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Peace is an extension of war by political means. -- Robert Heinlein |
DISA Compound, VA(227 total words in this text)(3872 Reads)  Defense Information System Agency 701 South Courthouse Road Arlington, VA 22204-2199 The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) is a combat support agency under the direction, authority and control of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence. It is the central manager of major portions of the Defense Information Infrastructure (DII). The Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy (MCPON) is coded OP-00A as the primary enlisted advisor to Chief of Naval Operations. The ?Senior Enlisted Advisor of the Navy? was re-designated to ?Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy? (MCPON) on April 28, 1967 to conform to the titles given the top enlisted billets of the other services. In 1989, the MCPON along with the Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps and the Master Chief Petty Officer of the Coast Guard, received the keys to brand new homes. The four-bedroom single family homes are located within the compound at Defense Communication Agency in Arlington, within walking distance of the Arlington Navy Annex, headquarters for the Bureau of Personnel. Funding for the MCPON?s and the Sergeant Major?s home was approved in the FY 1989 Military Construction, Navy Authorization Act. Prior to 1989, MCPONs either purchased or rented their own home or were provided quarters at Andrews Air Force Base or Fort Belvoir. |
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1775:
In Massachusetts, British troops march out of Boston on a mission to confiscate the Patriot arsenal at Concord and to capture Patriot leaders Samuel Adams and John Hancock, known to be hiding at Lexington. As the British departed, Boston Patriots Paul Revere and William Dawes set out on horseback from the city to warn Adams and Hancock and rouse the Patriot minutemen.
1847: U.S. forces defeat Mexicans at Cerro Gordo in one of the bloodiest battle of the war. 1864: At Poison Springs, Arkansas, Confederate soldiers under the command of General Samuel Maxey capture a Union forage train and slaughter black troops escorting the expedition. 1885: The Sino-Japanese war ends. 1943: Traveling in a bomber, Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the mastermind of the attack on Pearl Harbor, is shot down by American P-38 fighters. 1983: A suicide bomber kills U.S. Marines at the U.S. Embassy in Lebanon. |
