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  Leonard Wood - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Wood participated in the last campaign against Geronimo in 1886, and was awarded the Medal of Honor in 1898 for carrying dispatches 100 miles through hostile territory and for commanding an infantry detachment whose officers had been lost.
Wood was named Army Chief of Staff in 1910 by President Taft, whom he had met while both were in the Philippines; he remains the only medical officer to have ever held that position.
Wood was an unsuccessful candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in the election of 1920.
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 Leonard Wood -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Wood participated in the last campaign against (Apache chieftain who raided the white settlers in the Southwest as resistance to being confined to a reservation (1829-1909)) Geronimo, and was awarded the Medal of Honor in 1898 for carrying dispatches 100 miles through hostile territory and for commanding an infantry detachment whose officers had been lost.
Wood was personal physician to Presidents (22nd and 24th President of the United States (1837-1908)) Grover Cleveland and (25th President of the United States; was assassinated by an anarchist (1843-1901)) William McKinley through 1898.
After San Juan, Wood led the 2nd Cavalry Brigade for the rest of the war; he stayed in (A communist state in the Caribbean on the island of Cuba; involved in state-sponsored terrorism) Cuba after the war and was appointed the Military Governor of Santiago in 1898, and of Cuba from 1899–1902.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/l/le/leonard_wood.htm   (837 words)

  
 Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It is named in honor of Leonard Wood, a US Army General who was awarded the Medal of Honor.
Leonard Wood offers BCT for most non-combat arms soldiers; and AIT for MOS 88M (motor transport operator) and non-combat engineer MOSes and OSUT training for combat engineers (MOS 21B), chemical specialists (74D) and military police (31B).
Leonard Wood is considered the tougher of the two gender integrated basic training facilities due to the terrain and the extreme temperatures.
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 Leonard Wood
Leonard Wood (AP-25), ex-Nutmeg State and Western World, was built in 1922 by the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Co., Sparrow Point, Md.; purchased by the War Department in 1939 and renamed Leonard Wood; served as a Army transport until acquired by the Navy 3 June 1911; and commissioned 10 June, manned by the Coast Guard, Comdr.
Leonard Wood remained in the first line of transports, carrying out her mission until 12 November when enemy submarines, which had already sunk or damaged six Allied ships, forced the remaining transports to finish unloading at Casablanca.
Leonard Wood took part in her last amphibious landing with the Mindoro Island assault 9 February 1945.Debarking her troops and cargo in less than 5 hours, she steamed for San Francisco via Leyte, Ulithi, and Pearl Harbor, arriving 27 March.
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 First World War.com - Who's Who - Leonard Wood
Leonard Wood (1860-1927) prepared the U.S. army for its eventual entry into the First World War in 1917 by serving as its Chief of Staff from 1910-14.
Wood was born on 9 October 1860 in Winchester, New Hampshire, the son of a doctor.
Wood himself returned to the Department of the East and campaigned ceaselessly for an official policy of military preparedness (founding the Preparedness Movement in 1915), a campaign that did not endear him to the current Democrat administration overseen by President Woodrow Wilson.
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 Leonard Wood Biography / Biography of Leonard Wood Biography Biography
Leonard Wood (1860-1927), American Army officer and colonial administrator, was an ardent advocate of military preparedness.
Wood served in administrative capacities in the Philippines and in the United States until 1910, when he was made Army chief of staff.
Wood was appointed governor of the Philippines by Harding in 1921 and served there until his death on Aug. 7, 1927.
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 Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri located in Pulaski County.
Leonard Wood, MO The adjutant of the 7th Engineer Training Group (Colored) was the first occupant of the Building 2101 in 1941.
Leonard Wood, MO Joint Services Park honors all branches of the military, park behind the park and walk along the sidewalk to view aircraft, personnel carrier, coastguard ship, anchor and more.
Leonard Wood, MO One of the largest caves on Fort Leonard Wood, archeological evidence identitifies inhabitants from 8000 B.C. to 1300 A.D. in the Big Piney Region.
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 Leonard Wood
The USS Leonard Wood was named for Leonard Wood, who was born on 9 October 1860 at Winchester, New Hampshire.
The Wood departed Pearl Harbor on November 10, 1943, for the Makin Atoll Operation, the objective being the capture and occupation of the Atoll.
The Wood departed Eniwetok Atoll on the 25th and arrived at Kwajalein Atoll on the 26th, where troops and equipment were unloaded and the 1st Battalion, 25th Marines were embarked.
www.uscg.mil /hq/g-cp/history/WEBCUTTERS/Leonard_Wood.html   (4176 words)

  
 Wood, Leonard on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Leonard BERNSTEIN conducts the Metropolitan Opera orchestra during a rehearsal of "Carmen." (NYC26283)
FORT LEONARD WOOD, MO-- PFC Jared Corrigan and PFC Lazaro Pena load part of a towing piece into a trailer in preparation of the 5th.
FORT LEONARD WOOD, MO-- Sgt. Leroy East carries a heavy chain to a packing box in preparation of the 5th.
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 FORT LEONARD WOOD -- "GHOSTS OF BLOODLAND"
Wood later served with distinction as the Governor of Cuba and as the Chief of Staff of the Army from 1910 until 1914.
In general, the conditions that captured Axis Soldiers endured at the Fort Leonard Wood were far better than the standard of living the soldiers faced in their own armies.
Private Fritz Ensslin, a former member of Rommel’s Afrika Corps, who was incarcerated at Fort Leonard Wood said that his barracks at the fort was comparable to a Hilton Hotel and that the food was of a quality that a reputable hotel could not have cooked better.
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 Fort Leonard Wood
Fort Leonard Wood and the U.S. Army Maneuver Support Center (MANSCEN) is the home of the U.S. Army Engineer, Military Police and Chemical Corps Schools, the Third Basic Combat Training Brigade, and Joint Training Detachments from the U.S. Marine Corps, Navy and Air Force.
Fort Leonard Wood is situated in the heart of the Ozarks, and is an ideal place to work, train, and raise a family.
Fort Leonard Wood is an inter-service training center and trains soldiers, sailors, airmen, marines and international students.
www.globalsecurity.org /military/facility/fort-leonard-wood.htm   (1380 words)

  
 DefenseLINK News: Fort Leonard Wood Communities Prepare for Growth
The communities surrounding Fort Leonard Wood are preparing for the growth anticipated due to upcoming base realignments and the return of forces from Europe and Korea to stateside bases -- and applying important lessons they learned from the past.
Technically speaking, Fort Leonard Wood is not among the big "gaining installations" in the base realignment and closure recommendations for 2005.
Now, with Fort Leonard Wood expected to grow again during the next six years, community leaders are at it again, applying their lessons learned so they can prepare for the influx.
www.defenselink.mil /news/Jun2005/20050620_1775.html   (668 words)

  
 Wood, Leonard. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
After the U.S. entry into World War I, Wood was refused a commission on the European front.
Wood liquidated the economic enterprises of the Philippine government, assumed wide powers of control, allowed little prerogative to the legislature, and surrounded himself with military advisers.
Until Wood died in 1927, unrest was widespread among the Filipinos, and in 1925 the Philippine senate unanimously voted to hold a plebiscite on independence.
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 Wood, Leonard --  Encyclopædia Britannica
A graduate of Harvard Medical School (1884), Wood began his military career the next year as a civilian contract surgeon with the U.S. Army in the Southwest, achieving the rank of captain and assistant surgeon by 1891.
U.S. sculptor and printmaker Leonard Baskin was noted for his bleak but impressive portrayals of the human figure.
Virginia married Leonard Woolf in 1912 at the age of thirty.
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 Leonard Wood, CEO, Wood Partners
Leonard Wood, the CEO of Wood Partners LLC, which has developed more than 23,000 apartment and condominium units in Arizona, Florida, Nevada, Texas and Washington, D.C., will take over the chairmanship of the National Association of Home Builder's Multifamily Leadership Board in January of 2006.
Wood: One of my key concerns is that we continue to help the public and public officials understand the value of higher-density housing, both for-rent and for-sale, and how multifamily developments can contribute to smarter growth and better communities.
Wood: The multifamily industry, through the Leadership Board, can access the power of NAHB and use its resources and advocacy strength at the local, state and national levels to advance multifamily living.
www.multi-housingnews.com /multihousing/reports_analysis/feature_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000968172   (886 words)

  
 Ft Leonard Wood Real Estate, Waynesville Realty, Pulaski County Real Estate, Kathy Potter, Century 21 Prestige Real ...
However today, Fort Leonard Wood and the surrounding communities hardly reflect the days of WW II construction and the war effort of the times.
Wood is in constant motion with construction of a new Post Exchange facility, recently remodeled and expanded Commissary, Sports Complexes, and new Training Barracks for military members.
The public school system for Fort Leonard Wood is intertwined with the Waynesville school system which recently built a new High School boasting the latest technology for student use and is the largest High School in the area.
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 DANFS: USS Leonard Wood (AP-25/APA-12)
Immediately after the war, Wood became military governor of Santiago Province, the,, from December 1899 to March 1902, Governor-General of Cuba.
Leonard Wood (AP-25), ex-Nutmeg State and Western World, was built in 1922 by the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Co., Sparrow Point, Md.; purchased by the War Department in 1939 and renamed Leonard Wood; served as an Army transport until acquired by the Navy 3 June 1941; and commissioned 10 June, manned by the Coast Guard, Comdr.
Leonard Wood took part in her last amphibious landing with the Mindoro Island assault 9 February 1945.
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 Ft Leonard Wood Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Welcome to the Marine Corps Detachment, Fort Leonard Wood and the Maneuver Support Center where all engineer and Motor Transport Marines, soldiers, airmen, sailors and international students for allied nations receive their training.
Bordering the installation to the north are the towns of Waynesville and St. Robert, with an estimated combined population of 5,400.
Fort Leonard Wood operates an Information Center, 596-0590, located to the right of the main gate where military police give directions, unit and activity locations, and phone numbers 24 hours a day.
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 Acute Rheumatic Fever among Army Trainees -- Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, 1987-1988
An investigation was conducted in March 1988 to determine the extent of ARF and GABHS among soldiers and their dependents at Fort Leonard Wood.
The report of an increase in cases of ARF at Fort Leonard Wood is similar to reports from civilian populations and a recent report from the Navy Training Center, San Diego, California (10).
The predominance of type M18 among GABHS isolated at Fort Leonard Wood and the association of this M-type with clinical signs of pharyngitis suggest that type M18 may have caused the outbreak of ARF.
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 Welcome to Ft. Leonard Wood
Established in 1940 as a basic training center, Fort Leonard Wood, has launched the military careers of over three million men and women.
Fort Leonard Wood is now the proud home of the U.S. Army Military Police School which provides training to all branches of the military as well as government agencies and U.S. allies in areas of law enforcement, field tactics, human rights, Counter-Terrorism, Family Advocacy, Counter-Drug Operations and Force Protection.
Fort Leonard Wood is the home of Walker Museum, also known as the U.S. Army Engineer Museum, featuring exhibits on the history of Fort Leonard Wood, combat and topographic engineer exhibits, a World War II compound, as well as weaponry, demolitions, airborne and amphibious exhibits.
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 Leonard Wood Training Mobilized IRR Soldiers
Vivirito was one of 112 Individual Ready Reserve Soldiers who arrived at the 43rd Adjutant General Battalion at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo., Aug. 31, to begin refresher training.
The Soldiers are from all walks of life and all ranks, said Maj. Randy Roll of Fort Leonard Wood's Mobilization and Reserve Affairs Division, Directorate of Plans, Training and Mobilization.
Of the first group of 112 that reported at Leonard Wood, 35 were released for medical reasons and 4 for other causes.
www.military.com /NewsContent/0,13319,usa3_110304.00.html   (507 words)

  
 Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri located in Pulaski County.
Fort Leonard Wood is on 100 square miles of rugged Ozark wilderness.
With the addition of the Military Police and Chemical schools to the Army Engineer School, Fort Leonard Wood became the Maneuver Support Center for the Army.
Throughout its growth, Fort Leonard Wood's soldiers and their family members have enjoyed an outstanding quality of life.
www.visitpulaskicounty.org /flw.html   (228 words)

  
 Offistart - St. Louis, MO - Current Projects - UM Technlogy Park at Fort Leonard Wood Q & A   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
A: The Technology Park at Fort Leonard Wood was developed by the University of Missouri and the Missouri Department of Economic Development with the backing of Fort Leonard Wood.
A: The park is a 62-acre site on Fort Leonard Wood, an Army post located near St. Robert, Missouri in the Ozark Mountains.
Fort Leonard Wood also has the largest joint service training mission in the Army and the second largest basic training mission.
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 Fort Wood Community Spouses Club - Ft. Leonard Wood, MO
The Fort Wood Community Spouses Club, or CSC, as we call ourselves, is a friendly, wonderfully diverse group of spouses who gather once a month to enjoy each other's company over lunch and to make new friends.
So, the Fort Wood Community Spouse’s Club conducts fundraising events like the annual Holiday Craft and Antique Fair and the Art and Basket Auctions, to raise funds to be dispersed to groups in our very own community to help raise the standard of living for our people.
Those of us who live here, whether it’s for ten months, two years or a life-time, have the ability and the opportunity to get together, have fun and at the same time, raise funds to help our children, our neighbors and our community.
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 Dale's Web Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
I have proudly served my country for the past 11 years in the U.S. Army as an MP, and plan on continuing for atleast 9 more years.
I currently reside in Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri.
After retirement from the Army, I plan on having a wood shop in the backyard and make a few extra bucks.
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 Fort Leonard Wood News
Local news for Fort Leonard Wood, MO continually updated from thousands of sources on the web.
Following up on a workforce study to analyze employment data in Pulaski, Phelps, and Laclede counties, a subcommittee of the Fort Leonard Wood Regional Commerce and Growth Association is proposing that the...
A Ft. Leonard Wood man was in serious condition at Heartland Regional Medical Center Monday night after a friday night accident.
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