The Army did not change its medal policy until 2006, when it added the 1989 amendment but incorrectly retained the contradictory requirement that " hostages of terrorists and persons detained by governments with which the United States is not engaged actively in armed conflict are not eligible for the medal.

( military ), a nickname for a United States Army soldier, now used as an initialism of " Government Issue " ( or often incorrectly " General Infantry "), but originally referred to galvanized iron

Diplomatic relations between Israel and Sweden suffered further when Israel Army Radio incorrectly reported that a " pro Israeli " film was removed from the exhibition at the request of Syria.

The Future Integrated Soldier Technology ( or FIST ) sometimes incorrectly referred to as the Future Infantry System Technology or Future Infantry Soldier Technology is a project by the British Army, which aims to enhance the infantry's combat effectiveness in the 21st century as part of the Future Soldier project.

* In the " Camping Out " episode of Are You Being Served ?, when Mr Rumbold mentions he was in the Army Catering Corps, Mr Lucas incorrectly assumes that Mr Rumbold actually worked in the NAAFI.

* The British Army ( incorrectly ), or

During the closing voiceover, he is also incorrectly referred to as " Surgeon-Major, Army Hospital Corps "; Reynolds was of the Army Medical Department, and was not promoted to the rank of Surgeon-Major until after the action at Rorke's Drift.

Note that authors tend to, incorrectly, use Wehrmacht as a synonym for the German Army ( das Heer ).

The Battle of Chippawa ( sometimes incorrectly spelled Chippewa ) was a victory for the United States Army in the War of 1812, during an invasion of Upper Canada along the Niagara River on July 5, 1814.

A Cossack host, or Cossack viysko (; kozache viysko ), sometimes incorrectly translated as Cossack Army, was an administrative subdivision of Cossacks in Imperial Russia.

After six weeks he was incorrectly drafted into United States Army, serving a year of his two years services in the Vietnam War.

The United States Army Corps of Engineers designed the levee and floodwall system incorrectly, and contractors failed to build the system in places to the requirements of the Corps of Engineers ' contracts.

The Second Indochina War, commonly known as the Vietnam War, pitted the recently-successful Communist Vietnam People's Army ( VPA or PAVN, but also incorrectly known as the North Vietnamese Army or NVA ) and the National Front for the Liberation of Vietnam ( South Vietnamese NLF guerrilla fighters allied with the PAVN, known in the Republic of Vietnam as the Viet Cong, meaning ' Vietnamese Communists ') against United States troops and the United States-backed ARVN ( South Vietnamese soldiers ).

Payne was born in Ashfield, Franklin County, Massachusetts, on November 23, 1843, though his birth is sometimes listed incorrectly as September 23. he spent his youth in Massachusetts, and attempted to enlist for the Union Army, but he was rejected from service due to poor health.

As a result of this, Army Group D is sometimes incorrectly referred to as Army Group West.

Gordon has twice been depicted incorrectly as fighting at the Battle of Waterloo: in the 1970 film Waterloo, where he was played by Rupert Davies, and the Dad's Army episode A Soldier's Farewell, where he was played by John Laurie.

While the Home Rule Bill was still being debated, on 20 March 1914 many Army officers resigned ( and others threatened to ), in what became known as the " Curragh Incident " ( also known, incorrectly, as " The Curragh Mutiny "), rather than be mobilised to enforce the Act on Ulster.

As the German Army invaded Austria in 1938, he was sent to the concentration camps of Dachau and Buchenwald.

The UK was allied with France ( by the Entente Cordiale ) and Russia, and when the First World War broke out in 1914, the British Army sent the British Expeditionary Force to France and Belgium to prevent Germany from occupying these countries.

The British Army created the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force in Egypt and sent it to Gallipoli in an unsuccessful attempt to capture Constantinople and secure a sea route to Russia.

Allenby's force, now including Indian Army units which replaced a number of British units sent to the Western Front, captured the southern Jordan Valley in 1918 and carried out two major, but unsuccessful attacks to Amman and Es Salt and occupied part of the Jordan Valley, during preparations for his final successful assault in September at the Battle of Megiddo.

Stalin had respected his agreement with Winston Churchill to not intervene, but Yugoslavia and Albania defied the USSR's advice and sent supplies during the Greek Civil War to the partisan forces of the Communist Party of Greece, the ELAS ( National Popular Liberation Army ).

The VRK created new bodies of government, organized food delivery to cities and the Army, requisitioned products from bourgeoisie, and sent its emissaries and agitators into provinces.

In late 1917, Armstrong was invited to join the U. S. Army Signal Corps with the rank of captain and was sent to Paris to help set up a wireless communication system for the Army.

A modified version of this proposal was accepted by Cromwell and the Council of Officers and less than a month after the dissolution of the Rump, during May 1653, letters in the name of the Lord-General and the Army Council were sent to Congregational churches in every county in England to nominate those they considered fit to take part in the new government.

According to some sources, over 1. 5 million surviving Red Army soldiers imprisoned by the Germans were sent to the Gulag.

Service in the Army was also attractive to young men from Highlands, who sent pay home and retired there with their army pensions, but the prosperity ended after 1815, and long-run negative factors began to undermine the economic position of the crofters.

By April 1938, Ribbentrop had ended all German arms shipments to China and had all of the German Army officers serving with the Kuomintang government of Chiang Kai-shek recalled ( with the threat that the families of the officers in China would be sent to concentration camps if the officers did not return to Germany immediately ).

At the end of the war, with Berlin surrounded by the Red Army, Göring sent a telegram to Hitler suggesting he take over leadership of the Reich.

In 1935 the Nazi government had passed a decree that required all inventions of possible military significance to be reported to the Ministry of War, so in May 1937 Schrader sent a sample of tabun to the chemical warfare ( CW ) section of the Army Weapons Office in Berlin-Spandau.

* 1922 – The first executions during the Irish Civil War take place when five Irish Republican Army members are sent to the firing squad by the Irish Free State.

* 1840 – The Maronite leader Bashir II surrenders to the British Army and then is sent into exile on the islands of Malta.

On October 10, 1927, Army Chief of Staff General Charles Pelot Summerall directed that a draft bill be sent to Congress " to revive the Badge of Military Merit ".

Members of the US Army were sent to the site to provide medical care to the victims.

The Turkish Army sent troops to fight in Korea, where they played pivotal roles at some points.

At this time, shocked when the student Pacifist Society sent money to the Viet Cong, he founded Alf's Imperial Army devoted to sensational but non-violent warfare and regularly organized battles on campus.

Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker and two divisions of the Army of the Potomac were sent by President Lincoln to reinforce the Army of the Cumberland, however, the Confederates kept the two Armies from meeting.

Lee had sent Early up the Shenandoah Valley to attack Washington, DC and draw troops away from Grant's Army of the Potomac.

By mid-1943, however, after pressure from government and business leaders to preserve manpower for industry and agriculture, he had abandoned this plan in favor of a 90-division Army using individual replacements sent via a circuitous process from training to divisions in combat.

In the U. S. Army and the U. S. Air Force, non-judicial punishment is referred to as Article 15 ; in the Marine Corps it is called being " NJP'd " or being sent to " Office Hours ".

Col. Eugene Holmes, an Army officer who was involved in Clinton's case, issued a notarized statement during the 1992 presidential campaign: " I was informed by the draft board that it was of interest to Senator Fullbright's office that Bill Clinton, a Rhodes Scholar, should be admitted to the ROTC program ...

Until the first award of the Air Force Distinguished Service Medal in 1965, United States Air Force personnel received this award as well, as was the case with several other Army decorations until the Air Force fully established its own system of decorations.

According to French law, the Foreign Legion was not to be used within Metropolitan France except in the case of a national invasion, and was consequently not a part of Napoleon III ’ s Imperial Army that capitulated at Sedan.

( The A in this case stood for " Army ".

When the First World War broke out, he hastened to join the British Army, releasing Barbara from her engagement in case he was killed or mutilated.

This approach is presumed to have been employed in the case of Dan Rather over a story that he ran on 60 Minutes in the month prior to the 2004 election that attempted to impugn the military record of George W. Bush by relying on allegedly fake documents that were provided by Bill Burkett, a retired Lieutenant Colonel in the Texas Army National Guard.

He traveled to Berlin in disguise to offer his services, but was instead told to make himself useful by arranging food supplies for the Army from his estates in case they were needed.

In any case, the " Clausewitzian Trinity " that Van Creveld condemns as consisting of a rigid, static hierarchy of " People, Army, and Government ," does not in fact consist of those three concrete actors.

An " automatic revolver " in this context is one which extracts empty fired cases " automatically ," i. e., upon breaking open the action, rather than requiring manual extraction of each case individually with a sliding rod or pin ( as in the Colt Single Action Army design ).

* Korea: case history of a pawn, The United States Army Center of Military History

In situations where cover ( or " headdress ", as it is called in the Australian Army ) is not being worn, the salute is given verbally ; the junior party ( or senior member thereof ) will first come to attention, then offer the salute " Good morning / afternoon Your Majesty / Your Royal Highness / Prime Minister / Your Grace / Sir / Ma ' am / Sergeant ", etc., as the case may be.

The patent was later the source of a civil court case between MacLeod, the Army, and Aerojet who proceeded to develop the design further.

: Air and Army National Guard can specifically be called into Federal service in case of invasion, rebellion, or inability to execute Federal law with active forces.

It was not purchased as there were concerns over the safety of the combustible case, the Sheridan did not meet Australian Army requirements.

Patton was still senior to Eisenhower in the Regular Army, but this was soon not the case in the growing conscript army ( known as the Army of the United States ).

In 2007 Jack Sheldon rejected Edmonds's calculations, suggesting that although German casualties 1 June – 10 November were 217, 194 were available in Volume III of the Sanitätsbericht, ( Medical Report Concerning the German Army 1914 – 1918 ( 1934 )) Edmonds may not have included them as they did not fit his case.

Though Raeder had promised to join the campaign to reinstate Fritsch as Army Commander if he was acquitted, after Fritsch ’ s trial ended, he reneged on his promise, and instead argued that the Fritsch case was an Army matter that did not concern him, through that had not stopped Raeder from demanding that Fritsch resign when he first learned of the allegations of homosexuality.

In the case of Britain, this occurred when the British Army adopted a shortened Lee-Enfield rifle, the SMLE, in 1904.

The airborne assault forces thus had tactical missions and subordinated to Military districts, which in case of a possible war would be transformed into a Army groups.

Slovik's case was taken up in 1981 by former Macomb County Commissioner Bernard V. Calka, a Polish-American World War II veteran, who continued to petition the Army to return Slovik ’ s remains.

Other characters the Judge meets are U. S. Army Captain Byers ( William Shatner ), who is assigned to the American party hearing the cases, and Irene Wallner ( Judy Garland ), who is afraid to bring testimony that may turn the case against the judges in favor of the prosecution.

A number of Italian Americans were serving as top-ranking generals in the military, including Anthony Zinni, Raymond Odierno, Carl Vuono and Peter Pace, the latter three having also been appointed Chief of Staff of their respective services ( Army in the case of Odierno and Vuono, and Marine Corps in that of Pace ).

The British Army issued Medical Research Council body armor, as did the Canadian Army, in northwestern Europe, in the latter case primarily to medical personnel of the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division.