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Alabama Escort
Photo Album. U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions, Republican - ALABAMA
Sen. Jeff Sessions greets Iraqi interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi before Allawi's address to Congress. Sessions was selected to participate in a bipartisan and bicameral group of lawmakers to escort Allawi to the House floor. (09/23/04) ... [Read More]
Astronaut Bio: J. F. Edwards, Jr. 5/02
EXPERIENCE: Designated a Naval Aviator in February 1982. Assigned to Fighter Squadron 143 in 1983 after completion of F-14 Tomcat training. Flew fighter escort and reconnaissance combat missions over Lebanon in 1983 and graduated from U.S. Navy Fighter Weapons School in 1984. Graduated from U.S. Naval Test Pilot School in 1986 and subsequently worked as project flight test officer and pilot for F-14A(PLUS) and F-14D Full Scale Development. Flew the first Navy flight of the F-14D and a high angle of attack/departure from controlled flight test program for the F-14 airframe/F110 engine integration. Served as Operations and Maintenance Officer in Fighter Squadron 142 1989-1992. Worked as Operations Officer in the Operations Directorate of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Washington D.C. from 1992-1994. He has flown 4000 hours in over 25 different aircraft and logged over 650 carrier-arrested landings. ... [Read More]
Legends of Tuskegee: The Tuskegee Airmen: Benajamin O. Davis
The fighter group was transferred to Italy in February 1944 where they maintained an outstanding combat record. The 332nd flew bomber escorts. In March 1945, Davis led the 332nd on a 1,600-mile round-trip escort mission to Berlin. During that mission, the Tuskegee Airmen never lost a bomber, despite an onslaught of the latest and fastest enemy German planes. The 332nd won a Distinguished Unit Citation for the mission. ... [Read More]
"The Schoolhouse Door" -- Forty Years Later
The U.S. Assistant Attorney General, Nicholas Katzenbach, and otherfederal law enforcement officials were on hand to escort the twoprospective students, Vivian Malone and James Hood, inside.Katzenbach, noting that he was speaking for President John F. Kennedy,asked Wallace for "unequivocal assurance that you or anyone under yourcontrol will not bar these students." ... [Read More]
Federal Bureau of Investigation - Investigative Programs - Civil Rights
Since March 1993, there have been five individuals (two receptionists - Boston, Massachusetts; two doctors and one escort - Pensacola, Florida) shot to death inside or within the property confines of an abortion clinic. A sixth victim, a police officer, was killed during the bombing of an abortion clinic in Birmingham, Alabama. Most recently, a sniper attack in Amherst, New York took the life of a local doctor who had just arrived at his residence. ... [Read More]
State Assisted Living Policy: 1998 Section III
ECC facilities must make available nursing diagnosis or observation andevaluation of physical conditions, ongoing medical and social evaluation todetermine when the person's conditions cannot be met within the facility,control of occurrence of infections, promotion of normal elimination patternsthrough diet and exercise, routine measurement and recording of vital functions,dietary management, administration of medications and treatment, preventiveregimens for residents liable to develop pressure sores, provide or arrange forrehabilitation services, transportation or escort services for health relatedservices. ... [Read More]
Congressman Bud Cramer - Cramer Sponsors Resolution Honoring Tuskegee Airmen
The Tuskegee Airmen was a group of African-American fighter pilots who fought during World War II and trained at Tuskegee Army Air Field in Tuskegee, Alabama. Between May of 1943 and June of 1945, the Tuskegee Airmen flew 15,533 "bomber escort" missions. Remarkably, none of the bombers escorted by the airmen were lost to enemy fire. ... [Read More]
Risk Communications - Exercises
We provided mock media and simulation cell support to this Department of Defense domestic terrorism exercise, in addition to a A Media Dimensions @ workshop for participants which included media training. Players included the U.S. Army Technical Escort Unit (TEU) and the U.S. Marine Chemical/Biological Incident Response Force (CBIRF). ... [Read More]
The Aftermath - "With an Even Hand": Brown v. Board at Fifty(Library of Congress Exhibition)
In 1956, Clinton High School in Knoxville, Tennessee, was set to be the first high school in the South to be integrated after the Brown decision. Integration was progressing smoothly until John Kasper, leader of the White Citizens Council and a staunch segregationist, came to town. Protests and riots ensued from that day until early in December, when several white citizens escorted the African American students to class, as shown here. One of the escorts was badly beaten afterwards. As a result of the episode the school was closed on December 4, but reopened six days later without incident. ... [Read More]
NASA/GSFC LSSP Seminar
As most of you know, in the last few years it has become harder to get visitors from outside of NASAon center, and the number of days needed to get unescorted access is subject to change. Thus we askthat if a visitor wants to attend a talk and needs a non-escort badge they should requestone as soon as possible. We will help to the best of our ability, but can't make any guarantees.Unfortunately, the seminar organizers do not have time to escort audience members to the talks. ... [Read More]
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