Armed Forces Day Proclamation by John A. Notte, Jr., Governor

The year 1961 marks the fourteenth anniversary of the unification of our Armed Forces under the National Security Act of 1947.

Armed Forces Day is the annual report on this investment, a public presentation designed to give our own people, and the people of other lands who stand with us for peace with freedom and justice, the best possible opportunity to see and understand what we have and why we have it.

It is the purpose of Armed Forces Day to give Americans an opportunity to honor men of the Armed Forces, those who have made the supreme sacrifice, those who remain to preserve our security.

now, therefore, do I, John A. Notte, Jr., governor of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, proclaim Saturday, May 20th, 1961, as Armed Forces Day, reminding our citizens that we should rededicate ourselves to our Nation, respecting the uniforms as the guardians of our precious liberty.

The Medical Illustration Service is responsible for the collection, publication, exhibition, and file of medical illustration material of medico-military importance to the Armed Forces.

The American Registry Of Pathology operates as a cooperative enterprise in medical research and education between the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology and the civilian medical profession on a national and international basis, under such conditions as may be agreed upon between the National Research Council and The Surgeons General of the Army, Navy, and Air Force.

In fiscal year 1959, the Medical Museum was moved to Chase Hall, a temporary building on Independence Avenue at Ninth Street, Southwest, and continued to display to the public the achievements of the Armed Forces Medical Services.

Throughout the period and during the movement operation, the Museum continued its functional support of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology.

Armed Forces Medical Publication Agency

The Armed Forces Medical Publication Agency, established in 1949, has published, since January 1950, The United States Armed Forces Medical Journal as a triservice publication to furnish material of professional interest to Medical Department officers of the three military services.

In May 1960, the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology began a series of articles on the `` Medical Museum '', and in June, the Institute started contributing a regular monthly `` Case For Diagnosis ''.

The Armed Forces Epidemiological Board agreed to submit each month a report for one of its 12 commissions, so that each commission will report once a year on some phase of its work calculated to be of particular interest and value to medical officers of the Armed Forces.

-- Expenditures for operating and maintaining the stations and equipment of the Armed Forces are estimated to be $10.3 billion in 1961, which is $184 million more than in 1960.

In total, these increases in operating costs outweigh the savings that result from declining programs and from economy measures, such as reduced numbers of units and installations, smaller inventories of major equipment, and improvements in the supply and distribution systems of the Armed Forces.

These contrasting trends in procurement reflect the anticipated changes in the composition and missions of our Armed Forces in the years ahead.

Suriname's National Armed Forces are composed of some 2, 200 personnel, the majority of whom are deployed in the Army of Suriname.

The FRCI were formerly known as the Armed Forces of the New Forces ( FAFN ).

The Czechoslovak Armed Forces were originally formed after 1918, when Czechoslovakia was created from former Austro-Hungarian areas after the defeat of that country in World War I.

From 1950 onward, census forms were mailed to every address on record with the United States Post Office, including the Armed Services Postal System, in an effort to enhance completeness of the data collected.

In 2005 over 50 reforms were approved, which eliminated some of the remaining undemocratic areas of the text, such as the existence of non-elected Senators ( appointed senators, or senators for life ) and the inability of the President to remove the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces.

The Armed Forces had logistical shortcomings and were caught off-guard.

The Armed Forces were reorganized in 1979.

During this time, strong nationalistic sentiments in East Pakistan were perceived by the Pakistani Armed Forces and the central military government.

The high flag rank officers, junior officers and many high command officers from the Pakistan's Armed Forces were highly cautious about their appointment in East-Pakistan, and the assignment of governing East Pakistan and appointment of an officer was considered highly difficult for the Pakistan High Military Command.

Under his command, the Pakistani Armed Forces were removed from the cities and deployed along the border.

The Pakistan Armed Forces were unable to counter such threats.

Poorly trained and inexperienced in guerrilla tactics, Pakistan Armed Forces and their assets were successfully sabotage by the Bangladesh Liberation Forces.

A 2008 United Nations Development Programme census estimated that there were around 4, 000 personnel in the Armed Forces.

The former Haitian Armed Forces were demobilized.

With the exception of the Armed Forces Social Security Institute, all commercial banks were privately owned, and most were owned by Honduran families.

A former British MP and Royal Marine, Rod Richards, said that such nicknames were common amongst military comrades, stating " in the Armed Forces people often used to call me Taffy.

As Islamists took up arms to overthrow the regime, the FIS's leaders were arrested and it became overshadowed by Islamist guerilla groups particularly the Islamic Salvation Army, MIA and Armed Islamic Group ( or GIA ).

# If the German Armed Forces ( Wehrmacht ) were not in a position to break the danger from the Eastern front, then Nazi Germany would fall to Bolshevism, and all of Europe would fall shortly afterward ;

In May 1991, the militias ( with the important exception of Hizballah ) were dissolved, and the Lebanese Armed Forces began to slowly rebuild themselves as Lebanon's only major non-sectarian institution.

Originally the rank structure of all three services was similar to that of the British Armed Forces, but some modifications were introduced in light of the small size of the Libyan military establishment.

The Malian armed forces were initially formed by Malian conscript and volunteer veterans of the French Armed Forces.

The Armed Forces for the Defence of Mozambique ( Portuguese: Forças Armadas de Defesa de Moçambique ) or FADM were formed in mid August 1994 from the previous warring factions of the Mozambique Civil War, which ended in 1992.

From 1978 to 1992, the Soviet-backed Afghan army fought with multi-national mujahideen groups who were being funded by the United States and Saudi Arabia while trained by the Pakistani Armed Forces.

Throughout the 1980s, the Afghan military was heavily involved in fighting against the multi-national Mujahiddin rebel groups who were largely funded by the United States and trained by the Pakistani Armed Forces.

Armed groups ’ movements were by far the most frequent cause of displacement and also the most damageable.