Talk:American Battle Monuments Commission

Number of page views in the past 30 days

Broken Links
The link to PDF about the Mexico City cemetary is broken.

Carl Gusler 18:47, 28 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the info. Not on the main site. Removed. Roger 19:07, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

No Commissioners on this Commission
--DThomsen8 (talk) 21:35, 29 June 2009 (UTC) “The authorizing legislation for the American Battle Monuments Commission (36 U.S.C., Chapter 21) specifies that the president will appoint 11 members to the commission and an officer of the regular Army to serve as the secretary. President Barack Obama appointed Max Cleland to serve as Secretary in June 2009. There currently are no appointed commissioners.”

This is what the official ABMC website says, so it is doubtful that the Army officers named in the article are Chairmen of the Commission. Certainly former Senator Max Cleland was appointed Secretary, not Chairman or a Commissioner.--DThomsen8 (talk) 21:35, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

Clark Veterans Cemetery
Legislation has passed, and signed by President Obama which would add the Clark Veterans Cemetery under the ABMC. Can someone please update information on this article page once an agreement between the U.S. and the Philippines transfers operations to the ABMC?--RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 04:46, 5 March 2013 (UTC)

External links modified
Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified one external link on American Battle Monuments Commission. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20130621192301/http://www.sepulturesdeguerre.sga.defense.gouv.fr/ to http://www.sepulturesdeguerre.sga.defense.gouv.fr/

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

Cheers.— InternetArchiveBot  (Report bug) 15:48, 3 July 2017 (UTC)

the "Political" section
I have, for the second time, reverted an edit by stating, " Obama Administration however in its last weeks made partisan political control of it (the American Battle Monuments Commission ) an important agenda item.  Here is what the source says. "“Appointed people to a slew of boards and commissions, including the American Battle Monuments Commission, United States Air Force Academy’s Board of Visitors, the Pacific Salmon Commission and National Council on Disability. Some are new appointments, some are renewals.” Nothing about "partisan political control." And just for the record, here is a list of the folks that were appointed to the Commission. look and see whom you feel does not belong.
 * Mr. Dorgan has served as the Executive Director of the North Dakota Cowboy Hall of Fame since 1997. In that capacity, he spearheaded the effort to build the western heritage center that was recently named the Cowboy Museum of the Year for 2010. Prior to that service, Mr. Dorgan spent two and a half decades in journalism, finishing his journalistic career as a producer, anchor, and writer of Prairie News Journal, an hour-long news program viewed in three states and two Canadian Provinces. Mr. Dorgan served as the first Journalist in residence at the University of Maine, Presque Isle, has been invited back in that capacity, and has had a scholarship named after him at the University. He also continues to write and produce historical documentaries for television. Mr. Dorgan is a Vietnam Veteran, a member of AMVETS and a life member of the Disabled American Veterans.
 * Sergeant Major John L. Estrada USMC (Ret) currently works for the Lockheed Martin Corporation as the Senior Manager for Lockheed Martin Training Solution Incorporated. He was the 15th Sergeant Major of the United States Marine Corps from June 2003 to April 2007 prior to stepping down from the position in 2007 after 34 years of service in the Marine Corps. His personal awards include the Distinguished Service Medal, the Bronze Star Medal, the Meritorious Service Medal with three gold stars, the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal, the Joint Services Achievement Medal, and the Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal. Sergeant Major Estrada is a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Southern Watch. Sergeant Major Estrada is a board member for Operation HomeFront, a nonprofit organization that provides emergency assistance for military troops, the families they leave behind, and wounded warriors when they return home; he is also a member of Mission Readiness.
 * Brigadier General Pat Foote, USA (Ret), a native of Durham, North Carolina, served over 30 years of active duty with the United States Army. Commissioned in 1960, she commanded soldiers at the company, battalion, brigade and major installation levels of authority. She was the first woman Army officer to serve on the faculty of the U.S. Army War College, the first woman officer to command an Army brigade in Europe, and the first and only woman to date to be appointed the Army Deputy Inspector General for Inspections. Today she serves on a number of boards, including the Alliance for National Defense, the Army Women's Foundation Advisory Board, and the Board of Directors of the Friends of the World War II Memorial Foundation.
 * Roland Kidder is a Director of Friends of the National World War Memorial, Inc., a Washington-based nonprofit organization. From 1994 to 2001, Mr. Kidder served on the American Battle Monuments Commission and was a member of its World War II Memorial Committee. He is the author of A Hometown Went to War, an oral history of thirty-seven veterans describing their experiences during World War II. Mr. Kidder is a Vietnam War veteran.
 * Colonel Dick Klass, USAF (Ret) is a retired Air Force Colonel who serves as president of the Veterans Alliance for Security and Democracy (VETPAC), a political action committee that supports veterans and other candidates dedicated to the values for which veterans served, fought and died. In Vietnam, he flew over 200 combat missions as a Forward Air Controller. His military decorations include the Silver Star, Distinguished Flying Cross, Legion of Merit and Purple Heart. After retiring from the military, Klass held several senior positions with U.S. aerospace and consulting firms. He sits on the boards of the Falcon Foundation at the Air Force Academy and the Council for a Livable World. Colonel Klass is a distinguished graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy and the National War College. He received M.A. and M.Litt. degrees from Oxford University, England as a Rhodes Scholar and served as a White House Fellow.
 * General Merrill McPeak, USAF (Ret) was chief of staff of the U.S. Air Force from 1990 to1994. A career fighter pilot, he flew 269 combat missions in Vietnam, some of them while in command of the Misty squadron of high speed forward air controllers. In 1967-68, he performed as a Demonstration Pilot in 199 official air shows as a member of the Air Force's elite aerobatic team, the Thunderbirds. Before becoming Air Force chief, he commanded the 20th Fighter Wing, Twelfth Air Force, and the Pacific Air Forces. Since retirement from active military service, General McPeak has made a second career as an investor and director of public and private companies. He is Chairman of Ethicspoint, a leading provider of risk-management and compliance software-as-a-service, including secure, anonymous reporting of ethical violations in the workplace. General McPeak holds a B.A. from San Diego State College, an M.S. from George Washington University, and is a graduate of the National War College.
 * Ambassador Constance Morella served as a Congresswoman for the state of Maryland for 16 years, during which she was a member of the Committees on Science and Government Reform as well as Chair of the Subcommittees on Technology and the District of Columbia. She also served as the Ambassador to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. During that time she was a key participant in negotiations to enlarge the OECD with five new member states. After leaving the OECD in 2007, she began serving as a professor at American University's School of Government, where she teaches courses in Women, Politics, and Public Policy.
 * Former Marine Captain Maura Sullivan was born and raised in Evanston, Illinois and attended Northwestern University on an ROTC scholarship. After graduating, she served over five years on active duty in the Marines as a logistics and operations officer. Her first assignment was to Okinawa, Japan where she served throughout Southeast Asia in support of Joint Military exercises. She deployed to Fallujah, Iraq in 2005 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom and served there with distinction, earning a Navy/Marine Corps Achievement Medal. Upon separating from active duty, Sullivan began degree programs at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and Harvard Business School, where she was elected Co-President of Harvard's Armed Forces Alumni Association. Captain Sullivan graduated from Harvard in 2009 and accepted a role in PepsiCo's Leadership Development Program. Carptrash (talk) 17:06, 25 June 2018 (UTC)

Offline
As of today the website abmc.gov is offline. --31.150.16.127 (talk) 00:50, 12 November 2018 (UTC)