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unusual facts about military training



Visual3D Game Engine

As of July 2008, Visual3D Game Engine has been employed for multiple private business projects and by the US Department of Defense for military simulation and training.


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Aftab Ahmad Khan

After various staff appointments in General Headquarters, Rawalpindi, including as Vice Chief of General Staff, Director General Military Training, Research and Development, he commanded a division in Chamb Sector in 1972 followed by taking command of a newly raised X Corps with the rank of Lieutenant General from where he retired after 34 years of service.

Ahmed Jibril

Samuel Katz's Israel vs. Jibril distinguishes the PFLP-GC and Jibril's strategy from the rest of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) by its emphasis on military training and equipment, and not on declarations and publicity stunts.

Air Force Military School, Jos, Nigeria

The school is effectively a military institution (part of the Nigerian Air Force) that provides both normal secondary school education and military training to Nigerian boys aged around 11 to 17 years.

Alexander Wilkin

He then established his headquarters as well as a military training school in St. Peter.

ASTP

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

Bob Baldock

After graduation from Sewickley High School, near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Baldock studied for two years at Ohio University in Athens, (1955–57), receiving military training in the Army ROTC program, which proved significant when Baldock became a combatant in the 26th of July Movement insurgency against Fulgencio Batista led by Fidel Castro in Cuba.

Camp Fremont

General John K. Cannon completed his initial military training at Camp Fremont.

Camp MacArthur

Camp MacArthur (or Camp McArthur) was an American military training base in Waco, Texas during World War I.

Camptown Historic District

It played a crucial role in the Civil War; from 1863 to 1865, it housed Camp William Penn, a military training post for African-American soldiers.

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.

CATM

Combat Arms Training and Maintenance, a United States Air Force military training organization

Charles A. Morgan, III

Morgan's research has been conducted, in part, at military training sites (such as Survival School) because, unlike traditional laboratory settings, these venues offer an opportunity to evaluate the impact of realistic stress SERE.

Cheriton, Kent

The church gives its name to the military training area of St Martin's Plain and now serves Shorncliffe Camp.

Chester Roman Amphitheatre

It is a peculiarly English myth that the amphitheatre would have been primarily for military training and drill; all the evidence recovered from excavation shows that it was used for cock fighting, bull baiting and combat sports, including classical boxing, wrestling and, probably most importantly, gladiatorial combat.

Damdin Sükhbaatar

In early September, Danzan, Losol and Chagdarjav were sent on to Moscow via Omsk, while Sükhbaatar and Choibalsan were to remain in Irkutsk for military training and to maintain contact between the delegation in Moscow and Mongolia.

Dog Cry Ranch

James Ujaama, an American convert to Islam, has admitted he met Abu Hamza al-Masri in 1999, and convinced him that together they could set up a military training camp where American recruits would be trained for jihad.

Emily Fields

Emily's father is sent to, Fort Hood in Killeen, Texas to help with military training and Emily's mother reveals to Emily that they are moving down to Texas to join him.

Empathy

Lieutenant Colonel Dave Grossman, in his book On Killing, suggests that military training artificially creates depersonalization in soldiers, suppressing empathy and making it easier for them to kill other human beings.

Floris of Montmorency

Floris had a military training at the court of his relative Anne de Montmorency, Constable of France.

Goodnight Saigon

It depicts the situation and attitude of United States Marines beginning with their military training on Parris Island and then into different aspects of Vietnam combat.

Gordon Muortat Mayen

Dr. John Garang de Mabior, future leader of the SPLA, was among one of the batches of Muortat's soldiers sent to Israel for military training under the NPG.

History of North Georgia College and State University

The Morrill Act required all students in land-grant colleges to receive some military training and the college only had one military instructor at a time, until Congress passed the National Defense Act of 1916 and the college established an ROTC the same year.

History of Texas Tech University

Military training was conducted at the college as early as 1925, but formal Reserve Officers' Training Corps training did not commence until 1936.

Indoor rower

Chabrias, an Athenian admiral of the 4rth century BCE, introduced the first rowing machines as supplemental military training devices.

Israpil Velijanov

In 1998 Velijanov attended a military training camp in Chechnya ran by the legendary field commander Khattab.

Jonathan platoon

"Jonathan Platoon" was established on April 9,1948 by Yehoshua Arieli, the Jerusalem commander of the Gadna, (pre-military training corps for youth), and later a history professor and Israel Prize laureate.

Kim Jae-wook

He completed filming for Mary Stayed Out All Night (also known as Marry Me, Mary!) and enlisted for mandatory military service on 5 July 2011 for 21 months of active duty after five weeks of basic military training.

Kjell Eugenio Laugerud García

Laugerud received part of his military training in the United States, attending classes at Fort Benning, Georgia, and at Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.

Lee Wan

Lee enlist for mandatory military service on 12 July 2010, at the Nonsan military training camp for five weeks of basic training followed by active-duty soldier, for 21 months, with the Defense Media Agency of the Ministry of National Defense in Yongsan-dong, Yongsan-gu, Seoul.

Majura Road

The route followed by the road passes to the east of Mount Majura and mostly rural and industrial properties including the Majura Military Training Area, Mount Majura Winery and a training facility for the Australian Federal Police towards the Majura Park development at Canberra Airport where it ends at Fairbairn Avenue.

Marcus Joseph Wright

Fort Wright was Tennessee's first military training camp in the Civil War and is named after Marcus Joseph Wright.

Melbourne University Regiment

providing military training for members of Melbourne University and the public schools of Melbourne and Geelong.

Michel Domingue

He graduated from military training and became commander of army units in the Sud Department.

Mihail Apostolov

All of them were born in the liberated parts of Bulgaria and had military training: Vasil Ivanov Chochov – senior sergeant from the First Infantry Regiment, Aleksandar Marinov from Plovdiv – a student from the Non-commissioned Office School, Filip Grigorov - a student from the same school, Nikolay Petrov – non-commissioned officer and others.

Old Stone Barracks

During World War I and the years immediately preceding it, the building served as part of the Civilian Military Training Camp at Plattsburgh, the brainchild of General Leonard Wood and forerunner of today's ROTC program.

Pacific National Exhibition

From 1942 to 1946 the PNE was closed and like the Canadian National Exhibition served as a military training facility for the duration of World War II.

Paul Omu

Omu joined the army on December 10, 1962, and was a course mate to Ibrahim Babangida, Sani Bello and Garba Duba at the Nigeria Military Training College.

Roswell Parkhurst Barnes

He was active in the 1920s in the Committee on Militarism in Education (CME), established in 1925 by John Nevin Sayre, Norman Thomas, and E. Raymond Wilson to combat then required military training at public schools and universities; the CME fought to remove military training, in the form of Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC), from high schools and to eliminate then compulsory ROTC service at state universities.

Shoalwater

Shoalwater Bay, a large bay on the central coast of Queensland, Australia, in use since 1966 as a military training area

Tarak Nath Das

In 1908, Tarak joined the Norwich University, Northfield, Vermont, “a high-class engineering and military establishment, in order to receive military training. He also applied for enlistment (…) in the Vermont National Guard…” Despite his popularity among the students of all ethnic origins, he was rusticated from that institution due to his anti-British activities (such as editing Free Hindustan).

United States v. O'Brien

In 1948, the United States instituted a peace-time draft with the Universal Military Training and Service Act (also called the Selective Service Act), which required all male American citizens to register with a local draft board upon reaching the age of 18.

Victorian Scottish Regiment

In 1911 a compulsory training scheme was introduced, which required all able-bodied men between the ages of 18 and 21 to undertake a period of military training.

Yiwu Airport

Yiwu airport was originally a military training airfield for the People's Liberation Army Navy.

Žakovce

While the German book focuses on the 750 years of German life in Eisdorf, the Slovak book focuses more on the 50 years of Slovak/Ruthenian life of the new settlers, who mainly came from the village of Blažov, cleared to become part of the military training area of Javorina.

Zubeida Malik

Zubeida has been reporting on Osama bin Laden and Al-Qaeda since the 1990s and was one of the first journalists to look into extremist groups holding secret military training camps and encouraging young men to become jihadis.