The British Forces Post Office ( BFPO ) provides a postal service to HM Forces, separate from that provided by Royal Mail in the United Kingdom.

The mission of BFPO is to "... provide an efficient and effective Postal and Courier Service in order to sustain the fighting power of UK Armed Forces Worldwide.

When sending mail from the UK to a member of HM Forces serving overseas, the sender must address it to the appropriate BFPO number, and not to the country in which that person is based.

Krav Maga is used by Israeli Defense Forces, both regular and special forces, and several closely related variations have been developed and adopted by law enforcement and intelligence organizations, Mossad and Shin Bet.

One of the simplest plastic explosives was Nobel's Explosive No. 808, also known as Nobel 808 ( often just called Explosive 808 in the British Armed Forces during the Second World War ), developed by the British company Nobel Chemicals Ltd well before World War II.

In April – May 1945, British Armed Forces developed Operation Unthinkable, the Third World War plan ; its primary goal was " to impose upon Russia the will of the United States and the British Empire.

The two also developed War Eagles about a race of Vikings riding on prehistoric eagles fighting with dinosaurs, but the project was cancelled when Cooper re-enlisted as a colonel in the U. S. Army Air Forces at the outset of World War II.

VW resurrected the basic Kübelwagen design several decades after the war as the 1969 Type 181, developed for the German Federal Armed Forces and later also produced for the civilian market known as " Thing " in the US, " Trekker " in the UK and " Safari " in Mexico.

At the end of World War II, many members of the Armed Forces had developed a taste for comedy ( stand-up or otherwise ) in wartime concert parties and moved into professional entertainment.

The plans were developed by a state planning committee based on the Theory of Productive Forces that was part of the general guidelines of the Communist Party for economic development.

The U. S. military, particularly the U. S. Army's Special Forces, developed base camps in the area and recruited the Degar, roughly 40, 000 of whom fought alongside American soldiers and became a major part of the U. S. military effort in the Highlands.

The U. S. military, particularly the U. S. Army's Special Forces, developed base camps in the area and recruited the Dega, roughly 40, 000 of whom fought alongside American soldiers and became a major part of the U. S. military effort in the Highlands.

After the United States entered the war, the Army Air Forces also developed a pilot training program for the Chinese Air Force.

The MRE replaced the canned MCI or Meal, Combat, Individual rations in 1981 and is the intended successor to the lighter LRP ration developed by the United States Army for Special Forces and Ranger patrol units in Vietnam.

Throughout these periods of World War II when air interdiction was practiced and developed, Tedder was always at the forefront as Air Commander-in-Chief of RAF Middle East Command, Mediterranean Air Command ( MAC ), Mediterranean Allied Air Forces, and as Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's Deputy Supreme Allied Commander for planning the air operations of the Normandy campaign.

The final variant to date is the MG 74, developed by Austria and since 1974 it is the standard machine gun of the Austrian Armed Forces.

Porter developed his Five Forces analysis in reaction to the then-popular SWOT analysis, which he found unrigorous and ad hoc.

During 1956 through 1958, Rosenstock-Huessy developed the principle of metanomics in his two-volume Soziologie ( Sociology )— Volume I: On the Forces of Common Life ( When Space Governs ) and Volume II: On the Forces of History ( When the Times Are Obeyed ).

Tensions developed between Kabyle leaders and the central government on several occasions, initially in 1963, when the Socialist Forces Front party of Hocine Aït Ahmed contested the use of the name of a popular resistance movement as a political party, by Nasserian agents, of lower grade within the FLN, who were incapable of organizing their respective regions to provide delegates for the establishment of the first legitimate Algerian constitution.

Leaving his movie career for service in World War II, he appeared in the U. S. Army Air Forces play and film Winged Victory, then worked with injured soldiers who had developed speech problems.

He divided the Army of the United States into three autonomous components to conduct the operations of the War Department: the Army Ground Forces trained land troops ; the Army Air Forces ( AAF ) developed an independent air arm ; and the Services of Supply ( later Army Service Forces ) directed administrative and logistical operations.

The M25 is an upgraded version of the M21 developed by 10th Special Forces Group's armorers for use by United States Army Special Forces and United States Navy SEALs in the late 1980s.

After the Korean War began in 1950, Douglas MacArthur, the Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers in Japan, ordered the Japanese government to establish the paramilitary " National Police Reserve ," which was later developed into the Japan Self-Defense Forces.

SEAC headquarters developed an adversarial relationship with that of Lieutenant-General Sir Oliver Leese's Allied Land Forces South East Asia ( ALFSEA ).

-- The deterrent power of our Armed Forces comes from both their nuclear retaliatory capability and their capability to conduct other essential operations in any form of war.

As of September 2011, the government is attempting to form what is called the Forces Armées Nationales de Côte d ' Ivoire ( FANCI ), which aims to merge 5, 000 former rebels of the FRCI with 30, 000 veterans of the former regular army ( Forces de défense et de sécurité-FDS ).

The DFLP, under Hawatmeh, joined the rejectionist groups to form the Alliance of Palestinian Forces ( APF ) to oppose the Declaration of Principles signed in 1993.

Each branch of the Armed Forces consist of their own form of Special Forces or Commandos.

President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah announced in January 2002 that the Sierra Leone Army ( SLA ) would be unified with the tiny Sierra Leone Air Force and the moribund Sierra Leone Navy to form a reconstituted force known as the Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces ( RSLAF ).

The Republic of Sierra Leone Air Force was merged with the other services to form the RSL Armed Forces from 2002.

CBC live television coverage of the event noted that, when Prince Charles saluted, he performed the Canadian form of the salute with a cupped hand ( the British " naval salute "— appropriate, as he did his military service as an officer in the Royal Navy ), adopted by all elements of the Canadian Forces after unification in 1968, rather than the British ( Army ) form with the palm facing forward.

Stirling explained his plan to Ritchie, the latter immediately convincing Auchinleck ( in the office next door ) to allow Stirling to form a new Special Forces unit.

The Duma refused to consider a proposal by the liberal democratic Union of Rightist Forces party to form an investigative commission charged with probing the government's actions in the theater siege.

Together with the Special Air Service, Special Reconnaissance Regiment and the Special Forces Support Group they form the United Kingdom Special Forces and come under joint control of the same Director Special Forces.

The corps headquarters and Headquarters Company, the 3rd Sustainment Command ( Expeditionary ), and the separate brigades helped form the National Support Element headquartered in Hungary for United States Armed Forces in Bosnia.

When the Army, Royal Canadian Navy, and Royal Canadian Air Force were merged in 1968 to form the Canadian Forces, the Royal Canadian Dental Corps and Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps were deactivated and merged with their Naval and Air Force counterparts to form the Dental Branch ( Canadian Forces ) and the Canadian Forces Medical Service of the Canadian Forces Health Services Group ( CF H Svcs Gp ).

" Consequently, Guzmán Decenas deserted from the Armed Forces and brought more than 30 army deserters to form part of Cárdenas ’ new criminal paramilitary wing.

The service operated between December 1918 to the Summer of 1919, its purpose was to provide troops of the British Army stationed in Germany with a fast mail service ( see more at British Forces Post Office ).

For this mission, the unit provided a single commander for MAC airlift units in the Pacific theater ; command and control of theater-assigned airlift forces for Pacific Air Forces ; theater tactical airlift war planning and Pacific exercise planning ; and aerial ports in the Pacific area to support the air movement of personnel, cargo, equipment, patients, and mail.

* June 21 – A U. S. Army Air Forces P-80 Shooting Star carries the first air mail flown by a turbojet-powered aircraft.

* January 10 – Airco DH. 4s of the Royal Air Forces No. 2 ( Communications ) Squadron are converted for transporting passengers and mail between London and Paris, in support of the Versailles Peace Conference.

The civilian population were able to send mail through the Indian Army postal service field post offices using Indian Expeditionary Forces stamps ( Indian stamps overprinted " I. E. F .").

In July 1956 when Nonie was eight years old, her father was killed by a mail bomb in an operation by the Israeli Defense Forces ..