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

Since the award criteria state that the Bronze Star Medal may be awarded to " any person ... while serving in any capacity in or with " the U. S. Armed Forces, awards to members of foreign armed services serving with the United States are permitted.

Awards may be made to persons other than members of the Armed Forces of the United States for wartime services only, and then only under exceptional circumstances, with the express approval of the President in each case.

Awards may be made to persons other than members of the Armed Forces of the United States for wartime services only, and only then under exceptional circumstances with the express approval of the President in each case.

Senior members of the military can convene for the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, so during the course of the Egyptian Revolution of 2011, when Mubarak resigned and transferred power to this body on February 11, 2011.

Four principal left-wing guerrilla groups — the Guerrilla Army of the Poor ( EGP ), the Revolutionary Organization of Armed People ( ORPA ), the Rebel Armed Forces ( FAR ), and the Guatemalan Party of Labour ( PGT ) — conducted economic sabotage and targeted government installations and members of government security forces in armed attacks.

* The Royal British Legion, the United Kingdom's leading charity providing support for members of the British Armed Forces and their dependents

* When the Legion of Merit is awarded to members of the Armed Forces of the United States it is awarded without reference to degree.

In January 2002, 1, 200 members of United States Special Operations Command, Pacific ( SOCPAC ) were deployed to the Philippines to assist the Armed Forces of the Philippines ( AFP ) in uprooting al-Qaeda, Jemaah Islamiyah and Abu Sayyaf.

A significant number of Puerto Ricans participate as members and work for the U. S. Armed Services, largely as National Guard members and civilian employees.

Colombia's Program for Humanitarian Attention for the Demobilized announced in August 2008 that 339 members of Colombia's rebel groups surrendered and handed in their weapons in July, including 282 guerrillas from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia.

Armed opposition to the Sandinista Government eventually divided into two main groups: The Fuerza Democrática Nicaragüense ( FDN ), a U. S. supported army formed in 1981 by the CIA, U. S. State Department, and former members of the widely condemned Somoza-era Nicaraguan National Guard ; and the Alianza Revolucionaria Democratica ( ARDE ) Democratic Revolutionary Alliance, a group that had existed since before the FSLN and was led by Sandinista founder and former FSLN supreme commander, Edén Pastora, a. k. a. " Commander Zero ".

In 1990, three members of the Armed Resistance Unit were convicted of the bombing, which they claimed was in response to the invasion of Grenada.

The government argued that Stanley was barred from suing under a legal doctrine — known as the Feres doctrine, after a 1950 Supreme Court case, Feres v. United States — that prohibits members of the Armed Forces from suing the government for any harms that were inflicted " incident to service.

The first, the Optional Protocol on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict, requires governments to ensure that children under the age of eighteen are not recruited compulsorily into their armed forces, and calls on governments to do everything feasible to ensure that members of their armed forces who are under eighteen years of age do not take part in hostilities.

As of 2010, the military of Madagascar is composed of the 8, 100 paramilitary of the National Gendarmerie and the 13, 500 members of the People's Armed Forces.

Stars and Stripes is an American newspaper that reports on matters affecting the members of the United States Armed Forces.

* Aleph Institute, a Jewish humanitarian organization for Jewish members of the US Armed forces and Jewish prison inmates

As such, the civil service does not include government ministers ( who are politically appointed ), members of the British Armed Forces, police officers, local government officials, members of the National Health Service ( NHS ), or staff of the Royal Household.

Indigent and disabled veterans of the Civil War, Indian Wars, Spanish-American War, and Mexican Border period as well as discharged regular members of the Armed Forces were cared for at these homes.

DNA testing by multiple international laboratories such as the Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory and Innsbruck Medical University confirmed that the remains belong to the Tsarevich Alexei and to one of his sisters, proving conclusively that all family members, including Anastasia, died in 1918.

The 15 members of the board are variously appointed by the President of the United States, the Vice President, the Senate and House Armed Services Committees and the Speaker of the House of Representatives.

Below a list of some of the historical events in which the Brazilian Armed Forces took part:

As Islamists took up arms to overthrow the regime, the FIS's leaders were arrested and it became overshadowed by Islamist guerilla groups particularly the Islamic Salvation Army, MIA and Armed Islamic Group ( or GIA ).

At the request of Lebanese President Hrawi, the Syrian military took joint action with the Lebanese Armed Forces on 13 October 1990, to oust rebel Gen. Michel Aoun who had defied efforts at reconciliation with the legitimate Government of Lebanon.

Armed youths took over the highland city of Matagalpa.

All participants in the NLSY took the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery ( ASVAB ), a battery of ten tests taken by all who apply for entry into the armed services.

" Armed with arguments crafted in this way, OpenLaw took Eldritch's case -- deemed unwinnable at the outset -- right through the system to the Supreme Court.

Armed with four pistols and an axe, Weatherhill took revenge first on the vicar and then on Jane Smith, another maid who had informed Plow of the secret meetings.

Armed and uniformed men were seen entering the field, and immediately after the firing broke out scenes of the wildest confusion took place.

Armed with modern weapons and the chicotte — a bull whip made of hippopotamus hide — the Force Publique routinely took and tortured hostages, flogged, and raped Congolese people.

Raúl Castro was a rebel commander during the 1950s ; after his older brother, Fidel Castro, took power, Raúl Castro was one of the most important figures in the new regime, serving as Minister of the Armed Forces from 1959 to 2008.

In 1943, the U. S. Armed Forces temporarily took over Oakland Airport and opened Naval Air Station Oakland.

However, in 1938, Hitler took the title of Commander-in-Chief himself and assumed personal command of the Armed Forces.

In 1945, the combined United States and Philippine Commonwealth ground troops together with the recognized guerrillas took in Cagayan by the attack from the Japanese troops during the liberated in Cagayan province was under the Filipino soldiers of the 1st, 2nd, 11th, 12th, 13th, 15th and 16th Infantry Division of the Philippine Commonwealth Army, 1st Infantry Regiment of the Philippine Constabulary and the 11th and 14th Infantry Regiment of the United States Armed Forces in the Philippines – Northern Luzon or USAFIP-NL from the Battle of Cagayan Valley during the Second World War.

On the night of July 25, 1978 Carlos Soto Arriví and Arnaldo Darío Rosado, two independence activists of the Armed Revolutionary Movement ( Movimiento Revolucionario Armado in Spanish ), along with undercover police officer Alejandro González Malavé posing as a fellow group member, took taxi driver Julio Ortiz Molina hostage and ordered him to drive them to Cerro Maravilla where several communication towers were located.

One of the most famous was Jean-Victor Allard who demanded a transfer from the Three Rivers Regiment to the Infantry ; he went on to become a brigade commander in Northwest Europe and then in Korea, command a British Division in NATO and subsequently become Chief of the Defence Staff of the Canadian Armed Forces ( where he took pleasure in creating the first French-speaking brigade ).

Nonetheless, the task force began its work and took possession of two buildings on the grounds of the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces ( RCAF ) High Command headquarters in Kandal province just on the outskirts of Phnom Penh.

3 of the National Armed Forces General Command, L. 18 / 44 from January 15, 1944, reads: " In the face of crossing of Polish boarders by Soviet forces, the Polish Government in London and its Polish citizens living on the territory of Poland express their unwavering desire for the return of the sovereignty to the entire area of Poland within the Polish boarders established prior to 1939 through the mutually-binding Treaty of Riga and reaffirmed by the general principles of the Atlantic Charter, as well as by the declarations of the Allied governments which did not concede to any territorial changes that took place in Poland after August 1939.

The Japanese Imperial Army and Navy were decommissioned, and the US Armed Forces took control of their military bases.

In 2006, Fort Worth based Bell Helicopter Textron took over sponsorship, and thus it became officially known as the Bell Helicopter Armed Forces Bowl ; Alltel Communications was originally to assume the title sponsorship of the game with its wireless division, but the deal fell through.

After the death of Angola's first president, Agostinho Neto, on September 10, 1979, José Eduardo dos Santos was elected as President of the MPLA on September 20, 1979, and he took office as President of Angola, President of the MPLA, and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces on September 21.

In 1969 a re-alignment from pure research to smaller projects directly requested by the Armed Forces took place, along with a change of name to Defence Research Establishment Valcartier ( DREV ) and a general downsizing of the station and its budgets.

The Armée Nationale Congolaise, Belgian Armed Forces and United States troops opposed the mercenary forces and took control of the city in 1967 under a U. N. mandate.

Langer, however, took the position that the Polish team must remain where the Polish Armed Forces were being formedon French soil.

On August 14, 1898, The United States Armed Forces entered and took the town of Moca finding no resistance.

The first party congress took place at liberated Cassaca in February 1964, in which both the political and military arms of the PAIGC were assessed and reorganized, with a regular army ( Revolutionary Armed Forces of the People, FARP ) to supplement the guerrilla forces ( The People's Guerrillas ).