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Q- l We 3:80 L ,Y 3 Operating under the direction of the loint Chiefs of Staff, through the Na- tional Defense University, the Armed Forces Staff College is now in its thir- ty-fifth year of preparingxsnid-career officers for iointlcombined duty. The first change of command oc- curred in 1948 when Vice Admiral lohn l. Hall, lr assumed command from General Emmons. The original Normandy I-lall stood near the main gate until 1962 when the present Normandy Hall was completed. Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Arliegh Burke broke ground for the present Normandy I-lall in April, '60.
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It all began on U. S. Army eral Dwight D sent a memorandum of Naval Operations, Chester W. There is a need which will conduct courses of approximately five ,fo months duration in joint operf P ations. f lo 0 V l 4 xii 55-v Ay, .sf The idea became a reality in less than three months. The Armed Forces Staff College was established under the di- rect supervision of the Ioint Chiefs of Staff. The basic mis- sion, to give instruction on the theater and joint task force level, has not changed. Lieutenant General Delos C. Emmons, United States Army Air Force, was the school's first commandant. He greeted the school's first 150 students on 3 February 1947. The rest is history.
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.- ,K-'fax The National Security Act of 1947 created the National Military Establishment, which came into being on 18 Sep. 1947. Amendments to the National Security Act in 1949 established the Sec- retary of Defense as the prirbcipal .assistant to the Blgesident on defensefmat- ters and changed the name of the National Military Es- tablishment 'to the Depart- ment of Defense. The De- partment of Defense Reor- ganization Act of 1958 took the military departments out of the chain of com- mand. Since then the chain of 'command has run from the President to the Secre- tary of Defense through the loint Chiefs of Staff to the commanders of the Unified and Specified commands. Ronald Reagan, President of the United States, and Caspar Weinberger, Secre- tary of Defense, constitute the National Command Authorities. RAMA DA THORITIES
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