It was not the world's first air force, because France's embryonic army air service, which eventually became the French Air Force ( Armée de l ’ Air ), was founded in 1909.

For his military service, he received 18 decorations, medals and awards, including the Legion of Merit with Oak Leaf Cluster, Bronze Star with Valor device, Purple Heart, World War II Victory Medal, European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal, Belgium's Order of the Crown and France's Croix de Guerre.

On 7 July 1948, a Silver City Bristol Freighter operated the first cross-Channel air ferry service, between Lympne near Folkestone in Kent and Le Touquet on France's northern Côte d ' Opale coast, with good road connections from and to London and Paris respectively.

The TGV (, meaning high-speed train ) is France's high-speed rail service, currently operated by SNCF Voyages, the long-distance rail branch of SNCF, the French national rail operator.

Colonel André Dewavrin ( also known as Colonel Passy ), who had previously worked for France's military intelligence service, the Deuxième Bureau, took on the responsibility for creating such a network.

The Franco-Central African relationship drastically changed when France's Renseignements Généraux intelligence service learned of Bokassa's willingness to become a partner of Muammar al-Gaddafi of Libya.

At the age of 21, Bonnot was conscripted for service in France's infantry, where he served three years as a truck auto mechanic.

For his wartime service, he was awarded France's WWII highest decoration for valor, the Cross of Liberation, as well as Légion d ' honneur and croix de guerre.

An anti-terror magistrate may call upon France's domestic intelligence service Direction de la surveillance du territoire ( DST ), which may work with the Direction générale de la sécurité extérieure ( DGSE ), foreign intelligence service.

French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy ( Union for a Popular Movement ) declared that the MEK " recently wanted to make France its support base, notably after the intervention in Iraq ", while Pierre de Bousquet de Florian, head of France's domestic intelligence service, claimed that the group was " transforming its Val d ' Oise centre Paris ... into an international terrorist base ".

As one of France's three Écoles normales supérieures, ENS Lyon is associated with a strong French tradition of excellence and public service.

In 1844 he was promoted to Major ( wounded: bullet in the right wrist during action at Macta, 1845 ) and then to Lieutenant Colonel in 1848 after 9 years service in Algeria and Morocco, including several years heading France's Bureau Arabe ( military intelligence ) as Governor of Tlemcen.

For his wartime service, Ratu Sukuna was awarded France's highest military honour, the Croix de Guerre.

This consortium owns 51 % of the service, while the other 49 % is owned by Société de l ' audiovisuel extérieur de la France, a holding company that manages France's international broadcasting services.

Ney also gained notoriety when he mandated, as Chairman of the House Administration Committee, that " french fries " be renamed " freedom fries " on House of Representatives food service menus, to indicate displeasure with France's lack of support for the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

ASMP entered service in 1986, replacing the earlier free-fall AN-22 bomb on France's Dassault Mirage IV aircraft and the AN-52 bomb on Dassault Super Étendard.

One of the first was France's TGV which entered service in 1981.

The AN-22 was France's second air-dropped nuclear weapon, developed as a replacement for the earlier AN-11 bomb, entering service in 1967.

The Allouis longwave transmitter first entered service, as France's central longwave transmitter, in 1939.

He was awarded France's highest honour, being made a Chevalier ( Knight ) of the Legion d ' Honneur in 1998 and also received the Medal of the Order of Australia for service to the community.

For comparison, France's embryonic army air service ( Aviation Militaire ), which eventually became the Armée de l ' Air, was instituted later in 1910-the Air Battalion of the Royal Engineers ( later re-organised as the Royal Flying Corps ) was not formed until November 1911.

Initially founded, in the reorganization of state broadcasting which followed the end of World War II, as " Paris-Inter " and charged with being French public radio's generalist ( i. e. " full-service ") service, the channel was renamed " France I " in 1958 ( even though three years later one of France's most popular radio and television listings magazines was still showing the station's programmes under the heading " Paris-Inter ", with " France I " as a subtitle ).

This was also the cartridge used for France's M1935 series of service pistols, allowing for limited standardization, but with the effect of preventing French soldiers from using captured enemy ammunition.

He was wounded in the neck on the second day of Gettysburg and received a brevet promotion to colonel in the regular army for his service.

They lived in 100 cantons ( 4. 1 ) from which 1000 young men per year were chosen for military service, a citizen-army by our standards and by comparison with the Roman professional army.

In 458 BC, the Athenians blockaded the island of Aegina, and simultaneously defended Megara from the Corinthians by sending out an army composed of those too young or old for regular military service.

StuG III with 75 mm gun, first in service for the Syrian army, now in an Israeli museum.

In order to successfully rule in such a situation, Abd al-Rahman needed to create a reliable civil service and organize a standing army.

Also doing his army service in Shrewsbury at the same time was his United team-mate Duncan Edwards.

In addition, Ethiopia had just begun to emerge from a long and brutal famine ; Harold Marcus reminds us that the army was restive over its long service in the field, short of rations, and the short rains which would bring all travel to a crawl would soon start to fall.

But while he had reported some success against the rebels, Tombalbaye started behaving more and more irrationally and brutally, continuously eroding his consensus among the southern elites, which dominated all key positions in the army, the civil service and the ruling party.

In 2004, the army transformed itself into a fully professional organization and compulsory military service was abolished.

Clausewitz's father was once a lieutenant in the Prussian army and held a minor post in the Prussian internal revenue service.

During world war one and two service personnel were issued pressed fibre Identity disks, one green octagonal shaped disc, and a red round disc ( some army units issued a second red round disk to be attached to the service respirator.

Diocletian's expansion of the army and civil service meant that the Empire's tax burden grew.

Beatty's other brothers were Charles Harold Longfield ( 1870 – 1917 ) who served with distinction in the South Africa wars before dying from complications after losing an arm in Flanders, Richard George ( 1882 – 1915 ) who died on active service in India, William Vandeleur Schruder ( 1873 – 1935 ) who became an army Major and Newmarket horse trainer, and one sister Kathleen Roma ( 1875 –).

Conscripts for the army and other service branches without a university degree serve three years as enlisted soldiers.

The army has almost 1, 400 soldiers, the police 400 paramilitary men, the navy 200 service members, and the air force about 120 members.

Rejected by Louis XIV for service in the French army, Eugene moved to Austria and transferred his loyalty to the Habsburg Monarchy.

Immediate steps were taken to improve efficiency within the army: encouragement and, where possible, money, was sent to the commanders in the field ; promotion and honours were distributed according to service rather than influence ; and discipline improved.

After the Christian defeat at the Battle of Sagrajas in 1086, El Cid was recalled to service by Alfonso VI, and commanded a combined Christian and Moorish army, which he used to create his own fiefdom in the Moorish Mediterranean coastal city of Valencia.

At the outbreak of World War I, Lang returned to Vienna and volunteered for military service in the Austrian army and fought in Russia and Romania, where he was wounded three times.

In 1903, at the age of 18, he was drafted into the German army and spent his service stationed in Kiel.

Thousands of Scots, mainly Lowlanders, took up positions of power in politics, civil service, the army and navy, trade, economics, colonial enterprises and other areas across the nascent British Empire.

In 1918, Yoakum was drafted into army service.

When the army and navy were formed, the uniforms adopted by each service reflected British military and naval tradition.

In particular, while in the army he met Sergeant Mervyn Bunter, who had previously been in service.