* David Wade, Lieutenant General of the United States Air Force, former commander of Barksdale Air Force Base, state corrections director and adjutant general, was reared in the Holly Springs community of Claiborne Parish.

* David Wade, Lieutenant General of the United States Air Force, former commander of Barksdale Air Force Base, state corrections director and adjutant general, was reared in the Holly Springs Community of Claiborne Parish but considered Homer as his hometown.

Barksdale AFB was established in 1932 as Barksdale Field and is named for World War I aviator and test pilot 2nd Lieutenant Eugene Hoy Barksdale ( 1896 – 1926 ).

Barksdale Field was named in honor of 2nd Lieutenant Eugene Hoy Barksdale ( 1895 – 1926 ) on February 2, 1933.

The troop received a new leader, Lieutenant Robert M. Carroll, fresh out of ROTC and bucking for Regular Army status.

On the night of May 9, 1846, Frémont received a courier, Lieutenant Archibald Gillespie, bringing messages from President James Polk.

He received a commission as a First Lieutenant and trained to be an artillery officer.

He became a Lieutenant in the Soviet Air Force on 5 November 1957 ; on 6 November 1959 he received the rank of Senior Lieutenant.

He became Lieutenant Colonel ( or Podpolkovnik ) of the Soviet Air Force on 12 June 1962 and on 6 November 1963 he received the rank of Colonel ( Polkovnik ) of the Soviet Air Force.

In the late evening of 3 March, Lieutenant Colonel Blaber received notice from Brigadier General Gregory Trebon, commander of TF 11, that two SEAL teams commanded by Lieutenant Commander Vic Hyder were to be inserted into the Shahi-Kot Valley.

" The second in command of General Staff, Lieutenant General Tada Shun, received the message with surprise and concern.

By the end of his career, he had achieved the rank of Lieutenant Colonel and had even received a Silver Star.

Qualifying for retention in the Air Service during demobilization at the end of the war, Doolittle received a Regular Army commission as a 1st Lieutenant, Air Service, on July 1, 1920.

Despite the bravery of the pilots ( Flight Lieutenant David Lord received the Victoria Cross posthumously ), the Airborne forces only recovered of supplies.

' The letter concludes with references to impeachment proceedings against Addison's friend, Henry Sacheverell (' I am much obliged to you for yor Letters relating to Sackeverell '), and the Light House petition: ' I am something troubled that you have not sent away ye Letters received from Ireland to my Lord Lieutenant, particularly that from Mr Forster Attorney General with the Enclosed petition about the Light House, which I hope will be delivered to the House before my Return '.

* Vietnam War ( American forces ): On 21 April 1969, a grenade was thrown into the company office of K Company, 9th Marines, at Quang Tri Combat Base, RVN ; First Lieutenant Robert T. Rohweller died of the wounds he received in the explosion.

The Avenger pilot, Lieutenant Commander Phillips, called repeatedly to O ' Hare but received no reply.

When warnings were received of the approach of a large force of Japanese torpedo bombers, Lieutenant Commander O ' Hare volunteered to lead a fighter section of aircraft from his carrier, the first time such a mission had been attempted at night, in order to intercept the attackers.

An account of the preparation for the attack later given by the CMS missionaries was that on Monday the 10th the plans of Heke were disclosed to Gilbert Mair, who informed Police Magistrate Beckham, who then informed Lieutenant Philpotts of the Hazard, however the " information was received with indifference, not unmingled with contempt ".

* Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Martin-Leake received his first VC in 1902 during the Boer War while serving as a surgeon captain in the South African Constabulary attached to the 5th Field Ambulance, and the Bar whilst serving with the Royal Army Medical Corps near Zonnebeke, Belgium in 1914.

He received a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award for his 1989 book A Bright Shining Lie, about the life of Lieutenant Colonel John Paul Vann and the United States involvement in the Vietnam War.

He was finally appointed to the bench in June, but withdrew days later to be appointed Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia ( former Conservative Premier James W. Johnston initially received this appointment, but had to withdraw due to ill health ).

Mackenzie's reform proposals resulted in no action, however, since Sir Francis Bond Head, who was appointed Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada in 1836, received instructions from the Secretary of State for War and the Colonies, Lord Glenelg, to disregard the Seventh Report on Grievances.

He received another promotion to Flight Lieutenant just before the opening of the war.

Her Captain was Lieutenant Commander David Wanklyn who received the Victoria Cross whilst in command of the vessel.

The Arisaka Rifle was designed by Colonel Arisaka Nariakira ( 有坂 成章 ; 1852 – 1915 ), who was later promoted to Lieutenant General and also received the title of Baron from Emperor Meiji, in 1907.

Izard returned to the United States in November 1797, and received a commission as Lieutenant in the US Army Corps of Engineers.

Landry earned his wings and a commission as a Second Lieutenant at Lubbock Army Air Field, and was assigned to the 493d Bombardment Group at RAF Debach, England, as a B-17 Flying Fortress bomber co-pilot in the 860th Bombardment Squadron.

Poor eyesight led him to desk jobs in the RAF intelligence branch where he rose — as a " Wingless Wonder ", as officers who were not qualified to wear pilot's wings were called — to the rank of Flight Lieutenant ; he was then appointed Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Air, Sir Archibald Sinclair.

* April 5 – To protest the lack of an aerial display to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Royal Air Force four days earlier and to demonstrate against the government of Prime Minister Harold Wilson, Flight Lieutenant Alan Pollock of the RAFs No. 1 ( F ) Squadron makes an unauthorised display flight in a Hawker Hunter during which he " beats up " ( i. e., buzzes ) several RAF airfields and flies low over London, where circles the Houses of Parliament, dips his wings to the Royal Air Force Memorial, and flies under the top span of Tower Bridge, becoming the first person to fly under the bridges upper span in a jet aircraft.

Because he had already logged 180 solo hours as a pilot prior to enlisting in the Marine Corps, Tyrone Power was able to go through a short, intense flight training program at Naval Air Station Corpus Christi, Texas, where he earned his wings and was promoted to First Lieutenant.

He entered active military service in November 1942 as an aviation cadet in the United States Army Air Forces, and received his pilot wings and commission as a Second Lieutenant in February 1944.

In November 1953, he entered the aviation cadet program and received his pilot wings and commission as a Second Lieutenant.

He graduated as a 2nd Lieutenant and continued his training at the Naval Aviation Flight Training School where he earned his pilot " wings.

He joined the then-U. S. Army Air Corps in March 1940 while employed by Douglas Aircraft Company and received his pilot's wings and commission as a Second Lieutenant on 15 November 1940.

Risner enlisted in the United States Army Air Forces as an aviation cadet in April, 1943, and attended flight training at Williams Field, Arizona, where he was awarded his pilot wings and a commission as 2nd Lieutenant in May 1944.

Ernest Lapointe: Mackenzie King's Great Quebec Lieutenant.

During World War I, he was commissioned a Lieutenant Commander in the U. S. Naval Reserve and led the Navy Band at the Great Lakes Naval Station near Chicago, Illinois.

Reports from expeditions in 1806 by Lieutenant Zebulon Pike and in 1819 by Major Stephen Long described the Great Plains as " unfit for human habitation " and as " The Great American Desert ".

The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland ( plural: Lords Lieutenant ) was the British King's representative and head of the Irish executive during the Lordship of Ireland ( 1171 – 1541 ), the Kingdom of Ireland ( 1541 – 1800 ) and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland ( 1801 – 1922 ).

Although in the Middle Ages some Lords Deputy were Irish noblemen, only men from Great Britain, usually nobles, were appointed to the office of Lord Lieutenant.

This area of the upper Great Lakes was first formally surveyed in 1815 by William Fitzwilliam Owen and Lieutenant Henry W. Bayfield.

The Lords Lieutenant of Ireland were often referred to as " Viceroy " after 1700 until 1922, even though the Kingdom of Ireland had been merged in 1801 into the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

In Act 4, Scene 1, the second half of line 139 (" Pompey the Great, and Suffolk dies by pirates ") is spoken by the Lieutenant, not Suffolk.

In Act 4, Scene 1, the second half of line 139 (" Pompey the Great and Suffolk dies by pirates ") is given to the Lieutenant.

In 1800, under pressure from the Dublin Castle administration of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and amid mass bribery, both the House of Commons and the House of Lords passed the Irish Act of Union, uniting both the Kingdom of Ireland and its parliament with the Kingdom of Great Britain and its parliament in London.

It was Lieutenant Arthur Conolly of the 6th Bengal Native Cavalry who first coined this tussle into the now famous phrase ‘ Great Game ’ in a letter to a friend.

Lieutenant Otto Weddigen remarked of the first submarine attack of the Great War:

Vancouver claimed it for Great Britain on 4 June 1792, naming it for one of his officers, Lieutenant Peter Puget.

Also present that day were Lieutenant General Baron Jacques of Belgium, Admiral David Beatty of Great Britain, General Armando Diaz of Italy and General John J. Pershing of the United States.

Fireman Mark Kelly and Fire Lieutenant John A. McKnew also died of pneumonia and tuberculosis due to exposure during the Great Fire.

On September 16, 1923, in the chaos immediately following the Great Kantō Earthquake, Osugi and his lover / partner, Noe Itō, and his six-year-old nephew, Munekazu Tachibana, were arrested, beaten to death and thrown into a well by a squad of military police led by Lieutenant Amakasu Masahiko.

# Lieutenant governor shall provide a Great Seal for the new province.

On September 16, 1923, in the chaos immediately following the Great Kantō earthquake, according to writer and activist Harumi Setouchi, Itō, Ōsugi, and his 6 year old nephew were arrested, beaten to death and thrown into an abandoned well by a squad of military police led by Lieutenant Masahiko Amakasu.

Lord Cawdor was also Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire and Chairman of the Great Western Railway.

Vancouver claimed it for Great Britain on June 4, 1792, naming it for one of his officers, Lieutenant Peter Puget.

Legislation of 1831 had amalgamated the offices of Postmaster General of Great Britain and Postmasters General of Ireland, a jointly held role in the administration of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.

During its posting, the 8th Foot possessed a number of officers adept in cultivating a relationship with tribes on the Great Lakes, notable amongst them being Captain Arent DePeyster and Lieutenant John Caldwell.

Born at Great Footston in County Meath, he was the son of Richard Blackburne of Great Foot's Town and nephew of Anthony Blackburne, Deputy Lieutenant and High Sheriff of County Meath.