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❝ Located on the outskirts of Kansas City and home to 2,500 soldiers, Fort Leavenworth houses a 4,000-piece art collection, and almost no one knows it exists. The United States Army never meant to hide the collection, but also never meant to amass it.
Now, thanks to a local art gallery owner, portions of the collection have been on public display and the collection has a name: “Art of War, Gifts of Peace.”…
❝ This year, 119 students from 91 nations will spend almost a year in the accredited master’s-level courses to earn a Master of Military Art and Science. They also have the option of earning one of 12 other degrees by taking additional courses at a nearby university. Officers in foreign armies with the rank equivalent of a U.S. Army major are eligible to apply within their respective countries; the U.S. State Department and Department of Defense choose which nations may send students…
❝ Over the years, several, if not most of the esteemed officers presented something to the college upon graduating — but most of the items disappeared into storage. A select few adorned private offices and hallways, until they became part of the furniture, common objects no one gave much thought to.
Intricately carved ivory sailboats, gold-plated swords, and hand-worked pewter vases silently joined jewelry, bronze statues, and detailed ebony masks in the storage room. Regardless of the material or value, LaMoe says his obligation as a government employee is to accept the gifts and ensure that they are catalogued and stored properly. Nothing more.
So, the gift collection has grown in the darkness of the storage room for decades.
RTFA. Cataloging the collection must be a journey of delight and intrigue.
Eideard 
Home of the “Little Top” — one of the oldest military prisons in the GOUSA.
State Dept. investigating whether Trump officials took gifts meant for foreign dignitaries
The dollar value of the missing gifts is “significant,” a department official told NBC. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/state-department-watchdog-investigating-missing-trump-gifts-meant-foreign-dignitaries-n1281328
The Office of the Chief of Protocol, Department of State, list of gifts received by President Trump https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2021-16751.pdf [note “Circumstances justifying acceptance”]
“The Saudi royal family showered Donald Trump and his entourage on his first trip abroad as president with dozens of presents, including three robes made with white tiger and cheetah fur, and a dagger with a handle that appeared to be ivory.
A White House lawyer determined that possession of the furs and dagger most likely violated the Endangered Species Act, but the Trump administration held onto them and failed to disclose them as gifts received from a foreign government.
On the last full day of Trump’s presidency, the White House handed them over to the General Services Administration — the wrong agency — rather than the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which seized the gifts this summer.
The furs, from an oil-rich family worth billions of dollars, turned out to be fake. https://news.yahoo.com/white-tiger-cheetah-furs-mess-115954296.html
“…There is also a question about whether the former second lady, Karen Pence, wrongly took two gold-toned place card holders from the prime minister of Singapore without paying for them.
In addition, the Trump administration never disclosed that Jared Kushner, Mr. Trump’s son-in-law and a top White House adviser, received two swords and a dagger from the Saudis, although he paid $47,920 for them along with three other gifts in February, after he left office. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/11/us/politics/trump-gifts.html