space Force Guardians basic military graduation and coining ceremony is held May 20, 2021, for the 326th Training Squadron at the Pfingston Reception Center on Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas. Due to current world events, the graduation ceremonies will be closed to the public until further notice for safety and security of the newly accessioned Airmen and their family members due to coronavirus (COVID-19).
Left to Right: Lubna (Translator); Dr. Ali Saeed Sadoon (Director General, Iraqi Civil Defence - Fire Department; Major Brent Gerald; unknown persons
20 May 2003 - Tuesday
Joint Minister’s Meeting - 1000 hours
The meeting today is being held in one of the smaller auditoriums in the Convention Center inside the green zone. There is a raised platform with a table and chairs facing the “audience”. The main floor area has chairs in sweeping semicircular rows complete with fold up tabletops to facilitate taking notes. It reminds me of a typical City Council chamber back in the US.
The room begins to fill with Iraqis from the various Ministries and their “coalition” counterparts. The room is well lit but there is no air circulation and certainly no air-conditioning. The room is incredibly hot. I’m drinking from my omnipresent water bottle and sweating like mad. I always wear a long sleeve shirt to ward off the sun and the wrists are slowly turning dark from the sweat running down my arms. It seems as hot as when I walk in the sun the kilometer from the Palace to the Civil Affairs office.
Within a few minutes, from the rear of the room, enter General Strock and, of all people, General Garner. I was sure that General Garner was long gone from Iraq once L. Paul Bremer arrived.
General Garner address the group by thanking the Iraqis for working together to solve the plethora of problems currently being experienced in the country. He promises more coalition soldiers and a concerted effort to establish the Iraqi police as a stabilizing force by proper training. He talks of joint coalition and Iraqi security patrols. He hints at future elections throughout Iraq but is not specific.
General Garner discusses the current fuel shortage of “benzene” (gasoline) and cooking fuel. He says that the United Nations sanctions are the source of the shortages. This is the first that I’ve heard that the UN sanctions are still in effect. It seems most bizarre considering that we invaded the county under some sort of UN resolution as partial cover. He promises that the coalition will only wait two more days for the UN to lift the sanctions. After that the coalition will begin to sell fuel oil regardless.
Again, I’m wondering why the US, which just preemptively invaded Iraq is abiding by UN sanctions against a regime that no longer exists. I’m thinking no wonder the current situation is so screwed up.
General Garner, “I want also to dispel the rumor that the United States tanks run on benzene. They don’t. They run on diesel that we supply. The tanks are not competing for fuel with Iraqi civilians.”
It’s probably the heat, but I have this strange vision of Abrams tanks waiting among the long lines of Iraqi cars and trucks at the gas stations in Baghdad.
General Garner continues his remarks hitting on non-specific plans to upgrade the sewer system, provide cash payments to Ministry workers, and getting the Ministries established in temporary offices. (He leaves unsaid the obvious, that looting damage requires this.)
In the middle of a sentence the lights in the room flicker off. The irony of that makes me wish to scream. Here we are in the green zone where everything is under our control, and we can’t even keep the lights on. What hope is there for the rest of the country? Mercifully, it is too dark to see the face of General Garner.
There is quite a bit of conversation among those present as we are directed down the hall to an area with large windows. (A few window openings are covered with plastic sheeting to replace some broken glazing.) At least there is plenty of sun and natural light in Baghdad so we can continue the meeting; this meeting of the most influential Iraqis working with the “coalition-of-the-willing”. The irony is dripping as fast as the sweat down my shirt.
General Strock begins a discussion concerning the best way to move forward on providing the Ministries with office space. He notes that the assessment process must move forward more quickly. He would like priority assessments to be effected at a rate of twenty a month. (Our team is accomplishing about two to three a week, depending upon the size of the building.)
To do this General Strock is going to tap into the capabilities of the Iraqi engineers who work in the engineering and construction firms owned by the former Iraqi government. These “government-owned-enterprises” have a greater capability than the relatively few teams that the US has deployed.
The procedure will be for the Iraqis to do the fieldwork and draft up the reports. Our team will provide quality assurance and guidance as to what level of detail and focus the work needs.
I’m wondering what the Major is thinking of all this. She is attending today’s meeting. Her direction to us was to make the reports “creative”. How creative will the Iraqis be to her? Our reports included photographs, drawings, maps, and fancy cover sheets. This may be a step down in her view.
The Civil Defence (Fire, Rescue, and Explosive Ordinance Disposal) Director General, Dr. Ali Sadeed Sadoon is pushing to create a joint use policy for a number of undamaged Civil Defence buildings within Baghdad. He envisions a combination of Fire, Police, and Emergency Medical Services all working out of one structure. At least until more facilities are rebuilt. This symbiotic relationship would work well as the local neighborhood would have a complete suite of services. The police presence would enhance security for all.
Apparently the police stations are in worse shape that those of the Fire Department so this proposal is a good one. But, as the police chief points out, there is no historic relationship between the Fire Department and the Police Department (Civil Defence and Judicial is how he put it.)
There is some pecking order calculus going on here and apparently the cops have no intention of relinquishing their historic superior position over the Fire Department. No matter that Dr. Ali discusses how a joint use policy is effected in many countries.
General Strock recommends that the police and fire folks co-locate, but he stresses that it’s up to them to work it out. He is not about to try to direct them. General Strock goes further and says that there is a need to temporarily combine the Iraqi police, fire, medical, and army functions until it’s decided IF an Iraqi army is required.
Now that’s an interesting statement; if an Iraqi army is required. The US is not even sure about that at this point. What I’m seeing is that the US is developing their policy to reestablish Iraq as a functioning element on-the-fly. I see no plan in place. We’re making this up as we go along. I have my doubts as to how effective we are going to be.
The group meeting breaks up but Major Gerald and I continue to talk with Dr. Ali. Dr. Ali talks about staff in the Fire Department who was put on the payroll only because of connections. Most of them are former staff of the police department but poor performers. So, the fire department is being used as a dumping ground for problem staff from other departments of the Ministry of Interior.
These underachievers know little about their job, which is to manage the Civil Defence shelters. They are the subject of ridicule from the other staff and now they have reported their official vehicles “missing”.
Major Gerald advises Dr. Ali that this is a personnel issue that he needs to deal with. He discusses methods of counseling them and setting standards of performance. Major Gerald finishes with, “Then, if they don’t produce, let them go”.
Dr. Ali agrees with this advice. But, personnel issues, anywhere in the world, are difficult to deal with.
Dr. Ali says that he estimates that these former police staff are just keeping their cars for their own personal use. “They have police experience and shouldn’t have a problem protecting their cars”, he says through his translator.
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U.S. Air Force basic military graduation is held May 7, 2020, at the 331st Training Squadron’s Airman Training Complex on Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas. Due to current world events, the graduation ceremonies will be closed to the public until further notice for safety and security of the newly accessioned Airmen and their family members due to coronavirus (COVID-19).
Memorial Day Service at Old St Paul's, Wellington - May 30, 2011.
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Remarks by the President at a Memorial Day Service
Arlington National Cemetery
Arlington, Virginia
11:25 A.M. EDT
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you. Thank you so much. Please be seated.
Thank you, Secretary Gates, and thank you for your extraordinary service to our nation. I think that Bob Gates will go down as one of our finest Secretaries of Defense in our history, and it’s been an honor to serve with him. (Applause.)
I also want to say a word about Admiral Mullen. On a day when we are announcing his successor as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and as he looks forward to a well-deserved retirement later this year, Admiral Mullen, on behalf of all Americans, we want to say thank you for your four decades of service to this great country. (Applause.) We want to thank Deborah Mullen as well for her extraordinary service. To Major General Karl Horst, the commanding general of our Military District of Washington; Mrs. Nancy Horst; Mr. Patrick Hallinan, the superintendent of Arlington National Cemetery, as well as his lovely wife Doreen. And to Chaplain Steve Berry, thank you for your extraordinary service. (Applause.)
It is a great privilege to return here to our national sanctuary, this most hallowed ground, to commemorate Memorial Day with all of you. With Americans who’ve come to pay their respects. With members of our military and their families. With veterans whose service we will never forget and always honor. And with Gold Star families whose loved ones rest all around us in eternal peace.
To those of you who mourn the loss of a loved one today, my heart breaks goes out to you. I love my daughters more than anything in the world, and I cannot imagine losing them. I can’t imagine losing a sister or brother or parent at war. The grief so many of you carry in your hearts is a grief I cannot fully know.
This day is about you, and the fallen heroes that you loved. And it’s a day that has meaning for all Americans, including me. It’s one of my highest honors, it is my most solemn responsibility as President, to serve as Commander-in-Chief of one of the finest fighting forces the world has ever known. (Applause.) And it’s a responsibility that carries a special weight on this day; that carries a special weight each time I meet with our Gold Star families and I see the pride in their eyes, but also the tears of pain that will never fully go away; each time I sit down at my desk and sign a condolence letter to the family of the fallen.
Sometimes a family will write me back and tell me about their daughter or son that they’ve lost, or a friend will write me a letter about what their battle buddy meant to them. I received one such letter from an Army veteran named Paul Tarbox after I visited Arlington a couple of years ago. Paul saw a photograph of me walking through Section 60, where the heroes who fell in Iraq and Afghanistan lay, by a headstone marking the final resting place of Staff Sergeant Joe Phaneuf.
Joe, he told me, was a friend of his, one of the best men he’d ever known, the kind of guy who could have the entire barracks in laughter, who was always there to lend a hand, from being a volunteer coach to helping build a playground. It was a moving letter, and Paul closed it with a few words about the hallowed cemetery where we are gathered here today.
He wrote, “The venerable warriors that slumber there knew full well the risks that are associated with military service, and felt pride in defending our democracy. The true lesson of Arlington,” he continued, “is that each headstone is that of a patriot. Each headstone shares a story. Thank you for letting me share with you [the story] about my friend Joe.”
Staff Sergeant Joe Phaneuf was a patriot, like all the venerable warriors who lay here, and across this country, and around the globe. Each of them adds honor to what it means to be a soldier, sailor, airman, Marine, and Coast Guardsman. Each is a link in an unbroken chain that stretches back to the earliest days of our Republic -- and on this day, we memorialize them all.
We memorialize our first patriots -- blacksmiths and farmers, slaves and freedmen -- who never knew the independence they won with their lives. We memorialize the armies of men, and women disguised as men, black and white, who fell in apple orchards and cornfields in a war that saved our union. We memorialize those who gave their lives on the battlefields of our times -- from Normandy to Manila, Inchon to Khe Sanh, Baghdad to Helmand, and in jungles, deserts, and city streets around the world.
What bonds this chain together across the generations, this chain of honor and sacrifice, is not only a common cause -- our country’s cause -- but also a spirit captured in a Book of Isaiah, a familiar verse, mailed to me by the Gold Star parents of 2nd Lieutenant Mike McGahan. “When I heard the voice of the Lord saying, ‘Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?’ And I said, ‘Here I am. Send me!”
That’s what we memorialize today. That spirit that says, send me, no matter the mission. Send me, no matter the risk. Send me, no matter how great the sacrifice I am called to make. The patriots we memorialize today sacrificed not only all they had but all they would ever know. They gave of themselves until they had nothing more to give. It’s natural, when we lose someone we care about, to ask why it had to be them. Why my son, why my sister, why my friend, why not me?
These are questions that cannot be answered by us. But on this day we remember that it is on our behalf that they gave our lives -- they gave their lives. We remember that it is their courage, their unselfishness, their devotion to duty that has sustained this country through all its trials and will sustain us through all the trials to come. We remember that the blessings we enjoy as Americans came at a dear cost; that our very presence here today, as free people in a free society, bears testimony to their enduring legacy.
Our nation owes a debt to its fallen heroes that we can never fully repay. But we can honor their sacrifice, and we must. We must honor it in our own lives by holding their memories close to our hearts, and heeding the example they set. And we must honor it as a nation by keeping our sacred trust with all who wear America’s uniform, and the families who love them; by never giving up the search for those who’ve gone missing under our country’s flag or are held as prisoners of war; by serving our patriots as well as they serve us -- from the moment they enter the military, to the moment they leave it, to the moment they are laid to rest.
That is how we can honor the sacrifice of those we’ve lost. That is our obligation to America’s guardians -- guardians like Travis Manion. The son of a Marine, Travis aspired to follow in his father’s footsteps and was accepted by the USS [sic] Naval Academy. His roommate at the Academy was Brendan Looney, a star athlete and born leader from a military family, just like Travis. The two quickly became best friends -- like brothers, Brendan said.
After graduation, they deployed -- Travis to Iraq, and Brendan to Korea. On April 29, 2007, while fighting to rescue his fellow Marines from danger, Travis was killed by a sniper. Brendan did what he had to do -- he kept going. He poured himself into his SEAL training, and dedicated it to the friend that he missed. He married the woman he loved. And, his tour in Korea behind him, he deployed to Afghanistan. On September 21st of last year, Brendan gave his own life, along with eight others, in a helicopter crash.
Heartbroken, yet filled with pride, the Manions and the Looneys knew only one way to honor their sons’ friendship -- they moved Travis from his cemetery in Pennsylvania and buried them side by side here at Arlington. “Warriors for freedom,” reads the epitaph written by Travis’s father, “brothers forever.”
The friendship between 1st Lieutenant Travis Manion and Lieutenant Brendan Looney reflects the meaning of Memorial Day. Brotherhood. Sacrifice. Love of country. And it is my fervent prayer that we may honor the memory of the fallen by living out those ideals every day of our lives, in the military and beyond. May God bless the souls of the venerable warriors we’ve lost, and the country for which they died. (Applause.)
END 11:37 A.M. EDT
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U.S. Air Force Airmen and Space Force Guardians basic military graduation and coining ceremony is held May 20, 2021, for the 326th Training Squadron at the Pfingston Reception Center on Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas. Due to current world events, the graduation ceremonies will be closed to the public until further notice for safety and security of the newly accessioned Airmen and their family members due to coronavirus (COVID-19).
U.S. Air Force basic military graduation and coining ceremony is held July 16, 2020, for the 433rd Training Squadron at the Pfingston Reception Centeron on Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas. Due to current world events, the graduation ceremonies will be closed to the public until further notice for safety and security of the newly accessioned Airmen and their family members due to coronavirus (COVID-19).
U.S. Air Force basic military graduation and coining ceremony is held Sept. 24, 2020, for the 322nd Training Squadron on Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas. Due to current world events, the graduation ceremonies will be closed to the public until further notice for safety and security of the newly accessioned Airmen and their family members due to coronavirus (COVID-19).
Historic Documents Which Marked the Beginning of Our War with Germany.
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Sixty-fifth Congress of the United States of America;
At the First Session,
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Monday, the 2nd day of April, 1917.
JOINT RESOLUTION
Declaring that a state of war exists between the Imperial German Government and the Government and the people of the United States of America and making provision to prosecute the same.
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Whereas the Imperial German Government has committed repeated acts of war against the Government and the people of the United States of America ; Therefore be it
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the state of war between the United States and the Imperial German Government which has thus been thrust upon the United States is hereby formally declared; and that the President be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to employ the entire naval and military forces of the United State and the resources of the Government to carry on war against the Imperial German Government; and to bring the conflict to a successful termination all of the resources of the country are hereby pledged by the Congress of the United States.
Champ Clark,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Thomas Riley Marshall,
Vice President of the United States and
President of the Senate.
Approved 6, April, 1917.
Woodrow Wilson.
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Proclamation 1364—Declaring That a State of War Exists Between the United States and Germany
April 6, 1917.
By the President of the United States of America,
A Proclamation.
Whereas, the Congress of the United States in the exercise of the constitutional authority vested in them have resolved, by joint resolution of the Senate and House of Representatives bearing date this day "That the state of war between the United States and the Imperial German Government which has been thrust upon the United States is hereby formally declared";
Whereas, it is provided by Section 4067 of the Revised Statutes, as follows:
Whenever there is declared a war between the United States and any foreign nation or government, or any invasion or predatory incursion is perpetrated, attempted, or threatened against the territory of the United States, by any foreign nation or government, and the President makes public proclamation of the event, all natives, citizens, denizens, or subjects of a hostile nation or government, being males of the age of fourteen years and upwards, who shall be within the United States, and not actually naturalized, shall be liable to be apprehended, restrained, secured, and removed as alien enemies. The President is authorized, in any such event, by his proclamation thereof, or other public act, to direct the conduct to be observed, on the part of the United States, toward the aliens who become so liable; the manner and degree of the restraint to which they shall be subject, and in what cases, and upon what security their residence shall be permitted, and to provide for the removal of those who, not being permitted to reside within the United States, refuse or neglect to depart therefrom; and to establish any such regulations which are found necessary in the premises and for the public safety;
Whereas, by Sections 4068, 4069, and 4070 of the Revised Statutes, further provision is made relative to alien enemies;
Now, Therefore, I, Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim to all whom it may concern that a state of war exists between the United States and the Imperial German Government; and I do specially direct all officers, civil or military, of the United States that they exercise vigilance and zeal in the discharge of the duties incident to such a state of war; and I do, moreover, earnestly appeal to all American citizens that they, in loyal devotion to their country, dedicated from its foundation to the principles of liberty and justice, uphold the laws of the land, and give undivided and willing support to those measures which may be adopted by the constitutional authorities in prosecuting the war to a successful issue and in obtaining a secure and just peace;
And, acting under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution of the United States and the said sections of the Revised Statutes, I do hereby further proclaim and direct that the conduct to be observed on the part of the United States toward all natives, citizens, denizens, or subjects of Germany, being males of the age of fourteen years and upwards, who shall be within the United States and not actually naturalized, who for the purpose of this proclamation and under such sections of the Revised Statutes are termed alien enemies, shall be as follows:
All alien enemies are enjoined to preserve the peace towards the United States and to refrain from crime against the public safety, and from violating the laws of the United States and of the States and Territories thereof, and to refrain from actual hostility or giving information, aid or comfort to the enemies of the United States, and to comply strictly with the regulations which are hereby or which may be from time to time promulgated by the President; and so long as they shall conduct themselves in accordance with law, they shall be undisturbed in the peaceful pursuit of their lives and occupations and be accorded the consideration due to all peaceful and law-abiding persons, except so far as restrictions may be necessary for their own protection and for the safety of the United States; and towards such alien enemies as conduct themselves in accordance with law, all citizens of the United States are enjoined to preserve the peace and to treat them with all such friendliness as may be compatible with loyalty and allegiance to the United States.
And all alien enemies who fail to conduct themselves as so enjoined, in addition to all other penalties prescribed by law, shall be liable to restraint, or to give security, or to remove and depart from the United States in the manner prescribed by Sections 4069 and 4070 of the Revised Statutes, and as prescribed in the regulations duly promulgated by the President;
And pursuant to the authority vested in me, I hereby declare and establish the following regulations, which I find necessary in the premises and for the public safety:
First. An alien enemy shall not have in his possession, at any time or place, any fire-arm, weapon or implement of war, or component part thereof, ammunition, maxim or other silencer, bomb or explosive or material used in the manufacture of explosives;
Second. An alien enemy shall not have in his possession at any time or place, or use or operate any aircraft or wireless apparatus, or any form of signalling device, or any form of cipher code, or any paper, document or book written or printed in cipher or in which there may be invisible writing;
Third. All property found in the possession of an alien enemy in violation of the foregoing regulations shall be subject to seizure by the United States;
Fourth. An alien enemy shall not approach or be found within one-half of a mile of any Federal or State fort, camp, arsenal, aircraft station, Government or naval vessel, navy yard, factory, or workshop for the manufacture of munitions of war or of any products for the use of the army or navy;
Fifth. An alien enemy shall not write, print, or publish any attack or threats against the Government or Congress of the United States, or either branch thereof, or against the measures or policy of the United States, or against the person or property of any person in the military, naval or civil service of the United States, or of the States or Territories, or of the District of Columbia, or of the municipal governments therein;
Sixth. An alien enemy shall not commit or abet any hostile acts against the United States, or give information, aid, or comfort to its enemies;
Seventh. An alien enemy shall not reside in or continue to reside in, to remain in, or enter any locality which the President may from time to time designate by Executive Order as a prohibited area in which residence by an alien enemy shall be found by him to constitute a danger to the public peace and safety of the United States, except by permit from the President and except under such limitations or restrictions as the President may prescribe;
Eighth. An alien enemy whom the President shall have reasonable cause to believe to be aiding or about to aid the enemy, or to be at large to the danger of the public peace or safety of the United States, or to have violated or to be about to violate any of these regulations, shall remove to any location designated by the President by Executive Order, and shall not remove therefrom without a permit, or shall depart from the United States if so required by the President;
Ninth. No alien enemy shall depart from the United States until he shall have received such permit as the President shall prescribe, or except under order of a court, judge, or justice, under Sections 4069 and 4070 of the Revised Statutes;
Tenth. No alien enemy shall land in or enter the United States, except under such restrictions and at such places as the President may prescribe;
Eleventh. If necessary to prevent violation of the regulations, all alien enemies will be obliged to register;
Twelfth. An alien enemy whom there may be reasonable cause to believe to be aiding or about to aid the enemy, or who may be at large to the danger of the public peace or safety, or who violates or attempts to violate, or of whom there is reasonable ground to believe that he is about to violate, any regulation duly promulgated by the President, or any criminal law of the United States, or of the States or Territories thereof, will be subject to summary arrest by the United States Marshal, or his deputy, or such other officer as the President shall designate, and to confinement in such penitentiary, prison, jail, military camp, or other place of detention as may be directed by the President.
This proclamation and the regulations herein contained shall extend and apply to all land and water, continental or insular, in any way within the jurisdiction of the United States.
In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.
Done at the City of Washington this 6th day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seventeen and of the independence of the United States of America the one hundred and forty-first.
WOODROW WILSON
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DECLARATION OF WAR AGAINST GERMANY BY THE AMERICAN CONGRESS AND THE PRESIDENTIAL PROCLAMATION.
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The war of the nations: portfolio in rotogravure etchings: compiled from the Mid-week pictorial. New York: New York Times, Co, 1919. Book.
Retrieved from the Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/item/19013740/. (Accessed November 08, 2016.)
Images from "The War of the Nations : Portfolio in Rotogravure Etchings : Compiled from the Mid-Week Pictorial" (New York : New York Times, Co., 1919)
Notes: Selected from "The War of the Nations: Portfolio in Rotogravure Etchings," published by the New York Times shortly after the 1919 armistice. This portfolio compiled selected images from their "Mid-Week Pictorial" newspaper supplements of 1914-19. 528 p. : chiefly ill. ; 42 cm.; hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/collgdc.gc000037
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918 --Pictorial works.
New York--New York
Format: Rotogravures --1910-1920.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on reproduction
Repository: Library of Congress, Serials and Government Publications Division, Washington, D.C. 20540
Part Of: Newspaper Pictorials: World War I Rotogravures, 1914-1919 (DLC) sgpwar 19191231
General information about the Newspaper Pictorials: World War I Rotogravures, 1914-1919 digital collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/collgdc.gc000037
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