The LOC also included an Operations and Checkout Building ( OCB ), to which Gemini and Apollo spacecraft were initially received prior to being mated to their launch vehicles.

Used to great effect in anti-aircraft projectiles, proximity fuses were fielded in both the European and Pacific Theaters of Operations ; they were particularly useful against V-1 flying bombs and kamikaze planes.

These deliberate acts of violence against civilians were acknowledged by the CIA as early as late 1983, when Duane Clarridge, Latin America division chief of the CIA ’ s Directorate for Operations, reported in a secret briefing to the Senate subcommittee that his contras had murdered " civilians and Sandinista officials in the provinces, as well as heads of cooperatives, nurses, doctors and judges.

* General Motors Shreveport Operations, Shreveport, Louisiana – in 2005, to accommodate the production of the H3, an additional were added to plant built by GM in 1981.

In 1975, the activities of COINTELPRO were investigated by the United States Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities, called the Church Committee after its chairman, Senator Frank Church ( D-Idaho ), and these activities were declared illegal and contrary to the Constitution.

During the World War II era William E. Fairbairn and Eric A. Sykes were recruited by the Special Operations Executive ( SOE ) to teach their martial art of defendu ( itself drawing on jujutsu and Western boxing ) and pistol shooting to UK, US, and Canadian special forces.

In January 2002, 1, 200 members of United States Special Operations Command, Pacific ( SOCPAC ) were deployed to the Philippines to assist the Armed Forces of the Philippines ( AFP ) in uprooting al-Qaeda, Jemaah Islamiyah and Abu Sayyaf.

Red Army Deep Operations were first formally expressed in the 1929 Field Regulations, and codified in the 1936 Provisional Field Regulations ( PU-36 ).

Senior and supreme commanders were trained at the Higher Military Academic Courses, renamed the Advanced Courses for Supreme Command in 1925 ; the 1931 establishment of an Operations Faculty at the Frunze Military Academy supplemented these courses.

When the Canal Clearance Operations were completed, the Suez Canal and its lakes were considered 99 % clear of mines.

Operations on foreign territory were either territorial wars ( such as the Laos Civil War ) or conflicts mandated by the United Nations.

The Taliban were removed from power in October 2001 by a unified effort of United Front ( Northern Alliance ) ground forces, small U. S. Special Operations forces teams and U. S. air support.

Operations in the 1980s and 1990s were primarily carried out in Colombia, Guatemala, Peru, Bolivia and Belize.

During Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm the HET vehicles were employed primarily to haul M1 Abrams tanks.

During Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm, 51 Sheridans were deployed by the 82nd Airborne Division, and were among the first tanks to be sent.

Navy SEAL Teams 1 and 2 along with several Special Boat Units and Navy EOD teams were deployed on mobile command barges and transported by helicopters from the Army's 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment.

Several days before the beginning of the invasion of Iraq two SDV teams were launched from Mark V Special Operations Craft in the Persian Gulf.

The units comprising the Army of Operations were generally operating at under full strength, and many of the men were raw recruits.

Operations were terminated at the end of the track from DSS 61 at 07: 46 GMT on November 5, 1968.

Special operations teams from the Advanced Force Operations ( AFO ) detachment led by Lieutenant Colonel Pete Blaber were to provide on-location reconnaissance in the Shahi-Kot Valley for the operation.

Operations of the spacecraft began shortly after the soft landing and were terminated on January 26, 1968, 80 hours after sunset.

Planet Airways terminated the Director of Operations (“ DO ”) for misconduct.

* In October 2009, Douglas Duchak was terminated from his job as data analyst at the TSA ’ s Colorado Springs Operations Center ( CSOC ).

Operations terminated before the group could enter combat.

Operations terminated before the group could enter combat.

Operations terminated before the group could enter combat.

The Spamhaus Register of Known Spam Operations ( ROKSO ) is a database of " hard-core spam gangs " -- spammers and spam operations who have been terminated from three or more ISPs due to spamming.

How unpartisan will be the recommendations of Lt. Gov. Garland Byrd's Senate Committee on Government Operations??

In situations in which an aircraft becomes a threat while taking off – which gives very little reaction time – a decision on shooting it down may be taken by an Indian Air Force officer not below the rank of Assistant Chief of Air Staff ( Operations ).

This version of the script logo has been on the front of the away jerseys since 2001 and the home ones since 2004. The Orioles began the 2008 season in a rebuilding mode under President of Baseball Operations Andy MacPhail.

* 1965, Essays on military psychological operations, Special Operations Research Office, American University

* Customer Operations Performance Center Inc. website for more information on the COPC-2000 CSP Standard.

The Chief of Naval Operations is typically the highest-ranking officer on active-duty in the U. S. Navy unless the Chairman and / or the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff are naval officers.

All crossings ( ports of entry ) on the American side are secured by the U. S. Customs and Border Protection's Office of Field Operations and on the Canadian side by the Canada Border Services Agency ; all areas between the American ports of entry and on the American side of the river are secured by the United States Border Patrol.

Mountbatten was a favourite of Winston Churchill, ( although after 1948 Churchill never spoke to him again since he was famously annoyed with Mountbatten's later role in the independence of India and Pakistan ), and on 27 October 1941 Mountbatten replaced Roger Keyes as Chief of Combined Operations and received promotion to commodore.

: The Key Grip is the chief Grip on a set, and is the head of the Set Operations Department.

The Migrant Operations Center on Guantanamo typically keeps fewer than 30 people interdicted at sea in the Caribbean region.

Simcoe wrote a book on his experiences with the Rangers, titled A Journal of the Operations of the Queen's Rangers from the end of the year 1777 to the conclusion of the late American War, which was published in 1787.

In late July 1934, Special Agent Melvin Purvis, the Director of Operations in the Chicago office, received a tip on Dillinger's whereabouts which paid off when Dillinger was located, ambushed and killed by FBI agents outside the Biograph Theater.

Lithuanian Special Operations Force ( SOF ) of Lithuanian Armed Forces has been in operation de facto since 2002 and it was established de jure on April 3, 2008, when amendments of National Defence System organisation and military service law came into force.

In 1970, Mazda formally entered the American market ( Mazda North American Operations ) and was very successful there, going so far as to create the Mazda Rotary Pickup ( based on the conventional piston-powered B-Series model ) solely for North American buyers.

* 2002 – Afghanistan: Seven American Special Operations Forces soldiers are killed as they attempt to infiltrate the Shahi Kot Valley on a low-flying helicopter reconnaissance mission.

Further use of napalm by American forces occurred in the Pacific Theater of Operations, where in 1944 and 1945, napalm was used as a tactical weapon against Japanese bunkers, pillboxes, tunnels, and other fortifications, especially on Saipan, Iwo Jima, the Philippines, and Okinawa, where deeply dug-in Japanese troops refused to surrender.

According to Dr. Vitalii Nikolaevich Tsygichko, a Senior Analyst at the Academy of Sciences, the author of the study, Mathematical Model of Soviet Strategic Operations on the Continental Theater, and a former member of the General Staff, military analysts discussed the idea of a " nuclear winter " ( although they did not use that exact term ) years before U. S. scientists wrote about it in the 1980s .< REF > http :// www. gwu. edu /~ nsarchiv // nukevault / ebb285 /</ REF >

Prior to the formation of the OSS ( the American version of the British Secret Intelligence Service and Special Operations Executive ), American intelligence had been conducted on an ad-hoc basis by the various departments of the executive branch, including the State, Treasury, Navy, and War Departments.

One month after the war was won in the Pacific Theater of Operations, on September 20, 1945, President Truman signed Executive Order 9621, which came into effect as of October 1, 1945.

In January 2002, over 1, 200 soldiers from the United States Special Operations Command Pacific ( SOCPAC ) deployed to the Philippines to support the Armed Forces of the Philippines ( AFP ) in their push to uproot terrorist forces on the island of Basilan.

* On-Site Inspection Operations: Treaty on Open Skies page at the United States Defense Threat Reduction Agency, last accessed on July 19, 2009.