* 2004 – Aaron Bank, American Office of Strategic Services officer and founder of the US Army Special Forces ( b. 1902 )

Image: US forces Operation Enduring Freedom. jpg | United States Army Special Forces on horseback with the Northern Alliance of Afghanistan, which frequently used horses as military transport.

Montagnard fighters armed with crossbows proved a highly valuable asset to the US Special Forces operating in Vietnam, and it was not uncommon for the Green Berets to integrate Montagnard crossbowmen into their strike teams.

* NAVFAC ( Naval Facilities Engineering Command ) ( 1983 ) Design Manual 7. 03, Soil Dynamics, Deep Stabilization and Special Geotechnical Construction, US Government Printing Office

US Special Forces in Vietnam like the Green Berets, also caused significant local problems for their opponents by their leadership and integration with mobile tribal and irregular forces.

* Gene therapy is a crucial plot element in the video game Metal Gear Solid, where it has been used to illegally enhance the battle capabilities of soldiers within the US military, and their Next Generation Special Forces units.

A US Army Special Forces operator, fresh from three weeks of combat, then gave up his bed so that the wounded Lindh could sleep there.

In addition, US Special Operations Forces conducted Iris Gold rotations to train and assist other Kuwaiti military units

Using this procedure, Groseclose and Milyo obtain the stark result that all sampled news providers-except Fox News ' Special Report and the Washington Times-are located to the left of the average Congress member, i. e. there are signs of a liberal bias in the US news media.

During the World War II era William E. Fairbairn and Eric A. Sykes were recruited by the Special Operations Executive ( SOE ) to teach their martial art of defendu ( itself drawing on jujutsu and Western boxing ) and pistol shooting to UK, US, and Canadian special forces.

Equally army personnel have in the past trained with the French in New Caledonia, while US Special Forces have occasionally undertaken joint exercises in PNG.

Additionally, the US Military experimented with designing a special version of the Smith and Wesson Model 29 for Tunnel Rats, called the Quiet Special Purpose Revolver or QSPR.

" In February 1962, three years after the 1959 " US Special Survey Team ", a Fort Bragg top-level U. S. Special Warfare team headed by Special Warfare Center commander General William P. Yarborough, visited Colombia for a second survey.

The United States Navy's Sea, Air, and Land Teams, commonly known as the US Navy SEALs, are the U. S. Navy's principal special operations force and a part of the Naval Special Warfare Command ( NSWC ) and SOCOM.

The operation was composed of elements of the United States 10th Mountain Division, 101st Airborne Division, TF Rakkasan, B Co. 159th Avn Rgt, 75th Ranger Regiment, the US Special Operation Forces groups to include elements of forces from USSOCOM, JSOC and CIA's Special Activities Division, TF 11, TF Bowie, and TF Dagger, British Royal Marines, Canada's 3rd Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, and Joint Task Force 2, the Afghan National Army, the German KSK, the Turkish Maroon Berets, the Norwegian FSK and Marinejegerkommandoen, and elements of the Australian Special Air Service Regiment, the New Zealand Special Air Service and Danish special forces from Jægerkorpset and the Danish Frogman Corps.

* The Special London Bridge Special, TV special, UK / US ( 1972 )

* " Transitions " ( Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode ),‎ an episode of US television series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

At the end of the war, 19-year old student Robert Limpert tried to get the town to surrender to the US Forces without a fight.

US Armed Forces typically carry two identical oval tags containing:

* Joe was the dachshund of General Claire Lee Chennault, commander of the Flying Tigers and then the China Air Task Force of the US Army Air Forces, and became the mascot of those organizations.

Television broadcast stations: 64 ( plus about 1, 000 low-power repeaters ); also two stations in the US Armed Forces Network ( 1999 )

Television broadcast stations: 7, 108 ( plus 441 repeaters ; note-in addition, US Forces are served by 3 TV stations and 2 TV cable services ) ( 1999 )

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.

US Forces current active facilities are:

US Forces current Inactive facilities are:

Principal US military systems currently purchased by the Kuwait Defence Forces are Patriot missile system, F-18 Hornet fighters, and the M1A2 Main Battle Tank.

Forces included nearly 1000 infantry ( US and New Mexican volunteers ), hundreds of horses and mules, a supply train, 55 Pueblo scouts, and four artillery guns.

To ensure the effectiveness of such an elite force, many Commandos are sent overseas to nations such as the US, UK and France to receive extra training in specialized areas that the Lebanese Armed Forces are unable to provide, due to a lack of resources.

* National Military Appreciation Month – in the United States to recognize and honor the US Armed Forces.

The Nepalese Armed Forces are a volunteer force with an estimated 95, 000 active duty personnel in 2010, with an estimated annual military budget of around 60 million US dollars, not including military assistance funding from the People's Republic of China or more recently from the United States of America.

18 ( plus three stations of the US Armed Forces Radio and Television Service ) ( 1997 )

* M72 LAW, MK-153 SMAW, M136 AT4 — similar weapons used by US Armed Forces

The scene cost US $ 12 million and involved up to 1, 500 extras, some of whom were members of the Irish Reserve Defence Forces.

On 19 August 1978 — the anniversary of the US backed pro-Shah coup d ' état which overthrew the nationalists and popular Iranian prime minister, Dr. Mohammed Mossadegh — the Cinema Rex, a movie theatre in Abadan, Iran, was set ablaze by four Islamic Revolution sympathizers in an attempt to help the cause of Iran's Islamic Revolution.

* 1861 – American Civil War: in order to help pay for the war effort, the United States government levies the first income tax as part of the Revenue Act of 1861 ( 3 % of all incomes over US $ 800 ; rescinded in 1872 ).

* 1930 – Great Depression: US President Herbert Hoover goes before the United States Congress and asks for a US $ 150 million public works program to help generate jobs and stimulate the economy.

Many mental health professionals use the manual to determine and help communicate a patient's diagnosis after an evaluation ; hospitals, clinics, and insurance companies in the US also generally require a ' five axis ' DSM diagnosis of all the patients treated.

In 2010, US federal prosecutors asked a judge to help them stop Jonathan Lee Riches from filing any more lawsuits, arguing that his frequent filings were frivolous.

In 2005, Lucas gave US $ 1 million to help build the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial on the National Mall in Washington D. C. to commemorate American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.

From the government's perspective, the intention of the immigration was to help establish commercial and diplomatic relationships with the US, and to increase the number of skilled and agricultural workers in Haiti.

In 1994 the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ), and the United States Environmental Protection Agency agreed to give Kazakhstan US $ 62 million to help the country overcome ecological problems.

In November 2006, the Afghan Ministry of Communications signed a $ 64. 5 million US dollar deal with ZTE on the establishment of a countrywide fibre optical cable network to help improve telephone, internet, television and radio broadcast services not just in Kabul but throughout the country.

During the four years that the plan was operational, US $ 13 billion in economic and technical assistance was given to help the recovery of the European countries that had joined in the Organization for European Economic Co-operation.

A territory under US hegemony thus would be freed from possibly being in the camp of the totalitarian power and would help to weaken it.

* 1944 – World War II: U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt announces the 6th War Loan Drive, aimed at selling US $ 14 billion in war bonds to help pay for the war effort.

The Slovene Government allocated 45 million SIT ( US $ 250, 000 ) to help Albania, Montenegro, and the Republic of Macedonia, one-third of which went to the latter.

On December 16, 2006 he was transferred by the highly specialized, ICU equipped, Swiss Air Ambulance Bombardier Challenger Jet http :// www. rega. ch /, reportedly made possible and organized in a bold and daring action by the Swiss banker, Pascal Najadi, who was able to convince the REGA Flight Operations over the phone from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, ( perhaps because he was an active patron of the REGA Swiss Air Ambulance ) to swiftly approve the decision to fly without any payment guarantees and assemble at highest possible speed within 48 hours the necessary flight plan, specialized doctors, logistics and Vietnam airspace ( Northern Sector ) entry clearances for the Jet to take off from Zurich HQ, via Lahore to Hanoi, then to proceed with the critical patient in full ICU care of specialized Swiss Doctors and immediate family on board, via Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky and Edmonton to Boston, Massachusetts, where the plane was met by US Customs ( thanks to the help of Senator John Kerry ).

In return, Nicaragua provided Cuba with grains and other foodstuffs to help Cuba overcome the effects of the US embargo.

In June 1994, Amos co-founded RAINN, The Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network, a toll-free help line in the US connecting callers with their local rape crisis center.

Adlai Stevenson, then the US ambassador to the United Nations, was quoted as saying, " Now that the Soviet scientists have put a man into space and brought him back alive, I hope they will also help to bring the United Nations back alive ," and on a more serious note urged international agreements covering the use of space ( which did not occur until the Outer Space Treaty of 1967 ).

** American Civil War: In order to help pay for the war effort, the United States government issues the first income tax as part of the Revenue Act of 1861 ( 3 % of all incomes over US $ 800 ; rescinded in 1872 ).

In the US state of Louisiana, a non-native rodent known as a nutria have become so destructive to the local ecosystem that the state has initiated a bounty program to help control the population.

US President Barack Obama's national security adviser, John Brennan, has phoned Saleh to offer US help in fighting al-Qaeda, the White House said.

In 1949, RCA engineers worked on the first primitive computer-type OCR to help blind people for the US Veterans Administration, but instead of converting the printed characters to machine language, their device converted it to machine language and then spoke the letters: an early text-to-speech technology.

The US was the first country from which Lumumba requested help.