Promoted to the rank of captain in January 1897, he became a member of the Admiralty's Ordnance Committee.

In 1986, Vickers acquired the armaments manufacturer Royal Ordnance Factory, Leeds, which became Vickers Defence Systems.

Armstrong became employed as Engineer of Rifled Ordnance to the War Department.

The modern name ' Arbroath ' became more common in the mid-19th century, with the older name being largely dispensed with by the time of the first edition of the Ordnance Survey Maps.

While there, Dahlgren established the U. S. Navy's Ordnance Department ; became an ordnance expert ; developed a percussion lock ; and wrote a number of books, including The System of Boat Armaments in the United States Navy, Shells and Shell Guns, and Naval Percussion Locks and Primers.

However, reappointed as Captain-General, Master-General of Ordnance, and Colonel of the 1st Foot Guards, Marlborough once more became a person of influence and respect at court.

In 1995, NAVEODTECHCEN became the Naval Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technology Division ( NAVEODTECHDIV ) under the Naval Ordnance Center ( NOC ).

General Aman then became his mentor, and when the General was assigned to the commander of the Third Division took Mengistu with him to Harar, and later was assigned as Ordnance officer in the 3rd division.

At the same time he was getting favour from the Army Ordnance Headquarters commanded by Colonel Girma Feleke ( who later became General ).

General William Crozier became Chief of Ordnance of the Army in 1901.

Entering service during the Vietnam War, it became a commonly used US heavy unguided bomb ( due to the amount of High-explosive content packed inside ) to be dropped, second only to the BLU-82 " Daisy Cutter " then in service and presently third only to the GBU-43 / B Massive Ordnance Air Blast bomb ( MOAB ) currently in service.

After privatisation Royal Ordnance PLC took over some of the UK government-owned research and development capability, other parts were closed or became part of QinetiQ.

Royal Ordnance factories were privatised on 2 January 1985 and became part of the Explosive Division of Royal Ordnance Plc, later RO Defence.

Although mapping by what became the Ordnance Survey was born out of military necessity it was soon realised that accurate maps could be also used for civic purposes.

The Office of Ordnance was created by Henry VIII of England in 1544 and became the Board of Ordnance in 1597, its principal duties being to supply guns, ammunition, stores and equipment to the King's Navy.

He became an Explosive Ordnance Disposal ( EOD ) technician, trained to defuse bombs, having been inspired by a movie about such soldiers during World War II.

Bush became chief of the Ordnance, Small Arms, and Ammunition Section, with national responsibility for government assistance to and relations with munitions companies.

" In April 1827, he became a member of the Canning administration, taking the post of Master-General of the Ordnance and becoming a member of the Privy Council.

He stood down as commander-in-chief in 1759 and became Master-General of the Ordnance.

He became Lieutenant-General of the Ordnance on 15 September 1759.

In 1545, he became Master of the Ordnance in the North, and in 1547, Master-General of the Ordnance, a post he held until 1554.

Through touring heavily throughout 1999 and 2000, Guided by Voices ' live act became legendary, with shows often stretching past the three-hour mark, and populated by an endless stream of new and classic songs, Pollard solo tracks, impromptu covers of The Who, David Bowie and The Rolling Stones, all accompanied by continuous alcohol consumption.

Guided by the contributions of figures such as Joseph Fiévée, Julien Louis Geoffroy, Jean François Joseph Dussault, François-René de Chateaubriand, Charles-Marie-Dorimond de Féletz, Jean François Boissonade de Fontarabie, Conrad Malte-Brun, François Benoît Hoffmann, and Charles Nodier, the Journal soon became a major authority in French press and literature.

Brilliant Eyes was renamed Space and Missile Tracking System ( SMTS ) and scaled back further under BMDO, and in the late 1990s it became the low earth orbit component of the Air Force's Space Based Infrared System ( SBIRS ).

Vega became the first solitary main-sequence star beyond the Sun known to be an X-ray emitter when in 1979 it was observed from an imaging X-ray telescope launched on an Aerobee 350 from the White Sands Missile Range.

She encountered the Frankfurt School philosopher Herbert Marcuse at a rally during the Cuban Missile Crisis and then became his student.

He bowed out, pleading a " heavy cold "; it later became public that he was dealing with the Cuban Missile Crisis.

He returned to Los Angeles in September 1970 as the assistant to the Director of Special Projects and in April 1971 became the Director of Special Projects, with additional duty as the Deputy Commander for Satellite Programs of the Space and Missile Systems Organization.

The Armed Forces Medical Intelligence Center ( AFMIC ), and the Missile and Space Intelligence Center ( MSIC ), associated with the Army for over 20 and 50 years respectively, became part of DIA in January 1992.

Fail-Safe and Dr. Strangelove were both produced by Columbia Pictures in the period after the Cuban Missile Crisis, when people became much more sensitive to the threat of nuclear war.

On 1 September 1991, the 341 SMW became the 341st Missile Wing.

In November 1991, the 12th Missile Squadron's Launch Facility J-03 became the first to have its missile removed in compliance with the order.

With the inactivation of the Strategic Air Command on June 1, 1992, Malmstrom temporarily became an Air Mobility Command ( AMC ) base with the 341st Strategic Missile Wing as an Air Combat Command ( ACC ) tenant unit.

American armed forces leaders began to perceive Kennedy as going soft on Cuba, and the President became increasingly unpopular with the military, a rift that came to a head during Kennedy's disagreements with the service chiefs over the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Missile silos were developed, so missiles could be fired from the middle of a country and hit cities and targets in another country, and airplanes ( and air carriers ) became major defenses and offensive weapons ( leading to an expansion of the use of airports and airstrips as fortifications ).

During the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962, McCoy AFB became a forward operating base for more than 120 F-100 Super Sabre and F-105 Thunderchief fighter bombers and the primary such base for U-2 reconnaissance aircraft flying over Cuba.

Malenkov was appointed Chief of the Soviet Missile program, his first deputy was Dmitri Ustinov, a 33 year-old rocket scientist who later became one of the most powerful Soviet Defense Ministers.

In this capacity, in 1961 Usery became the union representative on the President's Missile Sites Labor Commission.

During the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962 and more encompassing, during the entirety of the Cold War between American and Soviet forces, both the P2V and P-3A became nationally well-known due to their surveillance of Soviet ships in the Atlantic Ocean, leading to a safe resolution.

Arcades catering to video games began to gain momentum in the late 1970s with games such as Space Invaders ( 1978 ), Asteroids ( 1979 ), and Galaxian ( 1979 ), and became widespread in 1980 with Pac-Man, Missile Command, Berzerk, Defender, and others.

The military rocket systems manufactured in Dnipropetrovsk became the major component of the newly born Soviet Missile Forces of Strategic Purpose.

For the next 25 years the site, which became known as the Holloman Air Development Center, and later the Air Force Missile Development Center, launched many missiles including Tiny Tim ( the first Army rocket ), Rascal, V-2 rocket, Ryan XQ-2 Drone, Falcon, MGM-13 Mace, MGM-1 Matador, and AGM-45 Shrike.

Originally known as the Missileman Badge, the Missile Badge later became known as the Missilier Badge or more informally the Pocket Rocket and is still often referred to by this name.

This four star general was the commandant of the American sector of Berlin during the 1958 Berlin Crisis, became the vice chief of staff of the Army, played a key role in the Cuban Missile Crisis and in the escalation of the Vietnam War.

Osan AB thus became the main base of operations for air-to-ground Matador tactical missiles when the 310th Tactical Missile Squadron and 58th Support Squadron were activated under the 58th Tactical Missile Group.

The base became the headquarters for the 90th Strategic Missile Wing in 1963.