Iran ’ s Qods Force provided training to the Taliban in Afghanistan on small unit tactics, small arms, explosives, and indirect fire weapons, such as mortars, artillery, and rockets.

The Qods Force continued to supply Iraqi militants with Iranian-produced advanced rockets, sniper rifles, automatic weapons, and mortars that have killed Iraqi and Coalition Forces, as well as civilians.

The Qods Force, in concert with Lebanese Hizballah, provided training outside of Iraq as well as advisors inside Iraq for Shia militants in the construction and use of sophisticated improvised explosive device technology and other advanced weaponry.

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Shahrak-e Gharb ( also called Shahrak-e Qods, ) is a planned town built as a massive project of modern apartment buildings and villas in the north-western part of Tehran, Iran.

The first national league in Iran after the revolution was founded in 1989 with the name of Qods League.

The main roles of the Namibia Defence Force are to ensure the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the country by guarding against external aggression, both conventional and unconventional ; prevent violation of Namibia ’ s territorial integrity ; and provide assistance to civil authorities in guarding and protecting government buildings and key installations as provided in the Defence Act.

After the 1956 War ( often referred to as the Suez Crisis ), UNTSO greatly assisted the establishment of the United Nations Emergency Force ( UNEF ); in large measure the result of diplomatic efforts of the UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld and a proposal from Canadian minister of external affairs Lester Pearson, by providing a group of trained military personnel for peacekeeping and emergency operations to UNEF It was the first time UNTSO's expertise was tapped in order to establish a United Nations Mission.

| bombs = 4, 000 kg ( 8, 800 lb ) of payload on five external hardpoints, including a variety of bombs, reconnaissance pods or Drop tanks ; French Air Force IIIEs through 1991, equipped for AN-52 nuclear bomb.

As a major component of national power, alongside the Indian Navy and the Indian Air Force, the roles of the Indian Army are as follows ; Primary, preserve national interests and safeguard sovereignty, territorial integrity and unity of India against any external threats by deterrence or by waging war.

The largest single-engine fighter built for the US Air Force, the production model of F-105B possessed an internal bomb bay and five external weapons pylons.

In October 1920, after taking over the Transjordan region, the United Kingdom formed a unit of 150 men called the " Mobile Force " under the command of Captain Frederick Gerard Peake to defend the territory against both internal and external threats.

* September 1974-July 1978, program element monitor, assistant executive ; assistant chief of staff, intelligence ; and special assistant for external affairs, Headquarters U. S. Air Force, Washington, D. C.

Force majeure is generally intended to include risks beyond the reasonable control of a party, incurred not as a product or result of the negligence or malfeasance of a party, which have a materially adverse effect on the ability of such party to perform its obligations, as where non-performance is caused by the usual and natural consequences of external forces ( for example, predicted rain stops an outdoor event ), or where the intervening circumstances are specifically contemplated.

Egyptian Air Force | EAF Su-20 armed with four 250 kg bombs, two rocket pods, and fitted with two external fuel tanks.

Force – velocity relationship: The speed at which a muscle changes length ( usually regulated by external forces, such as load or other muscles ) also affects the force it can generate.

In a move external to the division, certain battalions were added to the 4th Force Service Regiment, now redesignated as the 4th Force Service Support Group.

Meanwhile the external front included Norway's merchant fleet, the Royal Norwegian Navy ( which had evacuated many of its ships to Britain ), Norwegian squadrons under the British Royal Air Force command and several commando groups operating out of Great Britain and Shetland.

The 595th SG is the focal point for coordinating all test activities between HQ AFSPC, 14th Air Force, 20th Air Force, space wings, test squadrons and external agencies.

Tightly disciplined and drilled the Force Publique impressed visitors to the Congo with its smart appearance but a culture of separateness, encouraged by its Belgian officers, led to brutal and unrestrained behaviour when the external restraints of colonial administration were lifted in 1960.

Once these projects have been approved by the United States Air Force or other agencies such as the CIA, and are ready to be announced to the public, operations of the aircraft are then moved to a normal air force base.

He moved his field HQ to Burg al Arab, close to the Air Force command post in order better to coordinate combined operations.

Although the U. S. Air Force sent fighters such as the F-16 to theater in Desert Shield, they had to carry bombs with them as no stores were in place for sustained operations whereas the carriers arrived on scene with full magazines and had support ships to allow them to conduct strikes indefinitely.

U. S. Air Force Senior Airman runs through a checklist during Global Positioning System satellite operations.

The territory has nevertheless maintained a Government Flying Service, formerly the Royal Hong Kong Auxiliary Air Force, that is responsible for search and rescue operations, air ambulance services, and other air services for the Hong Kong Government.

However, the elite Delta Force and other special operations units have fielded the HK416 in combat, and Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn has called for a " free and open competition " to determine whether the army should buy the HK416 or continue to purchase more M4 carbines.

* 1950 – Cape Canaveral Air Force Station begins operations with the launch of a Bumper rocket.

During this tour of duty, he was reassigned as chief of staff, Joint Task Force Provide Promise, for operations in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Republic of Macedonia.

The Balkan Air Force was formed in June 1944 to control operations that were mainly aimed at aiding his forces.

Lithuanian Air Force Special Operations Element is subordinate to the Unit at the level of operations management. Structure of the SOF is flexible which makes it easy to form squadrons intended for concrete operations and missions from its elements.

Special Forces Command controls operations of Ranger Battalion, as well as the Special Force Battalions – Wolves.

In 2009, the operations and maintenance contract for the day-to-day management and operation of the Fence was awarded to Five Rivers Services, LLC, based out of Colorado Springs, CO. On September 30, 2011, Five Rivers Services was awarded a $ 7, 022, 503 firm fixed price with cost reimbursable line items contract modification to manage, operate, maintain, and logistically support the nine Air Force Space Surveillance System field stations, presumably for Fiscal Year 2012.

Used by operators at the 614th Air and Space Operations Center at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., the 614 AOC's 24-hour-a-day, seven-day-a-week support provides vigilance of global and theater operations and equips the Joint Functional Component Command for space operations with the tools to conduct command and control of space forces.

Since January 2006, the NATO International Security Assistance Force undertook combat duties from Operation Enduring Freedom in southern Afghanistan, the NATO force chiefly made up of British, Canadian and Dutch forces ( and some smaller contributions from Denmark, Romania and Estonia and air support from Norway as well as air and artillery support from the U. S .) ( see the article Coalition combat operations in Afghanistan in 2006 ).

The Supreme Commander of operations was the United States General Douglas Macarthur, with Australian General Thomas Blamey taking a direct role in planning and operations being essentially directed by staff at New Guinea Force headquarters in Port Moresby.

The course was intended to enhance capacity building, and to train and prepare officers of the RSLAF for their future role and participation in international peace support operations, and especially for the proposed ECOWAS Standby Force.

Sixteenth Air Force managed SAC operations in Morocco and Spain from 1957 to 1966.

Concurrently, the costs of the Vietnam War took a heavy stateside toll on SAC as many of its bases were either deactivated, transferred to other Air Force MAJCOMs, or transferred to other U. S. military services as part of cost-cutting moves during or shortly after the end of combat operations in Southeast Asia.

" To this end, the UAE officially supports the Puntland Maritime Police Force, a locally-recruited, professional maritime security force primarily aimed at fighting piracy, safeguarding Somalia's marine resources, and providing logistics support to humanitarian operations.

Subsequent SEAL operations during the invasion of Afghanistan were conducted within Task Force K-Bar, a joint special operations unit of Army Special Forces, United States Air Force Special Tactics Teams, and special operations forces from Germany, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Denmark, Norway, and Turkey, under the command of Navy SEAL Captain Robert Harward.

The Egyptian Air Force or EAF is the aviation branch of the Egyptian Armed Forces.

The Lebanese Air Force is the air force branch of the Lebanese Armed Forces.

The Syrian Arab Air Force (, Al Quwwat al-Jawwiyah al Arabiya as-Souriya ) is the Aviation branch of the Syrian Armed Forces.

* 1947 – The United States Air Force becomes an independent branch of the United States armed forces.

* October 1 – U. S. President Ronald Reagan signs the Goldwater – Nichols Act into law, making official the largest reorganization of the United States Department of Defense since the Air Force was made a separate branch of service in 1947.

In October 1956, he entered test pilot school at Edwards Air Force Base, California and returned to Wright-Patterson in May 1957 as a test pilot assigned to the fighter branch.

The National Guard was established as a reserve component with the Militia Act of 1903 under Title 10 and Title 32 of the U. S. Code The National Defense Act of 1947 created the Air Force as a separate branch of the Armed Forces of the United States and concurrently created the Air National Guard as one of its reserve components, mirroring the Army's component structure.

ASU-Beebe today is the parent campus to branch campuses in Searcy ( at the former Foothills Vocational-Technical Institute ) and Heber Springs, and an educational center inside Little Rock Air Force Base in Jacksonville.

The Air Force Civil Engineer Support Agency is also headquartered at Tyndall and a branch of the Air Force Research Laboratory's Materials and Manufacturing Directorate also has facilities at the base.

1947 also saw the Army Air Corps separate and become the U. S. Air Force, gaining their own EOD branch.

In spite of tireless efforts to arrange funding no branch of the military was interested, as he later noted, " The Navy said it was a plane not a boat ; the Air Force said it was a boat not a plane ; and the Army were ' plain not interested '".

The Port Elizabeth branch of the South African Air Force Museum is still housed in the original 42-Air School Air Gunnery Training Centre used during the Joint Air Training Scheme.

From September 24, 2004 until February 2005 there was an exception from the use of military force regarding air security: In a case of imminent danger, the Bundeswehr and its air force branch, the German Air Force were authorised to use force against an aircraft.

The Royal Lao Air Force ( French: Aviation Royale Laotienne – AVRL ), best known to the Americans by its English acronym ‘ RLAF ’, was the air force branch of the Royal Lao Armed Forces ( FAR ), the official military of the Royal Lao Government and the Kingdom of Laos during the Laotian Civil War between 1960 and 1975.

18 September 1947, however, is considered the ANG ’ s official birth concurrent with the establishment of the United States Air Force as a separate branch of the United States military under the National Security Act.

There is also a branch of the South African Air Force Museum at the airport.

In late 1915 Percy Cox, chief political officer of the small British " Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force ", recruited Philby as head of the finance branch of the British administration in Baghdad, a job which included fixing compensation for property and business owners.

The fourth branch of the Earth Federation Forces was the Earth Federation Space Force.

As a separate branch of the military, the Finnish Air Force was founded on 4 May 1928, having existed officially since 6 March 1918 as the Army Corps of Aviation.

The Finnish Air Force is one of the oldest air forces of the world – the RAF was founded as the first independent branch on 1 April 1918 and the Swedish Flygvapnet in 1925.

** In the United Kingdom, the A6 Air CIS ( Computers & Information Systems ) branch, also known as JFACHQ, UK Joint Force Air Component Headquarters

Liu Yan's allies, seeing his defeat, considered leaving him, but Liu Yan was able to persuade them, along with another branch of the Lülin, the Xiajiang Force ( 下江兵 ), to join him.

In 1930, the Aviation Ministry was founded, establishing the Air Force as the third branch of the Armed Forces.