In April 1834, Johnston took up farming in Texas, but enlisted as a private in the Texas Army during the Texas War of Independence against the Republic of Mexico in 1836.

He was named Adjutant General as a colonel in the Republic of Texas Army on August 5, 1836.

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

* 1798 – Wolfe Tone's United Irish and French forces clash with the British Army in the Battle of Castlebar, part of the Irish Rebellion of 1798, resulting in the creation of the French puppet Republic of Connaught.

* 1979 – A Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb kills British World War II admiral Louis Mountbatten and three others while they are boating on holiday in Sligo, Republic of Ireland.

* Armed Forces Day or Anniversary of the Founding of the People's Liberation Army ( People's Republic of China )

* 1963 – Xá Lợi Pagoda raids: the Army of the Republic of Vietnam Special Forces loyal to Ngo Dinh Nhu, brother of President Ngo Dinh Diem, vandalizes Buddhist pagodas across the country, arresting thousands and leaving an estimated hundreds dead.

* 1965 – United States occupation of the Dominican Republic: American troops land in the Dominican Republic to " forestall establishment of a Communist dictatorship " and to evacuate U. S. Army troops.

The Military of Bulgaria, officially the Bulgarian Army () represents the Armed Forces of the Republic of Bulgaria.

The Air Force was founded in 1964 as the Escadrille de la République de Haute-Volta ( EHV ) or the Republic of Upper Volta Air Squadron, a subordinate unit of the Army.

While the crew spent six weeks shooting on location in Scotland, the major battle scenes were shot in the Republic of Ireland using members of the Irish Army Reserve as extras.

Clockwise from top left: The central street of Dubrovnik, the Stradun ( street ) | Stradun, in ruins during the Siege of Dubrovnik ; the damaged Vukovar water tower, a symbol of the early conflict, flying the Flag of Croatia | Croatian tricolour ; soldiers of the Croatian Army getting ready to destroy a Republic of Serbian Krajina | Serbian tank ; the Vukovar Memorial Cemetery ; a Serbian T-55 tank destroyed on the road to Drniš

The Army of the Czech Republic () comprise the land forces, the Czech Air Force and support units.

The Army of the Czech Republic was formed after the Czechoslovak Armed Forces split after the 1 January 1993 dissolution of Czechoslovakia.

Active Reserve ( in Czech Aktivní záloha ) is a part of the otherwise professional Army of the Czech Republic.

These are the ranks, historic and present-day, of the Armed Forces of the Czech Republic and its predecessor force, the Czechoslovak Armed Forces ( later the People's Army ).

* Stephane Lefebvre, ' The Army of the Czech Republic: A Status Report ,' Journal of Slavic Military Studies, Vol.

The CIRA considers itself a direct continuation of the Irish Republican Army ( the army of the unilaterally-declared 1919 – 1922 Irish Republic ) that fought in the Irish War of Independence ; as such, its supporters regard it as the national army of a 32 county Irish Republic.

In December 1936, Chiang flew to Xi ' an to coordinate a major assault on the Red Army and the Communist Republic that had retreated into Yan ' an.

There are two other key organs of political power in the People's Republic of China: the formal government and the People's Liberation Army.

While the CIA and MI6 and the People's Liberation Army of China financed the operation along with the Pakistan government against the Soviet Union Eventually the Soviet Union began looking for a withdrawal route and in 1988 Geneva Accords were signed between Communist-Afghanistan and the Islamic Republic of Pakistan ; under the terms Soviet troops were to withdraw.

In its temporary dispositions, the document ordered the transition from the former military government, with Augusto Pinochet as President of the Republic, and the Legislative Power of the Military Junta ( formed by the heads of the navy, air force, National Police, and a representative of the army, the head of the Army being president of the republic ), to a civil one, with a time frame of eight years, during which the Legislative Power would still be the Military Junta.

The Army of the Republic of Vietnam used two US-style ID tags, in either stainless steel or aluminium, stamped or inscribed with:

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.

By the mid-1960s, parts of Cambodia's eastern provinces were serving as bases for North Vietnamese Army and Viet Cong ( NVA / VC ) forces operating against South Vietnam, and the port of Sihanoukville was being used to supply them.

* 1968 – Vietnam War: United States Air Force helicopter pilot James P. Fleming rescues an Army Special Forces unit pinned down by Viet Cong fire and is later awarded the Medal of Honor.

Among other activities, the OSS helped arm, train and supply resistance movements, including Mao Zedong's Red Army in China and the Viet Minh in French Indochina, in areas occupied by the Axis powers during World War II.

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.

* May 19 – The Viet Minh is formed in Vietnam to overthrow the French Army in the nation.

* November 26 – Vietnam War: United States Air Force First Lieutenant and Bell UH-1F helicopter pilot James P. Fleming rescues an Army Special Forces unit pinned down by Viet Cong fire, earning a Medal of Honor for his bravery.

** The Viet Cong is disbanded in which its former members become a part of the Vietnam People's Army.

* November 1 – The Vietnam War begins between the South Vietnam Army and the North Vietnam Army in which the latter is allied with the Viet Cong.

* August 1-The First Indochina War ends with the Viet Minh in Vietnam, the Khmer Issarak in Cambodia and the Pathet Lao in Laos emerging victorious against the French Army and the Viet Minh is reorganised into the Viet Cong.

Some of the Australian Army trucks saw service in Viet Nam during that conflict.

Called sappers, these units represented a force economy measure for the NVA ( North Vietnamese Army ) and the Viet Cong.

As a result of the Vietnam ( Second Indochina ) War ( 1954 – 75 ), Viet Cong and regular People's Army of Vietnam ( PAVN ) forces from the North unified Vietnam under communist rule.

US Army sources have claimed that the human wave attack tactic was adapted by the Viet Minh, and later by the Viet Cong and the Vietnam People's Army during the Indochina Wars.

The allies fought against the North Vietnamese Army ( NVA ) as well as the National Liberation Front ( NLF, also known as Viet communists Viet Cong ), or " VC ", a guerrilla force within South Vietnam.

Meanwhile, the Communist Chinese established the three-man fireteam concept as the three-man cell when they organized a regular army, and its organization seemed to have been disseminated throughout all of Asia's communist forces, perhaps the most famous of which are the PAVN / NVA ( People's Army of Vietnam / North Vietnamese Army ) and the Viet Cong.

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

U. S. Army Bell UH-1 Iroquois | Huey helicopter spraying Agent Orange over Vietnamese agricultural land

File: US-Army-APC-spraying-Agent-Orange-in-Vietnam. jpg | U. S. Army armored personnel carrier ( APC ) spraying Agent Orange over Vietnamese rice fields during the Vietnam War

* 1955 – Operation Passage to Freedom, the evacuation of 310, 000 Vietnamese civilians, soldiers and non-Vietnamese members of the French Army from communist North Vietnam to South Vietnam following the end of the First Indochina War, ends.

* 1969 – My Lai Massacre: U. S. Army Lt. William Calley is charged with six specifications of premeditated murder for the death of 109 Vietnamese civilians in My Lai.

* 1964 – North Vietnamese Army begins infiltration of South Vietnam.

Although exact numbers are difficult to ascertain, it is safe to say that several million people served in the South Vietnamese armed forces, the vast majority of them in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam ( ARVN )— between 1956 and 1975.

* 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.

However, when Richard Nixon began targeting press access and reporting, even Safer, formerly the CBS News bureau head in Saigon and London, began to do " hard " investigative reports, and during the 1970 – 71 season alone 60 Minutes reported on cluster bombs, the South Vietnamese Army, draft dodgers, Nigeria, the Middle East, and Northern Ireland.

In explaining his refusal to be conscripted to fight the Vietnam War ( 1965 – 75 ), professional boxer Muhammed Ali said, " No Vietcong ever called me nigger "; later, his modified answer was the title No Vietnamese Ever Called Me Nigger ( 1968 ) of a documentary about the front-line lot of the US Army Black soldier in combat in Vietnam.

The SEALs were involved in the CIA sponsored Phoenix Program where it targeted key North Vietnamese Army personnel and Vietcong sympathizers for capture and assassination.

U. S. Army Huey helicopter spraying Agent Orange over Vietnamese agricultural land

At the time, the French Expeditionary Corps was the most powerful military force in the south ; Diệm's Vietnamese National Army was essentially organized and trained by the French.

* Cam Ranh-large deep water port and used by Marco Polo during his voyages to China ; formerly a major military facility for the U. S. Army and US Navy during the 1960s ; later used by the Soviet Navy and the Vietnamese Navy

In the early 1960s, the U. S. Central Intelligence Agency's ( CIA ) Special Activities Division began to recruit, train and lead the indigenous Hmong people in Laos to fight against North Vietnamese Army intruders into Laos during the Vietnam War.

Two years after the U. S. withdrawal from South Vietnam, the Kingdom of Laos was overthrown by communist troops supported by the North Vietnamese Army.

The FUNSK invaded Cambodia along with the Vietnamese Army and overthrew the Democratic Kampuchea Pol Pot state.

Many soldiers were recruited in South Vietnam, but others were attached to the People's Army of Vietnam ( PAVN ), the regular North Vietnamese army.

The official Vietnamese history gives the group's name as the Liberation Army of South Vietnam or the National Liberation Front for South Vietnam ( Mặt trận Dân tộc Giải phóng miền Nam Việt Nam ).

Today's Vietnamese media most frequently refers to the group as the " Liberation Army " ( Quân Giải phóng ).

The official Vietnamese history of the war states that, " The Liberation Army of South Vietnam Cong is a part of the People ’ s Army of Vietnam ".