Air Training Corps

• Taking of Marine Mammals Incidental to Specified Activities; U.S. Marine Corps Training Exercises at Air Station Cherry Point

NMFS has received an application from the U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) requesting authorization to take marine mammals incidental to various training exercises at Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Cherry Point Range Complex, North Carolina. The USMC's activities are considered military readiness activities pursuant to the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA), as amended by the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2004. Pursuant to the MMPA, NMFS is requesting comments on its proposal to issue an incidental harassment authorization (IHA) to the USMC to take bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus), by Level B harassment only, from specified activities.

• Federal Register Nbr. 76 FR 71535, November 18, 2011
• Notices
• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

• Bears of a Higher Degree

Baylor's Hankamer School of Business offers a variety of graduate degrees. The author has caught up with two of Baylor's alumni to see how their graduate degrees have served them within their careers. With the IT industry expanding, Adrian Gorena took advantage of the opportunity and became a member of one of the first Master of Science in Information Systems (MSIS) classes at Baylor. After earning his MSIS degree, he was hired by Compaq, which then merged with Hewlett-Packard (HP). He has been with HP, headed by CEO and Baylor alumnus Mark Hurd, ever since and serves as manager of the company's e-commerce operations in Latin America and Canada. Before launching her career, Carmelita Chadwick, senior budget analyst, US Department of Defense, earned an undergraduate and graduate degree t...

... commit to a career with that degree training. For me, that career has been through my work at H...'s Air Force Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) program. "I had actually planned on attendi...

• Baylor Business Review
• Vol. 28 Nbr. 2, April 2010

• Taking of Marine Mammals Incidental to Specified Activities; U.S. Marine Corps Training Exercises at Air Station Cherry Point

In accordance with the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) regulations, notification is hereby given that NMFS has issued an Incidental Harassment Authorization (IHA) to the U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) to take marine mammals, by Level B harassment only, incidental to military training exercises at Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Cherry Point Range Complex, North Carolina. The USMC's activities are considered military readiness activities pursuant to the MMPA, as amended by the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2004.

• Federal Register Nbr. 77 FR 87, January 03, 2012
• Notices
• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

• Clark College Graduation Penguins Turn the Page

Nate Gisby, center, graduated from Clark College on Thursday. The 35-year-old was among several medical radiography students who are making a career change. Wilbert Kalmbach, 82, savors a moment 40 years in the making. The World War II veteran had missed out on graduation at high school, U.S. Army Air Corps pilot training and at Clark College for the Class of 1969.

• The Columbian
• June 20, 2009

• Taking of Marine Mammals Incidental to Specified Activities: U.S. Marine Corps Training Exercises at Air Station Cherry Point

• FR, June 08, 2010
• Notices
• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

• Pitt Professor Examines 'Everyday Law' for Glbt Community

One chapter describing the military includes a story from one of [Anthony Infanti]'s students who became disenchanted during her time with the Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps. "Lacy," who is gay and had wanted to be in the Air Force since childhood, left the AFROTC after reluctantly signing a waiver stating that she wasn't a homosexual. Following "Lacy's Story," Infanti explains the history and terms of the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy of the U.S. military.

• Pittsburgh City Paper
• August 24, 2009

• Combat Training: San Diego-based T.B. Penick & Sons was awarded a $9.1 million contract for the design and construction of a combat training tank complex at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar.

Combat Training: San Diego-based T.B. Penick & Sons was awarded a $9.1 million contract for the design and construction of a combat training tank comp...

• San Diego Business Journal
• April 20, 2009

• King Day Celebrated with Parade, Service

Photo gallery: Redlands MLK parade The Air Force Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps color guard led the way Monday morning for a small parade down Citrus Avenue to the Redlands Bowl commemorating the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday.

• Redlands Daily Facts
• January 21, 2009

• In the Military, November 23

Air Force Maj. Peter L. Beck is an assistant professor of Aerospace Studies assigned to the Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) Detachment 432 at the University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, Miss. He was born in Baldwin Park and attended Bishop Amat Memorial High School in La Puente, graduating in 1988. He enlisted in the Air Force and reported to Basic Military Training in December 1989.

• Whittier Daily News
• December 01, 2011

• Centerville Man Loses Part of Leg After Jump ; Alter Grad, 20, Was Attending an Rotc Course at Air Force Academy in Colorado.

CENTERVILLE -- An Air Force Reserve Office Training Corps cadet from Centerville lost his right leg from the knee down after he was injured in a parachute jump last month at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo. Matthew Pirrello, a 2009 graduate of Alter High School, is in fair condition at Penrose Hospital in Colorado Springs after being injured June 25 during a parachute jump while he was attending a summer airmanship course.

• Dayton Daily News
• July 13, 2010