During the observance of " Hispanic Heritage Month " at Camp Foster in Okinawa, Japan, MGySgt Segarra was quoted as saying " My role as the first Hispanic Marine to achieve the rank of master gunnery sergeant in my military occupational specialty shows that Hispanic Marines can achieve anything ".

Master Gunnery Sergeant ( MGySgt ) is the ninth and highest enlisted rank ( along with the grade-equivalent ranks of Sergeant Major and Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps ) in the United States Marine Corps.

* MGySgt Abigail D. Olmos, who on August 13, 2004 became the first female Master Gunnery Sergeant in the history of the Marine Corps.

Cervera (, ) is the capital of the comarca of Segarra, in the province of Lleida, Catalonia, Spain.

Another hometown hero is Ivelisse Echevarria, who was inducted into the International Federation Softball Hall of Fame in 2003 and is considered by many to be the greatest softball pitcher born in Puerto Rico. Myrian " Betty " Segarra, who was inducted into the International Federation Softball Hall of Fame in 2003 and the best first base in the woman softball in Puerto Rico.

His successor as mayor, Pedro Segarra, is now listed as a member of Mayors Against Illegal Guns.

Segarra is a comarca ( county ) in Catalonia, Spain, situated on a high plain.

* Ninfa Segarra, former President of the Board of Education of New York, former Deputy Mayor under Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, and she is currently a lobbyist with Toñio Burgos & Associates and is President of the National Puerto Rican Coalition in Washington, D. C .;

Master Gunnery Sergeant Frankie Segarra ( born 1960 ), is the first Hispanic to reach the rank of Master Gunnery Sergeant in his Military Occupational Specialty, 0451 air delivery specialist.

Hidrogenesse is a Spanish pop band whose members are Carlos Ballesteros ( singer ) and Genís Segarra ( synthesizers ).

In the year 1026, three peasant families built the first settlement in the comarca of Segarra, as in those days it was uninhabited.

By this, the counts wanted to establish their power in the area, as the Segarra was at that time the border between Christian and Muslim territories, thereby establishing the first fortress ( castrum Cervarie ).

On November 9, 2003, Soto Toro, along with another Puerto Rican Astronaut applicant, Henry Bursian Berríos, and Ninfa Segarra, who was the first Hispanic Deputy Mayor of New York City, were named the Grand Marshals of the Puerto Rican Day Parade held in Palm Bay, Florida.

Amongst all Catalonian bishoprics, the Diocese of Urgell has been that which has experienced the most border-related changes throughout its existence, mainly for political reasons: the loss of Ribagorça ( 9th century ), to the benefit of the Diocese of Roda, and the cession of 144 parishes of the Berguedà, the Solsonès and a part of the Segarra, to the benefit of the new diocese of Solsona ( 1593-1623 ); later, it was necessary to adapt the territory to the borders between states, and thus in 1803, the 24 parishes of French Cerdagne, which had been ceded to France from the Treaty of the Pyrenees in 1659, also passed ecclesiastically to that country ; and in 1804, the 28 from the Aran Valley, a territory circumscribed by France yet united fully to the Catalan-Aragonese territories at least since the 12th century, were annexed to the diocese of Urgell, coming from the eliminated Gascon diocese of Sant Bertran de Comenge.

In Puerto Rico, Machetero leaders Filiberto Ojeda Rios and Juan Segarra Palmer had heard of Gerena ; Gerena's mother's background as a pro-independence advocate and his dislike of life in the army made him, in Ojeda Rios ' and Segarra Palmer's eyes, a candidate to become a member of Los Macheteros.

As a high school student, he was a member of Aspira of New York, where he was elected to the post of Vice President of the citywide Aspira Clubs Federation ( ACF ), which included other future Puerto Rican leaders like Ninfa Segarra and Angelo Falcón.

Segarra's parents moved from Puerto Rico and settled in New York City where Segarra was born and raised.

On October 19, 1947 at the Sarrià, with a team featuring Velasco, Marià Gonzalvo, Joan Segarra and César, they beat Spain 3 – 1.

Norgay's son Jamling Tenzing Norgay also climbed Everest in honor of his father with the famous Ed Viesturs and Araceli Segarra during the disastrous year of 1996.

The 1980s experienced the rise of " salsa romantica " and such artists as Frankie Ruiz, Willie Gonzalez, Nino Segarra, Tommy Olivencia, Lalo Rodríguez, Tony Vega, and Eddie Santiago, who sang a softer and more romantic version of salsa.

The diocese totally or partially occupies the Ripollès, Cerdanya, Alt Urgell, Segarra, Urgell, Pla d ' Urgell, Noguera, Pallars Jussà, Pallars Sobirà, Alta Ribagorça and the Vall d ' Aran regions.

( This legend appears to be reflected in the recently revived festival of El Brut i La Bruta, celebrated in the Catalan village of Torà in the comarca of Segarra.

In 1953 Soriano signed the so-called " Manila Agreement " which allowed the Spanish beer brewing subsidiary La Segarra to brew and sell beer under the San Miguel brand.

On the other hand, the inhabitants of the lower part of the county ( from Les Borges Blanques and Castelldans to the north ) have been considered as traditionally belonging to El Pla d ' Urgell ; and Vinaixa to the east, as belonging to La Segarra.

Chief Perez Segarra and Sgt.

" Among the nine Nationalists accused was the Captain of the Ponce branch of the Cadets of the Republic Tomas Lopez de Victoria and fellow cadets Elifaz Escobar, Santiago Gonzalez Castro, Juan Pietri and Prudencio Segarra.

There she met Bonocio Tió Segarra, whom she married in 1863.

Jamling Tenzing Norgay himself later followed in his father's footsteps and climbed Everest in 1996 with a team led by David Breashears that also included mountaineer Ed Viesturs and Araceli Segarra, an experience documented in the 1998 IMAX film, Everest.

The main attractions are beaches, including Honeymoon Beach, plantation ruins, Fort Segarra, an underground fort partially constructed by the U. S. during World War II, and scuba diving site Supermarket Reef, in Limestone Bay.

Fort Segarra was built as part of the United States ' defense strategies during World War II on Water Island in the US Virgin Islands in the Caribbean.

* Bryan P. Smith-Graduate of The United States Military Academy at West Point, veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom 06-08 and 09-10 and current engineer in the Oil and Gas industry.

Declassified information about the GCMA include the name of its commander, famous Colonel Roger Trinquier, and a mission on April 30, 1954, when Jedburgh veteran Captain Sassi led the Mèo partisans of the GCMA Malo-Servan in Operation Condor during the siege of Dien Bien Phu.

Melroy is a veteran of Operation Just Cause and Operation Desert Shield / Desert Storm, with over 200 combat and combat support hours.

One of these airborne formations, the British 6th Airborne Division, was a veteran division ; it had taken part in Operation Overlord, the assault on Normandy in June the previous year.

Joyner served in the U. S. Army from 1988 – 1992 and is a combat veteran of Operation Desert Storm.

He is the younger brother of Benjamin Netanyahu, who is the current Prime Minister of Israel, and Yonatan Netanyahu, who was killed leading the Operation Entebbe hostage rescue mission in 1976 and was a highly-decorated veteran.

GEN Luck is a combat veteran of both the Vietnam War and the Gulf War and has held a variety of command and staff positions throughout his Army career, to include: Chief of Staff, 8th Infantry Division, U. S. Army, Europe ; Director, Force Programs, Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations and Plans, HQ Department of the Army ; Assistant Division Commander, 101st Airborne Division ; Commanding General, 2nd Infantry Division, Korea ; Commanding General, Joint Special Operations Command ( 1989 – 1990 ); Commanding General, U. S. Army Special Operations Command ; and Commanding General, XVIII Airborne Corps during Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm ( 1990 – 1993 ).

One of these airborne formations, the British 6th Airborne Division, was a veteran division ; it had taken part in Operation Overlord and the assault on Normandy.

Following the costly success of Operation Mercury, the airborne assault on Crete in 1941, several elite Fallschirmjäger units were formed into an ad-hoc brigade under the command of veteran commander Oberst Hermann-Bernhard Ramcke.

Koevoet was founded under the name " Operation K " by Colonel Hans Dreyer, a veteran of the Rhodesian Special Air Service and an avid scholar of counter-insurgency combat.

He appeared in the HBO Films production of Taking Chance, a film based on a story of the same name written by Lieutenant Colonel Michael Strobl, an American ' Desert Storm ' war veteran.

* Into the Simpson Desert: Join veteran desert archaeologist Dr Mike Smith on an expedition into the remote southern Simpson Desert ( 2007 )-includes audio blog, expedition slideshow and photo diary, National Museum of Australia

Hyman was discovered in 1975 by internationally known pop artist and music industry veteran Sid Maurer, and former Epic Records promoter Fred Frank, and signed to their Roadshow Records / Desert Moon imprint.

“ I ’ ve got artifacts that date back, way, way, back ,” says Gonzalez, a retired 38-year U. S. Army veteran of Vietnam and Desert Storm.

Prior to My Three Sons, Demarest appeared with veteran western film star Roscoe Ates in the 1958 episode " And the Desert Shall Blossom " of CBS's Alfred Hitchcock Presents.

As a combat veteran during his command tour, Godwin amassed 34 Desert Storm missions.

Elliot is a Desert Storm veteran.

After Zack ( Bill Paxton ), a Desert Storm veteran, helps move Pete's car, the group invite him to have dinner with them.