to West Point, N.Y., the famous military academy in a beautiful setting on the Hudson River.

* Military Medical Academy – a mixed military academy / hospital institution

Due to failure to curb deepening unrest in the northern part of the country, Gambi was in July 2006 replaced with Bozizé ’ s old friend from the military academy, Jules Bernard Ouandé.

" The third pillar of internal security, the National Gendarmerie, consisted of a headquarters staff, four legions ( corresponding to the four military regions ) and a professional training academy, the Gendarmerie School ( Ecole de Gendarmerie ).

An officer cadet from Guatemala's military academy, Escuela Politécnica.

The military began to become a professional institution independent of politics, with the newly created military academy graduating its first class in 1960.

He also recruited and built a cadre of influential loyalists by placing sympathetic students in the university and military academy while serving as minister of education.

In 1850 – 1851, he attended the Quaker-run Milton Boarding School for Boys located in Sparks, Maryland, and later St. Timothy's Hall, an Episcopal military academy in Catonsville, Maryland, beginning when he was 13 years old.

Hurriedly Madison called on Congress to put the country “ into an armor and an attitude demanded by the crisis ,” specifically recommending enlarging the army, preparing the militia, finishing the military academy, stockpiling munitions, and expanding the navy.

* Kemper Military School, a defunct military academy in Boonville, Missouri

But after two utterly miserable years at the military academy, he was allowed to return home.

* In the tabletop wargame and fictional universe of BattleTech, Mars is the location of a military academy.

A military academy or service academy ( in American English ) is an educational institution which prepares candidates for service in the officer corps of the army, the navy, air force or coast guard, which normally provides education in a service environment, the exact definition depending on the country concerned.

He joined the army when he was sixteen and entered the Francisco López Military College, a military academy for the three services of the Paraguayan military.

His parents pressured the poetically and artistically talented youth into entering a military academy, which he attended from 1886 until 1891, when he left due to illness.

The traumatic experience of military service, a reminder of the horrors of the military academy, almost completely silenced him as a poet.

The Hwarang set up a military academy for the sons of royalty in Silla called Hwarang-do, which means " the way of flowering manhood.

Most officers are graduates of the United Kingdom's Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst, with others having attended the United States Military Academy at West Point, the Royal Military College, Duntroon and St. Cyr, the military academy of France.

A 10-foot bronze replica of the original Iron Felix statue was placed on the grounds of the military academy in Minsk, Belarus in May 2006.

* 27 December: Two IDF soldiers and two yeshiva students were killed in an attack on the Hesder yeshiva ( military religious academy ) of Otniel.

* Icarus School, a military aviation academy

* ATLAS ( simulation ), a system used to conduct military Command Post Exercises ( CPX ) within the Royal Thai Army

The King ran an office for captives from the Royal Palace, which leveraged the Spanish diplomatic and military network abroad to intercede for thousands of prisoners-of-war, receiving and answering letters from Europe.

In 1940, he joined the Queen's Royal Regiment as a Captain and undertook a range of staff and military teaching positions in Britain.

Targets of the CIRA have included the British military, the Northern Ireland police service ( Royal Ulster Constabulary, Police Service of Northern Ireland ) and Ulster loyalist paramilitaries.

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However, military historians such as former Royal Marine Julian Thompson have written that these lessons should not have needed a debacle such as Dieppe to be recognised.

* 1968 – Canada's three military services, the Royal Canadian Navy, the Canadian Army and the Royal Canadian Air Force, are unified into the Canadian Forces.

His tour came 735 years after his ancestor, Edward I of England ( then Prince Edward ), had also been on military duty in the Middle East during the Ninth crusade, and also made Harry the first member of the Royal Family to have served in a war zone since his uncle, Prince Andrew, Duke of York, flew helicopters during the Falklands War.

A former British MP and Royal Marine, Rod Richards, said that such nicknames were common amongst military comrades, stating " in the Armed Forces people often used to call me Taffy.

Transport to the island is provided by C-130 Hercules military transport planes operated by the Royal Norwegian Air Force that land at Jan Mayensfield's gravel runway.

Luftwaffe is also the generic term in German speaking countries for any national military aviation service, and the names of air forces in other countries are usually translated into German as " Luftwaffe " ( e. g. Royal Air Force is often translated as britische Luftwaffe ).

On 24 November 1943, the first military airplane, a Dakota of the Royal Air Force ( R. A. F ) coming from Nairobi with a stopover at Madagascar, landed in Plaisance.

* 1917 – The Commonwealth War Graves Commission is established through Royal Charter to mark, record and maintain the graves and places of commemoration of Commonwealth of Nations military forces.

On 1 January 1886, the millennium-old Burmese monarchy and its military arm, the Royal Burmese Army, were formally abolished by the British.

However, whilst the New South Wales Police Force was established in 1862, it was made up from a large number of policing and military units operating within the then Colony of New South Wales and traces its links back to the Royal Marines.

The Hoe also includes a long broad tarmacked promenade ( currently a disabled motorists car park ) which serves as a spectacular military parade ground and which is often used for displays by Plymouth based Royal Navy, Royal Marines, the Army garrison, as well as for funfairs and open-air concerts.

No regular military force ; the Special Service Unit, and the Coast Guard, are both under the command of the Royal Saint Lucia Police.

No regular military force ; the Special Service Unit, and the Coast Guard, are both under the command of the Royal Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Police Force.

Before Sierra Leone gained independence in 1961, the military was known as the Royal Sierra Leone Military Force.

According to the constitution, it is incumbent upon the King: to sanction and promulgate laws ; to summon and dissolve the Cortes Generales ( the Parliament ) and to call elections ; to call a referendum under the circumstances provided in the constitution ; to propose a candidate for prime minister, and to appoint or remove him from office, as well as other ministers ; to issue the decrees agreed upon by the Council of Ministers ; to confer civil and military positions, and to award honors and distinctions ; to be informed of the affairs of the State, presiding over the meetings of the Council of Ministers whenever opportune ; to exercise supreme command of the Spanish Armed Forces, to exercise the right to grant pardons, in accordance to the law ; and to exercise the High Patronage of the Royal Academies.

CBC live television coverage of the event noted that, when Prince Charles saluted, he performed the Canadian form of the salute with a cupped hand ( the British " naval salute "— appropriate, as he did his military service as an officer in the Royal Navy ), adopted by all elements of the Canadian Forces after unification in 1968, rather than the British ( Army ) form with the palm facing forward.

Personnel stationed with the People's Liberation Army in Hong Kong salute using the Chinese military standards and similar to those used by the Royal Navy.