Vals Kilmer (like "attorneys general"?)

[James Smith]

Oops!  Sorry!  My earlier reply got away from me
before I'd finished!

Since it was formed by combining the Life-Saving
Service and Revenue Cutter Service in 1915, the Coast
Guard has at one time or another been under the
Treasury, Navy, Transportation, and Homeland Security
Depts
(http://www.uscg.mil/hq/g-cp/comrel/factfile/index.htm).

Who would have guessed that the Dept of Health and
Human Services has both a U.S. Public Health Service
Commissioned Corps and a National Health Service
Corps!

> And the NHSC is not a uniformed service.
> The uniformed service
> > is
> > the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps. The
> NHSC is something else
> > entirely. If you go to the PHS web site, you will
> see uniforms a plenty
> > (http://www.usphs.gov/). The PHS is part of the
> Dept. of Health and Human
> > Services.
> >
> > The other uniformed service is the National
> Oceanic and Atmospheric
> > Administration (NOAA) Commissioned Corps, which is
> in the Commerce
> > Department. Like the Public Health Service, they
> have naval rank and
> > uniforms.
> >
> > The government makes a distinction between the
> "uniformed services" and
> > the
> > "armed services." There are seven "uniformed
> services," two of which, the
> > PHS and NOAA are not "armed services." The "armed
> services" are, of
> > course,
> > the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Coast
> Guard. The first four
> > are
> > in the Defense Department and the Coast Guard is
> in Homeland Security,
> > although in time of war it can also operate under
> the control of the
> > Defense
> > Department.
> >
> > --Dave Wilton
> > dave at wilton.net
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: American Dialect Society
> [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf
> > Of
> > James Smith
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 6:31 AM
> > To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> > Subject: Re: Vals Kilmer (like "attorneys
> general"?)
> >
> > Not all uniformed branches of the federal
> government
> > are in the Dept of Defense. The Coast Guard was
> under
> > the Dept of Treasury until the recent reassignemt
> to
> > Dept of Homeland Security. Likewise, the Nation
> > Health Service Corp is a uniformed branch of the
> > government, and the head of NHSC is a general, the
> > Surgeon General (this is an anomaly as other ranks
> in
> > the NHSC follow the pattern of navy rather than
> army
> > grades, and the uniforms are patterned on naval
> > uniforms). However, the NHSC doesn't make a big
> deal
> > of it's military-like organization; if you go the
> NHSC
> > web site (http://nhsc.bhpr.hrsa.gov/), you'll be
> hard
> > pressed to find any mention of the military-like
> > aspects of the organization.


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