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The Military Chartmaker

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 November 2009

Shannon D. Cramer Jr.
Shannon D. Cramer Jr.
Affiliation:
(U.S. Defense Mapping Agency)
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Extract

Like so many Americans in this Bicentennial Year I find myself reflecting more and more on our heritage, the present state of affairs and our future. As Director of the Defense Mapping Agency I am especially aware that I am in a line of succession that can be traced back to Robert Erskine, the first Geographer-Surveyor to the Continental Army under command of George Washington. This has naturally impressed upon me the more than 200-year service that my organization and its predecessors have rendered to the Armed Forces of the United States, and incidentally our maritime fleet.

Type
‘Two Centuries of Navigation’
Information
The Journal of Navigation , Volume 30 , Issue 1 , January 1977 , pp. 15 - 21
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Navigation 1977

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