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Fort George G. Meade is a U.S. military base located in Maryland's Anne Arundel County. The fort was originally Camp Meade, an Army training post created in 1917 and named after the Civil War-era Maj. Gen. George Gordon Meade. The location for the fort was picked because of its close proximity to a railroad, Baltimore's port and Washington, D.C. In addition to functioning as a training ground during World War I, the camp housed some of the first women to serve in the Army. Known as the "Hello Girls," the women were trained as telephone operators and sent overseas. The camp became a permanent base in 1928, under the name Fort Leonard Wood; Meade's name was reapplied to the base in 1929. Dur...
Fort George G. Meade is a U.S. military base located in Maryland's Anne Arundel County. The fort was originally Camp Meade, an Army training post created in 1917 and named after the Civil War-era Maj. Gen. George Gordon Meade. The location for the fort was picked because of its close proximity to a railroad, Baltimore's port and Washington, D.C. In addition to functioning as a training ground during World War I, the camp housed some of the first women to serve in the Army. Known as the "Hello Girls," the women were trained as telephone operators and sent overseas. The camp became a permanent base in 1928, under the name Fort Leonard Wood; Meade's name was reapplied to the base in 1929. During World War II , the base served as a major training center and POW camp for German and Italian soldiers. Today, the base focuses on national security and intelligence. The combination of Fort Meade and the National Security Agency, which has its headquarters at Fort Meade, makes the two entities the largest employers in Maryland. Fort Meade employs about 39,000 military and civilian workers and contractors. It currently has the fourth-largest workforce of any Army installation in the U.S., and its workforce is set to grow by at least 5,000 personnel by 2010 due to the 2005 Base and Realignment Closure (BRAC).
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BRAC fuels building boom in Harford
Just outside the main gate of Aberdeen Proving Ground, construction workers are finishing up a three-story building's brick exterior, preparing to install windows and divide the vast interior into offices. Nearby, a cleared parcel sits ready for a...Tags: Raytheon Company, Defense, Economic Policy, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Corporate Office Properties Trust Inc.
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Summing up the playoff picture: High school football, palm beach county, playoff predictions
South Florida Sun-SentinelWe have reached the final week of the regular season and playoff berths have been decided. Looks like Dwyer, Glades Central, Pahokee, American Heritage-Delray and Jupiter Christian are good enough to win it all or at least make it to the championship game...Tags: Booker T. Washington
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Summing up the playoff picture: Predictions for Palm Beach County high school football
We have reached the final week of the regular season, and playoff berths have been decided. Looks as though Dwyer, Glades Central, Pahokee, American Heritage-Delray and Jupiter Christian are good enough to win it all or at least make it to the...Tags: Booker T. Washington
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Florida High School State Football Poll
The Associated Press Top 10 Florida high school football poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records and rating points.: Class 6A 1. Miami Northwestern (5) 8-1 93 2. Dr. Phillips (5) 9-0 92 3. Miami Central7-1 82 4. Orange Park9-071 5....Tags: Christianity, Andrew Jackson
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Job fair at Fort Meade draws a crowd
Wednesday's Veterans Job Fair at Fort Meade was open to non-veterans as well and was packed with job-seekers. Almost half of the 80 recruiting stations were seeking applicants with security clearance. Job openings included information technology workers,... -
Baltimore man convicted of 2 killings in Odenton
Baltimore Sun reporterA Baltimore man who prosecutors say boasted to police about his toughness was convicted Wednesday of two counts of first-degree murder and other charges in a fatal ambush outside an Odenton bar a year ago. Anne Arundel County prosecutors are seeking life...Tags: Prisons, Witnesses, Lawyers, Trials, Vehicles
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'The Men Who Stare at Goats' is refreshingly unpredictable
"The Men Who Stare at Goats," starring Jeff Bridges as an army shaman and George Clooney as his best pupil, is a refreshingly unpredictable and fizzy comic fantasy. It tickles the fancy even when it strains credibility. It riffs off the American military'...Tags: Comedy (genre), History, Ewan McGregor, Defense, Burn After Reading (movie)
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Battle satire 'Men Who Stare at Goats' has a Maryland link
Baltimore Sun reporterThe makers of "The Men Who Stare At Goats" have planted this epigraph before the movie: "More of this is true than you would believe." But I heard one young man emerging from a preview saying, "I don't think any of this is true." After all, who in...Tags: Dolly Parton, Defense, Jeff Bridges, Drugs and Medicines, Iraq
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Louis D. Blom, NSA analyst
Louis D. Blom, a retired National Security Agency analyst and a World War II veteran, died of complications from dementia Oct. 28 at the Charlestown retirement community. He was 84.
Mr. Blom, the son of a steelworker and a librarian, was born in Corona,...Tags: Colleges and Universities, National Security, Defense, World War II (1939-1945), Retirement
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'Psychic warrior' in 'Men Who Stare at Goats' based on Hamburg man
SPECIAL TO THE MORNING CALLThe makers of ''The Men Who Stare At Goats'' have planted this epigraph before the movie: ''More of this is true than you would believe.'' But I heard one young man emerging from a preview saying, ''I don't think any of this is true.'' Who in their right...Tags: U.S. Army, Defense, Jeff Bridges, Armed Forces, Drugs and Medicines
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Eustis native, career Marine, writes business book
Special to the SentinelRetired Marine Col. Keith Oliver, a 1971 graduate of Eustis High School, has come a long way with his writing. Oliver, 55, said his first byline came about when he was in the sixth grade at Eustis Elementary School. He wrote a couple of paragraphs...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Defense, Iraq, Book, Photography
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Jeep with puppy inside stolen from Annapolis gas station
A Jeep with a 9-month-old puppy inside was stolen Wednesday from a gas station, Annapolis police said. Police said the owner, a College Park resident in the Army stationed at Fort Meade, told them that after pumping gasoline shortly before 5:30 p.m. at...Tags: Downstream Oil and Gas Activities
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