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The United States Navy, like any organization, produces its own acronyms and abbreviations, which often come to have meaning beyond their bare expansions. United States Navy personnel sometimes colloquially refer to these as NAVSpeak. Like other organizational colloquialisms, their use often creates or reinforces a sense of esprit and closeness ...
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On July 1, 1960, control of the Military Personnel Records Center was transferred to the General Services Administration. The three active-duty military records centers at MPRC—the Air Force Records Center, the Naval Records Management Center, and the Army Records Center—were consolidated into a single civil service-operated records center.
SEAL – Sea, Air and Land (U.S. Navy SEALs) SERE – Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape; SFC – Sergeant First Class (U.S. Army E-7) SFOD-A – United States Army Special Forces Operational Detachment Alpha – U.S. Special Forces team (see ODA) SFOD-B – Special Forces Operational Detachment Bravo – U.S. Special Forces support group
The medical records of military family members treated at Army, Air Force and Coast Guard medical facilities are also stored here. The Civilian Personnel Records Center was first known as the "St. Louis Federal Records Center" before becoming part of the National Personnel Records Center in 1966.
The U.S. Veterans Affairs seal. The United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) maintains many cemeteries specifically devoted to veterans. Most have various rules regarding what must take place in order to be interred there.
English: The creation of the new Department of Veterans Affairs in 1989 required a new official seal to represent VA. In November 1988, after the law establishing VA as a cabinet department was signed, VA initiated a competition among employees for a seal design that would give the new department a "new look."
These are the key elements of the seal, as he described them: The eagle represents the United States. The circle of five stars above the eagle represents the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines and Coast Guard. The two flags in the eagle's talons represent the span of America's history from 13 colonies to the present 50 states.