Yellow opened with a feint conducted against the Netherlands and Belgium by two armoured corps and paratroopers.

In addition, the corps conducted coordinated counter-battery initiatives before the battle.

NOAA hydrographic surveys are conducted by the National Ocean Service, a uniformed corps within NOAA and a fleet of survey vessels based at two major centers.

During this 15-month deployment, the corps took command of the force when it was at its largest yet in the war dur to the Iraq War troop surge conducted that year.

Upon return to the United States, the corps conducted similar exercises at Fort Hood.

The defense of Châteaudun ( October 18, 1870 ) was conducted by francs-tireurs of Cannes and Nantes, along with Lipowski's Paris corps.

This corps was created to control units of the Third Army engaged in large scale maneuvers in 1940, in which Krueger's IX Corps conducted a series of mock battles against Walter Short's IV Corps.

Tenko was created by Lavinia Warner after she had conducted research into the internment of nursing corps officer Margot Turner ( 1910 – 1993 ) for an edition of This Is Your Life and was convinced of the dramatic potential of the stories of women prisoners of the Japanese.

He was contracted to write the score for Alfred Hitchcock's Jamaica Inn ( from Daphne du Maurier's novel ), but his film career was interrupted by World War II ; after joining the Royal Artillery, he was transferred to the education corps at Bulford, where he conducted the Southern Command Orchestra, and was later commissioned to run Royal Army Education Corps courses in Lancashire.

Grant was able to neutralize McClernand's independent effort after it conducted an expedition to win the Battle of Arkansas Post, and McClernand became the senior corps commander in Grant's army for the Vicksburg Campaign in 1863.

No major attacks against the corps were conducted through 1953, until the armistice was signed in July, ending the war.

Many draftees were examined and war training classes were conducted for new physicians in the medical corps.

Furthermore, he conducted an investigation among the Janissary corps and he fired the men who were not in fact Janissaries but receiving Janissary salaries all the same.

The 9th Colonial Division conducted secondary attacks on the right flank of the corps, north of Mulhouse.

Earlier dragoon responsibilities for scouting and picket duty had passed to hussars and similar light cavalry corps in the French, Austrian, Prussian, and other armies.

A similar imbalance is seen in the officer corps where some 80 percent of the officers are Alawites.

Hand salutes similar to those used in the military are rendered by the Drum Major of a marching band or drum corps just prior to beginning their performance ( after the show announcer asks if the group is ready ), as well as following completion of the performance, both rendered to the audience.

* marching band competitions are judged using criteria similar to the criteria used in drum corps competitions, with emphasis on individual aspects of the band ( captions for music performance, visual performance, percussion, guard ( auxiliary ), and general effect are standard ).

We should also note that the democratic element was not as strong as the mayor's words may seem to imply: in fact, Poitiers was similar to other French cities, Paris, Nantes, Marseille, Limoges, La Rochelle, Dijon, in that the town's governing body ( corps de ville ) was " highly exclusive and oligarchical ": a small number of professional and family groups controlled most of the city offices.

Contrary to popular belief, the stormtroopers are not in fact the army, but rather an elite corps that works as a ground force for the Navy -- similar to a marine corps.

A drum and bugle corps, also known as a drum corps, is a musical marching unit ( similar to a marching band ) consisting of brass instruments, percussion instruments, and color guard.

A common criticism of drum corps is that it has become too similar to marching band, although in truth the two activities have evolved together over the years.

The act divided the Commonwealth of the Philippines into ten military districts, similar to the prewar corps areas within the US.

These six Army Areas, though similar in name, operated on a functional rather than geographic basis but roughly followed along the old corps areas boundaries.

Although designated with numbers that are sometimes the same as modern U. S. Army corps, there is no direct lineage between the 43 U. S. corps of the Civil War and those with similar names in the 20th century due to Congressional legislation caused by the outcry from Grand Army of the Republic veterans during the Spanish – American War.

In 2009 a similar system as the NCO corps was re-established, called " specialist officers ".

Another New Zealand soldier claimed at his court-martial that he joined the corps for similar reasons, to gather intelligence on the Germans to form a revolution among POWs, or to sabotage the unit if the revolution failed.

However, several state police corps have similar units.

A similar process within the military officer corps followed, with the formation of the Supreme Committee of Free Officers.

The nascent press corps ' appreciation for Cortelyou's responsiveness is similar to how a modern White House Press Secretary's responsiveness to the press corps can shape their positive or negative view of him or her.

The corps regularly trains with similar units from different countries, such as the US Navy SEALs, British SAS and the Danish naval special forces group, the Frogmen.

Some corps in the 1920s added D crooks on some horns in order to play more complicated songs in two lines, similar to a handbell ensemble.

In the announcement, McHugh noted the base is home to I Corps, which until then had directly overseen 10 subordinate brigades on the base, while other bases with similar corps headquarters had active division commands as well.

In line with other Commonwealth countries, a women's corps entitled the Canadian Women's Army Corps, similar to the RCAF Women's Division, was established to release men for front-line duties.

This is achievable partially because of the Marines mission adaptability, flexibility, philosophy, shared culture, history, and overall esprit de corps, which allows for near seamless interoperability.

He was the first commander of the cosmonaut corps and the cosmonaut who commanded the historic Voskhod 2 mission which saw the first man walk in space in 1965.

That mission was the capture of Hollandia on the north coast of Dutch New Guinea ; the units allocated to the corps for this task were the 24th and 41st Infantry Divisions.

By 1948, as the purely occupational mission was accomplished, troops of the corps focused more military training and field exercises designed to prepare them for combat.

This caused a good deal of activity on Fort Lewis, as the post restructured itself to support the corps ' new mission, and to insure that it had a smooth, rapid departure in case they were needed anywhere in the world.

Schirra had made the decision to retire before launch, and left the astronaut corps after the mission.

In August 1993, following one year of training, he was appointed a member of the astronaut corps and was qualified for an assignment as a mission specialist on Space Shuttle flight crews.

Universal conscription was introduced in 1879, and under the premiership of Charilaos Trikoupis, in 1882 – 1885 major steps were undertaken to improve the training and education of the officer corps: a French military mission was called to Greece, new schools were founded and Greek officers were sent abroad for studies, and efforts were made to make officers on active service refrain from participating in politics and focus on their professional duties.

: The unit must display such gallantry, determination, and esprit de corps in accomplishing its mission under extremely difficult and hazardous conditions as to set it apart and above other units participating in the same campaign.

The overall mission of the First Army was commanding and training regular army, army reserve and national guard units in the three corps areas.

It was originally created as the rapid reaction corps sized land force of the Reaction Forces Concept that emerged after the end of the Cold War, with a mission to redeploy and reinforce within Allied Command Europe ( ACE ) and to conduct Petersberg missions out of NATO territory.

Since 2002 however the HQ has been re-roled ( with five other corps HQs of other NATO nations ) as a High Readiness Force ( Land ) HQ ( HRF ( L )) with a broader mission.

The command staff of the corps are deployed for the entire mission duration ( often three months ), while operational personnel serve one month aboard, meeting and departing the ships at the ports of call during the mission.

A new Board of Directors, composed of former members and staff of the original corps, reorganized and incorporated the Phantom Regiment on Sept. 11, 1967, with the following mission statement:

The diplomatic corps may, in certain contexts, refer to the collection of accredited heads of mission ( ambassadors, high commissioners, and others ) who represent their countries in another state or country.

In the hallowed halls of mission control, Captain Refsmmat was a Kilroy-type character, first drawn by flight controller Ed Pavelka as the " ideal mission controller ", as an aid to the esprit de corps within the mission control team.

The group consisted of 5 astronaut candidates, of which Hans Schlegel and Ulrich Walter flew on STS-55 in 1993, Gerhard Thiele flew on a later space shuttle mission STS-99, then as a member of the unified ESA astronaut corps, while only the two women never did any spaceflight.

Hans Schlegel flew his second mission STS-122 in 2008 also as a member of the unified ESA astronaut corps.

Once a breach in the enemy tactical position was made, more mobile units such as tank and mechanized corps would be inserted through the Shock Army's positions with the mission of penetrating deep into the enemy rear area.

The Madison Drum and Bugle Corps Association, Inc. is a 501 ( c ) ( 3 ) musical organization that has a Board of Directors, corps director, and staff assigned to carry out the organization's mission.

The Cavaliers Drum & Bugle Corps is a 501 ( c )( 3 ) not-for-profit organization sponsored by The Village of Rosemont, Illinois and has a Board of Directors, corps director, and staff assigned to carry out the organization's mission.