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Naval and brass
A brass In Memoriam tablet was erected to Aidan Liddell in the Scottish Naval and Military Residence, Edinburgh.
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Naval and similar
This Naval Infantry functions similar to the US Marine Infantry which traditionally assault land objectives from water born assault platforms.
This weapon, designated M16A2E2, also featured a " guide " of sorts as part of a special handguard developed by the U. S. Army Human Engineering Laboratory designed to assist in snap-shooting, and a carbine style stock very similar to the recent stock developed by the Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane Division.
On these occasions depending on their billet, Marine Staff Non-Commissioned Officers ( E-6 and above ) may also be required to carry swords, which have hilts of a pattern similar to U. S. Naval officers ' swords but are actually sabres.
The Royal Naval dockyard on Ireland Island played a role similar to that it had during World War I, overseeing the formation of trans-Atlantic convoys composed of hundreds of ships.
Beginning in the reign of Emperor Joseph II, the Austrian, later Austro-Hungarian Navy used a Naval Ensign ( Marineflagge ) based on the red-white-red colours, and augmented with a shield of similar colours.
The United States Navy Bureau of Naval Personnel ( BUPERS ) is similar to the human resources department of a corporation.
Following BMT, Airmen go to a technical school ( or ' tech school ') where they learn the specifics of their Air Force Specialty Code ( AFSC ), which is similar to the MOS ( Military Occupational Specialty ) in the Army and Marines, the Navy's NEC ( Naval Enlisted Classification ) code, or the Coast Guard's ratings.
The rank of lieutenant commander is also used in the Irish Naval Service, having a similar implication to the RN rank.
Currently, Vietnamese officials are considering turning the base into a civilian facility, similar to what the Philippine government did with the American Subic Naval Base.
In " A Proportional Response ", President Bartlet finds himself in similar circumstances ( Syrian intelligence shot down a U. S. plane in Jordan and killed numerous Americans, including a young Naval officer who the President had decided would be his personal physician ) and, seated in the White House Situation Room with his own National Security Council asks: " What is the virtue of a proportional response?
During the War, Arlington Hall was in many respects similar to Bletchley Park in England, only one of two primary cryptography operations in Washington ( the other was the Naval Communications Annex, also housed in a commandeered private girls ' school ).
Naval warships fly a naval ensign similar to the state ensign, but in white with a red compass rose emblem.
While staffing one of the Navy awards, the Assistant Vice Chief of Naval Operations, Rear Admiral Raymond M. Walsh, explained that an internee of the Soviet Union was previously denied the POW Medal under the older version of 10 USC § 1128 “ because he was not a prisoner of an enemy of the United States .” However, he could now be considered for the medal because “ The 1989 change to the law permits the Secretary of the Navy to determine if the circumstances under which internee was held captive were ‘ comparable to those under which persons have generally been held captive by enemy armed forces during periods of armed conflict .’” While staffing the Air Force award, the Air Force Directorate of Personnel Services ( AFPC / DPS ) concluded that “ In 1989, Title 10, Section 1128, regarding Prisoner of War Medals changed and allowed Service secretaries to determine eligibility for the POW Medal for personnel held captive in countries not directly involved in armed conflict with the United States, provided the treatment of the prisoners was similar to the treatment received by prisoners held by enemy forces .” AFPC / DPS determined that the internees in Siberia met the statutory criteria because “ the conditions of this detainment were comparable, if not worse, than those experienced in Germany, and therefore, should be eligible for the POW Medal .” In 1996 and 2006 the USAF awarded POW Medals to USAAF T / Sgt Daniel Culler and Lt. Richard Pettit for illegal incarceration during World War II in prison camp Wauwilermoos, in neutral Switzerland.
The country witnessed the trial and dismisal of senior Naval officers for corruption and similar faith for the chief of police.
In late 1946 Forrestal withdrew the plan, in the face of public opposition and the disapproval of the House Naval Affairs Committee, but Barr and Scott Buchanan were already committed to leaving St. John's and launching Liberal Arts, Inc., a new, similar college in Stockbridge, Massachusetts ; that project eventually failed — but thinking about other sites for the college eventually led to the opening of St. John's second campus, in Santa Fe, in 1964.
Air Force pilots trained during April against the two Argentine Type 42 destroyers, similar to those of the British Fleet, and according the Naval officers all the sorties were shot down causing great concern to the High Command until the successful May 1 strikes which they proved that aircraft could survive.
In addition, the financing of the local development and construction of a coastal Naval defense system that may also be based on the use of Exocet missiles similar to the Excalibur system.
Similar advancements were made in this period by the United States Navy and United States Marine Corps with the F4D Skyray, F8U Crusader and F4H Phantom II carrier-based aircraft, but Naval Aviation lacked a similar naming group.
Prior to their freshman ( fourth-class, or MUG-an acronym meaning " Midshipmen Under Guidance " or " Mariner Under Guidance ") year, incoming students attend a two-week indoctrination period, similar to the United States Naval Academy's " plebe summer ," which is designed to introduce them to the regimental lifestyle.
A similar refractor cometseeker by Brashear is in the Naval Observatory collection.
The Royal Naval Amateur Radio Society ( RNARS ) is a specialised group or club for amateur radio operators who have a link with maritime employment, such as members of a navy, merchant marine, or similar employment.
King, the Chief of Naval Operations, proposed a plan with similar elements but under Navy command.
As the Army's most senior military educational institution, it provides a function similar to that of the Naval War College and Air War College, each an academic institution administered by a sister service of the United States Military, and trains colonels or lieutenant colonels who are board selected for admission.
On February 12, 2009, Miller introduced a similar bill entitled " Port Chicago Naval Magazine National Memorial Enhancement Act of 2009 " which, in addition to calling for another five acres, allowed for the City of Concord and the East Bay Regional Park District " to establish and operate a facility for visitor orientation and parking, administrative offices, and curatorial storage for the Memorial.

Naval and admiralty
Mallory was experienced as an admiralty lawyer in his home state of Florida, and he had served for a time as the chairman of the Naval Affairs Committee while he was a United States Senator.
An former officer in Manticore's Naval Medical system, he is well regarded by the Manticore admiralty as well.
The Royal Corps of Naval Constructors, whose members interchange their duties between the designing of ships at the admiralty and practical work at the dockyards.

Naval and is
Mr. Devey is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and attended the United States Naval Academy Post-Graduate School specializing in electronic engineering.
* 1918 – The Royal Air Force is created by the merger of the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service.
He promises a work on Naval Tactics also ; but this, if it was written, is lost.
One of the recent attractions is the aircraft carrier USS Hornet, a museum ship now moored at the former Naval Air Station as the USS Hornet Museum.
Naval Air Station Alameda ( NAS ), at Alameda Point, was decommissioned in 1997, and is in process of being turned over to the City of Alameda for civilian development.
The Brazilian Armed Forces (, ) is the unified military organization comprising the Brazilian Army ( including the Brazilian Army Aviation ), the Brazilian Navy ( including the Brazilian Marine Corps and Brazilian Naval Aviation ) and the Brazilian Air Force.
The Brazilian Navy which is the oldest of the Brazilian Armed Forces, includes the Brazilian Marine Corps and the Brazilian Naval Aviation.
The 1st Naval District is located at the country's main naval base in Rio de Janeiro ; the 2nd Naval District is in Salvador ; the 3rd Naval District is located in Natal ; the 4th Naval District is located in Belém ; and the 5th Naval District is located in Porto Alegre.

Naval and 40
Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus and Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger signed an agreement to reinstate Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps ( NROTC ) programs at Columbia for the first time in more than 40 years on May 26, 2011.
British Naval Intelligence had been aware of the arms shipment, Casement's return, and the Easter date for the rising through radio messages between Germany and its embassy in the United States that were intercepted by the Navy and deciphered in Room 40 of the Admiralty.
Byng was given use of No. 2 Squadron, No. 8 ( Naval ) Squadron, No. 25 Squadron, No. 40 Squadron and No. 43 Squadron, with No. 16 Squadron permanently attached to the Canadian Corps and employed exclusively for observation and artillery support.
Room 40: British Naval Intelligence, 1914 – 1918, New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich.
Served in World War I, 1914-18 under Sir William Reginald Hall, Director of Naval Intelligence, in Room 40 Admiralty, as Lieut .- Cmdr.
From the actual flight paths of each trip, the theory predicted that the flying clocks, compared with reference clocks at the U. S. Naval Observatory, should have lost 40 ± 23 nanoseconds during the eastward trip and should have gained 275 ± 21 nanoseconds during the westward trip.
In 1729, the Royal Naval Academy in Portsmouth, renamed the Royal Naval College in 1806, was founded, for 40 students aged between 13 and 16, who would take three years to complete a course of study defined in an illustrated book, and would earn two years of sea time as part of their studies.
* Original Documents from Room 40: LUSITANIA case ; Naval Battle of Jutland / Skagerrak ; The Zimmermann / Mexico Telegram ; German Submarine Warfare and Room 40 Intelligence in general ; PhotoCopies from The National Archives, Kew, Richmond, UK.
Scientists from the Naval Research Laboratory at Stennis Space Center, Mississippi have used a computer model to predict that, at the height of the storm, the maximum wave height within Ivan's eyewall reached 131 feet ( 40 m ).
In early 1943, NAPS moved to the Bainbridge Naval Training Center, a facility of several hundred acres located above the Susquehanna River, some 40 miles northeast of Baltimore, MD.
Dean was 40 years old and a lieutenant in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve during the First World War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC.
Hall discovered Deimos on August 12, 1877 at about 07: 48 UTC and Phobos on August 18, 1877, at the US Naval Observatory in Washington, D. C., at about 09: 14 GMT ( contemporary sources, using the pre-1925 astronomical convention that began the day at noon, give the time of discovery as August 11, 14: 40 and August 17 16: 06 Washington mean time respectively ).
The Support Activity has expanded its mission and Department of Defense support role with over 40 tenant commands, and today is a training center, with the Naval Nuclear Power Training Command ( NNPTC ), Nuclear Power Training Unit, Propulsion Facility, and Border Patrol satellite academy ; Naval Consolidated Brig, Charleston ; Mobile Mine Assembly Unit ; Explosive Ordnance Detachments ; Marine Corps Reserve Center ; an engineering complex, with the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center ( SPAWAR, this is the largest employer in the Charleston area ) and is close to the Naval Facilities Engineering Command Southeast ; 269 above-ground ammunition magazines, maintenance and storage of military ordnance including mines, and serves as an Army logistics hub, the busiest continental United States surface port in the defense transportation system.
For most of the war he worked in Room 40 of the Admiralty's Naval Intelligence Division.
Two U. S. vehicles and 40 support personnel were sent from Naval Air Station North Island, near San Diego, via a C-5 Galaxy transport to Kamchatka.
On 23 January 1971, a nine-man advance party from the U. S. Navy's Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 40 ( NMCB-40 ) landed on Diego Garcia to confirm planning information and conduct a survey for beach landing areas.
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh was a regular visitor to Coppins during school holidays while at Gordonstoun, 1937-9, and Dartmouth Naval College, 1939 – 40, and later when visiting with the Princess Elizabeth.
The facility provides complete retail supply support services for approximately 40 tenant activities between Cheatham Annex, Williamsburg and Naval Weapons Station, Yorktown.

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