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This category refers to people associated with the U.S. state of Illinois who have served in any of the branches of the United States military.
Illinois: Illinois Sons of Liberty Chicago: Indiana: Indiana Citizens Volunteer Militia [D] Lake County: Kentucky: KY County Rangers Bath County: Maine: Maine Volunteer Responders Gardiner: Michigan: Capitol City Militia Clinton County: Genesee County Volunteer Militia Genesee County: Michigan Liberty Militia Barry County: Michigan Peoples ...
List of United States military bases in Illinois is a listing of current and former United States military bases located in the US State of Illinois. Air Force
Illinois: Branch: Air National Guard: Type: state militia, military reserve force: Role "To meet state and federal mission responsibilities." Part of: Illinois National Guard United States National Guard Bureau National Guard: Garrison/HQ: Illinois Air National Guard, 1301 N. MacArthur Blvd, Springfield, Illinois, 62702: Commanders; Civilian ...
The Illinois Army National Guard was originally formed in 1712 as a colonial French militia.The militia worked under British sovereignty in the mid-eighteenth century, until the American Revolutionary War, when in 1779 Colonel George Rogers Clark, with 200 frontiersmen, of the Illinois Regiment, Virginia State Forces, from Kaskaskia, captured Fort Sackville from British Colonel Henry Hamilton ...
Students at these academies are organized as cadets, and graduate with appropriate licenses from the U.S. Coast Guard and/or the U.S. Merchant Marine.While not immediately offered a commission as an officer within a service, cadets do have the opportunity to participate in commissioning programs like the Strategic Sealift Officer Program (Navy) and Maritime Academy Graduate (Coast Guard).
The base is operated by the 375th Air Mobility Wing (375 AMW) and is also home to the Air Force Reserve Command's 932d Airlift Wing (932 AW) and the Illinois Air National Guard's 126th Air Refueling Wing (126 ARW), the latter two units being operationally gained by AMC.
The Railway Patrolmen's International Union represented rail police officers on a number of railroads. RPIU merged with BRAC in 1969 and is now incorporated in its Allied Services Division. The United Transport Services Employees union was founded in 1937 as the International Brotherhood of Red Caps, representing baggage handlers at railroad ...