The branches of Burkina Faso's military include its Army, Air Force, National Gendarmerie, National Police, and People's Militia.

* Connelly, Thomas L. Army of the Heartland: The Army of Tennessee 1861 – 1862.

* Rosentreter, Roger L. " Roosevelt's Tree Army: Michigan's Civilian Conservation Corps ", with photographs

in Los Angeles with Uncle Jam's Army D. J. ing dances as large as the L. A. Sports Arena with 10, 000 people.

The new armed forces were formed by incorporating some of the former French soldiers, after a careful screening process to determine political reliability, with members of the former territorial Gendarmie to form the People's Army of Guinea ( L ' Armee Populaire de Guinee ).

In Apocalypse Now, Martin Sheen plays Captain Benjamin L. Willard, a US Army officer charged with " terminating " the command of Colonel Walter E. Kurtz.

Notable graduates include former U. S. Secretary of State and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin Powell, U. S. Senator John McCain, former NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe Wesley Clark, former Chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Peter Pace and Hugh Shelton, former National Security Advisor and NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe James L. Jones, former U. S Army Chief of Staff Eric Shinseki, former U. S. Chief of Naval Operations Elmo Zumwalt, retired Air Force General Arnold W. Braswell, U. S. Ambassador to Russia John Beyrle, World War II submarine officer and best-selling novelist Edward L. Beach, Jr., former military aide to President John F. Kennedy Godfrey McHugh, murdered U. S. Ambassador to Libya J. Christopher Stevens, and U. S. Air Force Chief of Staff Norton A. Schwartz.

On December 17, 1981, four members of the Red Brigades, posing as plumbers, invaded the Verona apartment of US Army Brigadier General James L. Dozier, then NATO Deputy Chief of Staff at Southern European land forces.

Among other items, Roosevelt brought with him four tons of salt for preserving animal hides, a lucky rabbit's foot given to him by boxer John L. Sullivan, a Holland and Holland double rifle in. 500 / 450 donated by a group of 56 admiring Britons, a Winchester 1895 rifle in. 405 Winchester, an Army ( M1903 ) Springfield in. 30-06 caliber stocked and sighted for him, a Fox No. 12 shotgun, and the famous Pigskin Library, a collection of classics bound in pig leather and transported in a single reinforced trunk.

* August 17 – WWII: The US 7th Army under General George S. Patton meets the British 8th Army under Field Marshal Bernard L. Montgomery in Messina, Sicily, completing the Allied conquest of Sicily.

** US Army Maj. Gen. Keith L. Ware, WWII Medal of Honor recipient, is killed when his helicopter is shot down in Vietnam.

* January 28 – United States Army Brigadier General James L. Dozier is rescued by the Italian anti-terrorism Nucleo Operativo Centrale di Sicurezza ( NOCS ) force after being held captive for 42 days by the Red Brigades.

Len L. Lewis, a horse trader and former Union Army officer, helped establish the community in the late 1870s or early 1880s.

The Third Army was stationed at Fort Benning, Georgia, until the unit, along with its commander was ordered to the newly established Desert Training Center in the Colorado Desert of California and Arizona, by the Chief of the Armored Force, Major General Jacob L. Devers.

After consulting Army Chief of Staff General George Marshall, Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson, and Assistant Secretary of War John J. McCloy, Eisenhower retained Patton in the European theater, though without a major command.

A convoy led by Army Chief Warrant Officer Stanley L. Harriman of the Third Special Forces Group split off from the main TF Hammer force to reach the assigned observation point.

At the same time, the U. S. 6th Army Group under General Jacob L. Devers was advancing towards Germany after their landings in southern France.

* Seaman, Ronald L., “ Transmission of microwave-induced intracranial sound to the inner ear is most likely through cranial aqueducts ,“ Mckesson Bioservices Corporation, Wrair US Army Medical Research Detachment.

54 effectives of ' L ' Detachment, Special Air Service Brigade ( largely drawn from the disbanded Layforce ) mounted a night parachute insertion onto two drop zones in Bir Temrad, North Africa on the night of November 16 / 17 1941 in preparation for a stealthy attack on the forward airfields of Gambut and Tmimi in order to destroy the Axis fighter force on the ground before the start of Operation Crusader, a major offensive by the British Eighth Army.

In February 1882, C. A. L. Totten ( then a 1st lieutenant in the U. S. Army ) wrote to both the Secretaries of State and Treasury to suggest some sort of commemoration for the Great Seal, which was to have its centennial later that year, in particular including a version of the never-cut and rarely seen reverse side.

Photo taken by United States Army photographer Ronald L. Haeberle on March 16, 1968 in the aftermath of the My Lai massacre showing mostly women and children dead on a road.

The most famous and critically acclaimed of all the résistancialisme movies is Army of Shadows ( L ' Armee des ombres ), which was made by the French film-maker Jean-Pierre Melville in 1969.

His opinions were expressed in his book, Vers l ' Armée de Métier ( Towards the Professional Army ).

Originally titled Chant de guerre pour l ' Armée du Rhin (" War Song for the Army of the Rhine "), the song was written and composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle in 1792.

He also attempted to gain the favor of the Garde — renamed the Haitian Army ( Armée d ' Haïti ) in March 1947 — by promoting Lavaud to brigadier general and by seeking United States military assistance.

* 1807 – Emperor Napoleon's French Grande Armée defeats the Russian Army at the Battle of Friedland in Poland ( modern Russian Kaliningrad Oblast ) ending the War of the Fourth Coalition.

The Lebanese Armed Forces ( LAF ) ( Arabic: القوات المسلحة اللبنانية | Al-Quwwāt al-Musallaḥa al-Lubnāniyya ) or Forces Armées Libanaises in French, also known as the Lebanese Army according to its official Website ( Arabic: الجيش اللبناني or " Armée libanaise " in French, is the military of the Republic of Lebanon.

Nicolas Chauvin is a legendary, possibly apocryphal French soldier and patriot who is supposed to have served in the First Army of the French Republic and subsequently in La Grande Armée of Napoleon.

The Army ( Armée de Terre ) is the leading force within the Senegalese armed forces and provides the chief of staff and the Inspecteur général des forces armées.

The song, originally titled " Chant de guerre pour l ' Armée du Rhin " ( English: " War Song for the Army of the Rhine ") was written and composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle in 1792.

Napoleon called him le Sage de la Grande Armée ( the sage of the Grand Army ).

The buildings house the Musée de l ' Armée, the military museum of the Army of France, the Musée des Plans-Reliefs, and the Musée d ' Histoire Contemporaine, as well as the burial site for some of France's war heroes, notably Napoleon Bonaparte ( lists below ).

Lumumba appointed Mobutu as Chief of Staff of the Armée Nationale Congolaise, the Congolese Army, and in that capacity, Mobutu toured the country convincing soldiers to return to their barracks.

Two major exceptions were France's Grande Armée ( although in 1812, regulations changed grenadier uniforms to those more similar to the ones of fusiliers, except in guard regiments ) and the Austrian Army.

Founded in 1954, the National Liberation Front ( FLN ) succeeded Messali Hadj's Algerian People's Party ( PPA ), while its leaders created an armed wing, the Armée de Libération Nationale ( National Liberation Army ) to engage in an armed struggle against French authority.

A militant Jewish Zionist resistance organisation, the Jewish Army ( Armée Juive ), was founded in 1942 by Abraham Polonski, Lucien Lublin, David Knut, and their wives.

Prior to the formation of the Third Coalition, Napoleon had assembled an invasion force, called the Armée d ' Angleterre ( Army of England ) around six camps at Boulogne in Northern France.

* Grande Armée slang ( French Army slang during the Napoleonic Wars )

The French Grande Armée under Emperor Napoleon I attacked the Imperial Russian Army of General Mikhail Kutuzov near the village of Borodino, west of the town of Mozhaysk, and eventually captured the main positions on the battlefield, but failed to destroy the Russian army despite heavy losses.

Under the temporary leadership of Souham, Maj-Gen Charles Pichegru's Army of the North ( Armée du Nord ) encountered an Austro-British-German force at Tourcoing.

It resulted in a part of the Grande Armée under Napoleon I defeating a superior Prussian and Russian force of the " Army of Silesia ", under Field-marshal Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher.

The army was organised in the usual French Corps system and the main army, La Grande Armée d ' Allemagne (" the Grand Army of Germany ") was divided as follows:

* Canadian Army ( Canadian Forces Land Force Command )( Armée de terre canadienne ): Sergeant or Master Corporal

The PSP military wing, the People ’ s Liberation Army – PLA ( Arabic: Jayish al-Tahrir al-Sha ’ aby ) or Armée de Libération Populaire ( ALP ) in French was raised early in 1976 with the help of Fatah and initially comprised 3, 000 lightly armed fighters drawn from the Druze and Shia Muslim communities of the Shouf.

He returned to France and was made commander-in-chief of the French Army ( 1911 ), after Général d ' Armée Joseph Gallieni declined the post.

In 1806 Napoleon made his decision to erect a memorial, a Temple de la Gloire de la Grande Armée (" Temple to the Glory of the Great Army "); following an elaborate competition with numerous entries and a jury that decided on a design by the architect Claude Étienne de Beaumont ( 1757 – 1811 ), the Emperor trumped all, instead commissioning Pierre-Alexandre Vignon ( 1763 – 1828 ) to build his design on an antique temple ( Compare the Maison Carrée, in Nîmes ) The then-existing foundations were razed, preserving the standing columns, and work begun anew.