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At the end of World War II the US Army occupied Obersalzberg, to prevent Hitler from retreating with the Wehrmacht into the mountains.
* 2004 – Aaron Bank, American Office of Strategic Services officer and founder of the US Army Special Forces ( b. 1902 )
* 1950 – President Harry Truman orders the US Army to seize control of the nation's railroads to avert a strike.
* 1975 – General Cao Van Vien, chief of the South Vietnamese military, departs for the US as the North Vietnamese Army closed in on victory.
US Army idealised linear ambush plan
US Army idealised L-shaped ambush plan
The US Army has adopted Interceptor body armour, which uses Enhanced Small Arms Protective Inserts ( E-S. A. P. I ) in the chest, sides and back of the armour.
* US Army Garrison Ansbach-Ansbach Military Community
* AirLand Battle, blitzkrieg-like doctrine of US Army in 1980s
This reform will bring the ratio of regular and part-time personnel of the British Army in-line with US and Canadian allies.
* U. S. Army Combat Arms Regimental System a 1950s reorganisation of the regiments of the US Army
The most outstanding attempts in support of annexation were made by former Spanish Army General Narciso López, who prepared four filibuster expeditions to Cuba in the US.
Inspired by these experiments, the US Army developed a similar flying bomb called the Kettering Bug.
Image: US forces Operation Enduring Freedom. jpg | United States Army Special Forces on horseback with the Northern Alliance of Afghanistan, which frequently used horses as military transport.
However, Army units in the United States would have had trouble fielding mechanized and logistical assets, while the US Navy could not supply sufficient amphibious shipping to transport even a modest armored contingent from the Army.
The purpose and use of the notch was verified by a Snopes article, in which Snopes consulted with US Army Mortuary Affairs.
Following World War II, the US Navy Department adopted the dog tags used by the US Army and Air Force, so a single shape and size became the American standard.
Japan follows a similar system to the US Army for its Self Defence Force personnel, and the appearance of the tags is similar, although laser etched.
* Norman Cota, US Army major general in World War II
* Trudeau received “ Certificates of Achievement ” from the US Army 4th Battalion 67th Armor Regiment and the Ready First Brigade in 1991 for his comic strips dealing with the first Gulf War.
* Trudeau was awarded the US Army ’ s Commander ’ s Award for Public Service in 2006 for his series of strips about BD ’ s recovery following the loss of his leg in Iraq.
The foreword to the DSM-I states the US Navy had itself made some minor revisions but " the Army established a much more sweeping revision, abandoning the basic outline of the Standard and attempting to express present day concepts of mental disturbance.

US and USMC
The USAF, USMC, US Army, US Navy, and FAA as well as a number of international ATC training organizations such as the Royal Australian Air Force and Civil Aviation Authorities in Italy, Brazil, and Canada are currently using ATC simulators with speech recognition from a number of different vendors.
Vietnam War era sniper rifles, US Army XM21 ( top ) and United States Marine Corps | USMC M40 rifle | M40 ( bottom )
Vietnam War era sniper rifles, US Army M21 Sniper Weapon System | XM21 ( top ) and USMC M40 rifle | M40 ( bottom )
Units from the USMC and US Army Reserve and National Guard would support infantry roles for the OPFOR.
The 8x8 US Army Stryker vehicle is derived from the Canadian LAV III which in turn is based on the Piranha, as is the LAV-25 family in service with the USMC.
A USMC | US Marine weapons instructor holds an XM8 Carbine during the Infantry Operations Chief Symposium in August 2005
Within days of the capture, US Marine Corps ( USMC ) and US Army as well as ARVN infantry units were dispatched to counterattack and recaptured the city after weeks of fierce fighting, during which the city and its outlying areas were exposed to repeated shelling from US Navy ships off the coast and numerous bombing runs by U. S. aircraft.
* A US Military Occupational Specialty ( MOS )-specifically a STA sniper ( USMC )
A US Army officer claims the cigar-smoking iconic PM was an actor, Ray Bubbles, impersonating his own father, USMC lieutenant Winston Churchill, a genius spy who stole an enigma code machine and almost single-handedly won a very alternative battle for Britain
Although 41 Commando was not mentioned in the original citation ( as US Navy regulations did not originally allow bestowal upon foreign forces ), representations to the USMC subsequently led to it also receiving the award, which was accepted in 1957.
Troops were ferried to two landing zones by three helicopters squadrons: USMC HMM-364 Squadron, 117th and 119th squadron of US Army 52nd Aviation Battalion.
In addition, the US Army and United States Marine Corps ( USMC ) have exhibited interest in the towed version as a possible replacement for their towed 105 mm howitzer stocks.
An aggressor squadron or adversary squadron ( in the US Navy and USMC ) is a squadron that is trained to act as an opposing force in military wargames.
Enlisted USMC personnel received a double breasted version with red piping worn with a leather stock and shako to reflect their status as an elite unit, although infantry soldiers continued to be issued the 1833 pattern shell jacket until the M1858 uniform, complete with French style kepi, entered service shortly before the US Civil War.
The concept was first described by the authors William S. Lind, Colonel Keith Nightengale ( US Army ), Captain John F. Schmitt ( USMC ), Colonel Joseph W. Sutton ( US Army ), and Lieutenant Colonel Gary I. Wilson ( USMCR ) in a 1989 Marine Corps Gazette article entitled “ The Changing Face of War: Into the Fourth Generation ”.
** Detachment of 103 United States Marines Corps and 300 US Navy Flotilla men ( sailors ), under command of Commodore Joshua Barney, 400 ( approx ) all ranks with 5 heavy artillery pieces ( two 18 pounders ( naval ) and three wheeled 12 pounders ( USMC ).
In November 1956 the results of these studies were shown to the US Army and USMC.
* In Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, a group of the warlord Al-Asad's forces in a fictional Middle Eastern country under occupation by the USMC detonate a Russian nuclear warhead, annihilating themselves, the capital city and nearly the entire invading US Marine force.
Later in the game, the USMC must work together with the SAS to stop two SS-27 Topol M missiles, loaded with MIRVs, sent by the Russian ultranationalist forces, from destroying eight US cities: Boston, Hartford, New York, Philadelphia, Richmond, Norfolk, Baltimore and Washington, D. C .-which would kill more than 40 million people.
* Harry Schmidt ( USMC ) ( 1886 – 1968 ), US Marine Corps general

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