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Large submarines ( for example, Echo and Oscar classes ) were developed to carry these weapons and shadow US battle groups at sea, and large bombers ( for example, Backfire, Bear, and Blackjack models ) were equipped with the weapons in their air-launched cruise missile ( ALCM ) configuration.
In 2011, it was announced at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting that a US Navy hydrographic ship equipped with a multibeam echosounder conducted a survey which mapped the entire trench to 100 m resolution.
They can be inexpensive: some variants can cost as little as US $ 1000, though more sophisticated mines can cost millions of dollars, be equipped with several kinds of sensors, and deliver a warhead by rocket or torpedo.
On December 16, 2006 he was transferred by the highly specialized, ICU equipped, Swiss Air Ambulance Bombardier Challenger Jet http :// www. rega. ch /, reportedly made possible and organized in a bold and daring action by the Swiss banker, Pascal Najadi, who was able to convince the REGA Flight Operations over the phone from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, ( perhaps because he was an active patron of the REGA Swiss Air Ambulance ) to swiftly approve the decision to fly without any payment guarantees and assemble at highest possible speed within 48 hours the necessary flight plan, specialized doctors, logistics and Vietnam airspace ( Northern Sector ) entry clearances for the Jet to take off from Zurich HQ, via Lahore to Hanoi, then to proceed with the critical patient in full ICU care of specialized Swiss Doctors and immediate family on board, via Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky and Edmonton to Boston, Massachusetts, where the plane was met by US Customs ( thanks to the help of Senator John Kerry ).
The US $ 503 million program would have converted existing Trident II missiles ( presumably two missiles per submarine ) into conventional weapons, by fitting them with modified Mk4 reentry vehicles equipped with GPS for navigation update and a reentry guidance and control ( trajectory correction ) segment to perform 10 m class impact accuracy.
Some ice cream distributors sell ice cream products from traveling refrigerated vans or carts ( commonly referred to in the US as " ice cream trucks "), sometimes equipped with speakers playing children's music.
Because many automatic belt system designs compliant with the US passive-restraint mandate did not meet the safety performance requirements of Canada — which were not weakened to accommodate automatic belts — vehicle models which had been eligible for easy importation in either direction across the US-Canada border when equipped with manual belts became ineligible for importation in either direction once the US variants got automatic belts and the Canadian versions retained manual belts.
After WWII, the newly organized Austrian Army was equipped with the surplus US Army Willys MB and Ford GPW Jeep.
The Australian Open typically has very high attendance – second only to the US Open – and was the first Grand Slam tournament to feature indoor play during wet weather or extreme heat with its two primary courts, Rod Laver Arena and Hisense Arena, equipped with retractable roofs.
In the 1950s, it became home to US Air Force bombers and tankers, for which it was equipped with the longest military runway in the United Kingdom.
The US Air Force also periodically launched short lived satellites equipped with radio beacons of 162 MHz and 324 MHz at much lower orbits to study orbital drag.
At this stage a predominantely infantry force provided with light weapons drawn from PLO stocks or pilfered from LAF and ISF barracks, the PSP militia also fielded by 1977 a small mechanized corps made of gun-trucks ( US M151 MUTTs, Land-Rovers and Toyota Land Cruisers, GMC, Chevrolet, Ford, Mitsubishi and Nissan light pick-ups, plus Mercedes-Benz Unimog light trucks ) equipped with heavy machine guns, recoilless rifles, and Anti-aircraft autocannons.
The July 1997 issue of Jane's International Defence Review confirmed that after the collapse of the USSR, US and German analysts had a chance to examine Soviet-made T-72 tanks equipped with Kontakt-5 ERA, and they proved impenetrable to most modern US and German tank projectiles ; this sparked the development of more modern Western tank ammunition, such as the M829A2 and M829A3.
The other three US battleships, equipped with less advanced gunnery radar, had difficulty arriving at a firing solution.
The main part is the airborne portion, the US Navy Strategic Communications Wing One based at Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma which flies three Fleet Air Reconnaissance squadrons ( VQ-3, VQ-4 and VQ-7 ) equipped with Boeing IDS E-6B Mercury TACAMO aircraft.
Reports indicate that the No. 75 Squadron's activities were somewhat restricted in their military role compared to similarly equipped US forces.
The US Naval Research Laboratory group launched an Aerobee 150 during April, 1965 that was equipped with a pair of geiger counters.
Primarily equipped with the US Army's M24 rifle, they can also be equipped with the standard and silenced M9, extra magazines or grenades.
He owned several specially designed motor yachts, among them Elsa built in 1906, Loris ( 1913 ), Tärnan ( 1925 ), and the most famous, Svalan ( Swallow ), built at Lidingö in 1928, a 37 ft, 4. 9 ton motor yacht, equipped with a V12, 31. 9 liter Hispano-Suiza engine from the US company Wright, with 650 HP output, capable of more than 50 knots.
Compared to the US, the European Integra was aimed downmarket and generally lacked equipment, with no trim levels ( LX and EX ) offering painted bumpers, central locking, power windows or air conditioning, even though a small number of fully equipped, left-hand drive fuel-injected Integras were sold in the Netherlands.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration ( NHTSA ) in the US raised questions about non-hybrid Honda vehicles equipped with the company's ' Idle Stop ' transmissions in February 2001 due to concerns over the " sudden lurching forward of a vehicle in an automatic restart " – rather than the " gradual creeping forward found in current transmission designs.

US and trained
Educational psychologists who work in k – 12 school settings ( closely related are school psychologists in the US and Canada ) are trained at the master's and doctoral levels.
In January 2010, the Kabul office of New Ansari Exchange, Afghanistan's largest hawala money transfer business, was shuttered following a raid by the Sensitive Investigative Unit, the country's national anti-political corruption vetted and trained by the US Drug Enforcement Administration ( DEA ), allegedly because this company could be involved in laundering profits from the illicit opium trade and moving the cash earned by Taliban through extortion and drug trafficking.
Ranger D Company of 20 Parachute Battalion is the only commando unit in the Kenyan Army trained to fight terrorist activities by the US through Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa ( CJTF-HOA ) and its predecessors.
Many members of the US Office of Strategic Services also were trained there.
Equally army personnel have in the past trained with the French in New Caledonia, while US Special Forces have occasionally undertaken joint exercises in PNG.
From 1947 until 1977, the United States supplied about US $ 750, 000 worth of military hardware each year and trained more than 2, 000 Paraguayan military officers in counter-intelligence and counterinsurgency.
The US OPS trained Uruguayan police and intelligence in policing and interrogration techniques.
** Benjamin Foulois, American Brigadier General ( USAF ), first rated US military pilot, trained by the Wright Brothers ( b. 1879 )
A principal pipeline for trained personnel for US reactor facilities is the Navy Nuclear Power Program.
He was invited and then trained with former US Vice President Al Gore as a Climate Change Presenter ( now named Climate Reality ), launched Clean up the World Day with The UN in New York, and is an Ambassador for Greenpeace, Australian Conservation Foundation, Planet Ark and National Tree Day.
Mitchell conceived that US troops could be rapidly trained to utilize parachutes and drop from converted bombers to land behind Metz in sychronisation with a planned infantry offensive.
Because of this, California sea lions are commonly found in public displays in zoos, circuses and oceanariums, where they are known as the classic " seals ," and are trained by the US Navy for certain military operations.
Commerce Department regulations virtually required pilots to have flown in the military to acquire sufficient flight hours, and until the 1970s, the U. S. Air Force and Navy barred women from flying, thus also preventing them from moving into commercial piloting Despite women being trained by the US Army Air Corps and flying every advanced military aircraft the US built ( including every bomber, pursuit plane, and the first jet ) during WWII as Women Airforce Service Pilots ( WASP ), this program was disbanded in December 1944 and commercial jobs were not generally available to women, though these highly trained women flew as instructors and pilots for flying services throughout the United States.
In five Canadian provinces, sixteen US states and the District of Columbia, naturopathic doctors who are trained at an accredited school of naturopathic medicine in North America, are entitled to use the designation ND or NMD.
Osteopaths trained outside of the US are generally limited in practise to non-invasive manual therapies, as well as providing nutritional, postural and other health advice.
The UK model utilizes two levels of ambulance staff, internally trained Ambulance Technicians, which are similar to EMTs in the US, and paramedics with advanced life support skills.
Almost all US Army Air Force pilots were trained in a Link Trainer.
The Special Operations Group ( SOG ) is a specially trained and highly disciplined tactical unit of the US Marshals Service.
They were compelled to surrender their firearms, move to the Fort Verde Reservation, accept a permanent Army garrison on their territory, accept direct administration by American Bureau of Indian Affairs agents and commissioners, have trade firmly emplaced in the hands of American government agents, and be regulated by an Indian Police force picked and trained by the US Army and later Arizona Territorial officers.
The Hassayampa community became a vital contributor to the US effort during World War II when the Army trained thousands of men to fly gliders at a newly constructed airfield west of Wickenburg.
He investigates the School of the Americas in the US state of Georgia, where Pinochet ’ s torture squads were reportedly trained along with tyrants and death squad leaders in Haiti, El Salvador, Brazil and Argentina.

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