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- Tags: cold war
Unknown Soldier Selection Ceremony
Tags: Arlington National Cemetery; Arlington, Virginia; Bushnell; cold war; Florida National Cemetery; Hospital Corpsman; Korean War, 1950-1953; military history; military service; national cemeteries, American; National Cemetery Administration; Norfolk Naval Base; Norfolk, Virginia; Tomb of the Unknown Soldier; United States Navy; USS Canberra; veterans; Veterans Administration; Veterans Legacy Program; William R. Charette
Edward R. Schowalter Jr., Ernest E. West, Dwight D. Eisenhower and William R. Charette
Tags: 7th Marine Infantry Regiment; Bushnell; cold war; Dwight David Eisenhower; Edward R. Schowalter Jr.; Ernest E. West; Florida National Cemetery; Hospital Corpsman; Korean War, 1950-1953; Medal of Honor; military history; military service; national cemeteries, American; National Cemetery Administration; United States Navy; veterans; Veterans Administration; Veterans Legacy Program; Washington, D.C.; William R. Charette
Personnel Diary
Florida Historical Quarterly, Episode 29: Vol. 94, No. 4, Spring 2016
Tags: Afghanistan; American Communist Labor Party; ammonia; Armand Hammer; Bank of America; Brad Massey; cold war; communism; communists; company towns; convict leasing; Daniel S. Murphree; détente; draglines; Eastern Bloc; embargos; environmentalism; environmentalists; Ex-Im Bank; Export-Import Bank; FHQ; Florida Historical Quarterly; Ford Motor Company; globalization; Heinz Alfred Kissinger; Henry Alfred Kissinger; Henry Kissinger; Hooker Chemical Company; International Ore and Fertilizer Company; Jefferson Lake Sulphur Company; labor; laborers; mines; mining; Morocco; Muammar Gaddafi; Muammar Mohammed Abu Minyar Gaddafi; Nikita Khrushchev; Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev; Occidental Petroleum Corporation; OPEC; Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries; Osceola National Forest; Oxy; Peace River; phosphate; pollution; price setting; recycling; Richard Bernard Stone; Richard Milhous Nixon; Richard Nixon; Richard Stone; Ronald Reagan; Ronald Wilson Reagan; socialism; socialists; Soviet Union; Soviet-Afghan War; Soviets; Stalinization; strip mining; Sunshine Skyway Bridge Disaster; trade deals; Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; USSR; World War II; WWII
Action Center USA
Tags: airplanes; airports; amusement parks; Arnold Daniel Palmer; Arnold Palmer; arts; automobiles; baseballs; Billy Kelly; boating; boats; Bruce Devlin; Bruce William Devlin; Cape Kennedy; cars; Central Florida Museum; chambers of commerce; church; churches; citrus; citrus groves; Citrus Open Golf Tournament; City Beautiful; City of Orlando; cold war; colleges; Colonial Plaza Mall; Commerce; County of Orange; Dean Refram; Delta Air Lines; dog racing; Doug Sanders; Downtown Orlando; Eastern Air Lines; Elegant Company; festivals; Florida Symphony Orchestra; Florida Technological University; footballs; FTU; George Alfred Christian Knudson; George Douglas Sanders; George Knudson; Glover; golf; golfers; Graduate Engineering Education System; Grant Gravitt; Herndon Municipal Airport; highways; I-4; industrial parks; Interstate 4; jai alai; Jim Carlton; Joan Roberts; Julius Boros; Julius Nicholas Boros; Lake Eola; Lake Eola Park; libraries; library; Loch Haven Art Center; Mad Tea Party; manufacturing; marching bands; Martin Marietta Corporation; McCoy AFB; McCoy Air Force Base; McCoy Jetport; Minnesota Twins; Minute Maid Company; monorails; motor vehicles; National Airlines; orange county; Orange County School System; oranges; orchestras; orlando; Orlando Area Chamber of Commerce; Orlando businesses; Orlando Central Park; Orlando Junior College; Orlando Panthers; Orlando Public Library; Orlando Twins; paintings; parks; planes; Player; retail; roads; Rollins College; Rule; schools; Seven Dwarfs; shopping; shopping malls; shops; space; space age; space race; sports; Spring Training; stores; Sunny Fader; synagogues; Tangerine Bowl; technology; Tel Air Interests, Inc.; theme parks; Tupperware Brands; UF; University of Florida; Vanda Cosmetics; Walt Disney; Walt Disney World Resort; Walter Elias Disney; water skiing; Weiskopf; Winter Park; Winter Park Sidewalk Art Festival; Xerox Corporation
Evolution of Heavy-Duty Power Generation and Industrial Combustion Turbines in the United States
Tags: 191-9; 1973 Oil Crisis; 501F Advanced Combustion Turbine; 501F rotors; 701F; A. J. Scalzo; A286; Advanced Turbine Systems; airplanes; AISI 310; AISI 422; American Society of Mechanical Engineers; ASME; Atoms for Peace Program; ATS; Baldwin Company; blast furnace engines; BOT; burner outlet temperature; Chance Vought Corsair; Chicago Works; clean coal; cogeneration; cold war; compressor integral vanes; cooling systems; CURVIC; DCF; direct coal-fired; directionally solidified; Discalloy 24; DOE; Dow Chemical Company; DS; Dwight D. Eisenhower; Dwight David Eisenhower; ECONOPAC; ECY768; engines; Fiat Avio; Fuel Use Act; G. S. Howard; Gas Turbine Age; Gleason Works; Hastelloy X; Hayes International; Haynes Stellite 31; heat recovery; heavy-duty power generation; hybrid burners; IGCC; Ike Eisenhower; IN617l International Nickel Company; IN713L U500; industrial combustion turbines; integrated gasification combined cycle; International Gas Turbine and Aeroengine Congress and Exposition; J30; J34; jet fighters; Joule-Brayton cycle; LCF; leading edge groove; LEG; low cycle fatigue; M. Decorso; Marine Gas Cooled Reactors Program; McDonnell Douglas FH-1 Phantom; McDonnell F2H Banshee; McDonnell FH Phantom; MGCR; MHI; Mississippi River Fuel Company system; Mitsubishi Heavy Industries; Morgantown Energy Technology Center; NACA; NACA 65; Northeast Blackout; nuclear power plants; nuclear submarines; nuclear subs; Oil Embargo; orlando; packaged power plants; Patuxent Flight Test Center; PFB; PGBU; Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad; planes; Power Generation Business Unit; pressurized fluidized bed; Public Regulatory Policies Act of 1978, PURPA; R. L. Bannister; railroads; Rankine cycle; RIT; rotor inlet temperature; SC; Sermetech International Incorporated; Sermetel 5380DP; simple cycle package; single crystal; single row 1 vanes; Special Metals Companies; steam turbines; TG501; thermodynamics; turbine discs; U.S. Department of Energy; U.S. Naval Test Laboratory; U.S. Navy; U.S. Steel Corporation; U520; Union Railroad; W101; W121; W122; W171; W191; W201; W201RE; W21; W251; W251 B12; W251A; W251AA; W251B; W251B10; W251B12; W251B8; W251BS; W301; W31; W352; W41; W501A; W501AA; W501B; W501D; W501D5; W52; W62; W72; W81; W82; W92; WE19A; WE19B; West Texas Utilities; West Texas Utilities San Angelo's Power Station; Westinghouse Electric Corporation; Westinghouse Research Laboratory; Wolverine; World War II; WWII; X-750; X45
Oral History of Ingrid Bryant
Tags: A. M. Jones; Anna Marcantoni; bishops; Carlos Velez-Munich; Catholicism; Catholics; Cherokee Junior High School; Chuluota; church; churches; citizenship; City of Oviedo; Clara Lee Wheeler Evans; clergy; cold war; colleges; communism; Country Quick; customer service representatives; Deshaso; Dominic Persampiere; Downtown Oviedo; education; educators; ERP; European Recovery Program; Florida Technological University; FTU; Geneva Drive; George C. Young Federal Courthouse; Grupo Shalom; high schools; immigrants; immigration; Ingrid Bryant; Jeffrey A. Chudnow; Joseph Patrick Hurley; Larry Neely; Laura Feldman; Lockwood Boulevard; Magnolia Avenue; Marshall Plan; McCoy Air Force Base; Most Precious Blood Catholic Church; Munich, Germany; museums; newspapers; Norbert Dorsey; Norbert Mary Leonard James Dorsey; OHS; orlando; Orlando Army Air Field #2; Oviedo; Oviedo High School; Oviedo Historical Society; Oviedo Street; Paul Mikler; Pinecastle AFB; Pinecastle Air Force Base; Pinecastle Army Airfield; priests; renovations; Richard Walsh; schools; students; swimming pools; Taste of Oviedo; teachers; teen clubs; teen nights; The Outlook; The Oviedo Voice; The Seminole Chronicle; UCF; universities; university; University of Central Florida; water department; World War II; WWII
A History of Central Florida, Episode 45: Diploma Plate
Tags: A History of Central Florida; activism; anti-war; Army; astronaut; BJC; Bledsoe, Robert; Boca Raton; Bradenton; Brevard Junior College; Canavan, Mike; Cental Florida Junior College; CFJC; Chipola Junior College; CJC; Clarke, Bob; Cocoa; cold war; college; commencement; construction; Davis, Henry; Daytona Beach; Daytona Beach Junior College; DBJC; demonstration; diploma; East Central University; ECU; Edison Junior College; education; educator; EJC; FAMU; FAU; female; Florida A&M University; Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University; Florida Atlantic Unviersity; Florida Institute for Continuing University Studies; Florida Legislature; Florida Technological University; Ford, Chip; Fort Lauderdale; Fort Myers; FTU; Gainesville; GCJC; GI Bill; Gibbs Junior College; Gibson, Ella; GJCl St. Petersburg; Goff, Tom; Gougleman, Paul; government assistance; graduation; Grant; Gray, Ben; Gulf Coast Junior College; Hampton Junior College; Hazen, Kendra; HEA; higher education; Higher Education Act of 1965; Hill, Hank; HJC; homemaker; honors convocation; housing; Indian River Junior College; IRJC; Jackson Junior College; JCBC; JJC; Johnson Junior College; junior college; Junior College of Broward County; Kelley, Katie; Kent State University; Kent State University Shootings; Key West; King, Richard; KSU; Lake City; Lake City Junior College; Lake Worth; Lake-Sumter Junior College; LCJC; Leesburg; legislative branch; legislature; Lenfest, Gene; Lincoln Junior College; LJC; loan; Loss, Christopher; LSJC; Madison; Manatee Junior College; Marianna; MDJC; Men's Residence Association; Miami- Dade County; Miami-Dade Junior College; Millican, Charles Norman; MJC; Monroe Junior College; MRA; Municipal Auditorium; NASA; National Aeronautics and Astronautics Administration; National Defense Education Act; NDEA; NFJC; North Florida Junior College; Ocala; OCRHC; Okaloose-Walton Junior College; Orange County Regional History Center; orlando; OWJC; Palatka; Palm Beach Junior College; Panama City; PBJC; peace; peace movement; Pegasus Drive; Pensacola; Pensacola Junior College; Perkins, Joyce Hart; PJC; podcast; political activism; professor; protest; public college; public junior college; public state university; public university; Richard, Hank; RICHES; RJC; Robert Cassanello; Roosevelt Junior College; Rosenwald Junior College; Rowley, Ken; school; Sebastian, Dave; self-determination; Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944; SJRJC; space program; SPJC; SRJC; St. Johns River Junior College; St. Petersburg Junior College; strike; student; student government; student grant; student housing; student loan; Sun Belt; Suwannee River Junior College; Tallahassee; Tampa; teacher; U.S. Army; UCF; UF; Underwood, Retha Riley; Univerity of Florida; university; University of Central Florida; University of Central Florida Libraries; University of South Florida; University of West Florida; USF; UWF; Valparaiso Junior College; Vanderbilt University; VCJC; Velásquez, Daniel; veteran; Vietnam War; Volusia County Junior College; VU; Washington Junior College; West Palm Beach Junior College; Wetherington, Mike; Wightman, Ed; WJC; woman; Woods, Pauk; work-study program; yearbrook; Young, John W.
A History of Central Florida, Episode 39: Wartime Civil Defense
Tags: 1st Street; 3rd Inceptor Command; A History of Central Florida; air raid warning siren; aircraft; Aircraft Warning Service; airplane; Aldeman, Helen; American Legion, Inc.; AP; Associated Press; Attack of Pearl Harbor; AWS; Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks; Blanding, Albert H.; BPOE; Cees, Jay; Civic Exhibition Center; civil defense; civilian; civilian volunteer; Civitan Club; Clarke, Bob; club; Coates, Hope; cold war; College Club; Elks Lodge; Empire State Building; Fenton, B. J.; First Street; Ford, Chip; Fort Kent, Maine; Fortune Magazine; Frank, Walter; Geneva; German; Germany; Gibson, Ella; Hannon, Barbara; Harrell, George "Speedy"; Hazen, Kendra; homefront; Japan; Japanese; Johnnie Walker Whisky; Kelley, Katie; Key West; Kiwanis Club; La Paz; labor; Lions Club; Long, Mark Howard; Martin, Mary Jo; Messerschmitt Me 262; Meyers, Betty; Mormino, Gary Ross; Morrison Field Army Air Base; Museum of Geneva History; Nazi; Nazi German; New York City, New York; Norton Gallery and School of Art; observation station; OCRHC; Orange County Regional History Center; Palm Beach; Palm Beach Art League; Pearl Harbor, Hawaii; Pioneer Hall; podcast; RICHES; Robb, Inex; Robert Cassanello; Rotary Club; Soviet; Soviet Union; spotter; spotters' neck; State Defense Council of Florida; Strain, Ralph; Stumpf; submarine; Tallahassee; Tampa; The Palm Beach Post; Third Inceptor Command; Thomas, Tommy; training; training disc; Tylander, Ray; U-boat; U.S. Air Corps; U.S. Army; U.S. Army Ground Observer Corps; UCF; University of Central Florida; USAAC; Velásquez, Daniel; Walker, Johnnie; war effort; warship; Witek, J. R.; women; World War II; WWII
Oral History of Terry W. Wheeler
Tags: 11th ACR; 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment; 18th Airborne Corps; 2nd ACR; 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment; 2nd Battalion; 2nd Lieutenant; 69th Armor Regiment; Achievement Medal; ACR; advanced training; Airborne Corps; Armor Officer; Armor Regiment; Armored Cavalry Regiment; basic training; Bavaria, Germany; Berlin Wall; Blachorse Regiment; cavalry; COEA; cold war; combat simulations; Community Veterans History Project; Company Commander; cost and operational effectiveness analysis; CVHP; deployments; East Germany; Eighteenth Airborne Corps; Eleventh Armored Cavalry Regiment; enlistment; Executive Officer; Federal Republic of Germany; Fort Benning, Georgia; Fort Knox, Kentucky; Fort Lee, Virginia; Free State of Bavaria; freedom birds; FRG; German Democratic Republic; Germans; Germany; Infantry Branch; information technology; inner German border; IT; lieutenants; Maintenance Officer; military training; Operations Research/Systems Analysis; ORSA; rapid deployment force; Reserve Officers' Training Corps; ROTC; Schweinfurt, Germany; scouts; SDES; Second ACR; Second Armored Cavalry Regiment; Second Battalion; Second Lieutenant; simulation training; Sixty-Ninth Armor Regiument; Student Development and Enrollment Services; Tank Company Commander; Taylor Johnson; Terry W. Wheeler; U.S. Army; U.S. Army Infrantry School, Fort Benning, Georgia; UCF; UCF SDES; UCF Student Development and Enrollment Services; veterans; weapon systems; West Germany; XVIII Airborne Corps
Oral History of Ray Sturm
Tags: 210th Field Artillery Brigade; 34th Infantry Division; accountants; Advanced Individual Training; advanced training; AIT; alcohol; alcoholic beverages; alerts; AR-15; Army Special Forces; basic training; beers; budget cuts; cold war; colleges; Columbia, South Carolina; Community Veterans History Project; comradery; CVHP; David Lee Roth; defense; defense budgets; Desert Storm; desert training; E-3; E-4; education; Enlisted Rank 3; Enlisted Rank 4; enlistment; Federal Republic of Germany; firearms; First Gulf War; First Iraq War; Fort Irwin & the National Training Center; Fort Jackson; Fort Stewart; Frankfurt Airport; Frankfurt, Germany; FRG; Georgia; German Air Force; Germans; Germany; Gulf War; Gulf War I; guns; Headquarters and Headquarters Battery; Herzo Base; Herzogenaurach, Germany; HHB; higher education; Iraq; Iraq War; James Earl Carter, Jr.; Jimmy Carter; Katie Hollingsworth; Kuwait; Kuwait War; law enforcement; Luftwaffe; M16 rifles; military training; Mojave Desert; music; musicians; National Training Center; NCO; non-commissioned officers; Nuremberg Trials; Nuremberg, Germany; Operation Desert Storm; orlando; Persian Gulf War; PFC; police; police brutality; polizei; Private First Class; range shooting; rapid deployment forces; Ray Sturm; Republic of Iraq; Ronald Reagan; Ronald Wilson Reagan; sergeants; shooting; shooting ranges; soldiers; Special Forces; Specialist 4; State of Kuwait; supply; terrorism; terrorists; Thirty-Fourth Infantry Division; training; Two Hundred and Tenth Field Artillery Brigade; U.S. Army; U.S. Army Special Forces; UCF; University of Central Florida; Van Halen; veterans; veterans' benefits; Warrior Thunder; weapons; weather; West Germany; Wilson Jones; Winter Park; World War II; WWII
Oral History of Michael Partain
Tags: airports; Amanda Hill; Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery; ASVAB; atopic dermatitis; Avon Park; Avon Park Air Force Range; basic training; boot camps; breast cancer; captain's mast; Carli Van Zandt; Carolyn Van Zandt; CERCLA; cold war; colleges; Community Veterans History Project; Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980; contamination; court-martial; CVHP; dermatitis; DI; disqualifications; Drill Instructor; E-3; education; engineering; engineers; Enlisted Rank 3; enlistment; Enterprise 1701; environmental cleanup; F-16; General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon; gig lines; higher education; Hill, Amanda; hospitals; illness; illnesses; inspections; instructors; Lake Druid; Lone Sailor Memorial Project; LSMP; MacDill AFB; MacDill Air Force Base; marching; Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune; McCoy AFB; McCoy Air Force Base; medical hold company; memorials; MET; Michael Partain; military code; military education; Military Entrance Processioning Center; Military Entrance Processioning Center Tampa; Military Entrance Test; military justice; military training; monuments; NAS Jacksonville; Naval Air Station Jacksonville; Naval Station Mayport; Naval Training Center Orlando; NS Mayport; NTC Orlando; nuclear engineering; nuclear power; nuclear propulsion; Nuclear Propulsion School; orlando; Petty Officer; Polk County; recruit training; Recruit Training Command; recruits; ring banner; Seaman; special training; Superfund; Tetrachloroethylene; toxic chemicals; toxic cleanups; U.S. Air Force; UCMJ; Uniform Code of Military Justice; universities; university; veterans; Warren B. Partain, Jr.; Warren B. Partain, Sr.; water contamination; Winter Haven; World War II; WWII
Oral History of William Reuter
Tags: Action in the Gulf of Sidra; aircraft; aircraft carriers; airplanes; anti-terrorism; astronauts; aviation; aviation simulations; aviation simulators; aviators; Baldwin Park; Base Realignment and Closure; Bill Reuter; bleed air fuel leak; blue water operation; Boeing F/A-18 Hornet; BRAC; Challenger disaster; Chief Test Pilot; cold war; college; colleges; Columbia; Columbia disaster; Commanding Officer; commendation; commendations; Community Veterans History Project; CVHP; Daniel Bradfield; David M. Brown; David McDowell Brown; education; Executive Officer; F-18; Henry Brubaker; Key West; Key West High School; KWHS; Lake Baldwin Park; Legion of Merit; Libya; Line of Death; Lone Sailor Memorial Project; LSMP; McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet; medals; memorials; military education; modeling; monuments; NAS Patuxent River; NASA; National Aeronautics and Space Administration; Naval Air Station Patuxent River; Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division; Naval Support Activity; Naval Support Activity Orlando; Naval Training Center; Naval Training Center Orlando; NAWCTSD; Norway; NSA Orlando; NTC Orlando; outer space; Patuxent River, Maryland; pilots; planes; Recruit Training Center; Recruit Training Center Orlando; Reserve Officers' Training Corps; ROTC; RTC Orlando; science of learning; Soviet Union; Soviets; Space Shuttle Challenger; Space Shuttle Challenger disaster; Space Shuttle Columbia; Space Shuttle Columbia disaster; SU; terrorism; Test Pilot School; test pilots; U.S. Air Force; U.S. Navy; UCF; UF; Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; universities; university; University of Central Florida; University of Florida; USSR; veterams; veteran; wars; warzones; William C. McCool; William Cameron McCool; William Reuter; Willie McCool; XO
Oral History of Philip Rogers
Tags: 9/11; advanced training; American Chemical Society; Bennett Drive; Berlin Wall; Berlin, Germany; Bill Clinton; Bronx, New York City, New York; Caribbean Crisis; cold war; colleges; colorblindness; Commander; commissioned officers; Community Veterans History Project; Cuba; Cuban Missile Crisis; CVHP; dependents' cruises; deterrent patrols; dry docks; education; educators; Engineering Duty Officer; Engineering Duty Officer Dolphin Program; Engineering Duty Officer Dolphins; Engineering Duty Officer School; Father of the Nuclear Navy; firefighting; fires; Florida Power & Light Company; FPL; Gerald Mattson; Germany; Hyman G. Rickover; Hyman George Rickover; Indiana University; instructors; Jensen Beach; Jim Tully; Killian Hiltz; Lehman College; mayors; military education; military spouses; military training; military wife; military wives; Nathan Hale; nuclear power; Nuclear Power Ballistic Missile Submarines; nuclear power plants; Nuclear Power School; nuclear safety; Nuclear Ship Superintendent School; October Crisis; Officer Indoctrination School; OIS; orlando; Pearl Harbor, Hawaii; Philip Rogers; presidents; Restricted Line Officer; Ronald Reagan; Ronald Wilson Reagan; Safety Training Coordinator; September 11th; South Florida; Soviet Union; Soviets; SSBN; Steve Israel; SU; Submarine School; submarines; subs; teachers; terrorism; terrorists; The Missile Scare; training; U.S. Naval Reserve; U.S. Navy; UCF; Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; universities; university; University of Central Florida; USS Nathan Hale; USSR; veterans; Washington, D.C.; William Jefferson Blythe III; William Jefferson Clinton
Oral History of Gordon Pierce and Trina Cothrin
Tags: A School; A-4; Afghanistan; aircraft carriers; airplanes; Arctic Ocean; aviation maintenance administrators; aviation metalsmiths; aviation structural mechanics; Baldwin Park; basic training; boot camps; Bruce Pierce; Buffalo, New York; CENTCOM; Chief Yeoman; cold war; Community Veterans History Project; Company Commander; Correctional and Instructional Standards Division Officer; CVHP; Douglas A-4 Skyhawk; education; Enduring Freedom; enlistment; F-14; facsimile; fax; Fighter Squadron 124; firefighting; Firefighting School; fires; Fleet Logistics Support Squadron 58; Florida State Road 436; Global War on Terror; Gordon Pierce; graduations; Great Lakes, Illinois; Grinder; Grumman F-14 Tomcat; GWOT; instructors; Islamic Republic of Afghanistan; Jacksonville; James Pierce; Key West; liquid oxygen; Lone Sailor Memorial Project; LSMP; MacDill AFB; MacDill Air Force Base; Master Chief Petty Officer; memorials; Memphis, Tennessee; Meridian, Mississippi; military education; military training; Miramar, San Diego, California; NAS Jacksonville; NAS Key West; NAS Meridian; NAS Miramar; NAS Sanford; Naval Air Station Jacksonville; Naval Air Station Key West; Naval Air Station Meridian; Naval Air Station Miramar; Naval Air Station Sanford; Naval Nuclear Power Training Command; Naval Station Great Lakes; Naval Training Center Orlando; NAVSTA Great Lakes; Navy Achievement Medal; Navy Commendation Medal; NS Great Lakes; NTC Orlando; Nuclear Power School; OEF; Olongapo, Philippines; Operation Enduring Freedom; orlando; Pensacola; Philippines; planes; Qatar; QWIP Technologies; recruit training; Recruit Training Center Orlando; Recruit Training Command; recruits; Republic of the Philippines; Roger Jordan Sims; RTC Orlando; sailors; Sanford; Sims, Roger Jordan; Skyhawk; SR-436; State of Qatar; swimming; Tampa; terrorism; terrorists; Tomcat; Tommy Foreman; Trina Cothrin; Trina Pierce; U.S. Army; U.S. Naval Reserve; U.S. Navy; United States Central Command; USCENTCOM; USS Blue Jacket; USS Coral Sea; USS Forrestal; USS Franklin D. Roosevelt; USS John F. Kennedy; USS Wasp; VA-72; VC-7 Tallyhoers; veterans; VF-11 Thunderbolt; VF-124; VF-171; Vietnam War; VR-58; War in Afghanistan; War on Terror
Oral History of Robert Matthews
Tags: A-7; Attack Squadron 174; aviation electronics technicians; Baldwin Park; Base Realignment and Closure Commission; basic training; Bill Nelson; boot camps; BRAC; BUILDCON; Central Florida Navy League; Central Florida Research Park; Clarence William Nelson II; co-educational; cold war; Community Veterans History Project; CVHP; demolitions; E-1; education; Enlisted Rank 1; enlistment; Expeditionary Medal; gender segregation; graduations; Grinder; Jacksonville; Lake Wales High School; Lake Wales Junior High School; Ling-Temco-Vought A-7 Corsair II; Lockheed P-3 Orion; Lone Sailor Memorial Project; LSMP; Maintenance Technician; marching; Mark Miller; Master Training Specialist; memorials; Memphis, Tennessee; Mike Philips; military education; military instructors; military leave; military training; Millington, Tennessee; NAMTRADET; NAS Jacksonville; NAS Memphis; Naval Air Maintenance Training Detachment; Naval Air Station Cecil Field; Naval Air Station Jacksonville; Naval Air Station Memphis; Naval Air Systems Command, the Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division; Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division; Naval Reserve; Navy League; NAWCTSD; orlando; P-3; POW; prisoner-of-war; Recruit Training Center Orlando; Research Park; Rob Matthews; Robert Matthews; RTC Orlando; sailors; Science Drive; segregation; simulations; simulators; Soaper; Spook Hill Elementary School; training; training systems; U.S. Naval Reserves; U.S. Representatives; U.S. Senators; University Boulevard; USS Blue Jacket; VA-174; VA-87; veterans; World War II; WWII
Oral History of Connie Reuter
Tags: Abingdon, Virginia; active duty; Airman Apprenticeship Training School; Baldwin Park; basic training; Beechcraft T-34 Mentor; birth control glasses; boot camps; chapels; chow halls; church; churches; cold war; Community Veterans History Project; Connie Reuter; Corpus Christi, Texas; CVHP; Delayed Entry Program; DEP; drill teams; education; educators; enlistment; eyeglasses; females; firearms; Fleet Week; G.I. glasses; gas chambers; gig lines; glasses; graduations; Ground Zero; guns; Hines; inactive duty; Ingelside, Texas; instructors; Leanne Wiggins; Liberty Call; Lone Sailor Memorial Project; LSMP; Martha Reuter; memorials; MEP; Merritt; military education; Military Entrance Processing; military training; NAS Corpus Christi; Naval Air Station Corpus Christi; Naval Air Station Ingelside; Naval Air Warfare Center Training System Division; Naval Training Center Orlando; Navy Buddy Enlistment Program; NAWCTSD; New York City, New York; NS Ingelside; NTC Orlando; orlando; peanut butter; Petty Officer, Second Class; photographer's mates; photographers; photography; Recruit Training Center; Recruit Training Center Orlando; recruits; RTC Orlando; sailors; ships; suicides; T-34; teachers; The Grinder; training; U.S. Naval Reserve; U.S. Navy; USN; USNR; USS Blue Jacket; veterans; weather; woman; women; World Trade Center; WTC
Oral History of Sharon L. Ekern
Tags: A1; advanced training; Albany, Georgia; assistant director of purchasing; basic training; boot campRemoves; Camp H. M. Smith; Camp Lejeune; cold war; Columbia, South Carolina; Community Veterans History Project; contracting and purchasing; CVHP; Denver, Colorado; Desert Storm; E-5; Ekern, Sharon L.; Enlisted Rank 5; expert marksman; expert marksmen; First Persian Gulf War; Hawaii; Jacksonville, North Carolina; Lowry AFB; Lowry Air Force Base; M16; Marine Corps Ball; Marine Corps Recruit Depot; Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island; Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego; marines; McKinney, Roy; MCRD; MCRD Parris Island; MCRD San Diego; MEPs; Military Entrance Processing Command; Myrtle Beach, South Carolina; Operation Desert Storm; orlando; Parris Island, South Carolina; physical training; PT; Roy McKinney; San Diego, California; Seargant; servicewoman; sexual harassment; sexual misconduct; Sharon L. Ekern; Staff Sergeant Selectee; Student Development and Enrollment Service; Tailhook Scandal; U.S. Air Force; U.S. Marine Corps; UCF; University of Central Florida; USAF; USMC; veteran; veterans; woman; women
Oral History of Dr. William "Bill" Blank
Tags: 1972 Summer Olympics; 9/11 Attacks; Adolf Hitler; all-volunteer military; An Uncaged Eagle: True Freedom; anti-war protest; anti-war protests; Arab-Israeli War of 1973; Bad Tölz, Germany; basic training; Bastogne, Belgium; Battle of the Bulge; Bavaria, Germany; Berlin Wall; Bill Blank; Black September Organization; BSO; buddy system; carpet bombing; carpet bombs; Cheyenne, Wyoming; Christmas; civilian; civilians; cognitive dissonance; cold war; college; colleges; conscription; Desert Shield; Desert Storm; diversity; draft lotteries; draft lottery; draft notices; drafting; Dwight D. Eisenhower; Dwight David Eisenhower; Eagle's Nest; educator; educators; Egypt; enlistment; Europe; Francis E. Warren AFB; Francis E. Warren Air Force Base; French Revolution; Gabrielle Hanke; Games of the XX Olympiad; gender segregation; Germans; Germany; GI Bill; Global War on Terror; guidance counseling; GWOT; Hall of Mirrors; Halloween Massacre; homecoming; Ike Eisenhower; international students; Iraq; Iraq War; Iron Curtain; Israel; Israeli-Palestinian Conflict; Kehlsteinhaus; Kent State Massacre; Kent State Shooting; Kent State University; KSU; Kuwait; Mannheim, Germany; Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna von Habsburg-Lothringen; Marie Antoinette; Marine Corps Base Quantico; Mark Spitz; Martin Bormann; May 4 Massacre; MCB Quantico; mentors; Middle East; military; military assignments; military drafts; military training; Munich Massacre; Munich, Germany; National Guard; National Socialist German Workers' Party; National Veterans Awareness Week; nationalism; Nazi Germany; Nazi Party; Nazis; Nixon, Richard, Milhous; North Central Wisconsin; NSDAP; October War; Ohio National Guard; Olympic Village; Olympics; Operation Desert Shield; Operation Desert Storm; Operation Iraqi Freedom; Operation Wrath of God; Palestine; Persian Gulf War; police actions; protesters; Ramadan; Ramadan War; razorbacks; Red Tails; Republic of Vietnam; Richard Milhous Nixon; Richard Nixon; Richard Toliver; riot squads; riots; Russia; segregation; September 11 Attacks; Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944; South Vietnam; student protests; Summer Olympics; Syria; tanks; teachers; terrorism; terrorists; Third Reich; Three Day War; Treaty of Friendship, co-operation, and Mutual Assistance; Tuskegee Airmen; U.S. Army; UCF; universities; university; University of Central Florida; veterans; Veterans' Day; Vietnam; Vietnam War; volunteer military; volunteers; war protests; WarPac; Warren AFB; Warren Air Force Base; Warsaw Pact; Watergate; Watergate Scandal; wild boars; William Blank; Wisconsin; woman; women; World Trade Center; World War II; WWII; Yom Kippur; Yom Kippur War
Oral History of Henry Carl Okraski
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RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Episode 51: An Interview with Jim Clark, Part 1
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