...History of 60th ADA 60th ADA Regiment started out as the 60th Artillery regiment under the Coast Artillery Corps. This unit was brought up on December 23, 1917. This unit was comprised of Active, and National Guard Soldiers. They were active from world war one through the Cold War period to the Present. Their Coat of Arms consists of a longhorn cattle skull, a Spotlight, a Star, and a wall. 60th ADA’s motto states “We Rule The Heavens” or Coelis Imperamus. 60th ADA Regiment was set to fight with the American Expeditionary Forces on the Western Front in World War; This conflict was called the Battle of Saint-Mihiel. They also participated in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive. After World War 1, 60th ADA became part of USAFFE’s Harbor Defenses of Manila and Subic Bays. They were tasked to provide air defense over Manila Bay and the southern section of the Bataan Peninsula. At this time they were fitted with 3-inch guns, which have a vertical range of 8,200 meters. 60th also had 37mm Guns and .50 caliber machine guns. One battery stationed in Fort Wint fell under attack and surrendered to the Japanese the december 5th following Pearl Harbor. August 1st, 1946 60th Coastal Artillery Regiment was redesignated as 60th Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion. They were stationed at Fort Bliss, Texas. The Star on the Unit Crest is there partly due to the time when 60th Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion was stationed in Texas. It Symbolized The Lone...
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...Raytheon (RTN) And Textron (TXT) Raytheon (RTN) Mission statement: “Aspiring to be the most admired defense and aerospace systems supplier through world-class people and technology”. (Raytheon.com) Background and History Raytheon was founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1922, as the American Appliance Company, by Laurence K. Marshall, Vannevar Bush, and Charles G. Smith. Marshall and Bush were engineering students, while Smith was an inventor and scientist, but they were all entrepreneurs. After failures to market an idea for a new refrigerator the trio began to focus on electronics. (Raytheon, Wikipedia.com) An idea that Smith and Bush had worked on years earlier, “a new kind of gaseous tube that would allow radios for the first time to be plugged into a wall socket and operate on electricity rather than batteries”, would be their new direction. (Raytheon Company, fundinginguniverse.com) After acquiring a patent for the idea and because an Indian company already had rights to the name American Appliance Company, Raytheon Manufacturing Company was born. (Raytheon Company, fundinginguniverse.com) The consumer demand for electronics was booming and the new radio-receiver power supply (gaseous rectifier), which immediately allow radios to be in every household for pennies of what it cost to continuously replace batteries. (History, Raytheon.com) As the competition for radio-receiving tubes began to intensify Raytheon, mainly Laurence K, Marshall, saw the need to diversify...
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...Assignment 1: Organizational Analysis Keira White Professor Kim Williams BUS310 Human Resource Management May 3, 2015 When choosing a company for this assignment I wanted to choose a company that had local ties to where I live but also was a fairly large company so that I could gather the appropriate information. The company I chose is Raytheon. Raytheon is a technology and innovation leader specializing in defense, homeland security and other government markets throughout the world. Raytheon’s core manufacturing concentrations are in weapons and military and commercial electronics. Raytheon was established back in 1922, reestablished in 1928 but did not take on its current name until 1959. With a history of innovation spanning 90 years, Raytheon provides state-of-the-art electronics, mission systems integration and other capabilities in the areas of sensing; effects; and command, control, communications and intelligence systems, as well as a broad range of mission support services. They are not only the world’s largest producer of guided missiles, but they are also the fourth largest defense contractor in the United States by revenue. What stands out the most to me when I think of Raytheon is the Patriot Missile from the Persian Gulf War in the early 1990s. Raytheon’s vision is to be the most admired defense and aerospace systems company through their world-class people, innovation and technology. Another thing about Raytheon that really sticks out in my mind is that...
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