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unusual facts about US military



1943 in organized crime

The US Military grants Michele Navarra, the Mafia boss of Corleone, permission to collect abandoned military vehicles left by the Italian army during the allied invasion of Sicily.

Caimanera

Residents of this remote town are the closest Cuban neighbours to the US military camp and currently prison for combatants from a war in Afghanistan.

Capricorn Coast

The Shoalwater Bay Military Training Area (SBMTA) frequently sees deployments of in excess of 30,000 troops, plus annual training exercises with the Singapore Armed Forces and bi-annual Talisman Sabre exercises with the US Military.

Duffel Blog

The Duffel Blog is an American military news satire organization featuring satirical articles reporting on US military news.

Reactive material

In the US military, reactive materials (RM) are a new class of materials currently being investigated by the Office of Naval Research and others as a means to increase the lethality of direct-hit or fragmentation warheads.

Sankamphaeng Range

During the Vietnam War there was a US military Air Defense Radar Station of the 621 TCS Tactical Control Squadron, at the top of Khao Rom, also known as Khao Khiao, the highest summit of the range.


see also

4F

4-F (US military), a military classification under the United States' Selective Service System for candidates found to be unfit for military service after formal examination by the Entrance Processing Command

ASTP

Army Specialized Training Program, a US military training program during World War II

Baghar Cheena airstrike

The incident came as the top US military commander, Admiral Michael Mullen met Pakistan’s most senior army officer, General Ashfaq Kayani and prime-minister Yousuf Raza Gilani in Islamabad to discuss growing tension over US attacks along the border.

Bernie Houghton

After serving in the US military in World War II, Houghton had various jobs over the next 20 years (Alfred W. McCoy describes him as "knocking about the country for twenty years in various jobs with no particular direction").

Betsy Ross Air Corps

Organized by Opal Kunz and named after Revolutionary war heronie Betsy Ross, the organization had a short lived period of existence during the Great Depression and was never formally recognized by the US military.

Bobby Goodman

In October 1983 USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67) was diverted to Beirut, Lebanon from her planned Indian Ocean deployment, after the Beirut barracks bombing killed 241 US Military personnel of the Multinational Force in Lebanon.

Bradfield Elementary School

The aircraft, owned by Ling-Temco-Vought, was occupied by a professional pilot and 6 US military servicemen being ferried to Love Field; all 7 were killed.

Bugatti U-16

In 1917 a US military mission headed by Colonel R.C. Bolling visited Europe to choose aero engines to be produced for the US army air forces.

Chaklala, Rawalpindi

An important air base of the Pakistan Air Force, the Chaklala Airbase is also located here, and houses a permanent US military presence.

Democratic Army of Greece

At the same time, the Hellenic Army, advised by the British up to 1947 and afterwards by US military delegation led by General James Van Fleet, US Army, established the Greek government's position in the rest of the country as well as internationally.

Dustin Berg

In June 2006 the Associated Press distributed an article on pressure within the US military justice system to impose stiffer sentences on soldiers who kill outside of the context of battle—including re-introducing the death penalty.

EditMe

Customers have included eBay, Microsoft, the US military, the Australian government, The Discovery Channel, UPS, the American Institute of Physics, and several large universities around the world.

Foreign relations of Panama

Panama is also a member of the International Criminal Court with a Bilateral Immunity Agreement of protection for the US-military (as covered under Article 98).

Fort Crockett

In 1932, Fort Crocket received eleven A-8 Shrike attack aircraft, the US military's very first all-metal monowing combat aircraft.

Forty and Eight veterans organization

Each state has its own Grande, as well as the District of Columbia, and there are grandes for Mexico, France, Latin America and several other locations where US military veterans make their homes abroad.

Ghulam Rabbani

Abdul Al-Rahim Ghulam Rabbani (born ca. 1969), Pakistani citizen held by the US military at the Guantanamo camps in Cuba

Mohammed Ahmad Ghulam Rabbani (born ca. 1970), Pakistani citizen held by the US military at the Guantanamo camps in Cuba

Government Flight Representative

A Government Flight Representative (GFR) is a US Military Officer or similarly qualified US Government Civilian with the responsibility for aircraft operations conducted by commercial contractors using Department of Defense (DoD) aircraft.

Ilyushin Il-54

The aircraft was then shown to a US Military Delegation at Kubinka.

IMBEL

SAR 48 - IMBEL produced a semi-automatic version of the FAL for Springfield Armory, Inc. (not to be confused with the US military Springfield Armory), which was marketed in the US as the SAR-48 and SAR-4800, starting in the mid-1980s.

Karl Geiler

Geiler, a university professor of economic law in Heidelberg and without affiliation to a political party at the time, was installed prime minister of the newly created territory Greater Hesse by the US military administration.

Kjell Eugenio Laugerud García

In 1977, after the Carter administration published a report critical of the human rights situation in Guatemala, Laugerud announced that the country would no longer accept US military aid.

Laird v. Tatum

Tatum sued after Washington Monthly published an article revealing that US military intelligence units were gathering intelligence on civilians and civil organizations in the US.

Lejay, Afghanistan

Colonel Roger King, a US military spokesman, told reporters that the US Special Forces hunting the ambushers believed they were hunting between thirty and one hundred fighters.

Los Toreros Muertos

Along with Hombres G, Los Rebeldes, and Mecano, Los Toreros Muertos achieved notable cross-over airplay onto the US military radio stations in Rota (see Naval Station Rota, Spain), Torrejon (now Madrid-Torrejón Airport), and Zaragoza (now Zaragoza Airport) that were part of the AFRTS in Europe in the mid-1980s.

M.A.T.

Muzzle action trigger, often used in the US military and ROTC rifle programs

Mark Urban

In his years on Newsnight, he has reported on many of the most compelling foreign news stories in the past two decades: the Gulf War; the attempted coup d'état of 1991 in Moscow; 1993 events in Moscow; Bosnian War; Middle East peace process; the War in Kosovo; and the recent US military campaigns in War in Afghanistan and War in Iraq.

Military Assistance Advisory Group

On October 22, 1957, MAAG and USIS installations in Saigon were bombed, injuring US military advisers.

Military uniform

Among the earliest manufacturers of US military uniforms was the Capron Mills at Uxbridge, Massachusetts from 1820.

Misspeaking

The word was used by a White House spokesman after George W. Bush seemed to say that his government was always "thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people", and more famously by then American presidential candidate Hillary Clinton who recalled landing in at the US military outpost of Tuzla "under sniper fire" (in fact, video footage demonstrates that there were no such problems on her arrival).

Mutlangen

The Mutlanger Heide, a heathland nearby, was the site of a US military base for Pershing II missiles, which were assigned to the 56th Field Artillery Command headquartered in nearby Schwäbisch Gmünd.

Nguyễn Chánh Thi

The US military commander in Vietnam, General William Westmoreland, said that Thi once refused to report to Kỳ in Saigon when requested.

Nugan Hand Bank

The bank was co-founded in 1973 by Australian lawyer Francis John Nugan and US ex-Green Beret Michael Jon Hand, and had connections to a range of US military and intelligence figures, including William Colby, who was CIA director from 1973 to 1976.

Operation Abilene

Operation Abilene (2003) - a US military operation in Al Anbar province in 2003 during the Iraq War.

Patrick Air Force Base

These rockets include satellites for the US military, the National Reconnaissance Office, and the National Security Agency, as well as scientific payload launches in support of NASA, weather satellite launches in support of NOAA, payloads in support of international customers such as the European Space Agency, and commercial payloads for various corporate communications entities.

Phillip Longman

The son of Kenneth and Mary Longman, who worked in Baden-Württemberg as a result of the postwar occupation of that state (and Bavaria) by the US military, Phillip Longman spent most of his childhood in Princeton, New Jersey.

Plugger

Precision Lightweight GPS Receiver (PLGR), a US military handheld GPS system colloquially known as the "plugger"

Project Silver Bug

Project Silver Bug was a code name given to an experimental saucer-shaped aircraft in the 1950s built by Avro Aircraft Ltd. in Malton, Ontario, Canada for the US military.

Puerto Rican Socialist Party

The MPI and PSP launched campaigns against US military bases on the island, including campaigns against bombing drills by the US Navy on Vieques and Culebra, and against environmental destruction.

Purple Storm

Operation Purple Storm, a series of US Military exercises in Panama in 1989

Rally Point

RallyPoint, a professional networking platform for the US military community.

Rock-Ola

Rock-Ola became a prime contractor for production of the M1 carbine for the US Military during World War II.

Ryan Slattery

His directorial debut, At Ease, about the US Military's controversial Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy, was released on October 21, 2010 and has received positive reviews.

Stop loss

Stop-loss policy, US military requirement for soldiers to remain in service beyond their normal discharge date

Tuz Khormato

On September 7 2010, the first US casualties after President Barack Obama declared an end to US combat operations took place near the city when an Iraqi soldier killed 2 US military personnel.

Valiant 40 sailboat

The new resin was designed to be fire retardant, and was originally developed to the specifications of the US military late in the Vietnam War.

Walter Kempowski

In several more books he completed the story of his family from the early 20th century into the late 1950s, when he was released from an East German prison in Bautzen where, accused of spying for the US military forces in West Germany, he had been incarcerated for eight years.

World War II GI

The player takes control of 101st Airborne Division G.I. ("galvanized iron", referring to a soldier in the US military) Corporal Gerardi, sent in to wipe out scores of Wehrmacht and SS soldiers.

Yosef Yitzchak Jacobson

Jacobson was the first rabbi invited by The Pentagon to present the annual keynote address to the US military Chief of Chaplains Senior Leadership Training Conference.