* Royal Engineers Museum British Army Postal Services History

* Robert Judd, Army Master Sergeant, Postal officer for JUSMAGG in Greece, wounded in an assassination attempt.

The Royal Canadian Army Service Corps transport and supply elements were combined with the Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps to form the Logistics Branch The Royal Canadian Army Service Corps clerical trades were merged with the Royal Canadian Army Pay Corps and the Royal Canadian Postal Corps to form the Administration Branch ( later merged with the Logistics Branch ) Other " corps ", included: Canadian Engineer Corps, Signalling Corps, Corps of Guides, Canadian Women's Army Corps, Royal Canadian Army Veterinary Corps, Canadian Forestry Corps, Canadian Provost Corps and Canadian Intelligence Corps.

There are approximately 850 of these sheet portions in the British Postal Museum which also include overprints for British Bechuanaland, Oil Rivers, Levant and Zululand and also departmental overprints such as Army and Inland Revenue .< ref name =" Penny Black Imprimatur sheets "></ span ></ font ></ ref >

The Base Circle is headed by an Additional Director General, Army Postal Service holding the rank of a Major General.

Army Postal Service Historic & Philatelic Society.

Lieutenant Colonel R. E. Evans, Royal Engineers, Assistant Director Army Postal Service Middle East Force ( MEF ), proposed that a lightweight self-sealing letter card that weighed only 1 / 10 oz be adopted by the British Army for air mail purposes.

By January the following year, General Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell, the Commander-in-Chief, MEF was told by Eden that " Your Assistant Director Army Postal Services may forthwith introduce an Air Mail Letter Card Service for the Middle East.

* Royal Engineers Museum Army Postal Services ( 1939 – 45 )- origins of Aerogram

* British Army: the Royal Horse Artillery ; Household Cavalry Regiment ; Life Guards ( motto appears in the Garter Star representation worn on Life Guard officer's helmets rather than in the unit badge ); Blues and Royals ; Grenadier Guards *; Princess of Wales ' Royal Regiment ; Royal Regiment of Fusiliers ; Corps of Royal Engineers ; and the Royal Logistic Corps ( which in April 1993 became an amalgamation of the trades of five corps, which included the Royal Corps of Transport and the Royal Army Service Corps plus the Postal and Courier Services of the Royal Engineers, all of these forming Corps used the motto inscribed garter in their badge ).

At their destination the negatives were printed on photographic paper and delivered as airgraph letters through the normal Royal Engineers ( Postal Section ), also known as the Army Postal Services ( APS ), or systems.

* Royal Engineers Museum Army Postal Services ( 1939 – 45 )-origins of British Airgraph

There it was handed to the French Consular Postal Service who in turn, passed it to the French Army Post Office for distribution to the British Army.

Mr Mellersh was to play a significant part in the establishment of a dedicated Army Postal Service, as he was to become a member of a joint War Office and Post Office committee set up in 1876 to investigate the viability of such post service.

An Inter-departmental Committee on Postal and Telegraph Services consisting of members of the War Office, Royal Engineers Telegraph Reserve and Lt Col William Price CMG, who had served as an officer with the Army Post Office Corps during the Anglo-Boer War, among others was formed in November 1908.

In the final report, the Committee expressed the opinion that it was important that " the Postal Corps and the Army Signal Service should co-operate " and that they should be " placed on a common basis ".

To meet situations of less than general nuclear war, we continue to maintain our carrier forces, our many service units abroad, our always ready Army strategic forces and Marine Corps divisions, and the civilian components.

He was the first of 2,800,000 called to the Army through the selective service system.

His father's civil service commission was still active, and during Turing's childhood years his parents travelled between Hastings in England and India, leaving their two sons to stay with a retired Army couple.

* Bands ( Italian Army irregulars ), military units once in the service of the Italian Regio Esercito

The Cold War saw significant technological advances in warfare and the Army saw more technologically advanced weapons systems come into service.

The British Army is purely a professional force since National service came to an end.

" Bolo " was used as derogatory expression for Bolsheviks used by British service personnel in the North Russian Expeditionary Force which intervened against the Red Army during the Russian Civil War.

* Bronze service arrowhead, properly known as the arrowhead device, an insignia of the United States Army

The Bronze Star Medal may be awarded by the Secretary of a military department or the Secretary of Homeland Security with regard to the Coast Guard when not operating as a service in the Navy, or by such military commanders, or other appropriate officers as the Secretary concerned may designate, to any person who, while serving in any capacity in or with the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, or Coast Guard of the United States, after 6 December 1941, distinguishes, or has distinguished, himself by heroic or meritorious achievement or service, not involving participation in aerial flight —

In 1815, the Russo-German Legion was integrated into the Prussian Army and Clausewitz re-entered Prussian service.

In February 2011 during one of three town-hall meetings on the ROTC ban, former Army staff sergeant Anthony Maschek, a purple heart recipient for injuries sustained during his service in Iraq, was booed and hissed at by some students during his speech promoting the idea of allowing the ROTC on campus.

All British Army cavalry regiments had been mechanised since 1 March 1942 when the Queen's Own Yorkshire Dragoons ( Yeomanry ) was converted to a motorised role, following mounted service against the Vichy French in Syria the previous year.

* BTS-3 ( Bronetankoviy Tyagach Sredniy-Medium Armoured Tractor )-JVBT-55A in service with the Soviet Army.

There is a difference in the Army and Airforce service number and the Navy service number:

The Army, twice as large as the other services combined with about 24, 000 active duty personnel, consists of six infantry brigades, a combat support brigade, an air cavalry squadron and a combat service support brigade ; the Air Force operates two main bases, one in southern region near Santo Domingo and one in the northern region of the country, the air force operates approximately 40 aircraft including helicopters ; and the Navy maintains three aging vessels which were donated from the United States, around 25 patrol crafts and interceptor boats and two helicopters.

The Dragoons Battalion have roots that go back as far as 1523, making it one of the world's oldest military units still in service and the only mounted unit still retained by the Swedish Army.

The Distinguished Service Medal ( DSM ) is a military award of the United States Army that is presented to any person who, while serving in any capacity with the United States military, has distinguished himself or herself by exceptionally meritorious service to the Government in a duty of great responsibility.

The Army version of the Distinguished Service Medal is typically referred to simply as the " Distinguished Service Medal " while the other branches of service use the service name as a prefix.

The Distinguished Service Medal is awarded to any person who, while serving in any capacity with the United States Army, has distinguished himself or herself by exceptionally meritorious service to the Government in a duty of great responsibility.

It was announced by War Department General Order No. 6, 1918-01-12, with the following information concerning the medal: " A bronze medal of appropriate design and a ribbon to be worn in lieu thereof, to be awarded by the President to any person who, while serving in any capacity with the Army shall hereafter distinguish himself or herself, or who, since 1917-04-06, has distinguished himself or herself by exceptionally meritorious service to the Government in a duty of great responsibility in time of war or in connection with military operations against an armed enemy of the United States.

This decoration takes precedence over the Distinguished Service Medals of the separate services and is not to be awarded to any individual for a period of service for which an Army, Navy, Air Force or Coast Guard Distinguished Service Medal is awarded.

After deliberation, Congress directed General Philip Schuyler, who had been appointed to lead the Army's Northern Department, to work with New York's provincial government to establish ( and pay for ) a regiment consisting of the Boys, and that they be paid Army rates for their service at Ticonderoga.

* 1975 – General Cao Van Vien, chief of the South Vietnamese military, departs for the US as the North Vietnamese Army closed in on victory.

After Sampson AFB closed, the airfield remained as Seneca Army Airfield but was closed in 2000.

* April 25 – Vietnam War: As North Vietnamese Army forces close in on the South Vietnamese capital Saigon, the Australian Embassy is closed and evacuated, almost 10 years to the day since the first Australian troop commitment to South Vietnam.

The gun system has been retired from US Army service ; howitzers above 155 mm caliber are no longer effective as technology has closed the range and firepower gap, and heavier weapon systems require more resources to operate.

The last Regular Army units were not withdrawn until the Dockyard itself closed in the 1950s.

Moltke had originally planned to keep Bazaine's army on the Saar River until he could attack it with the 2nd Army in front and the 1st Army on its left flank, while the 3rd Army closed towards the rear.

In the early 1990s, following the end of the Cold War the garrison tradition of the town came to an end when the Bundeswehr's Margrave Barracks ( Markgrafenkaserne ) and the Röhrensee Barracks ( Röhrenseekaserne ), used by the US Army and the BGS ( Grenzschutzabteilung Süd 3 ), were closed.

Harlingen Army Air Field preceded Harlingen Air Force Base, which closed in 1962.

The Army closed the road from August 15 until September 24, 1864.

This is above the Dugway Proving Grounds, a closed Army testing base.

The last Regular Army units were not withdrawn until the Dockyard itself closed in the 1950s.

In 1911 during the Xinhai Revolution the college was taken up as the headquarters of the Guangfu Army and closed down for almost one year.

Both the Army and Navy subsequently demanded that Storyville be closed down, with the Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels citing the district as a " bad influence ".

In 1834, the U. S. Army built Fort Coffee a few miles north of Skullyville, but closed it in 1838.

Green River was eventually closed to traffic after Woodbury's Lock and Dam Number 4 washed out in 1965 and Rochester's Lock and Dam Number 3 was abandoned by the United States Army Corps of Engineers in 1980.

The military has been a significant part of life in Marina, which is located adjacent to the former Fort Ord, a US Army installation which closed in 1994 during the country's base closure initiative.

Since the days of the Lucky Lee Ranch, the boundaries of Lehigh Acres have stretched to cover, including the runways of the former Buckingham Army Airfield, a major Army Air Forces training base that was closed at the end of World War II.

By 1995, the Savanna Army Depot was identified by Congress as one of the bases that would be closed under the Base Realignment and Closure Act.

On March 18, 2000, the Savanna Army Depot was closed.

Fort Duchesne was originally a fort, established by the United States Army in 1886 and closed in 1912.

The Army Air Force closed its facilities in 1947.