The " V " Device may be authorized for wear to all service personnel and denotes that an individual award or unit award resulted from an act of combat heroism.

Only one " V " device may be worn on service ribbons and suspension ribbons of medals or unit award ribbons.

* Muta, is the short-name of the unit type Mutalisk from the award winning real time strategy game Starcraft.

In the case of a military unit, its flag is decorated with the insignia of a knight, which is a different award than the fourragère.

The I Corps was awarded seven campaign streamers for service in World War I, three campaign streamers and two unit decorations in World War II, ten campaign streamers and one unit decoration in the Korean War, one unit award during Operation Iraqi Freedom, and one unit award in peacetime, for a total of 20 campaign streamers and five unit decorations in its operational history.

In 2005 the Living History volunteer unit, the Fort McHenry Guard, was awarded the George B. Hartzog award for serving the National Park Service as the best volunteer unit.

The Presidential Unit Citation is a senior unit award granted to military units which have performed an extremely meritorious or heroic act, usually in the face of an armed enemy.

The Croix de guerre may either be awarded as an individual or unit award to those soldiers who distinguish themselves by acts of heroism involving combat with the enemy.

For decades the Christians pressured the European powers, to award them self determination by extending their small Lebanese territory to what they dubbed " Greater Lebanon ", referring to a geographic unit comprising Mount Lebanon and its coast, and the Beqaa Valley to its east.

This commendation is awarded by the Navy Secretary to any ship, aircraft, detachment, or other unit of the United States Navy or Marine Corps which has since 6 December 1941 distinguished itself in action against the enemy with outstanding heroism but not sufficient to justify award of the Presidential Unit Citation ( United States ).

To justify this award, the unit must have performed service of a character comparable to that which would merit the award of a Silver Star Medal, or achievement of like caliber in a non-combat situation, to an individual.

In 2008, the award of the Nobel Prize in Medicine for cancer-related research on Human Papilloma Virus ( HPV ) by Harald zur Hausen was being looked into by the Swedish police anticorruption unit.

For the unit decoration of the Croix de guerre, a fourragère ( which takes the form of a braided cord ) is awarded ; this is suspended from the shoulder of an individual's uniform.

As the Croix de guerre is issued as several different medals, and as a unit decoration, situations typically arose where an individual was awarded the decoration several times, for different actions, and from different sources.

During Germany's Spring Offensive, Percival led a counter-attack that saved a unit of French artillery from capture, winning a Croix de Guerre.

File: Luxembourg Croix de guerre unit Citation strem. jpg | Luxembourg War Cross ( WWII )

This unit was extremely well decorated, receiving unit and numerous individual citations including Croix de Guerre and Légion d ' honneur.

During World War I she joins an ambulance unit, eventually serving at the front and earning the Croix de Guerre.

Additional decorations included a distinguished unit streamer embroidered " St. Laurent-Sur-Mer ," a streamer in the colors of the French Croix du Guerre with palms embroidered " St. Laurent-Sur-Mer ," and, for the First Battalion, a streamer in the colors of the French Croix du Guerre with Silver Star embroidered " St.

Today, members of United States 5th Marine Regiment and 6th Marine Regiment, the Army's 2nd Infantry Division, the Army's 3rd Infantry Division, the Army's 3rd Squadron, 4th Cavalry Regiment, the 1st BN U. S. 28th Infantry Regiment, and the National Guard's 45th Infantry Brigade Separate Brigade are authorized to wear a Fourragère aux couleurs de la Croix de guerre, signifying that brigade's award of three Croix de guerre during the World War I, but only while that individual is assigned to the unit.

In recognition of his contribution to the creation of modern electrical science, an international convention signed in 1881 established the ampere as a standard unit of electrical measurement, along with the coulomb, volt, ohm, and watt, which are named, respectively, after Ampère ’ s contemporaries Charles-Augustin de Coulomb of France, Alessandro Volta of Italy, Georg Ohm of Germany, and James Watt of Scotland.

The Air Force was founded in 1964 as the Escadrille de la République de Haute-Volta ( EHV ) or the Republic of Upper Volta Air Squadron, a subordinate unit of the Army.

In 1986, the FABF formed a new unit, the Escadrille de Chasse ( EdC ) ( Attack Unit ).

All his men dismounted and were organized into units, with longbowmen placed in a V-formation on both flanks and a small cavalry unit, commanded by Jean de Grailly, the Captal de Buch, hidden in woods at the rear.

The Commonwealth of England was the official name of the political unit ( de facto military rule in the name of parliamentary supremacy ) that replaced the kingdoms of Scotland and England ( after the English Civil War ) from 1649 to 1653 and 1659 to 1660.

The Brigada Especial de Seguridad Militar ( BESM ) is a unit of the armed forces that replaced the National Guard ( El Salvador ) in accordance with the peace accords of January 1992.

In 1512 under Ferdinand the Catholic as King of the first political unit referred to as Spain, joint Spanish troops from both the Kingdom of Castile and the Kingdom of Aragon commanded by Fadrique Álvarez de Toledo, second Duke of Alba, first invaded partially the Kingdom of Navarre.

The Foreign Legion is today known as an elite military unit whose training focuses not only on traditional military skills but also on its strong esprit de corps.

File: Coulomb. jpg | Charles-Augustin de Coulomb ( 1736-1806 ): formulated a law in 1785 which described the electrostatic interaction between electrically charged particles ( attraction and repulsion ) and was essential to the development of the theory of electromagnetism, namesake of the unit of electric charge: the coulomb ( C )

Armored vehicle of CORE ( Brazil ) | CORE, SWAT unit within the Civil Police of Rio de Janeiro State

A special unit of the Royal Engineers known as the Magic Gang covered the de Haviland plant with canvas panels and scattered paper mache furniture and chunks of masonry around three broken and burnt giant generators.

In October 2010, the UAE was granted observer status at the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie ( http :// www. francophonie. org / Emirats-arabes-unis. html? var_recherche = unit % 20arab % 20emirates )

This unit decided to adopt the title " National Guard ," in honor of Lafayette's celebrated Garde Nationale de Paris.

The unit was the GC3 ( Groupe de Chasse 3 or 3rd Fighter Group ) in the Free French Air Force, first commanded by Jean Tulasne.

In French Indochina, the local resistance fighting the Japanese since 1941 was backed up by a special forces airborne commando unit created by de Gaulle in 1943, and known as the Corps Léger d ' Intervention ( CLI ).

In the later editions of his book, de Moivre gives the first statement of the formula for the normal distribution curve, the first method of finding the probability of the occurrence of an error of a given size when that error is expressed in terms of the variability of the distribution as a unit, and the first identification of the probable error calculation.

The Admiral makes then Cousteau responsible for the creation of the underwater research unit of the French Navy ( the GRS, Groupe de Recherches Sous-marines, nowadays called the CEPHISMER ).

The Mission San Antonio de Padua is one of the designated tour sights of the Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic Trail, a National Park Service unit in the United States National Historic Trail and National Millennium Trail programs.

The American oboist John de Lancie, who knew Strauss's orchestral writing for oboe thoroughly, was in the army unit, and asked Strauss to compose an oboe concerto.

" Malama was killed in August 1919 while commanding a unit of the White Russians fighting the civil war against the Bolsheviks in the Ukraine, according to Peter de Malama.

The Argentine Army, still maintains a prestigious unit known as the Horse Grenadiers Regiment ( Regimiento de Granaderos a Caballo )-- actually a squadron-strength formation — which serves as the Presidential ceremonial escort and guard unit.