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61 unusual facts about The Pentagon


1985 Polar Sea controversy

It was the Pentagon’s view that an increased assertion of Canada’s sovereignty in the north would compromise its ability to deploy forces for the defense of Europe.

1995 world oil market chronology

February 28: The Pentagon announces that it monitored Iranian installation of surface-to-air Hawk missiles in the Strait of Hormuz.

2010 Chinese anti-ballistic missile test

The test came just after an American official announced in Taipei that The Pentagon had just approved the sale of the MIM-104 Patriot missile system to Taiwan.

52d Fighter Wing

Following the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and The Pentagon in the United States on September 11, 2001, the 52d Fighter Wing began preparations for possible combat tasking.

9/11 Heroes Medal of Valor

The center has a dark blue-enamelled pentagon (representing The Pentagon), with a gilt disc bearing the twin towers of the World Trade Center, the American eagle holding the shield of the United States and laurel, and the date "9. 11. 01".

The 9/11 Heroes Medal of Valor is a decoration of the government of the United States, created specifically to honor the 442 public safety officers who were killed in the line of duty during the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center and the empty wing of The Pentagon.

908th Airlift Wing

Within two days of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, 26 908th Security Forces Squadron (SFS) members were called to active duty primarily augmenting the security forces at Maxwell and Gunter in their heightened security efforts.

Afghan Local Police

The Pentagon will provide an additional $1.2 billion to extend the programme to at least 2018 and provide for 45,000 officers.

Artificial brain

In November 2008, IBM received a US$4.9 million grant from the Pentagon for research into creating intelligent computers.

Behind Enemy Lines II: Axis of Evil

The Pentagon aborts the mission after it receives new information, but by the time the abort order is sent, two SEALs have already parachuted into North Korean territory.

Canton Jones

The club performed for celebrities such as Oprah Winfrey, Stevie Wonder, Dr. Bobby Jones and Ray Charles, as well as performing at high profile events such as the opening ceremony of the 1996 Olympic Games and at the first gospel concert ever held at the US Pentagon.

Chance Chancellor

He later reveals that he will be leaving Genoa City again, as he was offered a job at The Pentagon.

Code Name: Diamond Head

The substance was being secretly created by a top battalion of Marines at the request of a Pentagon official.

David Graf

Some of his last acting performances were two guest appearances as Pentagon staff member Colonel Chase in the series The West Wing ("The Drop-In" and "The Portland Trip") and as Jacques Douche in the Son of the Beach TV series episode "Grand Prix".

Destination Gobi

A flummoxed Pentagon okays the requisition, and the chieftain leads Widmark's band to Okinawa.

E Ring

The outer ring of The Pentagon, occupied by the most senior officers and their planning staffs

Ernst-von-Bergmann-Kaserne

The huge main building (earlier on number 1701; today number 1) was the second largest after the Pentagon, which was used by the U.S. Army.

Exit strategy

The term was used technically in internal Pentagon critiques of the Vietnam War (cf. President Richard Nixon's promise of Peace With Honor), but remained obscure to the general public until the Battle of Mogadishu, Somalia when the U.S. military involvement in that U.N. peacekeeping operation cost the lives of U.S. troops without a clear objective.

Frankie Jaxon

In 1941 he retired from show business and worked at The Pentagon in Washington, D.C. He was transferred to Los Angeles, California.

Henry J. Meade

After serving at various locations around the world, he was assigned to The Pentagon in 1969.

History of spaceflight

The US Pentagon released a report in 2006, detailing concerns about China's growing presence in space, including its capability for military action.

Iranian frigate Sabalan

At The Pentagon, Defense Secretary Frank Carlucci, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Adm. William J. Crowe Jr., and U.S. Central Command head Gen. George B. Crist monitored the situation.

Jennifer Jareau

It is revealed in "JJ", that JJ had twice rejected a promotion to The Pentagon and hid the offers from her superiors.

Jim Mowrer

Jim Mowrer is a former soldier who worked in The Pentagon and served in Iraq.

Joe Halderman

In September 2006 he produced Five Years Later: How Safe Are We?, a look at US security since the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and The Pentagon.

John McShain

Most notably, the company built or was the prime contractor for a number of landmark structures including The Pentagon, the Jefferson Memorial, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Library of Congress annex, Washington National Airport, and the 1950–51 reconstruction of the White House.

Journey Beyond Tomorrow

He is co-opted as a professor in a university engaged in manifestly insane experiments and is later recruited by the government to work at the Octagon (which replaced The Pentagon).

Julia Compton Moore

Her complaints to the Pentagon, and the example that she set, prompted the Army to immediately set up notification teams consisting of a uniformed officer and a chaplain.

Konarka Technologies

Konarka also received nearly $10 million in combined grants from the Pentagon and European governments, and in 2007 was approved for further funding through the Solar America Initiative, a component of the White House's Advanced Energy Initiative.

Lincoln Industrial Corporation

The company's relationship with the armed forces was helped by an ex-employee who became a procurement officer serving in the Pentagon.

Lorraine K. Potter

As was she the first female chaplain to reach that rank, then-Air Force Chief of Staff Merrill McPeak organized a special ceremony at The Pentagon to commemorate the occasion.

Mete Sozen

Besides his academic interest in the development of design codes for concrete structures, Sozen is notable for his contributions to the official post 9/11–government studies of terrorist attacks, including the Oklahoma City bombing, and The Pentagon.

Midnight Lamp

The Pentagon is openly embarked on developing the new human superweapon: but President Fred Eiffrich, who wants to stop the Neurobomb, believes the hawks are speeding the process by shocking, and extremely dangerous, means.

Militant Liberty: A Program of Evaluation and Assessment of Freedom

Militant Liberty: A Program of Evaluation and Assessment of Freedom is a United States Department of Defense project that aimed to utilize information operations and resources at the Pentagon’s disposal to counteract the ideological threat of Communism during the Cold War.

Moscow Mission

They are a hacker girl who once broke through Pentagon servers, a former special operative officer who enjoys speed and adrenalin, psychologist, a lady whose beauty outshines her intelligence and her rank of major, and a blind field engineer whose sense of smell and intuition substitute for his eye sight...

Nate Edwards

He then spent two periods of 2 years each in the 1960s and 1980s consulting for the Institute for Defense Analyses (on loan from IBM), Recommendations were made which changed the IS support of the War Room activities in The Pentagon and studies made provided technology projections for future National Military Command System and World-Wide Military Command Systems.

North Star School District

Joseph Darby, who in April 2004 The Pentagon credited as the lone soldier who came forward to halt and expose the Abu Ghraib prisoner-of-war abuse scandal in Baghdad, Iraq, is a graduate of North Star High School.

Paul Dyster

He also served as Director of the Graduate Program in International Affairs at The Pentagon from September 1989 to August 1994, and assistant professor for the Department of Politics from 1985 to December 1993 at Catholic University of America.

Public Safety Officer Medal of Valor

(In the end, however, the 442 public safety officers killed at World Trade Center and The Pentagon that day were awarded the 9/11 Heroes Medal of Valor, a similar but separate award.)

Raven Rock Mountain Complex

Other designations and nicknames include "The Rock", NMCC-R (for National Military Command Center Reservation), ANMCC (for Alternate National Military Command Center), AJCC (for Alternate Joint Communications Center), "Backup Pentagon", or "Site RT"; the latter refers to the vast array of communication towers and equipment atop the mountain.

Reel Power: Hollywood Cinema and American Supremacy

Alford draws attention to the power of corporate moguls and the role of the Pentagon and CIA in the production of various films, such as Black Hawk Down, Terminator: Salvation, and Transformers.

Richard Kilmer

Both projects drew on his expertise in computer security gained as a systems security manager while in the U.S. Air Force stationed at The Pentagon.

Richard Woolsey

He resigned after it was discovered he had ties to a large corporation which had received $800 million in private contracts from The Pentagon.

Role of Honour

Holy is an elite computer programmer once working for The Pentagon; he now owns and manages a software company that develops computer game simulations based on real-life wars and battles.

Ruth Sergel

Voices of 9.11 – A video oral history archive with over 550 testimonies from survivors, witnesses and first responders in New York, Shanksville, PA, Washington DC and inside the Pentagon of the September 11 attacks recorded in private video booths to be published on-line.

Ryan Chappelle

After trying to get Bauer jailed, Chappelle received direct orders from Washington D.C. (via Palmer's acquaintance Alan Optican from The Pentagon), and then accepted the reinstatement of Bauer until the end of the day.

Suburban Tribe

Caesar hacks into the American military's database and steals an intelligent can opener, but is caught and The Pentagon recognizes him as the result of an experiment they did many years ago.

Tactics of terrorism

On September 11, 2001, 19 al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked American Airlines Flight 11, United Airlines Flight 175, American Airlines Flight 77, and United Airlines Flight 93 and crashed them into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, the southwestern side of the Pentagon building, and Stonycreek Township near Shanksville, Pennsylvania in a terrorist attack.

Tenderness Junction

Despite the increased musical skill of The Fugs during this period, there are many wild and obscure moments, most notably "Exorcising the Evil Spirits from the Pentagon Oct. 21, 1967", a real-life recording of an anti-war protest at The Pentagon where protesters including The Fugs chanted 'Out Demons Out' and had a love-in, plus the long and experimental "Aphrodite Mass".

The Arms Bazaar

It shows how actually The Pentagon helped the American defense contractors to make weapons sales to the Nato allies in Europe instead of providing them with direct security.

The Pentagon's New Map

It is an iteration of a PowerPoint presentation that Barnett has been making for years that is known simply as "The Brief." Interested parties include the public and private sectors, encompassing military organizations and foreign governments.

The Third Twin

To further Jeannie's research, Col. Logan uploads her search program into The Pentagon's computers, and comes up with a total of eight names, which he smuggles to Steven just before he himself is arrested.

The X-Files Mythology, Volume 2 – Black Oil

He uses the distraction this offers to infiltrate The Pentagon to find a cure for Scully's cancer, while Scully is able to uncover and reveal a Syndicate connection within the FBI.

Thomas J. Pickard

He was replaced one week before the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon.

Viva Max!

Max instructs him to contact the Pentagon and report the fort to be back under Mexico's control.

Vostok watches

A popular myth claims that after the Desert Storm operation in 1992, the Pentagon awarded soldiers from the allied forces with a special edition Vostok Amphibian military watch called Desert Shield.

War Hunt

Producer Terry Sanders sent the script to the Pentagon in the chance that the military might provide assistance.

Wassaw Sound

The Pentagon recorded the incident in a top secret memo to the chairman of the United States Atomic Energy Commission (AEC).

Where Them Girls At

Guetta and his label subsequently mastered a proper version of the song, released it earlier than planned and called an employee of The Pentagon to investigate the matter.

William E. Caswell

William Edward Caswell (June 22, 1947 – September 11, 2001) was a physicist who died during the September 11 attacks, as a passenger aboard American Airlines Flight 77, which was crashed into The Pentagon.

Yosef Yitzchak Jacobson

Jacobson was the first rabbi invited by The Pentagon to present the annual keynote address to the US military Chief of Chaplains Senior Leadership Training Conference.


15th Marine Expeditionary Unit

Following the 11 September attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the 15th MEU (SOC) continued their plans of humanitarian operations to assist the war-torn country of East Timor, before sailing to the North Arabian Sea in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.

Arlington Ridge, Virginia

The opening sequence to the 1987 film No Way Out features a long aerial shot that begins on the National Mall, flies over The Pentagon, and then trails down Arlington Ridge Road to end at a house where Kevin Costner’s character is being held for questioning.

Chloe Sutton

Her father is a U.S. Air Force officer who was in the Pentagon at the time of the September 11 attacks and is a former football player who played for the U.S. Air Force Academy.

City Choir of Washington

In February 2011, local businesses and chorus members sponsored tickets for Pentagon families affected by 9/11 and high school and college students as part of the organization’s community outreach efforts.

Gale Pollock

She received the Army Staff Identification Badge for her work at the Pentagon and earned the German Armed Forces Badge for Military Proficiency (Leistungsabzeichen) in gold.

Kevin Corke

In addition Corke frequently reported from the The Pentagon, U.S. Supreme Court and other locations in Washington D.C. Corke figured prominently in NBC's coverage of the Massacre at Virginia Tech.

Leon Davidson

He then accepted assignments at the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) and The Pentagon in Washington before moving into the private sector.

M80 Stiletto

The M80 Stiletto is a prototype naval ship manufactured by the M Ship Company as an operational experiment for The Pentagon’s Office of Force Transformation.

Stan Stokes

Stokes's works hang in the Air Force art collection, the United States Air Force Academy, The Pentagon, the San Diego Air & Space Museum, the Palm Springs Air Museum, the National Museum of Naval Aviation, and the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum.

The Return of Godzilla

New World's biggest change was in adding around ten minutes of new footage, most of it at The Pentagon, with Raymond Burr reprising his role as Steve Martin from Godzilla, King of the Monsters!.

Tysons Corner Communications Tower

Another tower just south of the Raven Rock Mountain Complex in southern Pennsylvania relayed signals from these two backup sites to the Washington defense facilities, along with the Pentagon, White House, the State Department and other government facilities.

Urban terrorism

The hijackers crashed a third airliner into the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, just outside Washington, D.C. The fourth plane crashed into a field near Shanksville in rural Pennsylvania after some of its passengers and flight crew attempted to retake control of the plane, which the hijackers had redirected toward Washington, D.C. in an attempted attack on the United States Capitol Building.

William Dyess

There was also added speculation that Dyess' story was in actuality suppressed by both a Pentagon and White House fearful that an infuriated American public would demand a greater prosecution of the Pacific War (the United States and its allies were operating under a "Europe First" strategic policy).