The narrator is an Alsatian serving with the French Army, and he has the same name ( Berger ) that Malraux himself was later to use in the Resistance ; ;

the Army, Navy and Air Force, among others, may question Secretary Freeman's claim that the high estate of United States agriculture is the `` strongest deterrent '' to the spread of communism.

Gen. Maxwell Taylor's statement in Saigon that he is `` very much encouraged '' about the chances of the pro-Western government of Viet Nam turning back Communist guerrilla attacks comes close to an announcement that he will not recommend dispatching United States troops to bolster the Vietnamese Army.

The possibility of recall into the Army is part of the price that a modern American has to pay for the enviable heritage of liberty which he enjoys.

Maj. Anderson of Fort Sumter is home and recruiting volunteers for the U.S. Army.

A prime objective of the Army Quartermaster Corps program is to find the reasons for beef's low palatability and means of overcoming it, since it is a major and desirable dietary item.

Today he is a major -- in the Regular Army.

The pert, gray-haired woman who came to Denver three years ago from Buffalo, N.Y., is a `` civilian '' with the Army.

Her day starts early, but no matter how many pressing letters there are to be written ( and during May, which is National Salvation Army Week, there are plenty ), schedules to be made or problems to be solved, Mrs. Marr's office is always open and the welcome mat is out.

* 1866 – The Grand Army of the Republic, an American patriotic organization composed of Union veterans of the American Civil War, is founded.

* 1642 – Irish Confederate Wars: A Confederate Irish militia is routed in the Battle of Kilrush when it attempts to halt the progress of the British Army.

* 1985 – The Nigerian government is peacefully overthrown by Army Chief of Staff Major General Ibrahim Babangida.

The Red Army is defeated.

Doubleday Field at West Point, New York, where the Army Black Knights play at Johnson Stadium, is named in Doubleday's honor.

The Terracotta Army commissioned by the first Chinese Emperor Qin Shi Huangdi is a collection of about 8000 life-sized ceramic soldiers and horses buried with the emperor.

* 1908 – The Territorial Force ( renamed Territorial Army in 1920 ) is formed as a volunteer reserve component of the British Army.

In Britain this was one of a number of events that constituted the Annus Mirabilis of 1759 and is celebrated as Minden Day by certain British Army regiments.

This day is commemorated as the anniversary of the founding of the People's Liberation Army.

* 1967 – After refusing induction into the United States Army the day before ( citing religious reasons ), Muhammad Ali is stripped of his boxing title.

* 1869 – Battle of Acosta Ñu: A Paraguayan battalion made up of children is massacred by the Brazilian Army during the Paraguayan War.

Stuart is assigned command of all the cavalry of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia.

Chandler had been commissioned in the Medical Service Corps and was serving as a personnel officer for the Kansas City Medical Depot when he decided that if he was going to make the Army his career, he wanted to be in the fighting part of it.

When it became obvious that the United States was eventually going to become involved in the war raging in Europe, the U. S. Army contacted 135 companies asking for working prototypes of a four-wheel-drive reconnaissance car.

The U. S. Army began to field the XM16E1 en masse in 1965 with most of them going to the Republic of Vietnam, and the newly organized and experimental Airmobile Divisions, the 1st Air Cavalry Division in particular.

Paramount Pictures ' Bob Hope was Caught In The Draft, Warner Brothers told Phil Silvers and Jimmy Durante You're In The Army Now, Columbia Pictures put Fred Astaire in the army declaring You'll Never Get Rich, Hal Roach gave his new comedy team of William Tracy and Joe Sawyer Tanks a Million and 20th Century Fox had the former Hal Roach team of Laurel & Hardy going Great Guns.

Due to the war going on, the first batch of these planes went to the U. S. Army and Air Forces, and was named the C-54 Skymaster.

In fact, this process had been going on in the Roman Army long before AD 378, with cavalry increasing its role and status in the Army from at least the time of the Emperor Gallienus ( AD 253 to 260 ).

Though it had the option of going for General Richard Mulcahy, Collins ' successor as Commander-in-Chief of the National Army, the pro-Treaty leadership opted for Cosgrave, in part due to his democratic credentials as a long-time politician.

He informed the U. S. Army Engineer Department late in 1856 that he was going to join the filibuster William Walker, who had seized control of Nicaragua ; he had offered Beauregard the rank of second-in-command of his army.

The project was finished by 1911 while this was still going on, and after several private and government endeavors couldn't to get a deep-water pass between Mustang and St. Joseph islands, the United States Army Corps of Engineers took over the project in 1907, and was granted the right to build a new south " Nelson " jetty and to unite the " Haupt jetty " to St. Joseph Island that same year.

Though Parliament won, it was clear to the Scots that it was not going to uphold the Solemn League and Covenant by imposing Presbyterianism on England ( Puritanism wasn't quite Presbyterian ), so the New Model Army, Parliament and the Scots began falling apart.

Also, popular characters Michelle Corrigan and Ruth Pearce left the show, with Michelle going into the Army and Ruth moved to Boston in the USA.

On 27 June, Charles received information that large Kalmyk forces were going to join Peter and cut off all supplies to the Swedish Army.

Since Reichenau's order was widely understood as endorsing the mass killings of Ukrainian Jews which were going on behind the German lines, with which 6th Army at any rate was actively co-operating, Rundstedt's open endorsement of its strongly anti-Semitic language clearly contradicts his later assertions that he did not know what the Einsatzgruppen were doing.

After his initial 1948 plan to expand the Army and modernize its equipment was rejected by the Truman Administration, Bradley reacted to the increasingly severe postwar defense department budget cutbacks imposed by Secretary of Defense Louis A. Johnson by publicly supporting Johnson's decisions, going so far as to tell Congress that he would be doing a " disservice to the nation " if he asked for a larger military force.

In 1940, Time quoted the U. S. Army on managing the military draft efficiently: " War is not going to wait while every slacker resorts to endless appeals.

Sorge advised the Red Army on September 14, 1941, that the Japanese were not going to attack the Soviet Union until:

After going to Guangde County, Anhui first, they went to the town of Huzhou ( 湖州 ), Zhejiang on 13 August 1864 to rendezvous with the local Taiping Army commander Huang Wenjin ( 黄文金 ).

“ We were notified that we would be launching in 45 minutes ,” he recalled, “ and were going into al Qaeda and Taliban infested area .” Also on the team were Army Rangers.

One thing that is known is that regarding the course at Camp Columbia, LT Ralph Faulkner, a graduate of the U. S. Army Signal Corps OCS program at Ft. Monmouth ( 91 years old and still going strong as of Jan 2012 ) was an instructor at that facility.

The Soviet 40th Army had their own tunnel rats, who were tasked with flushing people out of the tunnels, then going through the tunnels to disarm booby traps and kill those who remained.

" Korn explains that this means that the Army is " going to glorify you and send you home a hero, recalled by the Pentagon for morale and public-relations purposes.

In 1922 Singleton published his memoir of going from slavery to being a Union soldier ; he marched in a Grand Army of the Republic ( GAR ) reunion in 1938 at the age of 95.

The Russian Army handled the issue of civilian casualties by warning the inhabitants that they were going to launch an all-out assault on Grozny and requested that all civilians leave the city before the start of the artillery bombardment.