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unusual facts about Military Service



Ahn Cheol-soo

He individually researched computer antivirus software programs while at Seoul National University Hospital and Dankook University Hospital, and founded venture after finishing his military service as a naval medical officer.

Hollywood Victory Committee

The Hollywood Victory Committee was an organization founded on December 10, 1941 during World War II to provide a means so that for stage, screen, television and radio performers that were not in military service could contribute to the war effort through bond drives and improving morale for troops.

John Kimbrough

In 1941 he started along Tom Harmon in the New York Americans backfield in the third American Football League and became the team's primary running threat after Harmon left the team for military service.

Nikos Englezou

In summer 2012, Englezou was called up by the Cypriot National Guard for military service, so he moved to Cypriot First Division side Nea Salamis Famagusta FC for a season-long loan in order for him to be closer at home.

Ricardo Salgado

He has a degree in Economics from the Higher Institute of Economic and Financial Sciences of the Universidade Técnica de Lisboa (1969), and did his Military Service in the Portuguese Navy, on the Officer Training Course of the Naval Reserve.

Swiss Civilian Service

Civilian service is a Swiss institution, created in 1996 as an alternative to military service.


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Alexander Raye Pimentel

Army Commendation Medal for Active Duty Military Service - October 2007 to October 2011

Arnold Wathen Robinson

During World War I he initially enlisted in the Artists Rifles, and was then released from military service to manage a shell factory.

Arthur Code

After military service, Code received a master's degree and doctorate in astronomy and astrophysics from the University of Chicago (without having received a bachelor's degree).

Arthur Henry Seton Hart-Synnot

Hart-Synnot was from a family with a history of military service, and an uncle, Sir Reginald Hart, had been awarded the Victoria Cross in Afghanistan.

Back Min-Chul

He joined Anyang LG Cheetahs, then known as Anyang LG Cheetahs from Dongguk University in 2000, before shifting to Gwangju Sangmu Bulsajo while fulfilling his military service obligations.

Café Nicholson

Born to Albanian immigrants, Nicholson moved from St Louis to New York after he was declared exempt from military service.

Dietmar Ahle

Later he enters military service and a 2-year apprenticeship as painter and varnisher in Bonn and Bad Godesberg, 1985 he receives his master craftsman diploma in Bielefeld.

Elmer J. Rogers, Jr.

His foreign decorations include the Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Croix de Guerre with Palm (French), Pilots Citation, Royal Yugoslavian Air Force, the Order of the White Elephant, 2nd Class (Thailand), the Ulchi Distinguished Military Service Medal with Gold Star (Republic of Korea), the Order of the Rising Sun (Japan), and the Military Order of Taeguk (Korea).

Franjo Komarica

After completing his compulsory military service he began theological studies in Ðakovo (1967-1968), and continued studying at the Faculty of Catholic Theology of the University of Innsbruck (1968-1972).

George Henry Cram

George Henry Cram was born in Shamokin, Pennsylvania, and was a merchant before entering the military service.

Gilad Hesseg

His military service in the Israeli Navy provided opportunities to sing and perform music for navy personnel leading to his first cover band with performances in major nightclubs throughout the country.

Guy Bourdin

During his military service in Dakar (1948–1949), he received his first photography training as a cadet in the French Air Force.

Gwenc'hlan Le Scouëzec

He did military service between 1951 and 1953 in the French Foreign Legion at Sidi-bel-Abbès and Daya in Algeria.

Henry Berry Lowrie

Several Lowrie cousins, excluded from military service because they were free men of color (also called free blacks), had been conscripted to help build Fort Fisher, near Wilmington, North Carolina.

Herbert Taylor Reade

After his military service, he served as a surgeon to Queen Victoria.

Ian Campbell, 12th Duke of Argyll

Following his military service he worked in banking, then spent four years as a sales executive with Rank Xerox Export, regularly travelling behind the Iron Curtain.

Iriomote Coal Mine

In 1941, the Pacific War had started and many workers were drafted for military service with the Japanese Imperial army.

James Boag II

James performed his military service in Launceston and qualified for the Long Service Medal in 1910.

James Ramsay Montagu Butler

In World War II, Butler returned to military service in the Army Intelligence Corps, recruiting many former students including Bernard Willson to work on code breaking at Bletchley Park.

Johan Alfred Ander

Born in Ljusterö, Ander performed his military service duties from 1893 to 1894 at the Coastal Artillery Regiment of Vaxholm.

Joseph Sadi-Lecointe

Between 1925 and 1927 he returned to military service as a volunteer, taking part in the Rif War in Morocco, afterwards returning to his job as chief test pilot with Nieuport Delage.

Kai Diekmann

After his Abitur (roughly equivalent to high school graduation) and mandatory military service, which he completed on the editorial staff of a military newspaper, he studied at the University of Münster.

Kimberly Rivera

A long-time resident of Mesquite, Texas, Rivera worked at Walmart prior to her military service, meeting her future husband Mario there.

Leonard Knight Elmhirst

In 1914, he was deemed unfit for military service and volunteered for overseas service in the YMCA.

Ludovico Tommasi

After his military service in Milan between 1888 and 1891, Tommasi and his brother Angiolo frequented the cultural circle that gravitated around Giacomo Puccini at Torre del Lago, and it was here that he came into contact with several exponents of the Tuscan artistic avant-garde, including Galileo Chini and Oscar Ghiglia.

Mattityahu Peled

Peled had already studied Arabic literature during his military service, and soon after being discharged he completed and submitted to UCLA his Ph.D. thesis on the Egyptian Nobel Prize laureate Naguib Mahfouz.

Military Professional Resources Inc.

General William F. Kernan of the U.S. Army also joined the firm after his military service.

Moe Burtschy

Following his military service, he returned to the minors and, on June 17, 1950, he made his debut in the American League with the Athletics.

Nathaniel Lichfield

Poor health however prevented him from joining the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War and from undertaking military service in the WWII.

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.

Necati Cumalı

Toward the end of that decade, while he was doing his military service, he also started writing short stories in which the profound influence of another important Turkish writer, Sabahattin Ali, could be felt.

Nikolai Baturin

After attending a high school, military service took him for five years to the Caspian oil-fields and the Atlantic Ocean; for fifteen years he was a hunter in the Siberian taiga.

Överfurir

A non-professional military service furir could obtain the rank through volunteer promotional courses at FBU.

Palm Heinrich Ludwig von Boguslawski

A native of Magdeburg, Boguslawski met Johann Elert Bode (1747–1826), who was an observatory director in Berlin and published the celestial atlas Uranographia, at the Prussian Military Academy in Berlin between 1811–12, when Boguslawski did his military service.

Pennsylvania Dutch

After the American Revolution, John Graves Simcoe, Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada, invited pacifists from the former American Colonies, including Mennonites and German Baptist Brethren to settle in British North American territory on the promise of exemption from military service and the swearing of judicial oaths.

Peter Andreas Heiberg

One and a half years later, his family bought him out of his military service, and after a short stay in Uppsala, he went to Bergen, where he stayed with his uncle for three years.

Press gang

Impressment, the practice of pressing men into military service

Q clearance

Actor Charlton Heston once held a "Q" Clearance for six years when he served as a nuclear armament topics training film narrator for the military during his post-World War II military service years.

Rob Wyda

Judge Wyda would attend Bethel Park High School graduations in his Navy uniform and recognize graduates who signed up for military service.

Ron Hargrave

During his military service time he met up with the daughter of Lou Costello which started him off in the film industry.

Sandy D'Alemberte

After military service as a lieutenant in the United States Navy Reserve, D'Alemberte studied on a Rotary Foundation fellowship at the London School of Economics.

Sid Laverents

He was employed as a sheet metal worker at Consolidated Aircraft in San Diego, California starting in 1941, and with the exception of military service remained with the firm until 1967, by which time it had become part of Convair.

Smilo Freiherr von Lüttwitz

He joined the military service during the mobilisation on 3 August 1914 as an officer cadet in the Leib-Dragonerregiment (2. Großherzoglich Hessisches) Nr. 24 of the 25th Division in Darmstadt.

Swedish Social Democratic Youth League

Chairman Jan Nygren (1978–1984) said: "It was pure James Bond story. In one of the papers, I saw my own name and a report on a conversation with me. It was about SSU's military service activities and how we would activate SSU: are in the military. Then I could understand mentally that it was not something Fuales".

The Land of Lost Content

The book is divided into seven chapters, respectively covering Chenevix-Trench's ancestry and early childhood, his education at Shrewsbury School and Christ Church, Oxford, his military service in the Malayan Campaign during the Second World War, and his successive spells of teaching at Shrewsbury, Bradfield, Eton and Fettes.

Ulf Stolterfoht

Ulf Stolterfoht opted out of military service and performed civilian service instead, after which he studied German and Linguistics in Bochum und Tübingen.

Virgil Bercea

He studied in his town, and after the military service he attended the University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Cluj-Napoca from 1977 to 1981.

W. Rolfe Kerr

He earned a bachelor’s degree in agriculture from Utah State University (USU), intending to spend his life farming, until he was offered a position as coordinator of student activities at USU after his military service.

Web of the City

After leaving the street gang, Ellison went to the Ranger Basic Training camp in Fort Benning, Georgia to begin his military service.