Hempstead and the Military

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	== Background ==		== Background ==
-	* 139th Infantry Regiment, Company I, was recruited from Hempstead in September 1862.  The regiment left New York for Virginia on September 11, 1862 where it served under Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Mulcahy until it was honorably discharged and mustered out on June 19, 1865 in Richmond, VA.	+	LEDE: The country has already started to see the effects of the War on Terror on our military personnel and the war is not yet over.  Last month reports broke about the poor medical care that Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans were receiving and recently veterans have reported returning to their employers only to be told they no longer have jobs.
-	* 145th Infantry Regiment, Company K was recruited from Hempstead in September 1862 as well.  On September 27, 1862 the regiment left New York State for Maryland where it served under Lieutenant Colonel R. L. Van Wagenen until it was discontinued on December 9, 1863.  The enlisted men were transferred to the 107th, I23d and 150th Infantry.	+
-	* 155th Infantry Regiment, Company E was recruited from Hempstead in November 1862.  The regiment left New York for Virginia on November 18, 1862 when it was mustered in.  The regiment was commanded by Colonel John Byrne until it was honorably discharged and mustered out near Washington, D.C. on July 15, 1865.	+
-	* In 1917 a new army aviation field, Field #2 was created in Hempstead, NY.  The field became the one of the largest in the United States and became the training ground for hundreds of aviators being trained for war.  Field #2 was renamed Mitchel Field in honor of former New York City Mayor John Purroy Mitchel in July 1918 after Mitchel was killed while training for the Air Service in Lousiana.  The field continued to flourish after World War I and in 1938 became the starting point for the first nonstop transcontinental bomber flight made by Army B-18s.  Mitchel also served as the base where the first demonstration of long-range aerial reonnaissance was made and in May 1939, three B-17s left Mitchel and flew out to sea where they intercepted the Italian ocean liner ''Rex''.  Mitchel Field became the main point of air defense for New York City during World War II and continued to be the headquarters of the Air Defense Command, First Air Force and Continental Air Command in throughout the 1940s.  The field was relieved of its defense responsibilities in 1949 and was closed down in 1961 after numerous crashes.  One of the most notable occurred when a P-47 flew into Hofstra University’s Barnard Hall, the current political science building.	+
-	'''(Historically accurate, but wheres the story? Whats your lede, and how will you connect this to us. Why is this story being told now, does it ahve any signifigance today? Do decendants of these troops live here, and how have these groups left thier mark on this town?)'''	+	NUTGRAPH: Although the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act was established in 1994 to protect the jobs of reservists, the act is not always enforced.  So, organizations outside of the Veterans Affairs office are trying to help veterans reassemble lives that they left to serve in the War on Terror.  Locally, HempsteadWorks, a department of Workforce New York and the New York State Department of Labor, offers services to veterans looking for work.
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		+	*According toVeterans Today, the Department of Defense has mobilized over 500,000 reservists since September 11.
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		+	*According to a report by Maximillian Potter in 5280 Magazine, the military’s employer-support office is a disaster caught up in bureaucracy.
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		+	*A Government Accountability Office report released in 2002 said that the Department of Defense needed to improve relations between reservists and their employers yet another recent report by the GAO shows that the U.S. government does not understand the troubles reservists face upon returning from war.
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		+	I plan to call the HempsteadWorks Office tomorrow to set up an appointment to see someone next week, tomorrow if possible.  I also plan on calling Hempstead Veterans Services tomorrow to see if they know whether their vets have a hard time locating work upon returning from war.
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Revision as of 21:27, 22 March 2007

Project

This page is part of an enterprise story that examines the relationship between Hempstead, NY on Long Island and the U.S. Military.

Background

LEDE: The country has already started to see the effects of the War on Terror on our military personnel and the war is not yet over. Last month reports broke about the poor medical care that Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans were receiving and recently veterans have reported returning to their employers only to be told they no longer have jobs.

NUTGRAPH: Although the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act was established in 1994 to protect the jobs of reservists, the act is not always enforced. So, organizations outside of the Veterans Affairs office are trying to help veterans reassemble lives that they left to serve in the War on Terror. Locally, HempsteadWorks, a department of Workforce New York and the New York State Department of Labor, offers services to veterans looking for work.

• According toVeterans Today, the Department of Defense has mobilized over 500,000 reservists since September 11.

• According to a report by Maximillian Potter in 5280 Magazine, the military’s employer-support office is a disaster caught up in bureaucracy.

• A Government Accountability Office report released in 2002 said that the Department of Defense needed to improve relations between reservists and their employers yet another recent report by the GAO shows that the U.S. government does not understand the troubles reservists face upon returning from war.

I plan to call the HempsteadWorks Office tomorrow to set up an appointment to see someone next week, tomorrow if possible. I also plan on calling Hempstead Veterans Services tomorrow to see if they know whether their vets have a hard time locating work upon returning from war.

Sources

• New York State Military Museum.
• New York State Military Museum.
• New York State Military Museum.
• Cradle of Aviation Museum.