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Army Officer Selection Board

Army Officer Selection Board (AOSB) is an assessment centre used by the British Army as part of the Officer selection process for the Regular and Territorial Army and related scholarship schemes.

Battle of the Gediz

The experiences gained in this battle led the Turkish provisional Government of the Grand National Assembly to the conclusion that it would be necessary from now on to establish and fight with a regular army against the Greek army instead of irregular forces.

Daniel Phineas Woodbury

At Fredericksburg, he earned the brevet of brigadier general in the regular army for his efforts in supervising the construction of several pontoon bridges across the Rappahannock River.

Enos D. Hopping

A personal and political friend of Secretary of War William L. Marcy, Hopping was appointed a brigadier general in the Regular Army by President James K. Polk on March 3, 1847.

First American Regiment

The First American Regiment was the first peacetime regular army force authorized by United States Congress after the American Revolutionary War.

Hugh L. Scott

He was promoted to major in the Regular Army in February 1903 and served as Military Governor of the Sulu Archipelago, Philippines, in 1903-06 and also commanded troops there, taking part in various skirmishes, reorganized the civil government and institutions.

Irving Hale

Hale pursued studies in electrical engineering following his commission as a second lieutenant, but eventually resigned from the regular army to take a position with General Electric.

Samuel Chamberlain

In San Antonio Chamberlain joined the regular army and became part of the First United States Dragoons.

Siege of Fort Stanwix

St. Leger, who was brevetted a brigadier general for the expedition, assembled a diverse force consisting of British regulars from the 8th and 34th Regiments, a number of artillerymen, 80 jäger from Hesse-Hanau, 350 Loyalists from the King's Royal Regiment of New York, a company of Butler's Rangers, and about 100 Canadien laborers.

Siege of Ninety-Six

The British outpost at Ninety Six was garrisoned by 550 experienced Loyalists formed into Provincial regiments (regular army troops that had been recruited from Loyalists in New York, New Jersey, and South Carolina) under the command of Lieutenant Colonel John Cruger.

Tasker H. Bliss

Lieutenant Colonel Bliss was commissioned as a brigadier general in the Regular Army by an Act of Congress under direction of the U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt.

Welsh Transport Regiment

Within the UK, the Regiment provides support to the Regular Army, Police and Local Authorities, as and when required, most notably during the UK Armed Forces Day celebrations held recently in Cardiff and the efficient running of the Army's premier Patrol Exercise, the Cambrian Patrol.


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121st New York Infantry

Colonel Richard Franchot resigned on September 25, 1862 and selected Colonel Emory Upton, at the time a first lieutenant in the Regular army, under whose command the regiment made a record second to none in the Army of the Potomac.

138th Attack Squadron

In the summer of 1965, the squadron took part in Exercise Oneida Bear II at Fort Drum, which involved some 6,500 soldiers of the regular Army, the Army Reserve and the National Guard.

52nd Air Defense Artillery Regiment

Organized 22 July 1917 in the Regular Army at Fort Adams, Rhode Island, as the 7th Provisional Regiment, Coast Artillery Corps

5th Battalion 7th Air Defense Artillery Regiment

The unit was reconstituted on 28 June 1950 in the Regular Army; and concurrently consolidated with Battery A, 26th Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion (active) which itself was originally constituted on 25 February 1943 in the Army of the United States as Battery A, 784th Coast Artillery Battalion, and activated on 10 April 1943 at Fort Bliss, Texas.

60th Air Defense Artillery Regiment

Reconstituted 26 October 1922 in the Regular Army as the 60th Artillery Battalion, Antiaircraft and organized at Fort Crockett, Texas.

Army Rifle Association

The latter's matches grew into the Regular Army Skill at Arms Meeting (RASAM) which in turn became the Army Operational Shooting Competition (AOSC).

Brian Lindsay

He attended the Royal Military College, Duntroon from 1955 to 1958, then entered the military, serving with the Pacific Islander Regiment from 1959 to 1963 and with the regular army in Papua New Guinea, Malaya, Borneo, and in the Vietnam War.

Chris Roebuck

Roebuck was subsequently commissioned into the regular Army Royal Engineers via the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.

Combat Mission: Shock Force

Each scenario in the game contains forces drawn from either the US or Syrian Regular Army units utilizing Soviet-bloc equipment such as AK-47 assault rifles and T-72 tanks, with "blue vs. blue" and "red vs. red" scenarios also possible.

Croatian Home Guard

Royal Croatian Home Guard (1868–1918), regular army of the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy

Dennis E. Nolan

From 1927 to 1931, Nolan was commander of Fifth Corps Area, headquartered at Fort Hayes at Columbus, Ohio, one of and geographically the largest of nine corps areas established in the continental United States for the administration of the regular army and reserves by the National Defense Act of 1920.

Ellard A. Walsh

A review of existing legislation, including the National Defense Act of 1916 and its amendments, indicated that new legislation was needed to ensure effective integration of the National Guard into the regular Army, draft and selective service regulations, and related matters.

John Hall-Dalwood

He was commissioned into the Connaught Rangers, in which he served for fifteen years; after leaving the Regular Army he joined the Territorial Army and went on to command the 6th Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment.

John Patrick McGlinn

Monash thus became the only brigadier general without a regular army brigade major, although Monash secured a regular, Captain C Jess, as staff captain.

KP-bil

AB Landsverk designed an APC consisting of a chassis from a regular army lorry equipped with an armoured shell.

Kuva-yi Milliye

After the Grand National Assembly of Turkey was opened, the regular army was created by merging different Kuva-yi Milliye groups.

Madison Hemings

Among their ten children were two sons who served the Union in the Civil War: one in the United States Colored Troops and one who enlisted as a white man in the regular army.

Mateen Bolkiah

In May 2010, Prince Mateen was admitted to the Commissioning Course for Regular Army Officers along with 200 recruits in Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.

National Defence Companies

After the end of World War I, responsibility for home defence on land rested with the Territorial Army and also the Royal Defence Corps which consisted of regular army soldiers who were too old or unfit for front line duties.

Nicolas Oudinot

His gallant defense of the little fort of Bitsch in the Vosges in 1792 drew attention to him; he was transferred to the regular army in November 1793, and after serving in numerous actions on the Belgian frontier he was promoted general of brigade, in June 1794 for his conduct at the Battle of Kaiserslautern.

Pedro Tongio Liongson

On the same day, the President and the Council of Government (Cabinet of the Philippines) headed by Apolinario Mabini as Presidente (Prime Minister of the Philippines) signed a decree covering the release of all Spanish prisoners not pertaining to the regular army, the disposition of Spanish-owned properties, and the expulsion of the Spanish clergy.

Preston Pals

To aid this scheme, he encouraged local councils to establish what became known as Pals battalions, made up of groups of friends and neighbours who were keen to fight alongside each other, rather than being individually assigned to regular army regiments.

Puntland–Somaliland dispute

In October 2007, the conflict mushroomed into a regional conflict over control of the city of Las Anod, as Somaliland regular army forces mobilized from their base in the town of Adhicadeeye, west of the city, and entered the conflict.

Robert D. Robbins

After graduation from West Point, Robbins was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Regular Army and served two tours in Vietnam as a paratrooper, eventually serving as Company Commander with D Company, 501st Airborne Infantry Battalion, 2nd Brigade, 101st Airborne Division.

Seventh United States Army

The Seventh Army was inactivated in March 1946, in Germany, reactivated for a short time at Atlanta, Georgia, and assigned to the regular army with headquarters at Vaihingen, Germany, in November 1950.

Springfield Model 1892-99

The Krag was completely phased out of service in the Regular Army by 1907, as M1903 Springfields became available, however, the Krag was issued for many more years with the National Guard and the Army Reserve, including service in World War I with rear-echelon U.S. troops in France and as training arms at various Stateside bases.

Teófilo Marxuach

An Act of Congress, approved on May 27, 1908, reorganized the regiment as part of the "regular" Army.

Vahan Minakhoryan

In 1919 he openly rejected the Armenian Revolutionary Federation decision to use regular army units for subduing Muslim revolts in Yerevan province of Armenia in 1919.

Yoxter

In 1964 the Royal Anglian Regiment renovated the camp and it has been in use by the Regular Army, Royal Marines, TA and the Army Cadet Force ever since.