National Defense Transportation Day 2024
May 17, 2024 in the USA
National Defense Transportation Day takes place on May 17, 2024. National Defense Transportation Day is a United States Federal Observance Day observed on the third Friday in May. The week during which the day falls is often observed by a wide range of activities including poster contests for schools, educational expositions on transport, and programs with guest speakers. On National Defense Transportation Day, the president urges "the people of the United States, including labor, management, users, and investors, in all communities served by the various forms of transportation to observe National Defense Transportation Day by appropriate ceremonies that will give complete recognition to the importance to each community and its people of the transportation system of the United States and the maintenance of the facilities of the system in the most modern state of adequacy to serve the needs of the United States in times of peace and in national defense." (With material from: Wikipedia)
More dates:
- National Defense Transportation Day on May 16, 2025
- National Defense Transportation Day on May 15, 2026
- National Defense Transportation Day on May 21, 2027