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Advanced Colt Carbine-Monolithic

The Colt's Manufacturing Company Advanced Colt Carbine-Monolithic is an improved version of the M4 carbine presented to the United States military at a conference as a possible replacement for the M16 rifle and M4 carbine within the military.

Bixby letter

The letter is frequently mentioned in America in relation to the topic of siblings going to war, such as when discussing the Sullivan brothers, the Niland brothers, the Borgstrom brothers, and the Sole Survivor Policy of the United States military.

Continental Army

However the United States military realised it needed a well-trained standing army following St. Clair's Defeat on November 4, 1791, when a force led by General Arthur St. Clair was almost entirely wiped out by the Western Confederacy near Fort Recovery, Ohio.

Date Safe Project

The Date Safe Project is an anti-sexual assault organization in the United States which provides prevention materials and advocacy programs for middle schools, high schools, universities, community organizations, and the United States Military.

Elgin Baylor

Baylor, a United States Army Reservist, was called to active duty during the 1961-62 season, and being stationed in Washington state, he could play for the Lakers only when on a weekend pass.

Exercise Talisman Saber

Talisman Saber involves joint exercises performed by the Australian Defence Force and the United States Military across six locations in northern and central Australia, the Coral Sea, and in Honolulu, Denver, and Suffolk, Va., though the bulk of the exercises are concentrated at the Shoalwater Bay Military Training Area and other locations in northern and central Australia and Australia's territorial sea and exclusive economic zone.

Islamabad–New Delhi hotline

The nuclear hotline was setup on 20 June 2004, which was initiated by President Pervez Musharraf with the assistance of United States military officers (as an advisers) in his regime.

Main Navy and Munitions Buildings

The Main Navy and Munitions Buildings were constructed in 1918 along Constitution Avenue (then known as B Street) on Washington, D.C.'s National Mall (Potomac Park), to provide temporary quarters for the United States Military.

Mel Kaufman

Kaufman was also a spokesperson for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Drug Enforcement Administration and the United States military, working with and speaking to children and adults.

Philip Falcone

Republican legislators like Chuck Grassley, Ralph Hall and Darrell Issa have expressed concerns that he would receive special treatment to develop LightSquared over the United States Military's Global Positioning System.

Randolph Engineering

They are most noted for supplying eye-wear to the United States military.

Trijicon

On January 18, 2010, ABC News reported that Trijicon was placing references to Biblical verses on the side of the ACOG sights sold to the United States military.

Valor.defense.gov

On 28 June 2012, as the United States Supreme Court struck down the Stolen Valor Act of 2005, an act which installed criminal penalties on persons making false claims about being awarded valor awards for service in the United States military.

With God on Our Side: One Man's War Against an Evangelical Coup in America's Military

With God on Our Side: One Man's War Against an Evangelical Coup in America's Military is a book by Michael Weinstein, founder of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, about fundamentalist Evangelical Christian influence in the United States Military and its institutions.


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1503d Air Transport Group

As United States military forces began to increase in Indochina, more and more equipment moved into first Tan Son Nhut Air Base in South Vietnam, then to Don Muang Royal Thai Air Force Base, near Bangkok, and in early 1965 to the huge new Cam Ranh Air Base with the jet C-141 Starlifter transports.

Aggressor

Aggressor squadron, a United States military unit acting as an opponent in wargames

Aid station

In United States military operations, these are most commonly referred to as Battalion Aid Stations; in Commonwealth countries, Regimental Aid Posts.

Albert Ramsey

Albert C. Ramsey (1813–1869) was a member of the United States military during the Mexican–American War who is most notable as the translator of Ramón Alcaraz's history of the Mexican War published as The Other Side: Or Notes for the History of the War between Mexico and the United States.

Barbara B. Smith

Smith also used her position to actively oppose the recruitment of women into the United States military and the spread of abortion, which had been legalized in the United States in 1973.

Battle of La Paz

In late September, Captain Manuel Pineda of the Mexican Army began to assemble a large militia force of farmers and ranchers to defend the Gulf of California region of Mexico from the invading United States military.

BDU

Battle Dress Uniform, United States military combat uniforms worn from the 1980s to 2010s

Blanchfield

Michael R. Blanchfield (January 4, 1950 – July 3, 1969) was a United States Army soldier and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration.

Botwood

In 1942, 11 United States military personnel died when their Sikorsky VS-44 flying boat, the Excalibur, crashed and sank in the Bay of Exploits shortly after takeoff from Botwood.

Camp Las Casas

Camp Las Casas was a United States military installation established in Santurce, Puerto Rico in 1904.

Chief Tishomingo

He served with distinction in the United States Military in the Battle of Fallen Timbers, the Red Stick War with the Creeks and the War of 1812.

Christopher Reed

During the debate, Reed made personal attacks on Harkin, accusing him of being the "Tokyo Rose of Al-Qaeda and Middle East terrorism" and calling him "anti-American" and alleging that he provided "aid and comfort to the enemy" in a speech calling for the closure of the United States military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

CNN NewsStand

The NewsStand series' debut episode, broadcast on 1997-06-07, was a CNN & Time presentation, "Valley of Death", a highly controversial report that accused the United States military of using sarin gas in Operation Tailwind during the Vietnam War.

David Palmer

Dave Richard Palmer (born 1934), retired US Army Lieutenant General and Superintendent of the United States Military Academy (West Point) from 1986–1991

Dellums v. Bush

1141 (1990), was a D.C. Federal District Court decision by United States District Judge Harold H. Greene, denying the plaintiffs, members of Congress, a preliminary injunction against President George H.W. Bush to stop implementation of his orders directing the United States military to fight in Iraq without first obtaining a declaration of war from Congress, the only branch Constitutionally mandated to declare war.

Dirty Wars

In Afghanistan, he investigates the United States military and government cover-up of the deaths of five civilians, including two pregnant women killed by US soldiers from the Joint Special Operations Command.

Draper Committee

The Presidents Committee to Study the United States Military Assistance Program ("Draper Committee") was a bipartisan committee, created in November 1958 by U.S. President Eisenhower to undertake a completely independent, objective, and non-partisan analysis of the military assistance aspects of the U.S. Mutual Security Program (MSP).

Edward Willis

Edward Banker Willis (1831–1879), United States military officer during the American Civil War

Ernest Graves

Ernest Graves, Sr. (1880–1953), United States military officer and college football coach, father of previous

Fort Wadsworth

The comic book version of the elite United States military counterterrorism unit G.I. Joe was based in "The Pit," a secret underground base beneath the Motor Pool of the Army Chaplains' Assistants School in Fort Wadsworth.

Forward Operating Base Danger

Forward Operating Base Danger was a forward operating base operated by United States military forces in Tikrit, Iraq from the time of the occupation of Iraq in 2003 until November 2005 when it was handed over to the government of Iraq.

FP45

The FP-45 Liberator, a pistol manufactured for the United States military during World War II

Francis X. Murphy

Subsequently, he was assigned as a naval chaplain at Annapolis, Maryland, with Catholic Relief Services in Europe after the Second World War and then as a chaplain with the United States military.

G.I. Robot

A newer model of G.I. Robot, designed by fictional character Lex Luthor for use by the United States military, was introduced in Batman Confidential #4, by Andy Diggle and Whilce Portacio.

George C. Thorpe

In 1912 he was involved in Cuba's Negro Rebellion, which resulted in an intervention by the United States military.

George R. Mather

Following an assignment as Chief of Staff, Fourth United States Army at Fort Sam Houston in 1961, he was assigned as Chairman, United States Delegation, Joint Brazil-United States Military Assistance Advisory Group in Rio de Janeiro until September 1964.

HVD

High-value detention site, United States military terminology for a prison at which are detained 'high value' (useful) prisoners

John Olver

Olver has been a staunch opponent of the United States involvement in Iraq, and opposed a United States military presence in Iraq since the 2002 authorization for the use of force in Iraq.

Kosciusko, Mississippi

It is named for the Polish general Tadeusz Kościuszko, who assisted United States military efforts during the American Revolution.

Margaretta D'Arcy

D'Arcy also directed a film Yellow Gate Women, a film about the attempts by women of Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp to outwit the British and United States Military at RAF Greenham Common with bolt cutters and legal challenges.

Marines' Memorial Club

Today the Association has 21,000 members from all branches of the United States military, NOAA, and the Public Health Service, mostly from California.

Mark 41

Mk 41 or B41 nuclear bomb, the highest-yield nuclear bomb designed by the United States military

MIPR

Military Interdepartmental Purchase Request, a logistics process of the United States military

New Hope, Minnesota

Chaplain (Major, retired) Tim Vakoc – first United States military chaplain to be critically injured during Operation Iraqi Freedom, died in New Hope

Overton, Texas

Robert Lee Howze graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1888 and was a Major General who received the Medal of Honor during the Indian Wars.

Peaks Island Land Preserve

It was founded in 1994 to preserve Battery Steele, an historic United States military fortification built on Peaks Island during World War II.

Raynham, Massachusetts

Jared C. Monti - Received the United States military's highest decoration for valor, the Medal of Honor, for his actions in Afghanistan attempting to rescue a wounded American soldier while under fire from enemy insurgents.

Samuel Meyers Mills, Jr.

The fortification on Corregidor Island, the Philippines, was designated a United States Military Reservation in 1907 and named Fort Mills in Brigadier General Mills's honor.

St. Stephen's Cathedral, Passau

By contrast, the Cadet Chapel Organ of the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York is a single organ.

Stanley Resor

Stanley Rogers Resor (1917–2012), American lawyer, United States military officer and government official

Surviving U.S. veterans of World War II

During this conflict 464 United States military personnel received the Medal of Honor, 266 of them posthumously.

Thomas E. Corcoran

Thomas E. Corcoran (October 12, 1839 – March 12, 1904) was a Union Navy sailor in the American Civil War and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his actions during the Siege of Vicksburg.

Timothy O'Donoghue

Timothy O'Donoghue (born 1841, date of death unknown) was a Union Navy sailor in the American Civil War and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his actions during the Red River Campaign.

Townsley

Clarence Page Townsley (1855–1926), United States Army officer, superintendent of the United States Military Academy

UC-28

Pilatus PC-12, an airplane with a United States military designation of "UC-28"

UC-45

Beechcraft Model 18, an airplane with a United States military designation of "UC-45"

UC-61

Fairchild 24, an airplane with a United States military designation of "UC-61"

UC-92

Funk B, an airplane with a United States military designation of "UC-92"

Whitney North Seymour, Jr.

The son of Whitney North Seymour, the younger Seymour served in the United States Military during World War II.

Wind tunnel

Doriot Climatic Chambers, climatic wind tunnel centre operated by the United States military