Organizational structure of the United States Department of Defense of the Treasury. According to the U.S. Code, the Coast Guard is at all times considered one of the five armed services of the United States. During times of declared war (or by Congressional direction), the Coast Guard operates as a part of the Navy; this has not happened since World War II, but members have served in undeclared wars and conflicts since then while the service remained in its peacetime department. The Pentagon, in Arlington County, Virginia, across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C., is the Department's headquarters. The Department is protected by the Pentagon Force Protection Agency, which
Department of Urology, University of Virginia Department of Urology, University of Virginia The Department of Urology is one of twenty-one clinical departments at The University of Virginia School of Medicine in Charlottesville, Virginia. The Department of Urology is located on the University of Virginia Grounds adjacent to the historic Academical Village. The current Chair of the Department of Urology is Dr Raymond Costabile. Almost one hundred years after the establishment of the School of Medicine by Thomas Jefferson, it became evident and necessary to detach what was then known as genito-urinary practices from the general surgery and set it up as a separate service. Dr John