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unusual facts about enlisted



Adam Egede-Nissen

In Toronto he enlisted in the anti-Nazi struggle and was sent first to Reykjavík and later to New York City.

Alfred G. Hansen

He initially enlisted in the Air Force and later was commissioned as a second lieutenant through the aviation cadet program, receiving his pilot wings in February 1955 at Vance Air Force Base, Oklahoma.

Alice of Champagne

When her father Henry II had enlisted in the Third Crusade, she was not yet married and he had stated in his will that the County of Champagne be left to his brother Theobald III, Count of Champagne unless he returned from the East.

Armchair general

Dwight D. Eisenhower who had enlisted in 1911 was assigned to the Army War College and graduated in 1928 never served in combat, even during World War I holding mostly staff positions afterwards.

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.

Art Finley

He enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II, and in the Korean War, he was recalled to active duty as a reserve officer in the U.S. Air Force, where he helped establish radio stations in Newfoundland and Greenland for the Strategic Air Command.

Baltimore's Marching Ravens

When Baltimore was in the running for a National Football League franchise in the 1990s, Ziemann enlisted the band's help in convincing the Maryland General Assembly, the state legislature, to approve funding for a new football stadium.

Bill Kincaid

He then enlisted Jeff Robbin to develop the front-end for an MP3-playing software they named SoundJam MP.

Bored!

Thomas briefly joined Magic Dirt and subsequently has enlisted various line-ups for reformed versions of Bored! in 1998, 1999 and 2000.

Charles Follen Adams

During the American Civil War, at age 22, Adams enlisted in the 13th Massachusetts Infantry.

Christian Davies

Once discharged, she promptly re-enlisted, this time in 4th Royal North British Dragoons (later the Scots Greys) in 1697.

Claude Lecourbe

After having studied at a college in Poligny and in Lons-le-Saunier, Lecourbe enlisted in the Regiment of Aquitaine where he served for eight years as an enlisted man.

Crimson Peak

British playwright Lucinda Coxon was enlisted to rewrite the script with del Toro in hopes of bringing it a "proper degree of perversity and intelligence".

Egalitarianism

For example Major General Charles J. Dunlap, Jr. says that United States Air Force culture includes an egalitarianism bred from officers as warriors who work with small groups of enlisted airmen either as the service crew or onboard crew of their aircraft.

Fort Haldane

Haldane was friends with noted English scientist Benjamin Robins, and he enlisted Robins to help with the gunnery placements for the fort.

Frank S. Scott

Corporal Frank S. Scott (December 2, 1883 – September 28, 1912) was the first enlisted member of the United States Armed Forces to lose his life in an aircraft accident.

George S. Brooks

Brooks was one of a group of 249 American soldiers—both officers and enlisted men—who briefly attended the University of Poitiers as full-time students in 1919 after having fought on the Western Front.

George Walters

The British Army alone was an all-volunteer force, whose soldiers enlisted for an initial period of ten years in the Infantry.

George Washington Williams

After a limited education and a stint in a "house of refuge" where he learned barbering, Williams enlisted in the Union Army under an assumed name when he was only 14 and fought during the final battles of the American Civil War.

Girard incident

Specialist Third Class Girard, a 21-year-old enlisted man from Ottawa, Illinois, used a grenade launcher mounted on an M1 rifle to fire an empty casing at Sakai, which killed her.

Historic places in Framingham, Massachusetts

On February 22, 1775, the British general Thomas Gage sent two officers and an enlisted man out of Boston to survey the route to Worcester.

HotChaCha

HotChaCha formed in 2007 when Jovana Batkovic and Mandy Aramouni decided to start a band over coffee at the West Side Market, and later enlisted Lisa Paulovcin to play drums.

Hubert Curien

Born in Cornimont, Vosges in Lorraine, Curien enlisted in the French resistance during World War II.

Jack Verge

He enlisted in the Australian Army Medical Corps of the Australian Imperial Forces in October 1914 as a captain and embarked from Sydney for Alexandria in December 1914.

James Louis Garvin

At the start of the war his only son Roland Gerard Garvin (known to his family as "Ged") enlisted with the South Lancashire Regiment and was shipped to France.

Jerry Yester

When Jim enlisted in the army, Jerry joined first The New Christy Minstrels, and then, in 1963, the Modern Folk Quartet.

Jim Gerald

Fitzgerald enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force on 5 May 1916 and served in Mesopotamia as a driver with the 1st Australian and New Zealand Wireless Signal Squadron.

John Bradford Fisher

In 1982, Fisher enlisted in for the United States Navy; in 1983, he became one of the youngest Chiefs of Department of Plastic Surgery at the National Naval Medical Center, and was appointed Assistant Professor of Surgery at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences.

Joseph C. Wolff

In 1864, he enlisted in the 2nd New York Light Cavalry Regiment as a bugler, and took part in the battles of Opequon, Cedar Creek and Five Forks.

Juan Bautista de Anza

In 1752 he enlisted in the army at the Presidio of Fronteras.

Kabarega of Bunyoro

For a period of five years Kabarega was able to fend off the British, who had enlisted help from countries including Somalia, Nubia and others.

Karol D. Witkowski

In 1879 he enlisted in the Austrian Army (in 19th century southern Poland was occupied by Austria and named Galicia), where he gained popularity by making portraits of his fellow soldiers and commanding officers, including a portrait of General Duke William of Württemberg and portrait of Lieutenant Field Marshal Emanuel Salomon of Friedberg - Mírohorsky (this army officer also was a genre painter, it is possible, why later in USA Karl Witkowski became genre painter).

Lyle Bouck

Bouck and his men were finally imprisoned in Stalag XIII-D in Nuremberg and later in Stalag XIII-C in Hammelburg, where the non-commissioned and enlisted men were split, with the officers sent to Oflag XIII-B.

Nanda Mallawaarachchi

Mallawaarachchi enlisted into the Sri Lankan Army in 1971, upon his completion of his Officer Cadet training at the Sri Lanka Military Academy, Diyatalawa.

Navy counselor

They are responsible for enlisted and officer recruiting and career information programs, and supervise and coordinate interviewing and counseling.

Neal Bartlett

By now, Bartlett had abandoned plans for a full-time career in football and in March 1999 he enlisted in the Army, joining the Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment.

Orlando Scandrick

He appeared in Bravo's Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles, Season 5 Episode 12 in which he enlisted the services of Josh Altman in purchasing a home in Los Angeles.

Richard E. Lyon

In 1941, before war was declared, he enlisted as a private in the National Guard.

Robert Rader

Rader enlisted in the army and volunteered for paratrooper with two hometown friends, Donald Hoobler and William Howell .

Roy Geiger

Geiger spent most of his enlisted time at the Marine Barracks, Washington, D.C. where he was also promoted to Corporal on June 2, 1908.

Samuel Ealy Johnson, Sr.

Sam enlisted in Col. Xavier Debray's regiment on September 18, 1861, and served until the end of the American Civil War on the coast of Texas and in Louisiana.

Smith Thompson

He was a founding vice president of the American Bible Society and provided a copy to every officer and enlisted man in the Navy.

Snowpony

Gifford and Googe then enlisted drummer Max Corradi who they knew from his days in Rollerskate Skinny.

The Band That Wouldn't Die

When Baltimore was in the running for a National Football League franchise in the 1990s, Ziemann enlisted the band's help in convincing the Maryland General Assembly, the state legislature, to approve funding for a new football stadium.1

The Cuckoo's Calling

The Times enlisted the services of a British linguistics expert and Pittsburgh's Duquesne University professor Patrick Juola, whose software programme ran four separate analyses of the novel and other Rowling works.

The Long Gray Line

West Point staffer Marty Maher (b. 1876), who came there from Tipperary as a waiter, enlisted in 1898, instructed several generations of plebes in boxing, swimming and tradition, stayed at West Point all his life, his romance and marriage to Mary O'Donnell, and his declining years after her death (1948).

Tour Kaputt

The CD was recorded at Cultuurpodium Boerderij in Zoetermeer, Netherlands, in 2007, during the tour for The Sum Of No Evil for which the band enlisted guest drummer Pat Mastelotto of King Crimson fame.

Turbinlite

He enlisted the help of William Helmore, and they jointly took out patents on the techniques (GB574970 and GB575093).

Vim Karénine

He enlisted in the French Navy for two years, aboard Jeanne d' Arc midship cruiser visiting the Far East, northern and southern America, Australia and New Zealand.

William Plummer Benton

When Benton was 18 years old, he enlisted as a private in the Mexican War, and fought with gallantry in the mounted infantry at Contreras, Churubusco, Chapultepec and Mexico City.


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