In preparation for their mission, the Apollo 16 astronauts participated in an extensive training program that included, among other things, several field geology trips to introduce the astronauts to concepts and techniques they would eventually use on the lunar surface.

In addition to field geology training, the astronauts also participated in training for the use of the spacesuits, adapting to the reduced lunar gravity, landing and recovery post-mission, sample collecting, maneuvering in the Lunar Roving Vehicle, survival training and preparation for other technical aspects of the mission.

Its mission may be to support the development, testing, and training phases for new aircraft weapons systems or research projects.

The lyrics were written in honor of Green Beret James Gabriel, Jr., the first Native Hawaiian who died in Vietnam, who was executed by the Viet Cong while on a training mission on April 8, 1962.

Sand covering the loss of several planes and ships, including the loss of Flight 19, a group of five U. S. Navy TBM Avenger bombers on a training mission.

This trip to the English Channel could have merely been a training and scouting mission.

* The 1946 Paramount film O. S. S., starring Alan Ladd and Geraldine Fitzgerald, showed agents training and on a dangerous mission.

Although in fact it has a different organisation and a wholly civil mission, its training and activities over more than two decades as an anti-terrorist force have produced markedly military characteristics, giving it the appearance of a virtual fourth military service with significant land, sea and air capabilities and approximately 140, 000 personnel.

CAF controlled the numbered air forces within the United States ( 1st Air Force, 2nd Air Force, 3rd Air Force and 4th Air Force ) and their training mission.

He finds an eventual ally in the Yamato, then on a training mission under deputy captain Kodai.

Chaffee later served as one of the pallbearers for fellow astronaut Elliot See, who was killed in a plane crash while training for the Gemini 9 mission.

The Brigade returned from that mission six months later and began a training cycle.

NIH works toward that mission by conducting research in its own laboratories, supporting the research of non-federal scientists ( in universities, medical schools, hospitals, and research institutions throughout the country and abroad ), helping in the training of research investigators, and fostering communication of medical and health sciences information.

The mission priests established was they thought of as a manual training school: to teach the Indians their style of agriculture, the mechanical arts, and the raising and care of livestock.

The year 1964 brought back the combat crew training mission of the World War II years with the 4453d Combat Crew Training Wing equipped with the Air Force's newest and most sophisticated fighter, the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II.

The organization was later redesignated the 355th Fighter Wing since it includes operational, deployable A-10 squadrons in addition to its CONUS training mission

* Full Mission Simulator ( FMS )-Used by the military to denote a simulator capable of training all aspects of an operational mission in the aircraft concerned.

On May 27, 1944, a B-24, flying a night training mission out of Westover Air Force Base in Chicopee, Massachusetts, crashed into a cliff on the side of the range, killing all ten crewmen.

K. R. N. F is a mission of collective action to provide better future to the most vulnerable sections of Kerala Society – women, children, disabled persons, the aged and other disadvantaged groups – by providing educational training, protecting their health and environment, improving their living conditions and strengthneing their family and community.

An Lockheed AC-130 | AC-130A Spectre gunship aircraft, 55-011, performs a pylon turn over Range 77 during a training mission in 1984.

Its mission at Eglin is to expose Ranger students to a fast-paced field training exercise during an 18-day cycle at Eglin.

March Field's first primary mission was pilot training.

The initial mission of Cooke AFB was to serve both as a training site for the PGM-17 Thor, SM-65 Atlas, and HGM-25A Titan I missiles, and as an emergency operational facility for Atlas ICBM.

The first jet aircraft to enter service in October 1980 were six Alpha Jet CI light attack and advanced training aircraft ; six more were ordered, but were subsequently cancelled.

He ordered military training and drilling to be more rigorous and even made use of false reports of attack to keep the army alert.

This training did not last for a very long time, as in 1589, Munisai was ordered by Shinmen Sokan to kill Munisai's student, Honiden Gekinosuke.

After a series of high-profile guerrilla actions, including the hijacking of an aircraft, the attack on several small towns and cities, the arrest of the Irish Colombia Three ( see below ) and the alleged training of FARC-EP militants in bomb making by them, and the kidnapping of several political figures, Pastrana ended the peace talks on 21 February 2002 and ordered the armed forces to start retaking the FARC-EP controlled zone, beginning at midnight.

* September – The U. S. Army 45th Infantry Division ( previously a National Guard Division in Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Oklahoma ), is activated and ordered into federal service for 1 year, to engage in a training program in Ft. Sill and Louisiana, prior to serving in WWII.

Despite this careful planning and intensive training ( by Civil War standards ), the day before the attack, Meade, who lacked confidence in the operation, ordered Burnside not to use the black troops in the lead assault, claiming that if the attack failed black soldiers would be killed needlessly, creating political repercussions in the North.

By making it a ' mental ' habit to find and keep one's bearings among the ordered stages, general semantics training seeks to sharpen internal orientation much as a GPS device may sharpen external orientation.

He amended the militia act allowing the use of all available volunteers and ordered enhanced training of these raw recruits, despite opposition from the provincial legislature.

In October 1917, the unit was ordered to Camp Wadsworth ( in South Carolina ) for further training.

Due to the increase of basic aircraft training, the German Luftwaffe ordered 265 Piaggio P. 149 units in 1953.

As part of the Great Leap Forward, Mao ordered the formation of a national militia that was controlled by Party members and independent of the PLA, eventually training and arming tens of millions of civilians.

While organizing and training new recruits to form a Confederate signal service, he was ordered to report to Brig.

In 2007 the Chief of Staff of the Air Force read an article in the Air Force Times about Airmen training in the LINE system and ordered a review of all hand-to-hand combat in the Air Force which resulted in the Air Force adopting a program based upon the Army Combatives Program.

" A section of the Philippine police force ordered a print of the film for use as a training film.

Pound took Lyster's advice, and he ordered training to begin.

In the pre-war period the Department of Artillery of Poland's Ministry of National Defence ordered the construction of a device that could be helpful in locating duds on artillery training grounds.

Six Greek officers were sent to France for training, while the first four " Farman " type aircraft were ordered. All of the six graduated from the Farman school in Étampes near Paris, but only four served subsequently in aviation.

Sixty MiG-17s were ordered at the end of 1956 and Syrian pilots were dispatched to the USSR and Poland for training.

Krauss placed a monitor in Hindley's class and ordered him to attend racial sensitivity training.

The airborne division, which was undergoing training exercises in two locations apart, was ordered on 4 September to embark on 8 September.

Artemus L. Gates, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Air, visited Radford and was so impressed with him that he ordered rear admiral John H. Towers to transfer Radford to a newly-formed training division.

To attempt to outflank the enemy, the SDF-1's commander, Captain Henry J. Gloval ordered a space fold maneuver ; however, as the fold system was never used before and the crew's training was entirely theoretical, they were not aware of how to use it inside a planet's gravity field, let alone at their relatively low altitude above Macross Island.

To facilitate the 707's smooth introduction into service the following summer, Caledonian required access at its Gatwick base to its second aircraft ( ordered in 1966 ) for as much as winter 1967-68 as possible to complete aircrew and ground support training in time for the following summer season.

Spey-engined Phantoms ( the plane the government eventually bought, having been ordered in 1965 ) were chosen in 1966 for the base's future, with all RAF Phantom training taking place on the base, and the base became part in Fighter Command until December 1967, when it joined Air Support Command as the Phantoms were initially in a ground attack role.

Aircraft were produced as the PT-16 ( 15 built ), PT-20 ( 30 built ), PT-21 ( 100 USAAF, 100 USN ) and finally as the definitive PT-22 Recruit ( 1, 298 built ) ordered in 1941 as pilot training began its rapid expansion.