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1st Combat Engineer Battalion

During the Vietnam War the 1st Engineer Battalion supported 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Battalions of the 1st 5th and 7th Marines in combat operations from July 1965 through April 1971, operating from Qui-Nhon, Chu-Lai and Da-Nang, the most famous of which was Operation "Starlight" conducted August 1965 where Sgt. Robert E. O'Malley was awarded the first Medal of Honor of the Vietnam War.

A Gift To Last

Melvyn Douglas was cast as the senior Clement Sturgess, a nephew of Sgt Edgar Sturgess.

Aero Spacelines Super Guppy

The last produced Super Guppy remains in service: an SGT flown by NASA (currently used to ferry components for the International Space Station and Project Orion).

Alan Civil

Civil was also part of the orchestra crescendo in the song "A Day in the Life" from the album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

Albert Stubbins

Stubbins' later claim to fame was an appearance on the front cover of The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album, the only footballer to be given that honour.

American Veterans for Equal Rights

It was founded by several lgbt veterans including St. Sgt. (Army Reserve-Rtd.) Miriam Ben-Shalom in 1990 as the Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Veterans of America, the oldest organization of LGBT veterans.

Best of The Beach Boys Vol. 2

Released at a perilous moment in the Beach Boys' career, the appearance of their past glories on Best of The Beach Boys Vol. 2 perhaps helped confirm to the general public that the band was not up to the challenge of the new psychedelic music, spearheaded by The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and The Jimi Hendrix Experience's radical debut Are You Experienced.

Captain Action

Captain Action was an action figure created in 1966, equipped with a wardrobe of costumes allowing him to become Superman, Batman, Spider-Man, Captain America, Aquaman, the Phantom, The Lone Ranger (and Tonto), Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers, Sgt. Fury, Steve Canyon, and the Green Hornet.

Dean Ivan Lamb

There is a Sgt. Dean Lamb (service number 8054) who joined the Royal Flying Corps on August 30, 1915, and was discharged on October 5, 1917.

Elisabeth Fraser

She also made four appearances on Maude, but her best-known role was Sgt. Bilko's longtime girlfriend on The Phil Silvers Show.

Fax from Sarajevo

Friend and client Kubert, the highly regarded artist of DC Comics' Sgt. Rock, Hawkman, and many other titles, was one recipient.

Flare gun

The duty pilot, Sgt. Jeffreys, did not have a conventional weapon, so he grabbed a Very pistol and used it to capture the German pilot, Oberleutnant Armin Faber.

Gerardo González Vernaza

In July 1992, González Vernaza's son Pedro Miguel González Pinzón was accused of the murder of US Army Sgt. Zak Hernandez, who had been shot to death in his Humvee, and a warrant was issued for González Pinzón's arrest.

Harvard Step Test

In 1983, Sgt. Slaughter challenged Backlund to break his own fictitious Harvard step test record.

Hulon B. Whittington

When the advancing enemy attempted to penetrate a roadblock, Sgt. Whittington, completely disregarding intense enemy action, mounted a tank and by shouting through the turret, directed it into position to fire pointblank at the leading Mark V German tank.

Jose M. Lopez

The North East Independent School District in San Antonio, Texas, has recognized Sgt. López by naming a middle school in his honor, José M. López Middle School.

KVIL

The initial attempt in April 1967 was bold, offering good personalities and some interesting programming including the first Dallas broadcast of the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album, played in its entirety on the evening of its release.

Linking and intrusive R

Other recognizable examples are the Beatles singing: "I saw-r-a film today, oh boy" in the song "A Day in the Life", from their 1967 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album, at the Sanctus in the Catholic Mass: "Hosanna-r-in the highest" and in the phrases, "Law-r-and order" and "Victoria-r-and Albert Museum".

Low-angle shot

Full Metal Jacket (directed by Stanley Kubrick): examples of a low angle shot is during the scene where the boot camp Sgt. is yelling at Joker.

Manuel Cuevas

The suits worn by The Beatles on the cover of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band have been attributed to Cuevas, but Paul McCartney has said they were actually conceived by The Beatles and manufactured by the British theatrical costumer M. Berman Ltd. in London.

Mark Sutcliffe

Sgt Mark Sutcliffe is one of the Hero patrons of Help for Heroes, a member of Blesma and was one of four Military Liaison Officers posted to Selly Oak Hospital, looking after the needs of injured soldiers and their families.

Mayuko Iwasa

In June 2005, Iwasa recorded a duet with Naoya Ogawa called "Katte ni Shinryakusha" (An Invader in My Own Way), which was used as an ending song of Sgt. Frog.

Medal of Honor: Allied Assault

It re-enacts 3 major European Theater battles through the eyes of Sgt. Jack Barnes (who is voiced by Gary Oldman), a paratrooper of the 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division.

No. 239 Squadron RAF

On 27 October 1944 during fighter affiliation training with No. 49 Squadron RAF, a Mosquito piloted by F/Lt J.H.Roberts and accompanied by Flight Engineer Sgt. A.M.Ashcroft, stalled and crashed in Stapleford Woods, Lincolnshire, with the immediate death of both pilot and passenger.

Philip Winchester

The series follows the adventures of two Section 20 agents, Sgt. Michael Stonebridge (Winchester) and American former Delta Force officer Damien Scott (Sullivan Stapleton).

Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach

While there, they meet his nephew, Sgt. Nick Lassard of the Miami Police Department.

Richard Merkin

He appeared on the cover of the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album, (back row, right of center, in between Fred Astaire and a Vargas Girl).

Rob Estes

He is best known for his roles as Harry Wilson on the teen drama 90210, as Sgt. Chris Lorenzo on the crime drama Silk Stalkings, and as Kyle McBride on the prime time soap opera Melrose Place.

Robert DoQui

He is best known for his role as King George in the 1973 film Coffy, starring Pam Grier, as Sgt. Warren Reed in the 1987 science fiction film RoboCop, the 1990 sequel RoboCop 2, and the 1993 sequel RoboCop 3.

Saffo the Greek

In July 1914, he was in attendance with other figures of the Levee including John Torrio (representing Jim Colosimo), John Jordan, Jackie Adler and Harry Hopkins at Port Lamp Burke's roadhouse near Cedar Creek (Indiana) several hours after gunman Roxie Vanilli, a cousin of Torrio whom he had brought in from New York, had shot and killed Chicago detective Sgt. Stanley Birns.

Scouting and Guiding in Newfoundland and Labrador

American Scouting at Ernest Harmon Air Force Base Troop 6 under the guidance of Ed Zeidler and Sgt. Henry Erben (the survival trainer for the first seven astronauts) was the furthest east BSA troop in North America.

Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos

The 32-page story, "Shotgun Opera", was by writer Jesse Alexander and artist John Paul Leon.

Sgt. MacKenzie

Joseph MacKenzie wrote the haunting lament after the death of his wife, Christine, and in memory of his great-grandfather, Charles Stuart MacKenzie, a sergeant in the Seaforth Highlanders, who along with hundreds of his brothers-in-arms from the Elgin-Rothes area in Moray, Scotland went to fight in the Great War.

After "Sgt. MacKenzie" was first released on our Tried and True CD album in 2000, a copy of the song made its way to the hands of Hollywood director, Randall Wallace and actor Mel Gibson.

Sgt. Pepper Live

Pepper Live is a performance by American band Cheap Trick with a full orchestra which was released on 25 August 2009, in commemoration of the forty-second anniversary of the release of the historic album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by The Beatles.

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band on the Road

Billy loses her to death, and his own integrity to Maxwell's Silver Hammermen, Jack, Sledge and Claw, dressed in chain mail and representing the Hells Angels of the commercial music business.

Sgt. Shonen's Exploding Plastic Eastman Band Request Mono! Stereo

There are also covers of songs such as "Rock On" originally recorded by David Essex and "1, 2, 3, Red Light", originally recorded by The 1910 Fruitgum Company.

Sorority House Massacre II

Meanwhile, Lt. Mike Block (Jürgen Baum) and Sgt. Phyliss Shawlee (Toni Naples) set out in the storm to get to the Hokstedter house after they receive a disturbance call from the house, and also suspect Orville had something to do with the murders, although Mike was unable to pin anything on him at the time.

Talent holding deal

An example is Corey Reynolds, who had spent the past seven seasons portraying Sgt. David Gabriel in the drama The Closer, a program on TNT.

The Gospel of Us

The Teacher reluctantly agrees and is arrested by a local police office, Sgt. Phillips (Kristian Phillips).

The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell

The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell is a 1968 film directed by Frank Tashlin and starring Bob Hope, Phyllis Diller, and Jeffrey Hunter.

The Squadronaires

Under band leader Sgt. Jamie Deighton the band has played in Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club in London and for HRH the Prince of Wales at Highgrove House supporting Pop Idol winner Will Young.

The Tromaville Cafe

The show featured Lloyd Kaufman as himself, different actors portraying Toxie, Paul Krymse as Sgt. Kabukiman N.Y.P.D., Stephen Blackehart as Felix the French Trickster and scantily clad Tromettes(Debbie Rochon, Stephanie Stokes, Tiffany Shepis, etc.) playing waitress/action news reporters.

Tom Rubnitz

A 1987 "public service announcement" for the Art Against AIDS organization's "Summer of Love" project, which visually referenced the cover of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by The Beatles in tableau vivant form, featured the B-52s, Willi Ninja, Allen Ginsberg, Nam Jun Paik, Quentin Crisp, Lady Bunny and David Byrne, among many others.

United States Marine Corps Wounded Warrior Regiment

In 2008, Wounded Warrior Regiment officials held an unveiling ceremony to rename their call center in Dumfries, Virginia the “Sgt. Merlin German Wounded Warrior Call Center” in his honor.

Walter K. Singleton

Sgt. Walter K. Singleton Parkway, which runs from Memphis to the Naval Support Activity Mid-South in Millington, Tennessee.

Walter Mason Camp

Camp visited the Little Bighorn Battlefield many times, in the company of such notable participants as Curley, Peter Thompson, Gen. Edward S. Godfrey, Sgt. Daniel Knipe, Stanislaus Roy, George Herendeen, and others.

Wayne Duvall

On television he is best known for playing Sgt. Phil Brander on The District (2000–2004).

White Pepper

The title is said to be a tip of the hat to The Beatles, combining Sgt. Pepper's and The White Album into one name, and the cover to Edward Weston's Pepper No. 30.

Yanks Go Home

One of the breakout stars of the show was Freddie Earlle, whose character Corporal Pasquale was favorably compared to Sgt. Bilko.


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