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1 August 2011
 Cryptology
Symposium Sponsored by the NSA
The National Security Agency’s Center for Cryptologic
History sponsors the Cryptologic History Symposium every two
years. The next one will be held 6-7 October
2011. Historians from the Center, the Intelligence
Community, the defense establishment, and the military
services, as well as distinguished scholars from American
and foreign academic institutions, veterans of the
profession, and the interested public all will gather for
two days of reflection and debate on topics from the
cryptologic past.
The theme for the upcoming conference will be:
“Cryptology in War and Peace: Crisis Points in History.” This
topical approach is especially relevant as the year 2011 is
an important anniversary marking the start of many seminal
events in our nation’s military history. The events that can
be commemorated are many.
Participants will delve into the roles of signals
intelligence and information assurance, and not just as
these capabilities supported military operations. More
cogently, observers will examine how these factors affected
and shaped military tactics, operations, strategy, planning,
and command and control throughout history. The role of
cryptology in preventing conflict and supporting peaceful
pursuits will also be examined. The panels will include
presentations in a range of technological, operational,
organizational, counterintelligence, policy, and
international themes.
Past symposia have featured scholarship that set out new
ways to consider out cryptologic heritage, and this one will
be no exception. The mix of practitioners, scholars, and the
public precipitates a lively debate that promotes an
enhanced appreciation for the context of past events.
The Symposium will be held at the Johns Hopkins Applied
Physics Laboratory’s Kossiakoff Center, in Laurel, Maryland,
a location central to the Baltimore and Washington, D.C.,
areas. As has been the case with previous symposia, the
conference will provide unparalleled opportunities for
interaction with leading historians and distinguished
experts. So please make plans to join us for either one or
both days of this intellectually stimulating conference. For
more information, contact: Dr. Kent Sieg, the Center’s
Symposium Executive Director, 301-688-2336 or via email at
kgsieg@nsa.gov.
Posted
1 December 2010
OCS
Class Ring Found !!! If you lost one, we may have it !
Did you lose an Army Signal Corps ring? The Army Historical
Society passed on to us an ex-WAC (1973 - 74F20) that found
an Army Signal Corps ring partially buried in the mud in
West Virginia, this year (2010). She was staying at a
Virginia hotel, and discovered it, picked it up, and is now
looking for the owner. Being ex-Army, the good lady
desperately wants to get it back to its owner. Inscribed on
the ring is the following information:
US Army Signal Corps
HINES 25B
If this is your ring... contact us at
Info@ArmySignalOCS.com and we will send you the lady's
personal eMail address. But hey, be prepared to answer the
question "What were you doing at that hotel???" (... just
kidding).
Posted
25 November 2010
NSA
SYMPOSIUM ANNOUNCEMENT and CALL FOR PAPERS
The National Security Agencys Center for Cryptologic
History sponsors the Cryptologic History Symposium every two
years. The next one will be held 6-7 October
2011. Historians from the Center, the Intelligence
Community, the defense establishment, and the military
services, as well as distinguished scholars from American
and foreign academic institutions, veterans of the
profession, and the interested public all will gather for
two days of reflection and debate on topics from the
cryptologic past. The theme for the upcoming conference will
be: Cryptology in War and Peace: Crisis Points in
History. This topical approach is especially relevant as
the year 2011 is an important anniversary marking the start
of many seminal events in our nations military history. The
events that can be commemorated are many. Such historical
episodes include the 1861 outbreak of the fratricidal Civil
War between North and South. Nineteen forty-one saw a
surprise attack wrench America into the Second World
War. The year 1951 began with the fall of Seoul to Chinese
Communist forces with United Nations troops retreating in
the Korean War. In 1961, the United States began a
commitment of advisory troops in Southeast Asia that would
eventually escalate into the Vietnam War; that year also
marked the height of the Cold War as epitomized by the
physical division of Berlin. Twenty years later, a nascent
democratic movement was suppressed by a declaration of
martial law in Poland; bipolar confrontation would markedly
resurge for much of the 1980s. In 1991, the United States
intervened in the Persian Gulf to reverse Saddam Husseins
aggression, all while the Soviet Union suffered through the
throes of its final collapse. And in 2001, the nation came
under siege by radical terrorism.
Participants will delve into the roles of signals
intelligence and information assurance, and not just as
these capabilities supported military operations. More
cogently, observers will examine how these factors affected
and shaped military tactics, operations, strategy, planning,
and command and control throughout history. The role of
cryptology in preventing conflict and supporting peaceful
pursuits will also be examined.
The panels will include presentations in a range of
technological, operational, organizational,
counterintelligence, policy, and international themes. Past
symposia have featured scholarship that set out new ways to
consider out cryptologic heritage, and this one will be no
exception. The mix of practitioners, scholars, and the
public precipitates a lively debate that promotes an
enhanced appreciation for the context of past
events. Researchers on traditional and technological
cryptologic topics, those whose work in any aspect touches
upon the historical aspects of cryptology as defined in its
broadest sense, as well as foreign scholars working in this
field, are especially encouraged to participate.
The Symposium will be held at the Johns Hopkins Applied
Physics Laboratorys Kossiakoff Center, in Laurel, Maryland,
a location central to the Baltimore and Washington, D.C.,
areas. As has been the case with previous symposia, the
conference will provide unparalleled opportunities for
interaction with leading historians and distinguished
experts. So please make plans to join us for either one or
both days of this intellectually stimulating conference.
Interested persons are invited to submit proposals for a
potential presentation or even for a full panel. While the
topics can relate to this years theme, all serious work on
any aspect of cryptologic history will be
considered. Proposals should include an abstract for each
paper and/or a statement of session purpose for each panel,
as well as biographical sketches for each presenter. To
submit proposals or form more information on this
conference, contact Dr. Kent Sieg, the Centers Symposium
Executive Director, at 301-688-2336 or via email at
kgsieg@nsa.gov.
Posted
12 July 2010
New
VA Grave Program For Burial In Non-VA Cemeteries
The VA is offering a new program for Veterans not buried in
national or state veterans' cemeteries, or those without a
government grave marker.
The new program makes available a medallion that can be
affixed to existing graves, and can be used instead of a
traditional government headstone. Per
the VA, "The medallion is available in three sizes: 5", 3"
and 1 " in width. Each bronze medallion features the image
of a folded burial flag adorned with laurels and is
inscribed with the word "Veteran" at the top and the branch
of service at the bottom.
Next of kin will receive the medallion, along with a kit
that will allow the family or the staff of a private
cemetery to affix the medallion to a headstone, grave
marker, mausoleum or columbarium niche cover."
For information on the program, click the picture at
right. Information about other
VA burial benefits can be obtained
from national cemetery offices, from the VA website on the
Internet at
www.cem.va.gov or by calling VA regional offices
toll-free at 1-800-827-1000.
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ArmySignalOCS is expanding its site to
include personal stories, pictures, audio and video memories
from Army Signal OCS graduates, their families and friends.
If you want to memorialize your time in the Signal Corps,
send us your story.
Not all stories will be published.
ArmySignalOCS editors will read each submission and select
best of breed and interest to all. However, any topic is
acceptable: sad, happy, poignant, humorous, love laced, hard
hitting, true war stories, stories of fire fights, or just
memories of rainy nights in Georgia... send us what you have
and include pictures. For more information, click on the
Web Submissions link at left.
To read some of the stores already
submitted, see their pictures, or simply wander through the
memories of your fellow officers, click on the
Veterans' Salutes section at left.
Permanent Post
Pictures Needed
Of Your OCS Class
When you do a search on this site for a
member of your OCS Class, you end up on a web page with a
table showing the list of class members for your class, and
their current status. The bottom half of most pages is
blank. We want to fill it with pictures of the people in
that class. If you have candid pictures of class members,
especially if they were taken while you were in OCS,
please send them to us. We will post them on your
class' page. Be sure to give us a little background on your
pictures, so that we can properly label them. If you have
any good pics, take them down to your local drug store and
ask them to scan them at 300 dpi to a file. Attach your file
to an eMail, and send it to us at
WebMaster@ArmySignalOCS.com. Be sure to tell us the
Class Number, identify the people in it, and tell us a bit
about the setting, date, and anything else you can remember.
Both we, and your classmates, thank you.
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