The airborne troops of the 6th Airborne Division would be opposed by the Wehrmacht formations stationed in the area around Caen and the River Orne, which by June 1944 consisted of the 709th and 716th Infantry Divisions, both of which were static formations whose manpower consisted of medically-downgraded troops and conscripts recruited from the Soviet Union or Eastern Europe.

The 709th Static Infantry Division was a German Army static division in World War II.

The 709th Static Infantry Division was raised in May 1941 and used for occupation duties during the German occupation of France in World War II until the Allied invasion.

A high percentage of the Division had no combat experience, however the 709th was well acquainted with its sector and well trained for defence though after months of sustained labour work on coastal defences the combat readiness of these troops was significantly reduced.

Elements of the 709th were heavily engaged on D-Day, defending the peninsula against US airborne landings and also against the US 4th Infantry Division landing on Utah beach.

Generalleutnant Karl-Wilhelm von Schlieben, commander of the 709th Infantry Division reported that the commander of the 922nd Grenadier Regiment, Oberstleutnant Franz Müller, who had been assigned to the 243rd Infantry Division on the west coast, had been transferred by Generalleutnant Heinz Hellmich with regimental troops of the 922nd Grenadier Regiment, the 3rd Battalion 922nd Grenadier Regiment, and one Battalion of the 920th Grenadier Regiment, and the engineer battalion of the 243rd Infantry Division to Montebourg by night march on June 6.

The 1st Company 919th Grenadier Regiment ( 709th Infantry Division ) was posted at Sainte Marie-du-Mont and was responsible for the area.

Additionally the operation was also supported by two companies from the 709th Military Police Battalion, which provided an outer cordon, and four AH-64 Apache helicopters, which provided air support.

It was the only base to solely operate the massive C-5 Galaxy, with two active flying squadrons ( the 3rd Airlift Squadron, which now operates the C-17 Globemaster III, and 9th Airlift Squadron ) and two Air Force Reserve flying squadrons ( the 326th Airlift Squadron and the 709th Airlift Squadron ).

The 795th Georgian Battalion, attached to the 709th ID, was to the northwest at Turqueville but is less likely to have been present because of terrain difficulties.

The Quality of the Troops in the 709th had been reduced as personnel were constantly transferred to the Eastern front including entire Divisional combat units such as the 1st Battalion of its 739th Grenadier Regiment.

Units of the 18th Military Police Brigade, commanded by Col Lucious Delk, with units of the 709th MP Battalion, the 284th MP Co and the 564th MP Co, provided security of headquarters, Kurdish refugee camps and convoy security.

Sri Lanka won that Test, with Muttiah Muralitharan claiming his 709th Test wicket to go past Shane Warne as the highest wicket taker in Test cricket.

* 709th Military Airlift Squadron: 1 Oct 1973 – 1 Aug 1992.

* 709th Ordnance Co.

While infantry troops of the army's center maintained a static battle line, the cavalry flanks constituted its mobile hitting arm.

It was also never intended to take the role of static defense of the heavy machine gun but to be a portable weapon that would increase the firepower of infantry squads moving forward during the assault.

Neither division was rated as being highly efficient, with Allied intelligence rating them at a forty per-cent efficiency compared to a first-class line infantry division in a static role, and fifteen percent in a counter-attack role.

On 22 April 1904, Kuropatkin dispatched the " Eastern Detachment " under the command of Lieutenant-General Mikhail Zasulich with 16, 000 infantry, 5, 000 cavalry and some 62 artillery pieces to fight a static delaying action at north bank of the river.

As in World War I, the French generals expected that armour would mostly serve to help infantry break the static trench lines and storm machine gun nests.

Ground commanders also learned that armored units were not for infantry support and static defenses, but needed to be used as mobile reserves.

The tactical preferences of the two armies resulted from different operational philosophies: the imperial infantry were typically more static and defensive in battle, while the Swedish were more capable of offense but more vulnerable to flanking attacks.

The emblem of the Thebaei, another Western Roman infantry regiment, featured a pattern of concentric circles comparable to its static version.

The GN was primarily organized for internal security and counterinsurgency ( COIN ) operations rather than national defense, with most infantry units being assigned static garrison duties, and consequently its conventional military value was very low.

In the static warfare of the Western Front, the 17th was often restricted to infantry roles, such as the occupation of trenches.

During this period, defences in Australia mainly revolved around static defence by combined infantry and artillery, based on garrisoned coastal forts.

:" The new square was not simply infantry in static defence but a large, close-packed formation of some 1, 000 to 1, 500 men, capable of slow movement with ranks of infantry or cavalry forming the four sides and artillery, wheeled machine guns, transport carts, baggage animals and their handlers in the centre.

Crew served weapons operated by infantry include medium machine guns, heavy machine guns, automatic grenade launchers, mortars with calibers less than 120 mm ( 4. 72 inches ), anti-tank guns, anti-aircraft guns, recoilless rifles, shoulder-launched missile weapons, and static anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles.

These units include mobile infantry, tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, aircraft, artillery, and static emplacements.

This is because mass charges by infantry are rarely done, replaced by AFV-based thrusts, and that a static MG position is a high-priority target for infantry rocket launchers.

It was this Division, in conjunction with the Royal Aircraft Establishment, that was responsible for the design, manufacture and static testing of the Black Knight Rocket, the first of which was successfully fired at Woomera, South Australia, on 7 September 1958.

Following the fighting in July, the 9th Division remained in front-line positions around El Alamein, but were engaged in mainly static defensive duties for the next three months.

( A second " static " unit, the 23d Infantry Division, was activated in the Caribbean region.

Morgan was promoted to major general in 1941 and given command of the Devon and Cornwall County Division, a static formation created for coastal defence.

Deemed too static when it was first heard in `` Lady Be Good '' in Philadelphia in 1924, it was dropped from the score.

Since it was an analog standard, it is very susceptible to static and noise and has no protection from eavesdropping using a scanner.

Since the Persian force obviously contained a high proportion of missile troops, a static defensive position would have made little sense for the Athenians ; the strength of the hoplite was in the melee, and the sooner that could be brought about, the better, from the Athenian point of view.

The view that there was no rigid structure is reinforced by S. T. Joshi, who stated " Lovecraft's imaginary cosmogony was never a static system but rather a sort of aesthetic construct that remained ever adaptable to its creator's developing personality and altering interests ... here was never a rigid system that might be posthumously appropriated ... he essence of the mythos lies not in a pantheon of imaginary deities nor in a cobwebby collection of forgotten tomes, but rather in a certain convincing cosmic attitude.

At the seminary, Frankel taught that Jewish law was not static, but rather has always developed in response to changing conditions.

Cox argued in 1948 that caste cannot be compared to race or class, because, according to him, caste was static, the social inferiors in a caste system were ‘ content with their situation ’, and there was no social movement for their betterment.

He was also the first to draw a clear distinction between magnetism and static electricity and is credited with establishing the term electricity.

The ball was rotated by means of a crank and a static electric spark was produced when a pad was rubbed against the ball as it rotated.

He believed that this new force was a form of electricity in addition to the " natural " form produced by lightning or by the electric eel and torpedo ray as well as the " artificial " form produced by friction ( i. e., static electricity ).

From Aristotle until Darwin, the natural world was predominantly considered static and unchanging.

In 1839, Michael Faraday showed that the apparent division between static electricity, current electricity, and bioelectricity was incorrect, and all were a consequence of the behavior of a single kind of electricity appearing in opposite polarities.

It was produced in 1903 and was one of the first examples of dynamic, action editing-piecing together scenes shot at different times and places and for emotional impact unavailable in a static long shot.

In 1920, a variant of Type F film known as X-back was introduced to counteract the effects of static electricity on the film, which can cause sparking and create odd exposure patterns on the film.

" Mussolini claimed that dynamic or heroic capitalism and the bourgeoisie could be prevented from degenerating into static capitalism and then supercapitalism if the concept of economic individualism were abandoned and if state supervision of the economy was introduced.

This view was further elaborated by Belidor ( representation of rough surfaces with spherical asperities, 1737 ) and Leonhard Euler ( 1750 ) who derived the angle of repose of a weight on an inclined plane and first distinguished between static and kinetic friction ..

The distinction between static and dynamic friction is made in Coulomb's friction law ( see below ), although this distinction was already drawn by Johann Andreas von Segner in 1758.

Long arm extensions which contained poles inside the arms for Hirose to grab onto and with static immovable hands was used for long shots of Kong, while short human length arms were added to the suit for scenes that required Kong to grab items and wrestle with Godzilla.

At the beginning of the 19th century, density was increased further by static pressing.