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Corps and Research
Dartmouth College and the US Army Corps of Engineers Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory are located there.
" Engineer Research and Development Laboratories, Topographic Engineering Center ( now known as the Army Geospatial Center, US Army Corps of Engineers ), in Alexandria, VA. Includes data and citations on the geology, geography, water and transportation in Somalia.
* Engineer Research and Development Center ( ERDC ) — the Corps of Engineers research and development command.
The Corps of Engineers has two research organizations, the Engineer Research and Development Center ( ERDC ) and the Army Geospatial Center ( AGC ).
When Arnold became Chief of the Air Corps in 1938, the service was given a renewed focus on Research and Development.
The United States Army Corps of Engineers maintains the Construction Engineering Research Laboratory ( CERL ) in Champaign.
The city is also home to three large Corps of Engineers installations, the Engineer Research and Development Center ( ERDC ), the Mississippi Valley Division headquarters, and the Vicksburg District headquarters.
Force Research Unit ( FRU ) is alleged to be a name used by a covert military intelligence unit established by the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence in the Intelligence Corps of the British Army based at Templer Barracks, Ashford in Kent.
Then US Army Major Robert B. Staver, Chief of the Jet Propulsion Section of the Research and Intelligence Branch of the U. S. Army Ordnance Corps, used the Osenberg List to compile his list of German scientists to be captured and interrogated ; Wernher von Braun, Nazi Germany's premier rocket scientist headed Major Staver's list.
In August 1945, Colonel Holger Toftoy, head of the Rocket Branch of the Research and Development Division of the US Army's Ordnance Corps, offered initial one-year contracts to the rocket scientists ; 127 of them accepted.
The Marine Corps Research Center at Quantico pursues equipment research and development, especially telecommunications, for the Marine Corps.
It was funded by the US Office of Naval Research and was of interest to both the US Navy and Marine Corps as an investigation into the causes of conflict between military guards and prisoners.
In spring of 1976, Kahuta Research Facility, then known as Engineering Research Laboratories ( ERL ), as part of codename Project-706, was also established by Bhutto, and brought under nuclear scientist dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan and the Pakistan Army Corps of Engineers ' Lieutenant-General Zahid Ali Akbar.
After completing an internship from 1963 to 1964 at Buffalo General Hospital in Buffalo, New York, a two-year psychiatry residency at the University of Illinois Research and Educational Hospital ( now called University of Illinois Research Hospital ), and fellowship training in child psychiatry from 1966 to 1968 at the University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle, he served in the United States Navy Medical Corps as a psychiatrist in California during the Vietnam War.
During her last term in the House, Tauscher served as co-chair of the Iraqi Women's Caucus, Department of Energy Facilities Caucus, Army Corps Reform Caucus, Intelligent Transportation Systems Caucus, and Research and Development Caucus.
The United States Naval Research Laboratory ( NRL ) is the corporate research laboratory for the United States Navy and the United States Marine Corps and conducts a program of scientific research and development.
It was a collaboration of the General Electric Corporation, the US Army Signal Corps, the Office of Naval Research, and the US Air Force.
The core components of GRASS and the management of integration of efforts into GRASS releases was originally directed by the U. S. Army-Construction Engineering Research Laboratory ( USA-CERL ), a branch of the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, in Champaign, Illinois.
After World War I, in the 1920s and 1930s, Mauborgne pursued communication advancements in numerous research-and-development assignments, including a stint as chief of the Signal Corps Engineering and Research Division and as commander of the Signal Corps laboratory in the Bureau of Standards.
As head of the Engineering and Research Division of the Signal Corps, Lieutenant Colonel Mauborgne rendered conspicuous in connection with coordinating the design and supply of new technical apparatus for the Signal Corps.

Corps and Development
* 1942 – Major General Eugene Reybold of the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers authorizes the construction of facilities that would house the " Development of Substitute Materials " project, better known as the Manhattan Project.
It reopened in 1998 with limited staff, but U. S. Agency for International Development ( USAID ) and Peace Corps missions previously operating in Bangui did not return.
* CDC Development Solutions ( formerly Citizens Development Corps ), a DC-based NGO promoting economic development worldwide
General Krulak was assigned as commanding general, Marine Corps Combat Development Command, Quantico, on August 24, 1992, and was promoted to lieutenant general on September 1, 1992.
The United States has an active Peace Corps program, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Department of Health and Human Services, and an Agency for International Development ( USAID ) mission in Malawi.
The base is the site of the Marine Corps Combat Development Command and HMX-1 ( the presidential helicopter squadron ).
The United States assists Swaziland with a number of HIV / AIDS initiatives and programs implemented through the U. S. Agency for International Development ( USAID ), Centers for Disease Control ( CDC ), the Peace Corps, African Development Foundation, the Department of Labor, and the Department of Defense.
Senator Russ Feingold and Senator John McCain sponsored an amendment requiring peer review of Corps projects to the Water Resources Development Act of 2006, proclaiming " efforts to reform and add transparency to the way the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers receives funding for and undertakes water projects.
" A similar bill, the Water Resources Development Act of 2007, which included the text of the original Corps peer review measure, eventually passed by Congress in 2007, overriding Presidential veto.
Annual events include Dance Marathon, a thirty-hour event that raised more than a million dollars for charity in 2011 ; and Project Pumpkin, a Halloween celebration hosted by the Northwestern Community Development Corps ( NCDC ) to which more than 800 local children are invited for an afternoon of games and sweets.
The Corps ' Combat Development Command, which develops strategies for Marine combat and makes up most of the community of over 12, 000 military and civilian personnel ( including families ) is based here.
In 1987, the Marine Corps Development and Education Command here was changed to the Marine Corps Combat Development Command.

Corps and R
In their book, Cobra II, military correspondent Michael R. Gordon and military historian and retired Marine Corps general Bernard Trainor argued that Franks failed to recognize the threat the Saddam Fedayeen irregular fighters posed to the invading ground forces in 2003 and their potential to form the core of a post-war insurgency.
In September 1942, the Army Corps of Engineers placed the newly formed Manhattan Project under the command of General Leslie R. Groves, charging him with the construction of industrial-size plants for manufacturing plutonium and uranium.
The film's opening credits state that the screenplay was written by W. R. Burnett and Frank Butler " From the Records of The United States Marine Corps ", and includes many Marine Corps and military advisers.
Patrick R. Cleburne and John C. Breckinridge ) and the Reserve Corps of Maj. Gen. William H. T. Walker ( divisions of Brig.
William Preston and Bushrod R. Johnson ) and Longstreet's Corps, commanded by Maj. Gen. John Bell Hood ( divisions of Maj. Gens.
Gen. Walter R. Weaver, acting chief of the Air Corps, had his job eliminated and was relegated to a technical training command.
I Corps also contributed to the command structure, with the I Corps Commander, LTG Calvin A. H. Waller and the Deputy I Corps Commander, MG Paul R. Schwartz, assisting General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, the Commander of the American Forces.
The AFC was established on September 4, 1940, by Yale Law School ( LAW ) student R. Douglas Stuart, Jr., along with other students, including future President Gerald Ford, future Peace Corps director Sargent Shriver, and future U. S. Supreme Court justice Potter Stewart.
In addition, Gossett was advised by US Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeant Buck Welscher and Gunnery Sergeant R. Lee Ermey.
Gen. James A. Walker ), two brigades from the Fourth Corps division of Maj. Gen. Bushrod R. Johnson ( under Brig.
Formally designated as the Manhattan Engineer District, it refers specifically to the period of the project from 1941 – 1946 under the control of the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, under the administration of General Leslie R. Groves.
Sponsored by Representative Les Aspin, the bill added the fourth paragraph to Title 10 § 1128 and authorized the POW Medal for those captured “ by foreign armed forces that are hostile to the United States, under circumstances which the Secretary concerned finds to have been comparable to those under which persons have generally been held captive by enemy armed forces during periods of armed conflict .” This amendment was the result of congressional recognition of multiple groups of individuals who were not originally authorized to receive the medal after Department of Defense review, such as the < i > USS Pueblo </ i > crew detained in North Korea in 1968, the US Navy and US Army Air Force crews interned in neutral Russia during World War II, the US Army Air Force crews interned in neutral Switzerland during World War II, US Marine Corps Col. William R. Higgins who was kidnapped in 1988 and executed by Hezbollah-affiliated terrorists, and the U. S. Marines from the U. S. Embassy in Teheran, Iran who were held hostage by terrorists from 1979 – 1981 in the Iran Hostage Crisis.
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Pash's command comprised his executive officer Captain Wayne B. Stanard, four Counter Intelligence Corps ( CIC ) agents, four interpreters, and four scientists: Dr. James B. Fisk from the Bell Telephone Company, Dr. John R. Johnson from Cornell University, Commander Bruce Olds from ONI and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT ), and Major William Allis, originally from MIT although then serving on the War Department scientific staff.
On " Reek Sunday " ( the last Sunday in July ) emergency medical and rescue cover for pilgrams is provided by the Civil Defence, Order of Malta Ambulance Corps, and Mayo Mountain Rescue Team assisted by 12 other voluntary Mountain Rescue teams that are represented by the group Mountain Rescue Ireland ( I. M. R. A ), the Irish Air Corps providing helicopter support for casualty evacuations to hospital or to the emergency services in two locations at the base of the hill.
The Royal Corps of Signals ( often simply known as the Royal Signals-abbreviated to R SIGNALS ) is one of the combat support arms of the British Army.
* The Royal Corps Of Signals A History Of Its Antecedents And Development by Major-General R. F. H.
The companies and organizations involved in the construction are listed on the memorial as: the Faith Construction company, the R. J. Crowley company, the Cold Spring Granite Company, the Tallix Art Foundry and the Baltimore District of the US Army Corps of Engineers ....
5 and 7 Companies of the Imperial Camel Corps Brigade commanded by Major R. V. Buxton, marched from the Suez Canal to arrive at Aqaba on 30 July, to attack the Mudauwara Station.
* 49 Royal army Service Corps ( R. A. S. C )

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