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Military Moving President Obama's Records to Warehouse Near Chicago
Soldiers and sailors have provided the muscle to move millions of records
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The world will be watching on Friday when President-elect Trump takes the oath of office, but a low-profile process in the transition of power has been quietly underway for months. Since October, the U.S. military has been working to move President Obama's records to a temporary warehouse outside Chicago.
The facility is located in the town of Hoffman Estates, about 30 miles northwest of downtown Chicago. It will be used to sort and store "hundreds of millions of textual, electronic, and audiovisual records, and tens of thousands of presidential gifts," according to the National Archives and Records Administration. The materials that President Obama has accumulated over his two terms will be held in storage until his presidential library in Chicago is complete.
Air Force Lt. Colonel Vianesa Vargas calls her team the "muscle behind the move." As the Chief of Joint Team Records, she has coordinated with soldiers, sailors, and commercial contractors to transport an immense amount of freight the 700 miles from Washington D.C. to Illinois. Lt. Colonel Vargas said the planning for the operation started in November 2015.
National Archives and Records Administration personnel watch as Army soldiers load boxes containing presidential materials onto a truck at the National Archives building in Washington, D.C., Oct. 27, 2016. (National Archives and Records Administration)
President George W. Bush, his father, and President Clinton each needed a small fleet of Air Force cargo jets to transport all their paper records. Due to advances in technology, the current president has far less to move.
"President Obama is known as the first paperless president," Lt. Colonel Vargas said. "You're looking at terabytes of data now." She said the data was loaded onto hard drives which were then sent to Illinois.
In October 2016, the first shipment from was loaded onto commercial trucks by soldiers from the Army's 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment, a ceremonial guard unit known as the Old Guard. The trucks were unloaded in Hoffman Estatesby sailors from Naval Station Great Lakes, a facility north of Chicago where the Navy trains its new recruits.
Oct. 28, 2016 – Sailors, stationed aboard various tenant commands of Naval Station Great Lakes, assist in unloading artifacts during the Obama presidency at the Obama Presidential Library in Hoffman Estates, Illinois (U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Timmy Wakefield/Released)
Moving the president's records as he leaves office has a special significance forLt. Colonel Vargas. She attended his inauguration in 2009 while she was serving as the military aide for Susan Rice,Ambassador to the United Nations.
"It's really like a full circle." Lt. Colonel Vargas said "Being a logistics officer for my entire career on the Air Force, it is truly the 'icing on the cake'"
Her team has planned a combination of truck and air movements through the end of February to complete the move.
"It has been a lot of work, but I tell you, it's good to see the plan come together," Lt. Colonel Vargas said.
Photo at top: Left to right: Army Pfc. Caleb Hagelberger, Spc. Joseph Kois and Pfc. Phillip Case push a box containing presidential materials onto a truck at the U.S. National Archives in Washington, D.C., Oct. 27, 2016. (National Archives and Records Administration)
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>Air Force Lt. Colonel Vianesa Vargas calls her team the "muscle behind the move." As the Chief of Joint Team Records
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U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Vianesa Vargas, chief of joint team records at the National Archives and Records Administration, watches as a truck containing President Barrack Obama’s records and artifacts pulls out of the National Archives and Records Administration loading dock, Nov. 1, 2016, Washington, D.C. Vargas coordinated transportation of these materials to Illinois, where they will remain in storage until becoming a part of Obama’s presidential library. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Paige Behringer)
Take every opportunity, you never know where it will lead
Published May 9, 2017
By Lt. Col. Vianesa Vargas
82nd Aerial Port Squadron
When opportunity “knocks” you answer, right? That’s what I did last year when I was selected to lead Joint Team Records, responsible for moving presidential records, gifts and artifacts of the outgoing administration in accordance with the Presidential Records Act. It was a tremendous opportunity for an Air Force officer to lead a joint team and work with interagency partners and executive staff.
In 2014, I was asked to return to active duty to assist with a program I managed when I originally left active duty in 2011. This duty was at the Air Force District of Washington, an Air Force direct reporting unit. Upon completion of the program I was asked to extend, as the Joint Task Force-National Capital Region specifically asked if a logistician could lead the presidential records effort. My supervision at the AFDW wanted me. There were two problems at other levels; 1. I was a Reservist, and 2. I was a commander.
After months of vetting, attending meetings and conducting briefings, I was selected. Since it had been 10 years since having my hands in operational logistics, I told the planners that I wished to pick the skillset of my deputy. I didn’t care where the individual came from, however, I wanted an officer proficient in airlift planning. I was granted my wish, and went to work deployed on a unit line number in Washington, D.C.
I was one of the first of the JTF team commanders on the scene in August 2016. My days largely consisted of meetings and getting to know the lay of the land. Because I was embedded with the Army at Fort Lesley J. McNair, Washington, D.C., I also attended morning physical training sessions. The JTF was largely responsible for all aspects of presidential ceremonial transition. It is a complex muscle move, with many moving parts. Fortunately for me and my team, we operated out of the National Archives building near the White House where our operation remained until completion six months later. We were the first team in and last out.
I led two branches—“Team D.C.,” who, besides my operations officer, also included an Army infantry officer and 25 Soldiers from the 3d Infantry Regiment-(The Old Guard).Additionally, I was allotted 40 Sailors on the Chicago end—“Team Chicago,” which consisted of a Navy lieutenant and personnel from Naval Air Station Great Lakes, Illinois. We worked to secure the president’s legacy, moving over 230 short tons of cargo on 51 trucks and a single C-5M Super Galaxy over a six-month period.
As a history aficionado, it was a dream to work in the National Archives. As an Air Force officer, it was particularly exciting to lead a diverse group of military professionals from three different services at this stage in my career. I was told this was the most seamless and efficient presidential move since President Carter, the first time the military led the duty. Something tells me you will see more Air Force logisticians replace me in that duty in the future.
>https://www.travis.af.mil/News/Commentaries/Display/Article/1177722/take-every-opportunity-you-never-know-where-it-will-lead/
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TheArmy War Collegeappears to have memory holed this podcast.
Date is June 4 2020, soright after the Insurrection started
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WHOSE HISTORY? WHOSE HERITAGE? MEMORY AND MEMORIALS IN THE ARMED FORCES
Posted byVianesa Vargas June 4, 2020January 25, 2021
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I would venture to say that there are a lot of black troops that understand what those names mean and just have chosen not to take it up as an issue.
Bragg, Benning and Hood are names that are universally known throughout the Army and most of the Department of Defense. They are some of the largest installations in the Army, and they are home to the Airborne Corps, Special Operations, the Infantry, Armored and Cavalry branches to name a few. Millions of soldiers have lived, trained and deployed from these posts.But to some, the individuals that these forts are named after are a divisive point. All three were Confederate generals, and what they represent to many service members and civilians is deeply hurtful.A BETTER PEACE welcomes Vianesa Vargasto discuss her recent research centered around the need for change in the DoD. She joins podcast editor Ron Granieri to explain why now is the time to rename these and other installations and ships and acknowledge their impact on the whole of the force and the inclusiveness the U.S. military strives to represent.
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Vianesa Vargas is a Lieutenant Colonel and Logistics Readiness Officer in the U. S. Air Force and a member of the AY20 resident class at the U.S. Army War College. Ron Granieri is an Associate Professor of History at the U.S. Army War College and the Editor of A BETTER PEACE. The views expressed in this presentation are those of the speakers and do not necessarily reflect those of the U.S. Army War College, U.S. Army, or Department of Defense.
Photo Description: The “Stone Gate” on Benning Road at Ft. Benning, Georgia. The fort is named after after Henry L. Benning, a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the Civil War. Since 1909, Fort Benning has served as the Home of the Infantry.
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Ruth A. Stevens-Klitz says:
June 4, 2020 at 7:34 am
This was an excellent and very timely conversation. I found the discussion of how the different Services have chosen to address the issue of Confederate legacy to be an interesting one. I was also intrigued by Col. Vargas’s suggestion for alternative namesakes for installations. Certainly the social media era has accelerated, though in no way created, our nation’s ability to look differently at historical figures over time. As we discover the human flaws in our human heroes, the concept of memorialization becomes fraught. Thank you for inviting us to look more broadly, and with historical mindedness, at the ways our armed forces have celebrated our past, and the role they play in moving our nation into the future.
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June 4, 2020 at 9:11 am
Thank you, Ruth, for your thoughtful comment, and, as ever, for listening!
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What’s That Building? Why This Hoffman Estates Warehouse Stores Barack Obama’s Presidential Papers
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If you drove past this suburban building, you likely wouldn’t suspect it houses the classified and non-classified documents from Barack Obama’s eight years as president.
More than 20 truckloads of papers were brought from Washington, D.C. to this shuttered Plunkett furniture store in Hoffman Estates in early 2017.
Those documents will eventually be digitized and made available to
Hoffman Estates
Posted by Jeff Id on August 13, 2022
Back in the day, we called this JUMPING THE SHARK
Current titles from the media overloards of truth —“Obama didn’t keep millions of classified White House documents. ” Remember that bit.
Old headlines — No Obama documents in Obama library? Historians puzzled by Chicago center plans
Obama’s physical records are currently in a private facility in Illinois
October 17, 2017
So Hoffman estates was located oddly close to Obama quite a few months after he left the presidency. The leftists are claiming it didn’t happen. On this GOVERNMENT site, this is the claim:
The classified records have been relocated to the National Archives at College Park, MD, to facilitate their review for declassification as part of the work by the National Declassification Center (established by President Obama via Executive Order 13526) and in keeping with recommendations of the Public Interest Declassification Board.
Relocated from where, and relocated from when?
Well, my link came from the wayback machine as the site the link used to exist at has been modified. Who had control of the records you ask. Whellll the wonderful and effluvient Emily Shaw of the OBAMA foundation of course.
Because why not.
With this agreement in place, our cross-organizational working group is now putting the finishing touches on a Request for Proposals for a vendor-partner to carry out the work this project will entail. That includes digitizing roughly 30 million pages of content and creating metadata to enable NARA to preserve, search, and provide access to these historical records under the Presidential Records Act (PRA), alongside more than 500 million digital records that were transferred from the White House at the end of the Obama Administration.
Just as a reminder. The current propaganda straight from the never lying government is this:
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) assumed exclusive legal and physical custody of Obama Presidential records when President Barack Obama left office in 2017, in accordance with the Presidential Records Act (PRA). NARA moved approximately 30 million pages of unclassified records to a NARA facility in the Chicago area where they are maintained exclusively by NARA. Additionally, NARA maintains the classified Obama Presidential records in a NARA facility in the Washington, DC, area. As required by the PRA, former President Obama has no control over where and how NARA stores the Presidential records of his Administration.
So I need to end this post. I think a summary will suffice……..
Current news says Obama didn’t take any classified documents from the whitehouse, and Trump lied that he did. Trump had 15 boxes of KNOWN information that he himself declassified. Obama had 20 TRUCKS of information that was not declassified moved to an abandoned furniture store minutes from his own home. Public documents scrubbed from the national archives site confirm that he later was working to contract with private agencies to officially distribute the information per his own team’s decisions.
Obama’s entire record spent months unobserved and in the care of Plunkett Furniture’s old building.
This whole scam is a farce.
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First stop for Obama library archives? It's an empty furniture store in the 'burbs.
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Before the doors of President Barack Obama's library open on Chicago's South Side, truckloads of White House archives will be shipped to a former furniture store in the northwest suburbs.
A massive volume of paperwork, electronic data and artifacts will find atemporary home at the old Plunkett Home Furnishings store in Hoffman Estates, Ill. As many as 120 employees will be brought in by the National Archives and Records Administration to sort through the material, which ultimately will be part of the Obama Presidential Center.
The National Archives employees will organize, digitize and preserve the contents of what is sometimes called the "president's attic," said John Laster, who directs the Presidential Materials Division at the agency and has toured the Hoffman Estates site.
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