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.

This section prevents the military departments and the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization from carrying out certain transactions involving real property unless they come into agreement with the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives.

Armed with constitutional power to negate the Executive's foreign policy, the Senate carries a big stick and is easily provoked to use it on the State Department's back, or on the head of the Secretary of State.

Armed with letters from embassies to ministers of countries, especially those in the near and far east, Mrs. Geraghty `` will beat the bushes for oriental talent ''.

Armed with the Nixon opinion, the Senate liberals rounded up their slim majority and prepared to choke off debate on the filibuster battle this week.

The Angolan Armed Forces ( Portuguese: Forças Armadas Angolanas ) are the military in Angola that succeeded Forças Armadas de Libertação de Angola ( FAPLA ) following the abortive Bicesse Accord with UNITA in 1991.

Armed with a high-velocity dual-purpose 75 mm gun, late production StuG III variants blurred the line between assault guns and tank destroyers.

The Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Belarus ( Russian: Министерство обороны Республики Беларусь, Belarusian: Мiнiстэрства абароны Рэспублікі Беларусь ) is the government organization that is charged with the duties of raising and maintaining the Armed Forces of Belarus.

The Ministries of Defense of Germany, Argentina, Chile, Spain, USA, France, the United Kingdom, Italy and Portugal had been chosen for deepened analysis because they had some type of identification with Brazil, as territorial extension, population, cash of the Armed Forces, amongst others.

Officers from the other federal uniformed services are also eligible to receive the decoration if they are militarized or detailed to serve with a service branch of the Armed Forces.

At the time of the Executive Order, for example, the U. S. was not a belligerent in Vietnam, so U. S. advisers serving with the Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces would not have been eligible for the award.

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.

Government forces clashed violently with rebel forces, including the Movement for Democracy and Development, MDD, National Revival Committee for Peace and Democracy ( CSNPD ), Chadian National Front ( FNT ) and the Western Armed Forces ( FAO ), near Lake Chad and in southern regions of the country.

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.

The Cape Verdean government aims to make the Armed Forces more flexible and able to deal with terrorism, drug trafficking, disaster relief, and control its territorial waters.

A mutual defense accord signed with France in April 1961 provides for the stationing of French Armed Forces troops in Côte d ' Ivoire.

Since 1990, the ACR and the Czech Armed Forces have contributed to numerous peacekeeping and humanitarian operations, including IFOR, SFOR, and EUFOR Althea in Bosnia, Desert Shield / Desert Storm, Afghanistan, Kosovo, Albania, Turkey, Pakistan and with the Coalition forces in Iraq.

Armed with the knowledge of shock-metamorphic features, Carlyle S. Beals and colleagues at the Dominion Observatory in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada and Wolf von Engelhardt of the University of Tübingen in Germany began a methodical search for impact craters.

From 1950 onward, census forms were mailed to every address on record with the United States Post Office, including the Armed Services Postal System, in an effort to enhance completeness of the data collected.

Armed with an endless supply of high-quality paper and pencils, the children drew constantly.

Malaysian Armed Forces have two identical oval tags with this information:

The Singapore Armed Forces-issued dog tags are inscribed ( not embossed ) with up to four items:

The UK Armed Forces currently utilize two circular non reflecting stainless steel tags engraved with the " Big 6 ":

* Egypt ’ s Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, The New York Times, February 10, 2011

Hezbollah also denounced the massacres in Algeria by Armed Islamic Group, Al-Gama ’ a al-Islamiyya attacks on tourists in Egypt, and the murder of Nick Berg.

Armed groups ’ movements were by far the most frequent cause of displacement and also the most damageable.

Minister of People ’ s Armed Forces: Kim Jong Gak

The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia – People ’ s Army (, FARC – EP and FARC ) are a Colombian Marxist – Leninist revolutionary guerrilla organization involved in the continuing Colombian armed conflict since 1964.

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The Royal Thai Armed Forces ’ main role is the protection of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Kingdom of Thailand.

The Warsaw Treaty ’ s organization was two-fold: the Political Consultative Committee handled political matters, and the Combined Command of Pact Armed Forces controlled the assigned multi-national forces, with headquarters in Warsaw, Poland.

Thousands of children were recruited and used by all sides during Sierra Leone ’ s conflict ( 1993 – 2002 ), including the Revolutionary United Front ( RUF ), the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council ( AFRC ), and the pro-government Civil Defense Forces ( CDF ).

On September 11, 1973, during the coup d ’ etát President Salvador Allende committed suicide in the presidential palace, La Moneda, as the Armed Forces seized power.

" Consequently, Guzmán Decenas deserted from the Armed Forces and brought more than 30 army deserters to form part of Cárdenas ’ new criminal paramilitary wing.

Abizaid ’ s military education includes the United States Military Academy ( USMA ) at West Point, New York ( Class of 1973 ); Infantry Officer Basic and Advanced courses, Armed Forces Staff College, and a U. S. Army War College Senior Fellowship at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.

On August 3, 2006, Abizaid, in testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee, said the following about the situation on the ground in Iraq: " I believe that the sectarian violence is probably as bad as I ’ ve seen it, in Baghdad in particular, and that if not stopped, it is possible that Iraq could move towards civil war.

As stipulated in the 1997 National Defense Law, the CMC also controls the paramilitary People ’ s Armed Police ( PAP ), who have the politically sensitive role of guarding key government buildings, including the main leadership compound of Zhongnanhai in Beijing.

The national security system is made up of the Ministry of State Security and the Ministry of Public Security, the People ’ s Armed Police, the People ’ s Liberation Army ( PLA ), and the state judicial, procuratorial, and penal systems.

The Ministry of Public Security oversees all domestic police activity in China, including the People ’ s Armed Police Force.

The People ’ s Armed Police Force, with its 1. 5 million personnel, is organized into 45 divisions.

history of the United States House to have served as Chairman of both the House Veterans ’ Affairs Committee and the House Armed Services Committee.

On March 17, 1949, he and General Alvan Cullom Gillem, Jr. testified before the President ’ s Committee on Equality of Treatment and Opportunity in the Armed Services.

The Royal Jordanian Air Force ( RJAF — Arabic: سلاح الجو الملكي الأردني, transliterated Silāḥ ul-Jawu al-Malakī ’ al-Urdunī ) is the air force branch of the Jordanian Armed Forces.

If the majority of the Armed Forces did not do their job, I doubt very much if you ’ d all be here.

Norway ’ s Armed Forces were kept mobilized throughout the First World War and in the beginning of World War II.