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The Army did not begin a formal program for determining lineage and honors until the 1920s. Before that time, considerable confusion existed within the Army about the accepted procedures and methods for determining the prior history of units and their entitlement to battle honors. With the demobilization of the Army fo...
Today the Force Structure and Unit History Branch continues the work begun by the Historical Section of the Army War College. The branch maintains historical information on active and inactive units in all components- Regular Army, Army Reserve, and Army National Guard, and prepares official Lineage and Honors Certific...
The Army Lineage Series is one of the oldest series of volumes published by the Center of Military History. Over time, the scope and concept of the series have evolved considerably, but the purpose has remained the same: to provide a compact, readily available source of information on unit organizational history. All l...
The volumes from the series containing detailed or separate narratives are linked on the tabs at the top of this page. These online versions, however, do not include lineages. Visit the Lineage and Honors page for the most current lineage Information.
A narrative history of the Infantry Branch, this volume also contains the lineages, honors, coats of arms, and distinctive insignia of Infantry units of the Regular Army.
Military Intelligence contains both a narrative branch history and the lineage and honors for 108 Regular Army, Army Reserve, and Army National Guard military intelligence units-brigades, groups, and battalions, the echelons authorized distinctive heraldic items. Based on official records attesting to the history of th...
Military Police contains a brief introductory historical essay and the lineage and honors for 109 Regular Army, Army Reserve, and Army National Guard military police units-commands, camps, centers, brigades, groups, and battalions, the echelons authorized distinctive heraldic items. Based on official records attesting ...
Maneuver and Firepower, the companion volume to John B. Wilson's Armies, Corps, Divisions, and Separate Brigades, traces the evolution oftwo unique and complex U.S. Army organizations-divisions and separate brigades-that combined combat arms, combat support, combat service support units into well-oiled engines for war....
A narrative analysis of the complex evolution of the Continental Army, with the lineages of the 177 individual units that comprised the Army, and fourteen charts depicting regimental organization.
Groups are becoming more sensitive to how personal data is used and by whom, and when companies collect information without disclosure or permission, public outcry surfaces quickly.
As evidenced by recent events, online privacy is on the minds of everyone from consumers to the government and standards bodies. Groups are becoming more sensitive to how personal data is used and by whom, and when companies collect information without disclosure or permission, public outcry surfaces quickly.
Ending a heated debate, the Internet Engineering Task Force says it won't take steps to make it easier for law enforcement to snoop on computer users.
Health care providers may soon face the problem of making computer systems comply with pending rules that are likely to raise the bar for information security in the industry.
update The company is hit with a second class-action lawsuit that accuses it of violating the privacy of millions of Net music listeners.
Online companies, pundits, and educators have formed a nonpartisan think tank to provide hard research about the Internet and to get presidential candidates up to speed on critical issues facing the New Economy.
'Arrogant and hegemonic empires are destined to perish,' says far-right presidential candidate ahead of election.
The European Union will disappear, French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen told a rally on Sunday, promising to shield France from globalization as she sought to fire up her supporters in the final four weeks before voting gets underway.
Buoyed by the unexpected election of Donald Trump in the United States and by Britain's vote to leave the EU, the leader of the eurosceptic and anti-immigrant National Front party told the rally in Lille that the French election would be the next step in what she called a global rebellion of the people.
"The European Union will die because the people do not want it anymore ... arrogant and hegemonic empires are destined to perish," Le Pen said to loud cheers and applause.
"The time has come to defeat globalists," she said, accusing her main rivals, centrist Emmanuel Macron and conservative Francois Fillon, of "treason" for their pro-EU, pro-market policies.
Opinion polls forecast that Le Pen will do well in the April 23 first round of the presidential election only to lose the May 7 run-off to Macron.
But the high number of undecided voters means the outcome remains unpredictable and motivating people to go to the polling stations will be key for the top candidates.
Its opposition to the EU and the euro currency underlines an anti-establishment stance that pleases the FN's grassroots supporters and attracts voters angry with globalization. But it is also likely to be an obstacle to power in a country where a majority oppose a return to the franc.
Le Pen has over the past few months tried to tackle this by criticizing the unpopular EU while telling voters she would not abruptly pull France out of the bloc or the euro but would instead hold a referendum after six months of renegotiating the terms of France's EU membership.
On Sunday, while predicting the EU's demise, she was careful to say she would seek to replace it with "another Europe," which she called "the Europe of the people", based on a loose cooperative of nations.
"It must be done in a rational, well-prepared way," she told Le Parisien daily in an interview. "I don't want chaos. Within the negotiation calendar I want to carry out ... the euro would be the last step because I want to wait for the outcome of elections in Germany in the autumn before renegotiating it."
Reacting to Le Pen's comments on the death of the EU, France's ambassador to the United States, Gerard Araud, tweeted: "That'll be the real significance of the French elections: the survival or the demise of the EU. A quasi-referendum."
Some 72 percent of French voters want to keep the euro, an Ifop poll published in Le Figaro newspaper showed.
But unlike voters overall, a large majority of FN voters back a euro exit, the poll showed.
"I'm convinced it will explode anyway, so she is right to anticipate it and prepare for an intelligent and organised exit from the euro before we head for even more of a disaster than we are in now," 56-year-old bank employee Marie-Dominique Rossignol said after the rally.
Let's make it top 8 tomorrow!
Hoping their next game in black is against the Isles in a week or so.
Thank you Canes for playoff hockey. No one put us here but us.
Was at the top of 326. Wow, Just wow.
I'll be there. Go Canes!
Skin in the game ---- finally!
Let's be positive. At least we're not ready to have a draft pick yet.
99 points sounds sooooo much better than 97. No offence to Stormy.
If there's a Playoff Pickem Contest this year, it'll be different. We have skin in the game.
Chief prosecutor says she believes criteria has been met to begin an investigation into alleged war crimes.
The International Criminal Court's (ICC) chief prosecutor has announced she will seek to start an official investigation into possible war crimes during the war in Afghanistan.
"Following a meticulous preliminary examination of the situation, I have come to the conclusion that all legal criteria required under the Rome Statute to commence an investigation have been met," Fatou Bensouda said in a statement on Friday.
The prosecutor did not name the specific parties she seeks to investigate. But in a report last year (pdf), ICC prosecutors said the Taliban and its affiliates, Afghan authorities and members of the US armed forces and CIA may have committed war crimes.
"In due course, I will file my request for judicial authorisation to open an investigation, submitting that there is a reasonable basis to believe that war crimes and crimes against humanity have been committed in connection with the armed conflict in Afghanistan," Bensouda said on Friday.
She added it is up to the judges of the court in The Hague to decide whether the criteria to authorise an investigation are fulfilled.
Bensouda said that if authorisation is given, her office will investigate "in an independent, impartial and objective way, crimes within the court's jurisdiction allegedly committed by any party to the armed conflict".
The report by Bensouda last year said that there was a "reasonable basis to believe" US armed forces and the CIA may have subjected more than 60 detainees to "torture".
"Members of US armed forces appear to have subjected at least 61 detained persons to torture," the prosecutors' office said in that report, adding that CIA members also seemed to have tortured 27 detainees in secret detention facilities elsewhere, but not in Afghanistan.
The report said that incidents appeared to have taken place in 2003 and 2004.
The US state department at the time said the probe was not "warranted or appropriate".
The 2016 report also said there "is reasonable basis to believe that" crimes against humanity were committed by the Taliban and its affiliates.
It said there was a basis to believe "war crimes of torture and related ill-treatment" were carried out by Afghan government forces.
The US forces occupied parts of Afghanistan after the attacks on September 1, 2011, to track Taliban and al-Qaeda leaders who Washington blamed for the attack. The US forces ended their combat mission in 2014.
Founded in 2003, the ICC seeks to prosecute war crimes and crimes against humanity.
How should we deal with web users' Facebook, PayPal and other accounts when they log off for good?
Unless you're an undertaker, chances are you spend as little time as possible thinking about death. Eventually, however, most of us get round to drawing up a will. Beneficiaries for houses, cars, stocks and shares must all be decided upon. But who gets your email account?
Although people increasingly live their lives online, few bother to specify what should happen to their digital assets once they log off for good. But failure to plan for the digital afterlife can cause problems for those left to sort out the affairs of the deceased. Without a username and password family members can s...
"People aren't very aware of what you might call their living online legacy – potential employers looking at their Facebook accounts, for example. The issue of what happens to that information after their death is an extension of that," says Yorick Wilks, a senior research fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute.
Tom Stuart was an active eBay member until he passed away in November 2007. His son, Darren, believes there could be up to £1,000 in his father's PayPal account. But he has been unable to gain access: his father left no will and no indication of what the password might be.
Stuart emailed the account review team in March 2008 in the hope of withdrawing any funds in the account. "All I got back was an automated response," he says. "I phoned the customer services department and eventually got put through to someone. He wanted a solicitor's letter saying I was the executor of the estate. I t...
If someone dies intestate then a copy of the death certificate and proof of next of kin – which Stuart possessed – is typically all that is required to release funds from an account if the amount is under £5,000.
"The bank, the life insurance company, his pension provider – they were all happy to deal with us. All of them except for PayPal. We just gave up in the end. We didn't have what they wanted, and they weren't going to give us access."
When asked to clarify PayPal's policy regarding access to a deceased individual's account, a spokesperson said that "certain documents such as a copy of the death certificate, the will and photo ID for the executor" were needed. It is now looking into Stuart's case.
David Hardie, a solicitor specialising in wills and probate at law firm Pannone, said he is yet to come across someone wanting to add digital assets to their will. "The generations that are into these services have not by and large started dying yet. So as probate practitioners, we have not yet seen the problems that c...
Facebook puts the profile of deceased person into a memorial state upon notification of their death. Their status is removed, they are withdrawn from any groups and access is set to "friends only". Facebook encourages people to use the profile to remember the deceased. They will, however, remove it at the request of th...
Donna Rawling lost her husband, Tom Cooper, in July last year. "I managed to wrap up his affairs, but the area that I was left with was his presence on the web," she says. Tom was a motorcycle enthusiast, visiting many different countries on his bike and posting pictures of his travels on his blog. He was also a member...
Several new companies aim to help people avoid such situations. After setting up an account with Legacy Locker, users can upload login details for digital assets and specify who will receive them posthumously. AssetLock offers a similar "electronic safe deposit box", while Slightly Morbid allows members to send an emai...
More than 1,500 people have signed up to Legacy Locker since its launch in April, paying $299.99 for a lifetime subscription. Founder Jeremy Toeman claims the practicalities of modern life – new online services that require the creation of yet another username and password, the regular changing of old ones by security ...
But Legacy Locker's large repository of passwords makes it a virtual El Dorado for the hacking community. And with the average UK lifespan now 81 years, could the company not expire before its customers do? Perhaps unsurprisingly, Toeman says "security and longevity" were his two main priorities when establishing the c...
If you want to retain control over your own online legacy, it might be worth making your wishes clear before your final status update.
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CAPS United midfielder Oscar Machapa was on Tuesday arrested for assaulting a girl who had eloped to him.
Machapa who was helping police with investigations at Borrowdale Police Station yesterday stands accused of assaulting Eniah Makoni, 22, who had gone to his house claiming that she was pregnant with his child.
The girl insists she is pregnant by him but he denies responsibility. She says they have been having sexual relations since 8 April "after his match at National Sports Stadium."
Enia Makoni is accusing Machapa of dumping her whilst she is six weeks pregnant.
Makoni, who stays in Avondale, says she has been dating Machapa for three months and the two agreed to have a baby together and settle.
"I have been dating Oscar for three months and all was well between us.
"This baby issue was planned and we agreed to have a child. Now that I am pregnant he doesn't want to talk to me hameno zvaakungotaura, in fact he is denying responsibility.
"I am not fabricating this issue, I wanted us to go together for a pregnancy test and prove that I am not lying but he doesn't want to go.
"I went to his apartment (last week) Wednesday evening and he refused to let me in, he talked to me standing by the door.
"Actually he had company, anga aine hure," Enia said.
However the Caps United player had his own version of the issue when H-Metro approached him at Italian Sports Club prior to his arrest.
"I know the person you are talking about, but this whole pregnancy issue could be a lie.
"If she is really pregnant then the baby is not mine, because we broke up three months ago.
"I was surprised when she came to my place with her sister claiming that she is pregnant.
Machapa added that only DNA test can make him accept any responsibilities when it comes to Enia's baby.
"When she came to my house she said her pregnancy is three months old, and to me it didn't make sense.
"If her pregnancy is really three months, then where was she all this while?
"Why did she not consult or come to me the very moment she noticed that she had missed her period. She is not a teenager who can be pregnant and not know that she is pregnant.
"I told her to go back to her house and come back to me after giving birth then we can do a DNA test and if the child is proved to be mine I will then accept the responsibilities. Until then I do not want anything to do with her," Machapa said.
“It is part of our 10-year sequencing plan, tenants being California Business, Consumer Services and Housing departments and California Department of Tax and Fee Administration,” Department of General Services spokeswoman Jennifer Iida said.
That plan shows the state intends to keep 450 N Street. If the project unfolds on the time line DGS proposes, state workers would move into the tower on Richards Boulevard in 2024.
A significant renovation of the N Street building would take place from 2004 to 2026. Afterward, a mix of departments that fall under the Government Operations Agency would move into 450 N Street. They include the State Personnel Board, Cal HR, Department of Technology and the Department of General Services.
The Legislature in 2016 created the Department of Tax and Fee Administration to replace almost all of the work collecting business and special use taxes that the Board of Equalization formerly handled.
Its headquarters at 450 N Street has a notorious reputation. It’s ringed by scaffolding because windows have fallen out of it. In fact, the building’s parody Twitter account in 2016 launched with a reference to shattered glass.
“CHILL OUT FOLKS! It’s not actually the sky that’s falling. Just a 600 pound window,” the post from @BOE_Building read.
Board of Equalization employees have sued the state in the past to compel repairs. For years, the state documented mold scares and leaks on a website disclosing problems with the structure.
“The building historically has been a disaster for employees and employees should have been moved out of the building just as the board members and the legal staff,” said Sacramento attorney Anthony Perez, who filed two of the lawsuit.
The Board of Equalization is overseen by four elected officials whose offices are not at the N Street tower.

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