Showing posts with label Coast Guard. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Coast Guard. Show all posts
Saturday, June 7, 2025

Military Stats

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Many   posts  have  discussed   the US  military . Jenn Hatfield at Pew: As of the end of March, the U.S. military had 1.32 million active-d...
Monday, February 3, 2020

Military Demographics

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From the Department of Defense: The total number of military personnel is almost 3.5 million strong, including DoD Active Duty military pe...
Saturday, January 26, 2019

Why There Was Pressure to End the Shutdown Yesterday

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A letter to POTUS and Congress from five former DHS secretaries (Tom Ridge, Michael Chertoff, Janet Napolitano, Jeh Johnson and John Kelly ...
Wednesday, January 23, 2019

Cost of the Shutdown: FBI and Coast Guard

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From the FBI Agents Association : If the FBI and Department of Justic e ("DOJ") are not funded , the Agents will continue to fac...
Sunday, January 13, 2019

The Coast Guard and the Shutdown

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Our textbook discusses the Coast Guard .  which has moved over the years from Treasury ( where it started in 1790 under Alexander Hamilton ...
Sunday, March 19, 2017

Trump Needs to Take Public Administration 101

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At the Los Angeles Times , Doyle McManus writes of Trump's "skinny budget" this week: The proposal would shrink the budgets ...
Thursday, August 4, 2011

Birthdays

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Today is President Obama's 50th birthday. It is also the Coast Guard's 221st birthday. Our chapter on bureaucracy and the admini...