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|serviceyears= |rank=25px Chief warrant officer |unit= |commands= |battles=World War II |awards= World War I Victory Medal American Defense Medal American Campaign Medal World War II Victory Medal |relations= |laterwork= }} Joseph B. Aviles, Sr. (February 3, 1897 – February 22, 1990), served in the U.S. Navy and later in the U.S. Coast Guard. On September 28, 1925, Aviles became the first Hispanic Chief Petty Officer in the United States Coast Guard. During World War II he received a war-time promotion to Chief Warrant Officer, becoming the first Hispanic to reach that level as well.〔(site United States Coast Guard-Hispanic Americans Chronology )〕 ==Early life and education== Aviles was born José Blas Avilés in a farm near the town of Naranjito, Puerto Rico, when the island was still a Spanish colony. He was a native inhabitant of Puerto Rico and a Spanish subject, though not of the Peninsula (Spain). He was residing in the island on April 11, 1899, the date of the proclamation of the Treaty of Paris of 1898 which ceded the island to the United States. One of the conditions of the treaty was the transfer by cession of the allegiance of the islanders to the United States. In 1907, at the age of 10, Avilés was placed in the Mission of the Immaculate Virgin orphanage, at Mount Loretto, Staten Island.〔The Mission of the Immaculate Virgin was founded in 1871 by Father John Christopher Drumgoole, and is the largest childcare institution in the United States. See (The History of the Mission of the Immaculate Virgin at Mount Loretto ).〕 There he received his primary and secondary education and participated in the institution's cadet program, thus his fascination with military life at a young age. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Joseph B. Aviles, Sr.」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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