He then joined the CIA's U-2 program at the civilian grade of GS-12.

This position will be updated to a GS-12 position sometime in 2010 or 2011.

Border Patrol Field Training Officers may possibly be updated in 2010 to a temporary GS-12 pay rate.

The GS-1 through GS-7 range generally marks entry-level positions, while mid-level positions are in the GS-8 to GS-12 range and top-level positions ( commonly front-line or mid-level supervisors, high-level technical specialists, or physicians ) are in the GS-13 to GS-15 range.

The BMP-3 is a Soviet amphibious infantry fighting vehicle, successor to the BMP-1 and BMP-2.

The prototypes had the following characteristics: weight of 25 – 27 tons ( depending on an aluminum or steel hull ); 425 HP diesel engine ; a 2-man turret with a 20 mm gun & 7. 62 mm MG ; crew of three plus nine infantry equipped with firing ports ; a built-in toilet ; armor that was proof against Soviet 14. 5 mm MG fire beyond a certain range ; a collective and overpressure CBR system ; amphibious.

The BMP-2 ( Boyevaya Mashina Pekhoty, Russian: Боевая Машина Пехоты ; infantry combat vehicle ) is a second-generation, amphibious infantry fighting vehicle introduced in the 1980s in the Soviet Union, following the BMP-1 of the 1960s.

A series of events during and after World War II exacerbated tensions, including the Soviet-German pact during the first two years of the war leading to subsequent invasions, the perceived delay of an amphibious invasion of German-occupied Europe, the western allies ' support of the Atlantic Charter, disagreement in wartime conferences over the fate of Eastern Europe, the Soviets ' creation of an Eastern Bloc of Soviet satellite states, western allies scrapping the Morgenthau Plan to support the rebuilding of German industry, and the Marshall Plan.

The MT-LB ( многоцелевой тягач легко бронированный, Mnogotselevoy Tyagach Lekhko Bronirovannyi / multi-purpose light-armoured towing vehicle ) is a Soviet multi-purpose fully amphibious auxiliary armoured tracked vehicle which was first introduced in the late 1960s.

The BMD-1 is a Soviet airborne amphibious tracked infantry fighting vehicle, which was introduced in 1969 and first seen by the West in 1970.

* Beriev Be-12, Soviet Naval Designation M-12, a Soviet amphibious aircraft

* GSP a. k. a. GSP-55 self-propelled amphibious ferry, made in the former Soviet Union

One immediate result of Operation Green Sea was an escalation in the conflict, with countries such as Algeria and Nigeria now offering support to the PAIGC as well as the Soviet Union, which sent warships to the region ( known by NATO as the West Africa Patrol ) in a show of force calculated to deter future Portuguese amphibious attacks on the territory of the Republic of Guinea.

By 1970 the PAIGC even had candidates training in the Soviet Union, learning to fly MIGs and to operate Soviet-supplied amphibious assault crafts and APCs.

The BRDM-2 ( Boyevaya Razvedyvatelnaya Dozornaya Mashina, Боевая Разведывательная Дозорная Машина, literally " Combat Reconnaissance / Patrol Vehicle " †) is an amphibious armoured patrol car used by Russia and the former Soviet Union.

Georgy Mikhailovich Beriev ( Beriashvili ) (; February 13, 1903 – July 12, 1979 ), founded the Soviet Union's Beriev Design Bureau in Taganrog, which concentrated on amphibious aircraft.

Exercise Zapad included amphibious landings in Poland near Gdańsk, reminding Poles that the Soviet Union could resort to military force if that was deemed necessary.

On 26 and 30 December 1941 the Soviet launched an amphibious assault on the Kerch peninsula to relieve the encircled Soviet forces at Sevastopol.

The Kingisepp – Gdov Offensive was launched on 13 February, with Soviet forces attacking right across the line, as well as launching an amphibious assault from the Baltic near Mereküla.

Its two undermanned infantry divisions were unable to withstand the massive Soviet Red Army armored and amphibious assault on Korea during the Soviet invasion of Manchuria.

A Soviet Naval Brigade also made an amphibious landing to the west of Rybachy, thereby outflanking the Germans.

It is based on the hull of the older Type 63 ( which in turn is based on the Soviet PT76 amphibious light tank ).

* August 18, 1945 – Soviet amphibious landings in northern Korea.

Morison worked as an intelligence analyst at the Naval Intelligence Support Center ( NISC ) in Suitland, Maryland, from 1974 to 1984, specializing in Soviet amphibious and mine-laying vessels.

The T-38 amphibious scout tank was a Soviet amphibious light tank that saw service in World War II.

* 1945 – More than 7, 000 die when the German refugee ship Goya is sunk by a Soviet submarine torpedo.

* 1977 – The Soviet icebreaker Arktika became the first surface ship to reach the North Pole.

At the end of September, Navy reconnaissance aircraft photographed the Soviet ship Kasimov with large crates on its deck the size and shape of Il-28 light bombers.

A US Navy P-2 Neptune | P-2H Neptune of VP-18 flying over a Soviet cargo ship with crated Ilyushin Il-28 | Il-28s on deck during the Cuban Crisis.

* 1941 – World War II: Soviet hospital ship Armenia is sunk by German planes while evacuating refugees and wounded military and staff of several Crimean hospitals.

* 1962 – The Soviet ship Poltava heads toward Cuba, one of the events that sets into motion the Cuban Missile Crisis.

* Kosmonaut Yuri Gagarin – Soviet space research ship

* August 17 – The Soviet icebreaker Arktika became the first surface ship to reach the North Pole.

** The Wilhelm Gustloff, with over 10, 000 mainly civilian Germans from Gotenhafen ( Gdynia ) in the Gdansk Bay, is sunk by three torpedoes from the Soviet submarine S-13 in the Baltic Sea ; up to 9, 400 are thought to have died – the greatest loss of life in a single ship sinking in war action in history.

* Hansa ( Swedish ship ), a Swedish passenger liner, sunk by a Soviet submarine in 1944

On November 23, 1970, in the Atlantic Ocean just west of Aquinnah, Simas Kudirka, a Soviet seaman of Lithuanian nationality, attempted to defect to the United States by leaping onto a United States Coast Guard cutter from a Soviet ship.

There was formerly a Soviet satellite-tracking ship named for Komarov, the Kosmonaut Vladimir Komarov.

Irving went on to assert that the " ship " was due for rough sailing because recently the Soviet government had allowed historians access to " the index cards of all the people who passed through the gates of Auschwitz ", and claimed that this would lead to " a lot of people are not claiming to be Auschwitz survivors anymore " ( Irving's statement about the index cards was incorrect ; what the Soviet government had made available in 1990 were the death books of Auschwitz, recording the weekly death tolls ).

* SSV-33 Ural, Soviet command ship

His father returned to Pyongyang that September, and in late November Kim returned to Korea via a Soviet ship, landing at Sonbong ( 선봉군, also Unggi ).

On his first trip in 1927, to avoid going through the Soviet Union, he went by ship from London to Calcutta.

Russian ( and Soviet ) ship classes are formally named by the numbered project that designed them.

According to Brian Harvey's book Russia In Space, there was also a real Soviet communications ship called the Vladislav Volkov, but it was sold by the Russian government following the fall of the USSR.

During the Red Scare of 1918 – 19, in response to the 1919 anarchist bombings aimed at prominent government officials and businessman, U. S. Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer, supported by J. Edgar Hoover, then head of the Justice Department's Enemy Aliens Registration Section, used the Sedition Act, a 1918 amendment to the Espionage Act, to deport several hundred foreign citizens, including Emma Goldman, to the Soviet Union on a ship the press called the " Soviet Ark ".

* Rusalka, a Soviet ship from Call of Duty: Black Ops.

* May 26 – Spanish Republican air raids by Soviet pilots narrowly miss the German patrol ship Albatross at Palma and damage the German " pocket battleship " Deutschland off Ibiza, killing 31 and wounding 66 aboard Deutschland.

There have been numerous conflicting reports and theories, among them that the Amber Room was destroyed by bombing, hidden in a now-lost subterranean bunker in Königsberg, buried in mines in the Ore Mountains, or taken onto a ship or submarine which was sunk by Soviet forces in the Baltic Sea.