* Aviation, a military acronym or shorter version

Some Protestant US military chaplains carry the Roman Rite version of the Anointing of the Sick with them for use if called upon to assist wounded or dying soldiers who are Catholics.

* T-1A Jayhawk Military version of Model 400 used as a trainer for pilots of large aircraft in the US military.

Knee-Deep in the Dead, the first episode and the only one in the shareware version, is set in the high-tech military bases, power plants, computer centers and geological anomalies on Phobos.

Separate Distinguished Service Medals exist for the different branches of the military as well as a fifth version of the medal which is a senior award of the United States Department of Defense.

The classic François-Louis Ganshof version of feudalism describes a set of reciprocal legal and military obligations among the warrior nobility, revolving around the three key concepts of lords, vassals and fiefs.

Because of the Ethiopian refusal to abide by the Italian version of the treaty and despite economic handicaps at home, the Italian government decided on a military solution to force Ethiopia to abide by the Italian version of the treaty.

The civilian version of the M16 continues to be known as the AR-15 and looks exactly like the military version, although to conform to B. A. T. F. E.

Over 90, 000 military motorcycles, mostly WLAs and WLCs ( the Canadian version ) would be produced, many to be provided to allies.

* Koukidousya (" High-mobility Car ") the military version of the Toyota Mega Cruiser.

In 1934 the Japanese government issued a military specification for the shin guntō ( new army sword ), the first version of which was the Type 94 Katana, and many machine-and hand-crafted swords used in World War II conformed to this and later shin guntō specifications.

This version remained the primary infantry rifle of U. S. forces in South Vietnam until the end of the war in 1973, and remained with all U. S. military ground forces after it had replaced the M14 service rifle in 1970 in CONUS, Europe ( Germany ), and South Korea ; when it was supplemented by the M16A2.

CMF units were sometimes scorned by AIF soldiers as " chocolate soldiers " or " chockos ", because " they would melt under the pressure " of military operations ; or in an alternative version of the story of the origin of this term, as a result of the 1930s ' uniforms of Militia soldiers, these soldiers were considered by AIF volunteers and some civilians as soldiers only for show like the soldiers in garish 19th century dress uniforms shown on tins of chocolates that were commonly sold in Australia in the 1930s, hence the name " chocolate-tin soldiers " for Militia members.

The official certified U. S. Open Skies aircraft is the OC-135B Open Skies ( a military version of the Boeing 707 ).

During World War II, Volkswagen production turned to the military version of the Volkswagen Beetle, the Kübelwagen, 52, 000 produced, and Schwimmwagen, 14, 000 produced.

* Supermarine Scarab ( 1924 ) – military version of Sea Eagle

* SAS ( Action Force ), a fictional military unit that features in the Action Force universe, a European version of the G. I.

U-boat is the anglicized version of the German word U-Boot, itself an abbreviation of " Unterseeboot ," ( meaning in English, " undersea boat "), and refers to military submarines operated by Germany, particularly in World War I and World War II.

In The Reluctant Admiral, Hiroyuki Agawa gives a quotation from a reply by Admiral Yamamoto to Ogata Taketora on January 9, 1941, which is similar to the famous version: " A military man can scarcely pride himself on having ' smitten a sleeping enemy '; it is more a matter of shame, simply, for the one smitten.

* Model D / 1 – Auster I – military version of Plus C with enlarged windows.

There is also a military version of the F-27, the F-27 Troopship.

* Fokker M. 1-M. 4 Spin ( military version )

U. S. military bayonets: top down ... M1905 Bayonet, M1 Bayonet, M1905E1 Bowie Point Bayonet ( cut down version of the M1905 ), and the M4 Bayonet for the M1 Carbine.

Literary and archaeological evidence taken together would indicate with good probability that the stirrup was in common military use in South-Central Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean certainly by the latter half of the 6th century, with the Byzantine Empire having them in use certainly by the year 600.

In what today is France, Charles Martel distributed seized lands to his retainers on condition that they serve him by fighting in the new manner, which some attribute to his recognizing the military potentialities of the stirrup.

With the appearance of heavier mounts and the invention of the stirrup, the horse-mounted cavalry became the most prestigious military arm in Europe for several centuries.

But I suspect that the old Roman was referring to change made under military occupation -- the sort of change which Tacitus was talking about when he said, `` They make a desert, and call it peace '' ( `` Solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant ''.

The need for monitoring became greater when radio was adopted for military signaling.

and the author, who seemed the embodiment of France's rising spirit of resistance to her conquerors, was much complimented for his daring military action.

Actually the Atlanta campaign was a military failure.

Within the narrow frame of military tactics, too, the experts agree that the campaign was brilliant.

In seventeen weeks the military front was driven southward more than 100 miles.

As always, the ranks worked out new and better tactics, but there was brilliance in the way the field commands adopted these methods and in the way the army commanders incorporated them into their military thinking.

The fossilized, formalized, precedent-based thinking of the legendary military brain was not evident in Sherman's armies.

it was Baker who thought of lessening the shock, which conscription always brings to a country, by substituting `` Greetings from your neighbors '' for the recruiting sergeant, and registration in familiar voting places rather than at military installations.

His assignment was not a new one because Baker had sent him to the Mexican border in 1916 to investigate lurid newspaper stories about lack of discipline, drunkenness, and venereal disease in American military camps.

On the basis of the long chronicle of military history Funston and his brethren assumed that the issue was insoluble and that anyone interested in a mission like Fosdick's was an impractical idealist or a do-gooder.

The problem involved military necessity as much as morality, for in pre-penicillin days venereal disease was a crippling disability.

The result was that the rate of venereal disease in the American Army was the lowest in our military history.

President Kennedy's latest warning to the Communist world that the United States will build up its military strength to meet any challenge in Berlin or elsewhere was, somewhat surprisingly, reported in full text or fairly accurate excerpts behind the Iron Curtain.

`` President Kennedy's enlargement of the American military program was welcomed on Wall Street as a stimulus to the American munitions industry.

The United States was engaged in a military attack on a peaceful, orderly people governed by a regime that had proved itself the most pro-Western and anti-Communist within any of the new nations -- the only place in Africa, moreover, where a productive relationship between whites and blacks had apparently been achieved.

Cuban S.S.R.: Whatever may have been the setbacks resulting from the unsuccessful attempt of the Cuban rebels to establish a beachhead on the Castro-held mainland last week, there was at least one positive benefit, and that was the clear-cut revelation to the whole world of the complete conversion of Cuba into a Russian-dominated military base.

Once the full extent of this Russian military penetration of Cuba was clear, President Kennedy announced we would take whatever action was appropriate to prevent this, even if we had to go it alone.

In this case, then, the military objective was accomplished with an epidemic agent solely through the results secured in the initial attack.

While accounts of the progress of the tsunami came in from various points in the Pacific ( Midway reported it was covered with nine feet of water ), the Hawaiian station made its calculations and notified the military services and the police that the first big wave would arrive at Honolulu at 23:30 Greenwich time.