The year 1961 marks the fourteenth anniversary of the unification of our Armed Forces under the National Security Act of 1947.

Armed Forces Day is the annual report on this investment, a public presentation designed to give our own people, and the people of other lands who stand with us for peace with freedom and justice, the best possible opportunity to see and understand what we have and why we have it.

It is the purpose of Armed Forces Day to give Americans an opportunity to honor men of the Armed Forces, those who have made the supreme sacrifice, those who remain to preserve our security.

now, therefore, do I, John A. Notte, Jr., governor of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, proclaim Saturday, May 20th, 1961, as Armed Forces Day, reminding our citizens that we should rededicate ourselves to our Nation, respecting the uniforms as the guardians of our precious liberty.

The Medical Illustration Service is responsible for the collection, publication, exhibition, and file of medical illustration material of medico-military importance to the Armed Forces.

The American Registry Of Pathology operates as a cooperative enterprise in medical research and education between the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology and the civilian medical profession on a national and international basis, under such conditions as may be agreed upon between the National Research Council and The Surgeons General of the Army, Navy, and Air Force.

In fiscal year 1959, the Medical Museum was moved to Chase Hall, a temporary building on Independence Avenue at Ninth Street, Southwest, and continued to display to the public the achievements of the Armed Forces Medical Services.

Throughout the period and during the movement operation, the Museum continued its functional support of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology.

Armed Forces Medical Publication Agency

The Armed Forces Medical Publication Agency, established in 1949, has published, since January 1950, The United States Armed Forces Medical Journal as a triservice publication to furnish material of professional interest to Medical Department officers of the three military services.

In May 1960, the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology began a series of articles on the `` Medical Museum '', and in June, the Institute started contributing a regular monthly `` Case For Diagnosis ''.

The Armed Forces Epidemiological Board agreed to submit each month a report for one of its 12 commissions, so that each commission will report once a year on some phase of its work calculated to be of particular interest and value to medical officers of the Armed Forces.

-- Expenditures for operating and maintaining the stations and equipment of the Armed Forces are estimated to be $10.3 billion in 1961, which is $184 million more than in 1960.

In total, these increases in operating costs outweigh the savings that result from declining programs and from economy measures, such as reduced numbers of units and installations, smaller inventories of major equipment, and improvements in the supply and distribution systems of the Armed Forces.

These contrasting trends in procurement reflect the anticipated changes in the composition and missions of our Armed Forces in the years ahead.

* Armed Forces Day ( Georgia )

* Armed Forces Day ( Lebanon )

* Armed Forces Day or Anniversary of the Founding of the People's Liberation Army ( People's Republic of China )

* Armed Forces Day ( Equatorial Guinea )

* Armed Forces Day ( Poland )

* Armed Forces Flag Day ( India )

* Armed Forces Day ( Vietnam )

* Armed Forces Day ( Mexico )

* Armed Forces Day ( Liberia )

* Day of the Armed Struggle ( Angola )

* Victory of Armed Forces Day ( Cuba )

* Armed Forces Day ( Nigeria )

* Armed Forces Day, formerly Veterans ' Day ( United Kingdom )

* Armed Forces Day ( Mauritania )

* Armed Forces Day ( Iraq )

* Armed Forces Day ( Mali )

* Royal Thai Armed Forces Day ( Thailand )

Despite vowing not to make any more films about the Nazi Party, in 1935, Riefenstahl made the 18-minute Day of Freedom: Armed Forces about the German army.

* Armed Forces Day ( Nicaragua )

The politicization of the Armed Forces was evidenced by the Proclamation of the Republic, which overthrew the Empire, or within Tenentismo ( Lieutenants ' movement ) and the Revolution of 1930.

The job security enjoyed by Doc Doolittle, and nearly all members of the Armed Forces, is a wonderful thing.

Amazon preparing for a battle ( Queen Antiop or Armed Venus ), by Pierre-Eugène-Emile Hébert 1860 ( National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C. )

* 1997 – At least 98 villagers are killed by the Armed Islamic Group of Algeria GIA in the Rais massacre, Algeria.

* 1945 – Hong Kong is liberated from Japan by British Armed Forces.

Two new groups, the Armed Forces for a Federal Republic ( FARF ) led by former Kette ally Laokein Barde and the Democratic Front for Renewal ( FDR ), and a reformulated MDD clashed with government forces from 1994 to 1995.

was used by Sudan Armed Forces when launching attacks on the SPLA.

The Armed Forces of Chile ( Fuerzas Armadas de Chile ) are subject to civilian control exercised by the president through the Minister of Defense.

File: HMS President-geograph. org. uk-659583. jpg | Armed WW1 Q-ship lured enemy submarines by mimicking a merchantman

The Mexican Army included a number of horse mounted cavalry regiments as late as the mid 1990s and the Chilean Army had five such regiments in 1983 as mounted mountain troops ( see Jane's " Armed Forces of Latin America " by Adrian J. English ).

The President is also Commander in Chief of the United States Armed Forces, and as such has broad authority over the armed forces ; however only Congress has authority to declare war, and the civilian and military budget is written by the Congress.

This nomenclature eventually was adopted by all Armed Forces ", and " assorted modifications of the Armed Forces nomenclature introduced into many clinics and hospitals by psychiatrists returning from military duty.

It aimed " to amend title 10, United States Code, to enhance the readiness of the Armed Forces by replacing the current policy concerning homosexuality in the Armed Forces, referred to as ' Don't ask, don't tell ,' with a policy of nondiscrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.

It is chaired by the President of the Republic, which is also the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces.

It monitors the fulfillment of the defence policies and the strategic plans elaborated by the Joint Command of the Armed Forces, submitted by the Ministry of National Defence.

It advises on national defence and is conformed by the Chief of the Joint Command of the Armed Forces and the Commanders of all three branches of the Ecuadorian Armed Forces: The Army, Navy and the Air Force.

Following the Egyptian Revolution of 2011, and the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak, executive power was assumed by the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, which dissolved the parliament, and suspended the constitution.

He was replaced by the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces headed by Field Marshall Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, which dissolved the Parliament of Egypt, suspended the Constitution of Egypt, and promised free, open presidential and parliamentary elections before the year's end and within six months.