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Oral History Interview with Everett Scarr, March 5, 2014 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Everett Scarr, March 5, 2014

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Everett Scarr. Scarr joined the Navy in 1944. He served with the deck force aboard the USS Black (DD-666). He recalls his experiences through the battles of Leyte and Okinawa, and serving with occupation forces in Japan after the war. Scarr returned to the US and received his discharge in June of 1946.
Date: March 5, 2014
Creator: Scarr, Everett
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Everett Scarr, March 5, 2014 transcript

Oral History Interview with Everett Scarr, March 5, 2014

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Everett Scarr. Scarr joined the Navy in 1944. He served with the deck force aboard the USS Black (DD-666). He recalls his experiences through the battles of Leyte and Okinawa, and serving with occupation forces in Japan after the war. Scarr returned to the US and received his discharge in June of 1946.
Date: March 5, 2014
Creator: Scarr, Everett
Object Type: Sound
System: The Portal to Texas History
Federal Facility Security: Additional Actions Needed to Help Agencies Comply with Risk Assessment Methodology Standards (open access)

Federal Facility Security: Additional Actions Needed to Help Agencies Comply with Risk Assessment Methodology Standards

A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Three of the nine selected agencies' risk assessment methodologies that GAO reviewed—the Department of Energy (DOE), the Department of Justice (DOJ), and the Department of State (State)—fully align with the Interagency Security Committee's (ISC) risk assessment standards, but six do not—the Department of the Interior (DOI), the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), the Federal Protective Service (FPS), the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), and the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). As a result, these six agencies may not have a complete understanding of the risks facing approximately 52,000 federal facilities and may be less able to allocate security resources cost-effectively at the individual facility level or across the agencies' facility portfolios. ISC's The Risk Management Process for Federal Facilities ( RMP ) standard requires that agencies' facility risk assessment methodologies must (1) consider all of the undesirable events identified in the RMP as possible risks to federal facilities, and (2) assess the threat, consequences, and vulnerability to specific undesirable events. Six of the nine agencies' methodologies GAO reviewed do not align with ISC's standards because the methodologies do not (1) consider …
Date: March 5, 2014
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 114, No. 245, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 5, 2014 (open access)

The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 114, No. 245, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 5, 2014
Creator: Bush, Michael
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Mineola Monitor (Mineola, Tex.), Vol. 139, No. 10, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 5, 2014 (open access)

Mineola Monitor (Mineola, Tex.), Vol. 139, No. 10, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Weekly newspaper from Mineola, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 5, 2014
Creator: Newman, Doris
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cherokeean Herald (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 165, No. 2, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 5, 2014 (open access)

Cherokeean Herald (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 165, No. 2, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Weekly newspaper from Rusk, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: March 5, 2014
Creator: Gonzalez, Terrie
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Věstník (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 102, No. 10, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 5, 2014 (open access)

Věstník (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 102, No. 10, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Weekly Czech and English language newspaper from Temple, Texas published as the official organ of the Slavonic Benevolent Order of the State of Texas that includes news of interest to members along with advertising.
Date: March 5, 2014
Creator: Zavodny, Melanie
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History