The US military has specialized units, which can respond to a bioterrorism event ; among them are the US Marine Corp's Chemical Biological Incident Response Force and the U. S. Army's 20th Support Command ( CBRNE ), which can detect, identify, and neutralize threats, and decontaminate victims exposed to bioterror agents.

This demonstration not only was the last JATO performance of the squadron, but also the final JATO profile of the entire US Marine Corps.

A checkpoint manned by the Lebanon | Lebanese army and United States Marine Corps | US Marines, 1982.

The atoll shelters the ships of the US Marine Pre-positioning Squadron Two.

Five of these vessels carry supplies for the US Marine Corps sufficient to support a Marine Air-Ground Task Force for 30 days: USNS Button, USNS Kocak, USNS Lopez, USNS Stockham, and USNS Fisher.

* US National Marine Fisheries Service Gray Whale web page

* US Marine Corps Ground Defense Force ( GDF ) ( 1977-2009 )

This Naval Infantry functions similar to the US Marine Infantry which traditionally assault land objectives from water born assault platforms.

These US Army Intrinsic Action ( later called Operation Desert Spring on 1 October 1999 ) rotations and US Marine Corps EAGER MACE rotations conducted combined training with the Kuwaiti Land Forces and other coalition partners.

Intense attacks against U. S. and Western interests, including two truck bombings of the US Embassy in 1983 and 1984 and the landmark attacks on the U. S. Marine and French parachute regiment barracks on October 23, 1983, led to an American withdrawal, while the virtual collapse of the Lebanese Army in February 1984 was a major blow to the government.

" He is interred at Arlington National Cemetery where his headstone reads " Lee Marvin, PFC US Marine Corps, World War II ".

Examples of this include European Unifight, the US Army's Combatives system developed by Matt Larsen, the Israeli army's kapap and Krav Maga, and the US Marine Corps's Marine Corps Martial Arts Program ( MCMAP ).

The HK416 recently won a testing competition for the US Marine Corps Infantry Automatic Rifle program and entered final testing as the M27 in summer 2010.

However, in November 2011, leaders of the US Marine Corps announced they will stay with current M4 Carbines and M16A4s and not adopt an IC competition winner.

A US Marine fires a fully automatic 9mm Glock pistol # 9x19mm Parabellum | Glock 18 machine pistol with a shoulder stock during a small arms weapons course.

In the US Marine Corps there is a drink called mojo derived from mixing any liquor you have and fresh fruits, oranges, lemons, etc.

* 1915 – Parris Island is officially designated a US Marine Corps Recruit Depot.

* Sweetman, Jack ; " American Naval History: An Illustrated Chronology of the US Navy And Marine Corps, 1775 – present ".

The counter-attack was led by the United States ; the 1st Division of the US Marine Corps landed on Guadalcanal and Tulagi in August 1942.

Monument on the market square commemorating the 1944 liberation by the US 101st Airborne Division and the British XXX Corps ( United Kingdom ) | 30th Corps.

* US Army Corps of Engineers Hydrologic Engineering Center, USA

Dartmouth College and the US Army Corps of Engineers Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory are located there.

San Francisco Bay's profile changed dramatically in the late 19th century and again with the initiation of dredging by the US Army Corps of Engineers in the 20th century.

In the last years of the nineteenth-and first decades of the twentieth-centuries, at the behest of local political officials and following Congressional orders, the US Army Corps began dredging the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers and the deep channels of San Francisco Bay.

The three weapons on the left are small arms captured in Fallujah, Iraq by the United States Marine Corps | US Marine Corps in 2004

Afterwards he attended the US Marine Corps Command and Staff College in Quantico, Virginia, USA.

Since the 2003 Invasion of Iraq, the US Marine Corps has introduced a thermobaric ' Novel Explosive ' ( SMAW-NE ) round for the Mk 153 SMAW rocket launcher.

US M1A1 Abrams main battle tank, edited to identify features ( glacis plate highlighted in green )

These were armed with the Rheinmetall 120 mm smoothbore gun also fitted to the German Leopard 2 and, in a modified version, in the US M1A1 / M1A2 Abrams MBT.

In the 1940s-1950s, the GN received surplus American infantry weapons of World War II / Korean War-vintage – M1 / M2 US. 30 carbines ( 7. 62 x 33mm ) and M1 ‘ Garand ’ US. 30-06 ( 7. 62 x 63mm ) semi-automatic rifles replaced the earlier bolt-action ‘ Springfields ’, with Thompson M1A1 and M3 Grease Gun sub-machinegun models in US. 45 caliber ( 11. 4mm ) the older Thompson M1928A1 model.

Several thousand were available when the US entered the war, and the M1A1 was their standard anti-aircraft gun for the rest of the war.

* one AAA M1A1 at US Army Air Defense Artillery Museum, Ft. Sill, OK

The aim was to create a tank which could defeat the Soviet T-72 / T-80 and approach the capabilities of the German Leopard 2 and US M1A1.

An M1 Abrams | M1A1 Abrams, firing its US built M256 120 mm tank gun

Egypt had manufactured 700 – 800 M1A1 Abrams by 2005, and in 2008 requested permission to build another 125 tanks ; their M256 main guns ( the US version of the L / 44 ) were manufactured by Watervliet Arsenal.

The war had begun with a Mexican slaughter of American soldiers in territory disputed by Mexico and the US ; Polk insisted that Mexican soldiers had " invaded our territory and shed the blood of our fellow-citizens on our own soil ".

The Christian Science Monitor reports that " Counterinsurgency efforts focus on better grasping and meeting local needs " in Afghanistan, under the Human Terrain System ( HTS ) program ; in addition, HTS teams are working with the US military in Iraq.

In 2009, the American Anthropological Association's Commission on the Engagement of Anthropology with the US Security and Intelligence Communities released its final report concluding, in part, that, " When ethnographic investigation is determined by military missions, not subject to external review, where data collection occurs in the context of war, integrated into the goals of counterinsurgency, and in a potentially coercive environment – all characteristic factors of the HTS concept and its application – it can no longer be considered a legitimate professional exercise of anthropology.

In the US and some other countries, because of legal and tax restrictions on alcohol consumption, ethanol destined for other uses often contains additives that make it unpalatable ( such as denatonium benzoate ) or poisonous ( such as methanol ).

US House Resolution 106 was introduced on January 30, 2007 later referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.

In 1874, Mackenzie negotiated a new free trade agreement with the United States, eliminating the high protective tariffs on Canadian goods in US markets.

In 2005 the World Bank defined extreme poverty as living on less than US $ 1. 25 a day.

This meant living on the equivalent of US $ 1. 25 a day, in the US, buying US goods.

In 2011, this means surviving on the equivalent to US $ 1. 50, A $ 2 or £ 1 per day.

Alfred William Lawson ( March 24, 1869 – November 29, 1954 ) was a professional baseball player, manager and league promoter from 1887 through 1916 and went on to play a pioneering role in the US aircraft industry, publishing two early aviation trade journals.

They were originally buried where they died, but were later moved on the orders of the US military government to the cemeteries of their previous homes.

The US Chamber of Commerce argued that the costs of the ADA would be " enormous " and have " a disastrous impact on many small businesses struggling to survive ".

So named due to its resemblance to a traditional agricultural plough ( or more specifically two ploughshares ), many manufacturers produce a plough-style design, all based on or direct copies of the original CQR ( Secure ), a 1933 design patented in the UK ( US patent in 1934 ) by mathematician Geoffrey Ingram Taylor.

Based on his industry experience on Air Force missile projects, Mueller realized some skilled managers could be found among high-ranking officers in the US Air Force, so he got Webb's permission to recruit General Samuel C. Phillips, who gained a reputation for his effective management of the Minuteman program, as OMSF program controller.

* US Presidents on US postage stamps

* 1975 – General Cao Van Vien, chief of the South Vietnamese military, departs for the US as the North Vietnamese Army closed in on victory.

Most of the US midwest is on square mile grids for surveying purposes.

* Ranald MacDonald, first man to teach the English language in Japan and one of the interpreters between the Tokugawa shogunate and Commodore Perry when the latter made his trips to Japan on behalf of the US government in the early 1850s

In 1941, interviews on American radio and favorable articles in US magazines, including a piece by Jack Alexander in The Saturday Evening Post, led to increased book sales and membership.

Plans were also made for a new retractable-roof ballpark, Bank One Ballpark, nicknamed the BOB, ( renamed in 2005 to Chase Field ) to be built in an industrial / warehouse district on the southeast edge of downtown Phoenix, one block from the Suns ' America West Arena ( now US Airways Center ).