Air is distilled to separate its components — notably oxygen, nitrogen, and argon — for industrial use.

This decoration takes precedence over the Distinguished Service Medals of the separate services and is not to be awarded to any individual for a period of service for which an Army, Navy, Air Force or Coast Guard Distinguished Service Medal is awarded.

At some later point in time, the Air Defence Command was upgraded into a separate Air Defence Force.

Within the United States, the USAAF was divided into three separate commands: Tactical Air Command ( TAC ), Air Defense Command ( ADC ), and Strategic Air Command ( SAC ).

It was converted into the XV-4B Hummingbird for the U. S. Air Force as a testbed for separate, vertically mounted lift engines, similar to those used in the Yak-38 Forger.

The separate Air Wing was established in 1986 as use of aviation assets grew in the war on drugs.

To re-arm Canada he built the Royal Canadian Air Force as a viable military power, while at the same time keeping it separate from Britain's Royal Air Force.

* October 1 – U. S. President Ronald Reagan signs the Goldwater – Nichols Act into law, making official the largest reorganization of the United States Department of Defense since the Air Force was made a separate branch of service in 1947.

The National Guard was established as a reserve component with the Militia Act of 1903 under Title 10 and Title 32 of the U. S. Code The National Defense Act of 1947 created the Air Force as a separate branch of the Armed Forces of the United States and concurrently created the Air National Guard as one of its reserve components, mirroring the Army's component structure.

This act created the U. S. Air Force, as well as the separate Air National Guard.

* A 36-wheeled transport trailer, the Orbiter Transfer System, originally built for the U. S. Air Force's launch facility at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California ( since then converted for Delta IV rockets ) would transport the orbiter from the landing facility to the launch pad, which allowed both " stacking " and launch without utilizing a separate VAB-style building and crawler-transporter roadway.

When World War II ended, he was appointed to the permanent rank of brigadier general in the Regular Army but held his temporary rank of major general in the Army until promotion to lieutenant general in the now separate United States Air Force in 1948.

Support for an air academy got a boost with the National Security Act of 1947, which provided for the establishment of a separate Air Force within the United States military.

Authorized to draw forces when needed from the Strategic Army Corps ( STRAC ), the Tactical Air Command, and the airlift units of the Military Air Transport Service and the military services, Strike Command had the mission " to respond swiftly and with whatever force necessary to threats against the peace in any part of the world, reinforcing unified commands or … carrying out separate contingency operations.

Strict racial segregation in the U. S. Army required the development of separate black flight surgeons to support the operations and training of the Tuskegee Airmen in 1941 and continued in the U. S. Army Air Forces throughout World War II.

With the establishment of a separate Air Force in September 1947, Vandenberg became its first vice chief of staff under General Carl Spaatz, and succeeded him on April 30, 1948.

Additional costs are incurred from separate ministries and organizations such as the National Capital Commission, the Department of National Defence, and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

The Masters of Defence competition organised by Henry VIII in July 1540 listed two hande sworde and bastard sworde as two separate items.

In January 1940 the Government announced the creation of a Department of Air, completely separate from that of Defence and appointed Ernest Lucas Guest as Minister of Air.

From 1935 to 1971 a separate department, called the Civil Defence Department ( in the early years the Air Raids Precautions Department, Ministry of Home Security ), existed.

In 1946, with the creation of a cabinet level Minister of Defence separate from the prime minister, it ceased to be a cabinet position, and the office was abolished ( along with that of First Lord of the Admiralty and Secretary of State for Air ) on 1 April 1964, when the cabinet position was replaced by the Secretary of State for Defence-in charge of a new united Ministry of Defence.

The Soviet Air Defence Forces ( Voyska protivovozdushnoy oborony or Voyska PVO ), which focused on air defence and interceptor aircraft, was then a separate and distinct service within the Soviet military organisation.

Notice that British forces were deploying to the region was given in three separate Commons statements by Geoff Hoon Secretary of State for Defence.

In 2001 DERA was part-privatised by the MOD, resulting in two separate organisations, the state-owned Defence Science and Technology Laboratory ( DSTL ), and the privatised company QinetiQ.

Clement Attlee continued this arrangement when he came to power in 1945 but appointed a separate Minister of Defence for the first time in 1947.

The contract began with restructuring the Ministry of Defence and claimed to create a combined logistics system between the initial separate Muslim and Croat armies.

The Grünfeld Defence arises when Black plays 3 ... d5 instead, and is considered a separate opening.

After the Union of South Africa was formed in 1910, General Jan Smuts, the Union's first Minister of Defence, placed a high priority on creating a unified military out of the separate armies of the union's four provinces.

The Defence Research Establishments were a number of separate UK Ministry of Defence Research Establishments, dating back to World War II, World War I, or even earlier.

Defence cutbacks and unit and facility realignments from 1994 to 1996 saw CFB Shearwater stand down as a separate formation and the facility merged as an airfield attached to CFB Halifax.

Upon ACT Self-Government it became a separate territory located on the Australian mainland ; for the most part it is populated with Defence Force personnel.

Robert Menzies, the Prime Minister, abolished the position on the outbreak of World War II and created separate Ministers for the Navy, the Army and the Air, with himself as Minister for Defence Coordination in his first ministry.

Also in the 1980s, the GCSB was split away from the Ministry of Defence, becoming a separate organisation.

The spokesman function is performed by separate spokesmen for the Minister of Defence and the Chief of Defence.

However in 1960 it appears that most of the PVO regions / areas were reorganised into seven separate armies of the Air Defence Forces-the 2nd, 4th, 6th, 8th, 10th, 11th, 14th, and 19th Air Defence Army.

There were concerns that the explosive mechanism designed to separate the docking ring from the Command Module would not create enough pressure to completely sever the ring.

The three services are separate from each other, except in three areas: the Armed Forces General Staff ( Estado-Maior das Forças Armadas-EMFA ), the National Defense Council ( Conselho de Defesa Nacional-CDN ), and the Armed Forces High Command ( Alto Comando das Forças Armadas-ACFA ).

Persia and Iraq were to be split from Middle East Command as a separate Persia and Iraq Command and Auchinleck offered the post of C-in-C ( which he refused ).

Until 2005 the park was policed by the separate Royal Parks Constabulary but that has now been subsumed into the Royal Parks Operational Command Unit of the Metropolitan Police.

The former Wright Field became Area B of the combined installation, and the former Patterson Field became Area C. In 1951, the Air Force created a separate command for research and development called the Air Research and Development Command.

The functions of the Division were ultimately broken into two separate commands, the Materiel Command and the Air Service Command.

Until at least the sixteenth century, individual Officers of State had separate property, powers and responsibilities granted with their separate offices by Royal Command, and the Crown and the Privy Council constituted the only co-ordinating authorities.

The corps headquarters and Headquarters Company, the 3rd Sustainment Command ( Expeditionary ), and the separate brigades helped form the National Support Element headquartered in Hungary for United States Armed Forces in Bosnia.

The Republican Guard also included two Corps Headquarters, the Allah Akbar Republican Guard Operations Command ", and the " Fat ' h al-Mubayyin Republican Guard Operations Command ," separate artillery detachments, numerous field support units, and as many as 20 special forces brigades.

The UNIVAC 1110 had enhanced multiprocessing support: sixteen-way memory access allowed up to six CAUs ( Command Arithmetic Unit, the new name for CPU and so called because the CAU no longer had any I / O capability ) and four IOAUs ( Input Output Access Units, the name for separate units which performed the I / O channel programs ).

On 3 September 1939, RAF Middle East Command — under Air Chief Marshal Sir William Mitchell, Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief Middle East — comprised four separate commands: for Egypt ( designated Middle East ), RAF Iraq, Mediterranean at Malta, and RAF Aden ( No. 8, No. 203, and No. 94 Squadrons ).

French also arranged for Shaw, his chief of staff at Horse Guards, to replace Mahon as Commander-in-Chief, Ireland and that Irish Command should become a separate command, rather than under Home Forces.

Specific commands to control monitors are defined in a separate Monitor Control Command Set ( MCCS ) standard version 1. 0, released in September 1998.

* Home Guard-Although technically a separate branch from the Army, all Home Guard districts are under the 6th Division mobile Command.