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.

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 ":

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.

Armed with their theories and the new fuel, the protagonists undertake a campaign to have the reactor shut down, moved into space, and used as a source for the fuel, which will supply the needs of Earth and take humanity into space.

The town also hosts a large Armed forces vehicle supply and maintenance depot at nearby Ashchurch.

The government also acquired or established several companies, such as Keppel Corporation ( originally Keppel shipyard, taken over from the British Royal Navy after it withdrew from the island ), ST Engineering ( originally a weapon manufacturer set up to supply the Singapore Armed Forces ), and the shipping company Neptune Orient Lines.

Business thrived ; lucrative contracts to supply meat to the Armed Forces during both World Wars helped the company grow.

( 1 ) to civilian or Armed Forces supply or procurement officers and employees of the Federal Government ordering, procuring, or purchasing such knives in connection with the activities of the Federal Government ;

Its conception was to fill a gap in the machinery of government between the Ministry of Supply, Ministry of Aircraft Production and Admiralty on the one hand, responsible for supply to the Armed Forces and the Ministry of Labour and National Service on the other, which was responsible for the distribution of labour between civilian occupations, war industry and the Armed Forces.

Bout allegedly offered to supply weapons to people he thought were representatives of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia ( FARC ) rebels.

Denel was also contracted to supply various weapon systems for the Indian Armed Forces, including Anti-material rifles and Self-propelled howitzers.

As of 1 January 2010, the Armed Forces of the Republic of Poland have transitioned to a completely contract-based manpower supply system.

The Supply Chain Operations Centre ( SCOC ) is a tri-service organisation which co-ordinates supply chains for the British Armed Forces.

He wrote a paper entitled El Ansar ( The Victor ) in which he expressed support for the actions of the Armed Islamic Group ( GIA ) in Algeria, but he later rejected them when they started killing civilians.

Wonsu only exists on paper, and has never been held by an officer of the South Korean Armed Forces.

Morris J. MacGregor, Jr. in his paper " Integration of the Armed Forces 1940-1969 " writes concerning the words integration and desegregation:

This arrangement was formalized on 21 April 1948 as part of a policy paper titled the " Function of the Armed Forces and the Joint Chiefs of Staff " ( informally known as the " Key West Agreement ").

The Key West Agreement is the colloquial name for the policy paper Function of the Armed Forces and the Joint Chiefs of Staff drafted by James V. Forrestal, the first United States Secretary of Defense.

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.

Under war, civil unrest, armed conflict and other emergency situations, children and youths are also offered protection under the United Nations Declaration on the Protection of Women and Children in Emergency and Armed Conflict.

Article 4. 3. c of Protocol II, additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of Non-International Armed Conflicts, adopted in 1977, states " children who have not attained the age of fifteen years shall neither be recruited in the armed forces or groups nor allowed to take part in hostilities ".

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 ).

In June 2007, the Special Court for Sierra Leone found three accused men from the rebel Armed Forces Revolutionary Council ( AFRC ) guilty of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and other serious violations of international humanitarian law, including the recruitment of children under the age of 15 years into the armed forces.

Two Coehorn mortars were used to fire on the pā the next day in preparation for a possible assault, when a reconnaissance mission by some Armed Constabulary discovered the pā was empty, its inhabitants – men, women and children – having slipped out through the rear during the night.

Martín-Oar's widow, Emilia Ripoll, sent a press release to Europa Press in which she and her children express their deep pride in Sr. Martín-Oar's devoted service in the cause of peace, "... deep gratitude for the support and caring of the Government of Spain, especially of the Ministry of Defense and the Armed Forces ..".

Queen Victoria School is a co-educational boarding school for children of those in the British Armed Forces.

A recent change early in 2006 extended the privilege to the orphan children of deceased servicemen or servicewomen of Her Majesty's Armed Forces irrespective of rank, and to the orphan children of persons who, in the sole opinion of Governors, died in acts of selfless bravery.

He later also served as an Advisor to the Office of the Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict at the United Nations, and has been involved in setting United Nations policy on issues concerning the protection of children living with war.

Armed with knives and hatchets they murdered the women and children.

Awarded the Legion of Merit, Defense Superior Service Medal, NASA Space Flight Medal, Navy Commendation Medal, Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal, Meritorious Unit Commendation, National Defense Service Medal, Small Arms Expert Ribbon, and the Child Advocate of the Year Award for the state of Florida from the Childrens Home Society, an organization dedicated to services for children and young mothers.

Leagues from the Transatlantic region generally consisted of children and other dependents of American expatriates, typically Armed Forces personnel, international organization members, and oil company workers ( such as the team representing the Saudi Aramco Residential Camp in Dhahran, which advanced to the World Series 19 times through 2007, including all the tournaments from 2001 through 2007 ).

The Convention is supplemented by the Optional Protocol on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict ( against military use of children ) and the Optional Protocol on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography ( against sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography ).

The Gold Star Wives of America was formed before the end of World War II to provide support for the spouses and children of those who lost their lives while serving in the Armed Forces of the United States.

Queen Elizabeth High was registered as a designated school for children of the United States Armed Forces and Diplomatic Personnel, and had a long tradition of attracting students from other parts of Canada and from overseas.

One song is about children born with or dying from AIDS and the other is about a tribute to the troops of the United States Armed Forces.

Following the series retirement from CBS, like many other cartoons, it was acquired by the Armed Forces Network and shown throughout much of the 1980s, mainly as entertainment for children of deployed American servicemen in Asia and Europe.

Since the Second World War, the school has provided an education to children whose fathers have been travelling the world in the Armed Forces.

Commissioned by UNICEF, Hakakian's film, Armed and Innocent, on the subject of the involvement of underage children in wars around the world, was a nominee for best short documentary at several festivals around the world.