The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Charles Scheffel. Scheffel grew up in Oklahoma and enlisted in the Army ROTC in 1940. He was called up in 1941 after Pearl Harbor. He was allowed to finish out his senior year of college and was married in March 1942. He embarked on the Queen Elizabeth from New Jersey in September 1942. As leader of 200 men, he landed in Scotland and drove with them to Whittington Barracks where they joined with the British 51st Highlanders. He lists the three main survival lessons he learned from the seasoned English soldiers: having a batman to back you up, digging a two-man foxhole, and waiting for the ""crack and thump."" Scheffel how the ""crack and thump"" lesson would later save his life when he was seriously wounded when attacking the Siegfried Line. From England he went to Algeria with the British troops on the Scythia. The ship is torpedoed off the coast limps into Algiers. Scheffel made the decision to leave the British Highlanders and join up with American 9th Division in February 1943. The division went into Tunisia. Then he was sent to spend another month with the …

B-roll video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about a concert in New Jersey.

A handwritten timeline with details of Cornelia Yerkes' service as a WASP and Red Cross worker in World War II, with details on her training, duty stations, aircraft and routes flown, and some personal details.

Interview with Carl Clay, a veteran of the U.S. Navy during the Persian Gulf War, who also served in the civil wars in Lebanon, Kosovo, and Somalia. Clay describes his time working in aviation on the flight deck of ships and the many countries he visited while in the service, such as Brazil, Spain, and Cuba.

Article reporting findings from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)'s Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program (EMAP) conducted on a sample of lakes in the Northeastern United States from 1991 to 1996.

Study looking at three popular works of short fiction, by Leo Tolstoy, Ambrose Bierce, and Katherine Anne Porter, in which the main character dies at the end. There are similarities and differences between these deaths and recent near-death experience (NDE) accounts. The comparison helps define the modern sensibility about dying that is part of the cultural context for interest in NDEs.

A transcript of an MSNBS Meet the Press show featuring John Snow, Tom Daschle, Mary Matalin, and James Carville. Their conversation mentions current and upcoming policies, the GDP, and various issues currently being discussed in Washington D.C.

Interview with airline pilot and Army Air Forces veteran Robert W. Wilson. The interview includes Wilson's personal experiences about being B-25 pilot in the Pacific Theater during World War II, basic training, college preparatory courses, flight training, and various missions. Wilson talks about his pre-war job experiences, flying conditions over the Owen Stanley Mountains, Operation OBOE, leave time in Sydney, Australia, the move to Palawan, Philippines, missions to French Indo-China, attitudes and feelings towards the deaths of comrades, and postwar adjustments. The interview includes an appendix with supplementary documents.

This fact sheet describes climate change scenarios in Great Plains region of the United States.

Final Cobra Run - Army RC Transformation Camden NJ

Final Cobra Run - 5C Fort Monmouth, NJ. 15 cobra files pertaining to the closure of Ft. Monmouth, NJ.

Final Cobra Run - Navy/Marine Corps Reserve Center, West Trenton, NJ

COBRA Program - Fort Monmouth, NJ

COBRA Program - RC Transformation in New Jersey

COBRA Program - Navy Recruiting Districts-West Trenton, NJ

This report begins by reviewing the federal statutes that pertain directly or indirectly to employer provision of leave benefits for any purpose, including a discussion of the California and New Jersey family leave insurance programs. The report than examines the incidence of different types of paid leave that U.S. employers voluntarily provide as part of an employee's total compensation (wages and benefits). The report closes with results from a federal government survey of the average direct cost to business of different types of leave.

The following complaints for litigation brought against the Commission (and its individual Commissioners) were formally served on the Commissioners. Please note that the Commission and the Commissioners were not named in Rendell v. Rumsfeld (Docket No. 05-4740), a related case involving the Secretary of Defense's proposed deactivation of the 111th Fighter Wing located at the Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base, Willow Grove, PA. As of March 31, 2006, the Commission and the Commissioners have been dismissed from all actions with the exception of lawsuits filed in Connecticut and Washington. The lawsuits filed in New Jersey (Corzine v. Rumsfeld) and Massachusetts (Romney v. Rumsfeld) have been dismissed. Further information about the status of the remaining cases still under litigation may be obtained by contacting http://www.usdoj.gov/contact-us.html.

2005 BRAC Commission Final COBRA Run - Close Monmouth Less Adelphi NVL 24 Aug 05 v5.1 - 5C - Fort Monmouth, NJ

I-I West Trenton, C5, V6.10, 20APR05 - Navy and Marine Corps Reserve - West Trenton, NJ

2005 BRAC Commission Final COBRA Run - USA-0076v3 RC Transform in (AFRC Camden, NJ) - 32 - RC Transformation in New Jersey

Contains Ft. Monmouth, NJ COBRA Runs for Army Team Analyst Wes Hood

Contains community input information for Army Team Analyst Wes Hood regarding Ft. Monmouth, NJ

Contains the Base Summary Sheet provided by Army Team Analyst Wes Hood for Fort Monmouth, NJ

Contains Community input for Army Team Analyst Elizabeth Bieri regarding Fort Monmouth, NJ