* 1916 – World War I: The British 6th Indian Division surrenders to Ottoman Forces at the Siege of Kut in one of the largest surrenders of British forces up to that point.

* 1945 – Hong Kong is liberated from Japan by British Armed Forces.

* The British Columbia Dragoons, a Canadian Forces armoured regiment based in Kelowna and Vernon, British Columbia

The British Army is the land warfare branch of the British Armed Forces in the United Kingdom.

Today, the British Army is deployed in many of the world's war zones as part of both Expeditionary Forces and in United Nations Peacekeeping forces.

However, following a further independent review on the future structure of the British Army-18 July 2011 " Future Reserves 2020-The Independent Commission to review the United Kingdom's Reserve Forces "-it was announced that the Regular Army will be reduced to a trained strength of 82, 000 while the Territorial Army will be increased to a trained strength of around 30, 000 personnel.

Rather, the administration is represented in the Territory by the Officer commanding British Forces on Diego Garcia, the " Brit Rep ".

There are three dragoon regiments in the Canadian Forces: the Royal Canadian Dragoons and two reserve regiments, the British Columbia Dragoons and the Saskatchewan Dragoons.

Thereafter he served as Chief of the Defence Staff until 1965, making him the longest serving professional head of the British Armed Forces to date.

The Falkland Islands Radio Service ( FIRS ) operates a radio network in conjunction with the BBC World Service, while the British Forces Broadcasting Service ( BFBS ) operates three networks of its own.

There are ten digital channels for entitled personnel within British Forces South Atlantic.

The following have served as Commander British Forces Falkland Islands / South Atlantic Islands:

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* 1945 – World War II: On the first day of the bombing of Dresden, the British Royal Air Force and the United States Army Air Forces begin fire-bombing Dresden, the capital of the German state of Saxony.

* 1974 – M62 coach bombing: The Provisional Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) explodes a bomb on a bus carrying off-duty British Armed Forces personnel in Yorkshire, England.

The British Forces Broadcasting Service ( BFBS ) operates two radio stations on FM, BFBS1 and BFBS2 and a private cable television network.

Ayios Nikolaos Station in Cyprus is run by the British Armed Forces for GCHQ.

War raged between the Axis Powers ( Germany, Italy, and Japan ) and the Allied Forces ( British Empire, Soviet Union, and the United States ).

Before 1997, it was the duty of the British Forces Overseas Hong Kong.

It was funded by and was a branch of the Hong Kong Government, under command of the Commander British Forces.

Hamburg surrendered without a fight to British Forces on 3 May 1945.

On 1 January 1942 he was knighted and appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath, and in February, after the Japanese invasion of Burma, was sent to India to become GOC-in-C of British Forces in Burma as a full general.

Major General Robert Ford, then Commander of Land Forces in Northern Ireland, ordered that 1st Battalion, The Parachute Regiment ( 1 PARA ) should travel to Derry to be used to arrest possible rioters during the march.

Krulak's staff assignments included: operations officer, 2nd Battalion 9th Marines ( 1977 – 1978 ); chief of the Combat Arms Monitor Section at Headquarters Marine Corps, Washington, D. C. ( 1978 – 1979 ); executive assistant to the Director of Personnel Management, Headquarters Marine Corps ( 1979 – 1981 ); Plans Office, Fleet Marine Forces Pacific, Camp H. M. Smith, Hawaii ( 1982 – 1983 ); executive officer, 3rd Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Expeditionary Brigade ; assistant chief of staff, maritime pre-positioning ships, 1st MEB ; assistant chief of staff for operations, 1st Marine Expeditionary Brigade ; and the military assistant to the assistant secretary of defense for command, control, communications and intelligence, Office of the Secretary of Defense.

The insignia was designed by famous English novelist Daphne du Maurier, who was married to the commander of the 1st Airborne Division ( and later the expanded British Airborne Forces ), General Frederick " Boy " Browning.

Hank Cramer of the 1st Special Forces Group.

The Albertstadt garrison became the headquarters of the Soviet 1st Guards Tank Army in the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany after the war.

* On April 22, 2009, Ross Perot was made an Honorary Green Beret at the John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center in Fayetteville, North Carolina, that also honored the OSS, Alamo Scouts and the First Special Service Force, elite World War Two units that were inducted into the " 1st Special Forces " Regiment.

* Armed Forces Long Service Award, 1st Class ( 25-year Service Cross )

Called the " 1st Airborne Task Force ", the force was composed of the 1st Special Services Forces, British 2nd Independent Parachute Brigade, the 517th Parachute Regimental Combat Team, the 509th and 551st Parachute Infantry Battalions, the glider-borne 550th Airborne Infantry Battalion, and supporting units.

Field Marshal Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst KCB ( sometimes spelled Geoffrey, or Jeffrey, he himself spelled his name as Jeffery ) ( 29 January 1717 – 3 August 1797 ) served as an officer in the British Army and as Commander-in-Chief of the Forces.

At the time of his death, he was a non-commissioned officer in the United States Army's premiere special operations unit, the 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta ( 1SFOD-D ), or " Delta Force ".

He joined the U. S. Army that same year at age 18 and after serving with the 2nd Battalion of the 10th Special Forces Group he was chosen to join the 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta ( 1SFOD-D ), or " Delta Force ", as a sniper.

Sergeant First Class Randall David Shughart ( August 13, 1958 – October 3, 1993 ) was a soldier in the United States Army special operations unit, the 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta ( 1SFOD-D ), or " Delta Force.

When the U. S. entered World War II in December 1941, LeMay was a major in the United States Army Air Forces ( he had been a 1st lieutenant as recently as 1940 ), and the commander of a newly created B-17 Flying Fortress unit, the 305th Bomb Group.

1st Commando Regiment ( 1 Cdo Regt ), a regimental structure for the reserve commando companies — and 126 Signal Squadron ( Special Forces )— was formed during the 1980s.

An undercover commando squad from the French intelligence agency SDECE ( now DGSE ), joined by Special Forces ' 1st Marine Infantry Parachute Regiment, or 1 < sup > er </ sup > RPIMa, led by Colonel Brancion-Rouge, landed by Transall and managed to secure the Bangui Mpoko airport with little resistance.

* Joseph D. Helton Jr Monroe, Georgia, 1st Lieutenant, Officer, Killed in action, Iraq, ( b. September 30, 1984, d. September 8, 2009 ), 732d Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron Detachment 2 flight commander ( police officer ) Police Transition Mission, 6th Security Forces Squadron, MacDill Air Force Base Florida ( Tampa ) action: ( IED detonation ; near FOB FALCON, Mahmudiyah District of Baghdad, on September 8th )

Cecil Lee Clark, an Army Lieutenant Colonel and U. S. Army Ranger who has ties to the 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta ( Delta Force )

Buckley is the home of Company A, 1st Battalion, 19th Special Forces Group ( Airborne ), a Special Forces National Guard unit.

The American Registry Of Pathology operates as a cooperative enterprise in medical research and education between the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology and the civilian medical profession on a national and international basis, under such conditions as may be agreed upon between the National Research Council and The Surgeons General of the Army, Navy, and Air Force.

There are also reports that 50 combat aircraft from the disbanded 19th Army of the Soviet Air Defence Forces came under Azeri control.

* 2004 – Aaron Bank, American Office of Strategic Services officer and founder of the US Army Special Forces ( b. 1902 )

* Armed Forces Day or Anniversary of the Founding of the People's Liberation Army ( People's Republic of China )

* 1963 – Xá Lợi Pagoda raids: the Army of the Republic of Vietnam Special Forces loyal to Ngo Dinh Nhu, brother of President Ngo Dinh Diem, vandalizes Buddhist pagodas across the country, arresting thousands and leaving an estimated hundreds dead.

* 1944 – Freckleton Air Disaster – A United States Army Air Forces B-24 Liberator bomber crashes into a school in Freckleton, England killing 61 people.

* 1944 – Forces of the Communist-controlled Greek People's Liberation Army attack the smaller National and Social Liberation resistance group, which surrenders.

This was a key turning point in the Battle of the Atlantic, enabling the Royal Air Force, the U. S. Army Air Forces, and the U. S. Navy to provide aerial coverage in the Mid-Atlantic gap.

In addition to these troops Belarus was the area of deployment for units subordinated directly to the USSR Defence Ministry and chiefs of different Soviet Armed Forces services, namely the 103rd Guards Airborne Division, the 38th Guards Airborne Brigade, the 11th corps of the 2nd Separate Air Defence Army, the 26th Air Army and also units and formations of the Strategic Rocket Forces, Long Range Aviation, the Navy and special forces.

The Brazilian Armed Forces (, ) is the unified military organization comprising the Brazilian Army ( including the Brazilian Army Aviation ), the Brazilian Navy ( including the Brazilian Marine Corps and Brazilian Naval Aviation ) and the Brazilian Air Force.

But only on 10 June 1999, the Ministry of the Defense was officially servant, the General staff of the Armed Forces extinct and the Aeronautics and Army, Navy department had been transformed into Commands.

However, despite those efforts, the presence of the Armed Forces on the border regions of the Brazilian Amazon continues to be sparse and disperse, given the fact that the Army has just 28 border detachments in that area, a total of 1, 600 soldiers, or 1 men for every of borders.

The Military of Bulgaria, officially the Bulgarian Army () represents the Armed Forces of the Republic of Bulgaria.

In terms of percentage, 53 % of all Army personnel are in the Land Forces, 25 % are in the Air Force, 13 % are in the Navy and 9 % are in the Joint Forces Command.

The Army of Burkina Faso ( L ' Armée de Terre-Ground Forces or LAT ) is a skeletonized force structure of some 5, 800-6, 000 officers and men, augmented by a conscript force or People's Militia of some 45, 000 men and women.

Montgomery was determined that the Army, Navy and Air Forces should fight their battles in a unified, focused manner according to a detailed plan.

Over 750 Staggerwings were built, with 270 manufactured for the United States Army Air Forces during World War II.

While Allied Air Forces were tied to the support of the Army, the Luftwaffe deployed its resources in a more general, operational way.

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