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unusual facts about Air Service, United States Army



8th of November

The song, which begins with a spoken introduction by Kris Kristofferson, tells the tale of Niles Harris, a soldier in the 173rd Airborne Brigade of the United States Army during Operation Hump in South Vietnam on November 8, 1965.

AFCEA

Following the American Civil War, the United States Veterans Signal Association was formed from the original Signal Corps established under Major Albert J. Myer of the U.S. Army.

Battle of Taegu

The United States, a permanent member of the Security Council, immediately deployed armed forces (U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, and U.S. Air Force units) to southeastern South Korea because of their immediate availability from their bases in Japan and Okinawa, where the military occupation of Japan was still in effect (through 1952).

Bell 204/205

Bell designed its Model 204 in response to a 1955 United States Army requirement for a utility helicopter.

Bill Epton

"Even as a high school student," the obituary reads, "he demonstrated for civil rights and helped organize unions. He was drafted into the Army and served in the Korean War."

Blood plasma

Following the "Plasma for Britain" invention, Dr. Drew was named director of the Red Cross blood bank and assistant director of the National Research Council, in charge of blood collection for the United States Army and Navy.

Bonneville County, Idaho

Bonneville County was established in 1911, named after Benjamin Bonneville (1796–1878), a French-born officer in the U.S. Army, fur trapper, and explorer in the American West.

Cecil Pugh

The Four ChaplainsUnited States Army chaplains who gave their lives in similar circumstances in 1943

Clown Virus

When the United States Army asks the Goodies to get rid of a large container, with the words Tomato soup on its side, they take it out to sea in an attempt to ditch it — but without success.

Colin Eaborn

Thanks to grants from the United States Air Force and Army, Eaborn was able to assemble a team of 15 researchers and students, and in 1960 published the textbook Organosillicon Compounds, which had "a major influence on the development of what has become one of the most prolific areas of organometallic chemistry, with extensive applications in organic synthesis, catalysis and materials science".

Dante's Equation

Calder Farris-- Lieutenant in the United States Army and agent for the United States Department of Defense, a violently patriotic sociopath investigating new weapons technology from non-mainstream scientific sources.

David Brumbaugh

Brumbaugh served in the 101st Airborne Division of the United States Army, in a Rapid Deployment Air Assault Infantry Unit, and was decorated with the Army Achievement Medal and the Army Commendation Medal.

Deerfield Beach High School

Allen West, Republican U.S. Representative for Florida's 22nd congressional district since 2011 and lieutenant colonel in the United States Army, taught U.S. history at Deerfield Beach High in the 2004–2005 school year.

Donald S. Kellermann

He was a radio broadcaster while serving with the United States Army in Germany during World War II and went to work for the Brooklyn Eagle after leaving Hofstra University.

Doom novels

Multiple armed forces are sent to Salt Lake City to detain or fight the resistance, including the United States Army, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and the Internal Revenue Service 'revenue collection' strike force.

Eau Gallie, Florida

Houston had been sent to the area by the United States Army to determine how many Native Americans were still living in the area after the Third Seminole War.

Eckert–Mauchly Computer Corporation

By the spring of 1946, Eckert and Mauchly had procured a U.S. Army contract for the University of Pennsylvania and were already designing the EDVAC — the successor machine to the ENIAC — at the university's Moore School of Electrical Engineering.

Embassy of Australia, Washington, D.C.

Located behind the chancery building was a memorial to the World War II United States Army soldiers who died during the Bakers Creek air crash, the deadliest air disaster in Australian history.

Frank S. Scott

Corporal Frank S. Scott (December 2, 1883 – September 28, 1912) was the first enlisted member of the United States Armed Forces to lose his life in an aircraft accident.

G7 howitzer

In 2004, DLS partnered with General Dynamics Land Systems (GDLS) to offer the gun in self-propelled form to the United States Army.

Grog

Honoring the 18th century British Army regimental mess and grog's historical significance in the military, the United States Navy, United States Air Force, and United States Army carry on a tradition at its formal dining in ceremonies whereby those in attendance who are observed to violate formal etiquette are "punished" by being sent to "the grog" and publicly drink from it in front of the attendees.

Harrison G. O. Blake

He was not a candidate for renomination in 1862 to the Thirty-eighth Congress, but instead, with the Civil War raging, entered the United States Army in 1864.

Hood event

On July 4, 2003, soldiers from the United States Army's 173d Airborne Brigade raided a safehouse in the Kurdish-held Iraqi city of Sulaymaniyah.

Jeremy Brizzi

Jeremy graduated from Cary-Grove High School in 1994, attending McHenry County College as a music major college and Western Illinois University as a business management major before choosing discipline and direction through the United States Army.

John Mahnken

He served in the United States Army from 1943 to 1945, then embarked on a professional career in the National Basketball League with the Rochester Royals.

John Swainson

Swainson served in the United States Army during World War II with the 95th Infantry Division and lost both legs by amputation following a land mine explosion November 15, 1944, near Metz, Alsace-Lorraine.

Joseph G. Williams

In 1950 after 12 years in the Army Joe came back home to Warsaw and married his high school sweetheart Dolly Johnson on March 3, 1950.

Legion of the United States

The Legion of the United States was a reorganization and extension of the United States Army from 1792 to 1796 under the command of Major General Anthony Wayne.

Little Egg Harbor Township School District

On November 4, 2004, at around 9pm, an F-16 Fighting Falcon jet from the 113th Wing of the District of Columbia Air National Guard, based at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland on a training mission at the Fort Dix United States Army installation in Warren Grove was climbing upward at 8,000 feet.

Longport, New Jersey

Thomas Cruse (1857–1943), United States Army Brigadier General who was a recipient of the Medal of Honor for valor in action in 1882 at the Battle of Big Dry Wash.

Matanikau Offensive

The Matanikau Offensive, from November 1–4, 1942, sometimes referred to as the Fourth Battle of the Matanikau, was an engagement between United States (U.S.) Marine and Army and Imperial Japanese Army forces around the Matanikau River and Point Cruz area on Guadalcanal during the Guadalcanal campaign of World War II.

Michael Montelongo

Mr. Montelongo entered public service in 1977 as a lieutenant in the U.S. Army, and completed the U.S. Army Ranger School at Fort Benning, Ga., in 1978.

Mildred Gillars

She was then held by the Counterintelligence Corps at Camp King, Oberursel, along with fellow-collaborators Herbert John Burgman and Donald S. Day until she was conditionally released from custody on December 24, 1946.

National Security Personnel System

Also, employees working at DoD agencies, such as the Defense Finance and Accounting Service, Tricare, the Office of the Inspector General and the Office of the Secretary of Defense, earned higher performance ratings and payouts overall than did their civilian counterparts in the three military service branches: United States Army, United States Navy, and United States Air Force.

Oregon Trail, Wells Springs Segment

Bomb craters near the trail were created by practice bombing runs during World War II, when the range was controlled by the United States Army.

Prussian Military Academy

Ernst Emile Von Lorenz, who served as a United States Army Commander in 1889, was a graduate; as well as US Army Colonel Albert Coady Wedemeyer, who served in World War II.

Red Ruffing

Despite his age (37) and missing toes, a United States Army doctor certified Ruffing as Class 1-B in the Selective Service System, overruled Ruffing's personal physician, who had ruled Ruffing unfit for service.

Redlynch, Somerset

During World War II, the United States Army 3rd Armored Division (spearhead) was based at Redlynch Park.

Richard Colvin Cox

The following year, Cox served in the Sixth Constabulary Regiment of the United States Army, situated at the time in Coburg, Germany.

Robert Eugene Fannin

Before entering the ministry, Robert was part of the J.C. Penney management training program, served in the U.S. Army, and became a representative for Burroughs Corporation.

Robert F. Fisher

Robert F. Fisher, (February 18, 1879 Plymouth, England - July 20, 1969 Carlotta, California) served in the California legislature and during the Spanish-American War he served in the United States Army.

Sapper Tab

The Sapper Tab is a military badge of the United States Army which was authorized on June 28, 2004 by the Army Chief of Staff, General Peter Schoomaker.

The Detached Mission

The CIA officers appoints U.S. Army Major Jack Hessalt as a commanding officer of missile launch command post inside a secret U.S. military base in the Pacific Ocean.

USS LST-953

LST-953 carried elements of the 2nd Marine Division to Nagasaki on 24 September for the occupation of Japan and men of the US Army's 24th Infantry Division to Matsuyama on 27 October.

Walker County, Texas

However, Walker later supported the Union during the Civil War; thus, in order to keep the county's name from being changed, it was renamed for Samuel H. Walker, a Texas Ranger and soldier in the American Army.

William C. Gorgas

William Crawford Gorgas KCMG (October 3, 1854 – July 3, 1920) was a United States Army physician and 22nd Surgeon General of the U.S. Army (1914–1918).

William Francis Ganong, Jr.

He was a graduate of Harvard Medical School and served with the United States Army during World War II and the Korean War in which he was part of a medical team that established a MASH unit, the Hemorrhagic Fever Center.

William S. Evans

First Sergeant William Stanton Evans (July 16, 1910 - June 6, 1944) was a non-commissioned officer of the Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment in the 101st Airborne Division, United States Army during the Second World War.

Woodside Barracks

The base also provided training facilities for several CMF units and provided temporary accommodation for elements of the United States Army's 32nd Infantry Division when it first arrived in Australia in May 1942.

Zenonas Puzinauskas

He worked as a translator in the United States Army and played for Kempton Šarūnas Lithuanian emigrants basketball team.


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