Since 2003 the United States Armed Forces have used the term joint terminal attack controller ( JTAC ) for some of their ground based FACs.

In the United States, despite its success in battle, the role of the FAC was not codified into doctrine until after the war's end, by which time no FACs remained in service in the US.

By war's end, the United Nations air campaign had become so dependent on airborne FAC's directing strikes on targets invisible to ground FACs that the latter could go three months without directing a strike.

The United States Marine Corps is the only United States service to refer to its JTACs as FACs.

Non-aviator FACs in the United States Marine Corps must meet the following requirements.

FACs and TACPs in the United Kingdom are trained at the Joint Forward Air Controller Training Standards Unit ( JFACTSU )

* US Air Force 21st Tactical Air Support Squadron – jump qualified FACs who are attached and deployed with 82nd Airborne, Fort Bragg, NC

There are two accounts of the origin of the Horsefly FACs in this case ; both may be true, as they are not contradictory.

NATO FACs are trained to request, plan, brief and execute CAS operations both for Low Level and Medium / High Level operations and their training NATO FACs includes electronic warfare, suppression of enemy air defences, enemy air defence, air command and control, attack methods and tactics and weaponeering.

In light of operational experience British FACs now form part of Fire Support Teams as well as TACPs able to direct a wide range of fires FACs are also provided by the Royal Marines ( and Royal Marines Reserve ) and some from the RAF Regiment Tactical Air Control Parties.

During the Bougainville campaign, FACs from 5 Squadron directed as many as 20 Corsairs at a time in air strikes.

The Air Force believed in central control of close air support originated by FACs within Tactical Air Control Parties assigned to the Army at regimental and divisional level.

Underneath him, he has two other FACs and three Joint Terminal Attack Controllers ( JTACs-8002 MOS ).

In addition to the three FACs and three JTACs, the infantry battalion also has eight Joint Fires Observers ( JFOs ) distributed among the rifle companies.

Raven FACs also directed air strikes here in the southeast ; other Forward Air Controllers from South Vietnam, such as Covey FACs from the 20th Tactical Air Support Squadron and Nail FACs from the 23rd Tactical Air Support Squadron, also directed strikes.

Rescue " packages " were created utilizing FACs ( Forward Air Controllers ), rescue escorts ( such as AH-1 Cobras or A-1 Sandys ), protective fighter CAP ( Combat Air Patrol ), and the HH-3 Jolly Green Giant and HH-53 Super Jolly Green Giant helicopters to provide fast rescue for pilots shot down far behind enemy lines.

FACs may form part of a Fire Support Team or Tactical Air Control Party, they may be ground based, airborne FACs in fixed wing aircraft ( FAC-A ) or in helicopters ( ABFAC ).

FACs were first used by the British Desert Air Force in North Africa, but not by the USAAF until operations in Salerno.

Airborne FACs were supplied from the Air Observation Post Squadrons of the RAF.

Unlike the Close Air Support missions usually improvised by the FACs, the Cherokee strikes were preplanned raids of about 50 aircraft.

During the Rhodesian Bush War the Rhodesian Air Force mounted Airborne FACs in Aeromachi AL60 B Trojans and Lynx aircraft.

* He Runs An Air Force For Gravel Crunchers, Michael Amrine 1951 Popular Science article on Korean War FACs

At the time, the renewal cycle for FACs was five years, meaning that it would take six years for the full reduction of valid certificates to be seen for both large-calibre and. 22 handguns bans ( because certificates remained valid even if the holder had disposed of all their firearms ).

Due to it being superseded by the Hsiung Feng II on larger patrol craft and in coastal batteries, the HF-I is being phased out of service ( alone with Hai Ou class FACs ).

Ideally the three FACs ( including the Air Officer ) come from three different aviation backgrounds: one tactical jet pilot ( F / A-18 or AV-8B ), one tactical helicopter pilot ( AH-1W or UH-1Y ), and one assault support helicopter pilot ( CH-46 or CH-53 ).

In March, 1961, representatives of the national laboratories of Australia, Canada, The Netherlands, United Kingdom, U.S.S.R., United States, and West Germany, met at the NBS to devise means for reaching international agreement on a temperature scale between 10 and 90 Af.

These thermometers have now been sent to the United Kingdom for calibration at the National Physical Laboratory.

Cultural anthropology is also called socio-cultural anthropology or social anthropology ( especially in the United Kingdom ).

* Association of Drainage Authorities, membership body for those involved in water level management in the United Kingdom

Aberdeen is a city in Scotland, United Kingdom.

* Animal ( clothing ), a sportswear retailer and brand based in the United Kingdom

Modern arable agriculture typically uses large field ( agriculture ) | fields like this one in Dorset, England, United Kingdom

The five largest modern countries that are mainly archipelagos are Indonesia, Japan, the Philippines, New Zealand and the United Kingdom.

* 1877 – The United Kingdom annexes the Transvaal.

* 1963 – The Bristol Bus Boycott is held in Bristol to protest the Bristol Omnibus Company's refusal to employ Black or Asian bus crews, drawing national attention to racial discrimination in the United Kingdom.

* 1993 – Virgin Radio broadcasts for the first time in the United Kingdom.

* 1896 – Anglo-Zanzibar War: the shortest war in world history ( 09: 00 to 09: 45 ) between the United Kingdom and Zanzibar.

* 1861 – The United Kingdom annexes Lagos, Nigeria.

* 1914 – World War I: First Battle of the Atlantic – two days after the United Kingdom had declared war on Germany over the German invasion of Belgium, ten German U-boats leave their base in Heligoland to attack Royal Navy warships in the North Sea.

* 1962 – Jamaica becomes independent from the United Kingdom.

* Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Jamaica from the United Kingdom in 1962.

* 1902 – Edward VII and Alexandra of Denmark are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

* 1907 – The first Boy Scout encampment concludes at Brownsea Island in southern England, United Kingdom.

* 2006 – At least 21 suspected terrorists are arrested in the 2006 transatlantic aircraft plot that happened in the United Kingdom.

Azerbaijan currently has diplomatic relations with 160 countries: Afghanistan, Bahrain, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, the People's Republic of China, Denmark, Egypt, France, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Greece, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Kuwait, Libya, Luxembourg, Mexico, Moldova, Mongolia, Netherlands, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Poland, Qatar, Republic of India, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Togo, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uzbekistan and Vietnam.

* United Kingdom comparative: about one third larger ( 30 %) than Wales

Countries that officially recognize the Armenian genocide include Argentina, Armenia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Chile, Cyprus, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Lebanon, Lithuania, The Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland, Uruguay, Vatican City and Venezuela ; additionally, some regional governments of countries recognize the Armenian genocide, such as New South Wales in Australia and Wales in the United Kingdom, also officially recognize the Armenian Genocide.