And Sweeney Squadron put its first marks on the combat record.

* The Prefect: The Prefect believes at first that the talk of plague is a false alarm, but on the advice of his medical association, he authorizes limited measures to combat it.

The ostensible reason was a report by XI Corps commander Maj. Gen. Oliver O. Howard that Doubleday's corps broke first, causing the entire Union line to collapse, but Meade also had a long history of disdain for Doubleday's combat effectiveness, dating back to South Mountain.

However, according to Josephus, in Antiquities, Book 7, Chapter 1, Joab had forgiven Abner for the death of his brother, Asahel, the reason being that Abner had slain Asahel honorably in combat after he had first warned Asahel and had no other choice but to kill him out of self defense.

* 1944 – The 1st Air Commando Group using Sikorsky R-4 helicopters stage the first use of helicopters in combat with CSAR operations in the China-Burma-India theater.

Soon after, he volunteers to go on a patrol and kills a man for the first time in hand-to-hand combat.

To the infantryman, there may be little to distinguish between combat as part of a minor raid or as a major offensive, nor is it likely that he anticipates the future course of the battle ; few of the British infantry who went over the top on the first day on the Somme, July 1, 1916, would have anticipated that they would be fighting the same battle in five months ' time.

However, the Luftwaffe also provided volunteers to Spain to test both tactics and aircraft in combat, including the first combat use of the Stuka.

The Athenians had honed their style of fighting in combat with other phalanxes, wooden shields smashing against wooden shields, iron spear tips clattering against breastplates of bronze ... in those first terrible seconds of collision, there was nothing but a pulverizing crash of metal into flesh and bone ; then the rolling of the Athenian tide over men wearing, at most, quilted jerkins for protection, and armed, perhaps, with nothing more than bows or slings.

Probably the first novel to depict cyberspace and combat within it was John M. Ford's Web of Angels ( 1980 ).

Conventional warhead versions were first fired in combat by the RN in 1999, during the Kosovo War.

In World War II rivals who had combat service in the first great war ( led by Gen. Bernard Montgomery ) sought to denigrate Eisenhower for his previous lack of combat duty, despite his stateside experience establishing a camp, completely equipped, for thousands of troops, and developing a full combat training schedule.

The torpedo boat destroyer's first major use in combat came during the Japanese surprise attack on the Russian fleet anchored in Port Arthur at the opening of the Russo-Japanese War on 8 February 1904.

This is also the first combat use of purpose-designed stealth aircraft.

The only substantial combat of the first day of the Rising took place at the South Dublin Union where a piquet from the Royal Irish Regiment, encountered an outpost of Éamonn Ceannt's force at the north-western corner of the South Dublin Union.

Garros ' modified monoplane was first flown in March 1915 and he began combat operations soon thereafter.

* 1965 – Vietnam War: The first United States combat troops are sent to South Vietnam.

In 1999, Chancellor Gerhard Schröder's government defined a new basis for German foreign policy by taking a full part in the decisions surrounding the NATO war against Yugoslavia and by sending German troops into combat for the first time since World War II.

The FAGB was re-equipped by the Soviet Union with a limited aid package in which its first combat aircraft were introduced.

Unlike D & D, however, the first two editions of Gamma World do not use a concept of character class, and increases in Rank do not affect the character's skills or combat abilities.

Invented by Richard Gatling, it is known for its use by the Union forces during the American Civil War in the 1860s, which was the first time it was employed in combat.

It will not, however, be used for symbolic assignment until all other index words or electronic switches have been assigned for the first time.

After signing a motion-picture contract, she came to America and had `` Goodbye, Mr. Chips '' as her first assignment after a year's wait.

His television work led to assignments as an assistant director for several Latin American film productions including Gaby: A True Story and Romero, and in 1991, he landed his first big-screen directorial assignment.

For example, an anxious patient may be asked to talk to a stranger as a homework assignment, but if that is too difficult, he or she can work out an easier assignment first.

His first Broadway assignment, in November 1938, was as a dancer in Cole Porter's Leave It to Me!

In the same year he received his first assignment as a Broadway choreographer, for Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe.

Early in 1960, Kelly, an ardent Francophile and fluent French speaker, was invited by A. M. Julien, the general administrator of the Paris Opéra and Opéra-Comique, to select his own material and create a modern ballet for the company, the first time an American had received such an assignment.

He arrived in Hollywood in February 1929, and his first assignment was to coach the cast of River of Romance to speak with an acceptable Southern accent.

His first assignment is to transport the company men up-river to the company's innermost station, so that they can relieve its chief manager Kurtz, who has become very ill.

His first assignment was aboard the collier Freelove, and he spent several years on this and various other coasters, sailing between the Tyne and London.

In this assignment, his first commander was John McCain, then a U. S. Navy captain.

In the first part of his assignment, Ribbentrop was partly successful, but in the second part he more than fulfilled Hitler's expectations.

Notice that became a constant after the first argument assignment.

His first assignment was Second Officer on the Boeing 727.

Morita's methods lead his ' students ' through experiments, and in each assignment, the lesson is not explained by a master, but learned first hand, through the doing or ' taiken ', that knowledge gained by direct experience.

The first browser that used advanced mouse gestures ( in 2002 ) was Maxthon, in which a highly customizable interface allowed the assignment of almost every action to one of 52 mouse gestures and few mouse chords.

Stephney accepted, and his first assignment was to help fledgling producer Rick Rubin sign Chuck D, whose song " Public Enemy Number One " Rubin had heard from Andre " Doctor Dré " Brown.

He received his first assignment as a curate at Chiesa Nuova.

Her first assignment in the FBI was serving on a special task force investigating satanic rituals.

Admiral Clark's first flag assignment was at the United States Transportation Command ( TRANSCOM ) where he was Director of Plans and Policy ( J5 ) and Financial Management and Analysis ( J8 ).

On 21 March 1966, he received his first spaceflight assignment as Pilot for the first manned Apollo flight, AS-204, along with Command Pilot Grissom and Senior Pilot White.

; Dead store elimination: removal of assignments to variables that are not subsequently read, either because the lifetime of the variable ends or because of a subsequent assignment that will overwrite the first value.