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Army Signal Corps
The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military
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Army Signal Corps created in 1860, when the Army adopted Maj.
Albert Myer's visual communications system. In 1863, Congress authorized the regular Signal Corps for the remainder of the
Civil War. In addition to visual signaling, the Corps became responsible for the electric telegraph in 1867, and, in 1870, was authorized by Congress to establish a national weather service. By 1907, an Aeronautical Division had been established under the command of the Chief Signal Officer, and the Corps assumed responsibility for Army aviation until 1918, when it became the
Army Air Service. Numerous technological innovations in radio and telegraph communications came out of the Corps's laboratories at
Fort Monmouth in the early years of the twentieth century, and the Corps remains the “information manager” of the U.S. Army.
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Water, sewer pacts at issue; Fort Myer cited in prior bribe.(METROPOLITAN)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 10/29/2003; 700+ words
; ...defended awarding both contracts to Fort Myer Construction Corp., saying an internal...inspectors overstated how much asphalt Fort Myer delivered to city job sites from...Jacques Abadie III ruled in April that Fort Myer owners "participated in, knew of...
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Bribery no bar for D.C. business; Council wants Fort Myer bids.(PAGE ONE)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 10/6/2003; 700+ words
; ...public works officials. Officials for Fort Myer Construction Corp., one of the...employee training. Mr. Caldwell said Fort Myer should not be suspended, because...emergency declaration would affect Fort Myer's ability to do business with city...
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ARLINGTON COUNTY, FORT MYER TO SIGN ARMY COMMUNITY COVENANT
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 7/31/2008; 700+ words
; ...sign an Army Community Covenant with Fort Myer, a public reaffirmation of the County...members and retirees in the region. Fort Myer is adjacent to Arlington National...Department of Defense at the Pentagon. Fort Myer is the home of The U. S. Army Band...
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Fort Myer Heights Has a Commanding View to History
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 6/28/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...National Airport. On the west side of Fort Myer Heights, the view of the Capitol...for the same lot 20 years later. Fort Myer Heights was a much larger neighborhood...Meade Street and the northern edge of Fort Myer, were created when Colonial Village...
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Testing the military Flyer at Fort Myer, 1908-1909.
Magazine article from: Air Power History; 12/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...required delivery of a flying machine to Fort Myer, Virginia, within 200 days. Following...was established on the site where Fort Myer is now. In 1900, the Army collected all its balloon assets at Fort Myer; but in 1908, it was a cavalry...
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Army National in Kansas makes 1,000-mile march for acquisition. (Fort Myer, Virginia)
Magazine article from: American Banker; 9/22/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...opened a full-service branch at Fort Myer, Va., 1,000 miles away from...Army National vice president and the Fort Myer branch manager. Hagerty began his...establishment of branches such as the one at Fort Myer requires no review from the Comptroller...
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Fort Myer Squids Take to the Road
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 7/17/2003; ; 664 words
; Kevin Mallon has competed with the Fort Myer Squids swim team for 10 seasons, but something...to those meets." For nearly 40 years, the Fort Myer Squids held their home meets at the Fort Myer Officer's Club pool on the military base...
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Fort Myer's Friends
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 10/13/2003; 638 words
; ...talking about the District-based Fort Myer Construction Corp., which handles...District government is a big customer of Fort Myer Construction. For that reason...through 1998, a period during which Fort Myer employees bribed officials at...
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LARGEST DOD CHILD CARE CENTER OPENS AT FORT MYER
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 7/7/2008; 681 words
; ...next week, it will be located at Fort Myer. The new, 50,831-square-foot...out." The new CDC represents the Fort Myer Military Community's efforts to...Recreation Command is working with Fort Myer CYS to develop a center of excellence...
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Fort Myer to Step In For Pentagon Day Care
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 7/22/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...open a temporary day-care center at Fort Myer for children who will be displaced...need care would be accommodated at Fort Myer - - either in temporary, modular...the opening of an expanded center at Fort Myer for the children of Pentagon and...
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Fort Myers
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Fort Myers city (1990 pop. 45,206), seat of Lee co., SW Fla., on the Caloosahatchee...vegetables, flowers (especially gladioli), and fish. The city grew up around Fort Harvie, built (c.1841) in the Seminole War, and lies in a region of...
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Myer, Albert James
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military
Myer, Albert James (1828–...born in Newburgh, New York. Myer was first chief signal officer...1870). During the Civil War Myer established a signal system for...through their information network. Fort Myer, Virginia, still an important...
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Reed, Walter
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...worked at bases in Arizona (including Fort Apache), Nebraska, Minnesota, and...isolated and dreary army outpost at Fort Snelling, Minnesota, but in 1893...rampant in the Washington Barracks and at Fort Myer, in Virginia; it was generally believed...
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D.C. Washington
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...in Virginia). Nearby military installations include Fort McNair, Fort Myer, Andrews Air Force Base, and Bolling Air Force Base...residence of the vice president. Of historic interest is Fort Washington (built 1809, destroyed 1814, rebuilt by...
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Jorge Rafaél Videla
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...United States on two later assignments, once as a member of the Inter-American Defense Board and again for training at Fort Myer, Virginia. He also served in diplomatic missions in Bolivia and Venezuela. After various tours of duty in Argentina...
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