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102nd Field Artillery Regiment

The lineage of the 102d Field Artillery and the Second Corps of Cadets was transferred to Alpha Battery, 1st Battalion 101st Field Artillery in Danvers, Massachusetts.

13th Aero Squadron

After a short period of organization, which included "snake-chasing and cactus-cutting", the squadron was moved to Wilbur Wright Field, Ohio in the beginning of July where its aviation cadets began flight training on the Curtiss JN-4 Jenny trainer.

3d Bombardment Squadron

Starting in August 1943, groups of Navigation Cadets were assigned for training while, during the same month, six of the unit's B-17E's were ordered to Guatemala City to assist the 74th Bomb Squadron in its patrols missions from there, remaining TDY for six weeks.

AAFMAA

United States Air Force Academy (USAFA), United States Coast Guard Academy (USCGA), United States Military Academy (USMA), United States Merchant Marine Academy (USMMA) and United States Naval Academy (USNA) midshipmen and cadets

Academy of Law

However cadets do have to go outside in groups for their "Hotdog Run," a combat mission into the Cursed Earth radiation desert.

Andrew Croft

In 1960 Croft became the first Commandant of the Metropolitan Police's Hendon Police College, and was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 1970 New Year Honours for his successful development of the Corps of Cadets.

Battle of Chippawa

The Corps of Cadets of the United States Military Academy at West Point wear gray parade uniforms, but the assertion that they were adopted in commemoration of Scott’s troops at Chippawa appears to be a legend, possibly started by General Scott himself.

Beagle Husky

It flew with No. 5 Air Experience Flight, flying air cadets from Cambridge Airport until it was retired in 1989 and sold to a civilian user.

Briar Stewart

In 2010, Stewart won an AMPIA Award for her documentary "Journey to Jamaica", a story that followed a group of First Nations cadets from Hobbema, Alberta on an exchange that took them to the slums of Spanish Town, Jamaica.

Brother Rat

Brother Rat is a 1938 film about cadets at Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Virginia, directed by William Keighley and starring Priscilla Lane and Wayne Morris.

Cadet College Lahore

Intermediate cadets apply direct for the Pre-Commission Cadetship Training in the Pakistan Military Academy Kakul, Pakistan Naval Academy Rahber Karachi, Pakistan Air Force Academy Risalpur, The Army Medical College for Pre-Medical Cadets and the Electrical and Mechanical Engineering College for Pre-Engineering Cadets.

Cadet grades and insignia of the Civil Air Patrol

Upon completing this award, cadets are eligible for direct promotion to Captain as a Senior Member once they turn 21.

Upon completing this award, cadets are eligible for direct promotion to First Lieutenant as a Senior Member once they turn 21.

Cadet Inspector

Cadet Inspector is a rank held by senior cadets in the National Police Cadet Corps in Singapore.

Canadian Cadet Organizations

The program is sponsored by the Canadian Forces, funded through the Department of National Defence (DND), with support from a civilian group, The The Navy League of Canada, the Army Cadet League and the Air Cadet League, as well as local community sponsors that include service organizations and parents of cadets.

Canadian military fur wedge cap

In Canadian Forces nomenclature it is known as Cap, Man’s Winter, Fur, C.F. Exactly when the fur cap stopped being in general issue is unclear; however, it is still being worn today by the officer cadets of the Royal Military College of Canada.

Command Training School

Like the enlisted recruits at Command Recruit Training Squadron, CTS Officer Cadets do ten days in-field training at RNZAF Dip Flat.

Davidson-Cadillac armored car

The Davidson-Cadillac armored car of 1915 was developed on a Cadillac chassis by Royal Page Davidson and the cadets of the Northwestern Military and Naval Academy in Highland Park, Illinois.

Dayanand College

Besides developing the intellectual capacity of its 2,300 students, training is also imparted under National Service Scheme (N.S.S.) to 200 students and also in N.C.C. Army, Navy and Artillery to 500 cadets.

Dub Yalil

# "Stotinki" (The Space Cadets featuring Natacha Atlas and Jah Wobble) – 5:23

Ernest Glenn Munn

Other crew members included Cadets John M. Mortenson and Leo Mustonen.

Florida Military School

The 1960 Senior Trip was to also to the Mardi Gras in New Orleans, with Major Steely in attendance, where the cadets participated in one of the Mardi Gras parades.

H. L. Hunley JROTC Award

While the award does have a strong naval theme, it is suitable for award to cadets of other branches due to the fact that the commander of the Hunley, Lt. George E. Dixon, was a serving Army officer.

Hamina Cadet School

Some other former Hamina cadets such as Carl Enckell, Rudolf Walden, and Hannes Ignatius would rise to the occasion, but their effect was due to individual abilities.

Harry Tincknell

After competing in Cadets in 2002, Tincknell moved up to TKM karts in 2003, winning the Winter Series at the Shenington kart circuit in Oxfordshire.

Hong Kong St. John Ambulance

Cadets will participate in Leadership Training Programmes and receive training in other proficiency subjects such as Fire Fighting, Canoeing, Camping, Life Saving, Rock Climbing, Map Reading, Cookery, etc.

Israeli Naval Academy

The course is nearly three years long, and cadets graduate with a B.A. from Haifa University and an Officer rank of Lieutenant Junior Grade.

J. H. H. Coombes

His love for Cadet College Petaro was such that he gave the name Petaro to his home and took every opportunity to invite Petarians - ex-cadets graduates of the college - to his UK home.

Jefferson County, West Virginia

Among those attending the Brown execution was a contingent of 1500 cadets from Virginia Military Institute sent by the Governor of Virginia Henry A. Wise under the supervision of Major William Gilham and Major Thomas J. Jackson.

Jhenaidah Ex-Cadets Association

JEXCA (Jhenaidahঝিনাইদহ,also spelled as Jhenidah in some cases Ex-Cadets Association) is a social organization of the Ex-Cadets of Jhenaidah Cadet College.

Judge Goodman

Blood Cadets (progs 1186–88) had a corrupt Judge Rico Dredd owning a luxury apartment in 2079, and Dredd said such things later ceased "under Goodman." Origins stated that Goodman was already chief judge well before then.

Julian Edward Wood

At New Market, Virginia on May 14, 1864, a rainy Sunday afternoon, a corps of 247 teenage V.M.I. cadets, with no battle experience, held a sector of Confederate front lines against an assault by seasoned Federal troops headed by Major General Franz Sigel.

Lesnoye Sanatorium

Among the cadets trained here were many who became well–known writers, artists and composers, including Vladimir Etush, Andrei Eshpai, S. Lvov, E. Rzhevskaya, and A. Troyanovsky.

Lieutenant

In the US Air Force, the Third Lieutenant Program refers specifically to a training program at active duty air force bases for cadets of the Air Force Academy and Air Force ROTC the summer before their fourth and final year before graduation and commissioning.

Mengistu Neway

When Aberra appeared ready to submit to the Italians, the 20 or 30 surviving cadets left him to join the Arbegnoch led by Haile Mariam Mammo in Mulu.

Oleg Pantyukhov

During the October Revolution he was the leader of the cadets who unsuccessfully defended the Kremlin from Bolsheviks.

Puerto Rican Nationalist Party Revolts of the 1950s

# Tomás López de Victoria - Sub-Commander of the Cadets of the Republic and leader of the Arecibo Incident.

Robert Ayres Barnet

It was performed by the "Boston Cadets, who always present Barnet's pieces before they are staged professionally. The new piece is ... a fairy Mother Goose burlesque. The music is by A.B. Sloane. ... Augustus Pitou, Klaw & Erlanger, E.E. Rice, and other prominent gentlemen" attended.

S. A. Agulhas

Included in the itinerary were visits to Tema and Abidjan to take on additional cadets from Cameroon, Gambia, Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire, while en route to London, UK.

Sanders Corps of Cadets Center

Among the exhibits are those honoring Texas A&M traditions such as the 12th Man, Silver Taps and Muster, as well as some of the Corps of Cadets' most cherished traditions: Aggie Band, Final Review, Fish Drill Team, Parson's Mounted Cavalry and Ross Volunteers.

Sea Mills railway station

On 16 February 1878, the station was the scene of a shooting accident when former Wales international footballer, Alexander Jones, a master at Clifton College, was accompanying a party of cadets from the college home after rifle practice at Avonmouth.

Serene Highness

Other non-reigning princes of the German nobility, but not (always) their cadets (e.g. the Princes von Bismarck, Carolath-Beuthen, Pless, Wrede).

Shavendra Silva

As an officer instructor at the Sri Lanka Military Academy (SLMA) in Diyatalawa, he trained the first foreign cadets to attend SLMA and went on to become its commanding officer.

Star Trek: Starfleet Command II: Empires at War

This differs from the Star Trek 'world' itself, which rarely featured fighters (except in later episodes of DS9); the closest equivalent were the ubiquitous shuttles such as the Galileo 7 prominently featured in the original Star Trek series episode "The Galileo Seven and the light spacecraft flown by Star Fleet cadets in the ST:TNG episode "The First Duty.

Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape

In 1995, the ABC television news program 20/20 reported that as many as 24 male and female cadets in 1993 had allegedly been sexually assaulted at the Academy during SERE training.

Thomas Alexander Irvine

1948 – transferred from the active duty list to the TA officers' reserve list and appointed commandant of the county cadets; thereafter chairman of T.A.F.A. (Territorial and Aux. Forces' Association) in Lanarkshire, Scotland.

Wellingborough School

Wellingborough School RAF section is linked to No. 5 Air Experience Flight at RAF Wyton, where cadets are flown on Friday afternoons in the Grob Tutor training aircraft, and to 616 Volunteer Gliding Squadron, at RAF Henlow in Bedfordshire, where cadets go on Sundays to fly in the Grob Vigilant motor glider, and where Flt Lt Walker is a C Category instructor.

Windsor knot

The Windsor knot is the only tie knot that is to be used by all personnel in the Royal Air Force and the Royal Air Force Cadets (ATC and CCF(RAF)) in the UK when wearing their black tie while in uniform.


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