When he was inducted into the Army at Fort Knox, Ky., Hansen's weight had dropped to 180 -- `` too light for me to be at my best '' he said.

When Austria joined the ranks of the allies during the War of the Sixth Coalition, Charles was not given a command and the post of commander-in-chief of the allied Grand Army of Bohemia went to the Prince of Schwarzenberg.

When it was deployed on duty in Northern Ireland, the British Army was welcomed by Roman Catholics as a neutral force there to protect them from Protestant mobs, the Royal Ulster Constabulary ( RUC ) and the B-Specials.

When in the 17th century Gustav II Adolf introduced dragoons into the Swedish Army, he provided them with a sabre, an axe and a matchlock musket, utilizing them as " labourers on horseback ".

When the Austro-Prussian War broke out in 1866, Albert then Crown Prince ( German: Kronprinz ), took up the command of the Saxon forces opposing the Prussian Army of Prince Frederick Charles of Prussia.

When Congress, pressured by the Grand Army of the Republic, passed a bill granting pensions for disabilities not caused by military service, Cleveland also vetoed that.

When World War I broke out in Western Europe, Moseley left his research work at the University of Oxford behind to volunteer for the Royal Engineers of the British Army.

When it became obvious that the United States was eventually going to become involved in the war raging in Europe, the U. S. Army contacted 135 companies asking for working prototypes of a four-wheel-drive reconnaissance car.

When the Army discharged Dahmer in 1981, he was provided with a plane ticket to anywhere in the country.

When a rebellion in East Germany was harshly suppressed by the Red Army in June 1953, Adenauer took full advantage of the situation and was handily re-elected to a second term as Chancellor.

When Libya gained its independence in 1951, veterans of the original Sanusi Army formed the nucleus of the Royal Libyan Army.

When the First World War broke out, he hastened to join the British Army, releasing Barbara from her engagement in case he was killed or mutilated.

When he joined the Army with a B. S.

When Communists seized power in March 1919 he refused to serve in the Red Army and returned back to medicine.

When Brando reported to the induction center, he answered a questionnaire provided to him by saying his race was " human ", his color was " Seasonal-oyster white to beige ", and he told an Army doctor that he was psycho neurotic.

When Franz Halder, the Chief of the Army General Staff, heard of the state of the Kriegsmarine, and its plan for the invasion, he noted in his diary, on 28 July 1940, " If that plan is true, all previous statements by the navy were so much rubbish and we can throw away the whole plan of invasion ".

When the First World War erupted, Dix enthusiastically volunteered for the German Army.

When he was conscripted into the Army, he decided to join the " Canadian Officers ' Training Corps ", and he then served with the other conscripts in Canada, since they were not assigned to any overseas military service until after the Conscription Crisis of 1944 ( after the Invasion of Normandy that June.

When Virginia declared its secession from the Union in April 1861, Lee chose to follow his home state, despite his personal desire for the Union to stay intact and despite the fact that President Abraham Lincoln had offered Lee command of the Union Army.

When the Russian Army opened its offensive toward Lwów, Banach left for Kraków, where he spent rest of the war.

When I was in the Army, you didn't see me for years.

When informed of the ominous situation at Chattanooga, Grant relieved Maj. Gen. Rosecrans from duty and placed Maj. Gen. Thomas in charge of the besieged Army of the Cumberland.

When urgent telegrams from Republicans begged for Army help to put down the violence by paramilitary groups at election time, he told his Attorney General that, " the whole public is tired of these annual autumnal outbreaks in the South ," insisting that state militias should handle the problems, not the Army.

When Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crashed into the Andes on October 13, 1972, the survivors resorted to eating the deceased during their 72 days in the mountains.

When the Air Force project wound down, the Lab turned their attention to an effort to build a version of the Whirlwind using transistors in place of vacuum tubes.

When he failed in his attempts to meet General Yahya Khan, Masud too resigned from his position as Commander of Eastern Air Command, and took retirement from Air Force.

When Resnicoff later served as Special Assistant for Values and Vision for the Secretary and Chief of Staff of the U. S. Air Force, he would meet with Falwell to discuss issues linked to religious rights in the military, including the role and responsibilities of U. S. military chaplains.

" When " Air steps " or " aerials " such as the Hip to Hip, Side Flip, and Over the Back ( the names describe the motion of the woman in the air ) began to appear in 1936, the old guard of dancers such as Leon James, Leroy Jones, and Shorty Snowden disapproved of the new moves.

When the Second World War began, the Luftwaffe was one of most technologically advanced Air Forces in the world.

When Lemmy was three months old, his father, an ex-Royal Air Force chaplain, separated from his mother.

* When the SR-71 was retired by the military in 1990, one was flown from its birthplace at United States Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, California to Dulles, setting a coast-to-coast speed record at an average 2, 124 mph ( 3, 418 km / h ).

When the film was followed by The Air Up There, they began to speculate on how many movies Bacon had been in and the number of people he had worked with.

When Burton joined the Port Talbot Squadron of the Air Training Corps as a cadet, he re-encountered Philip Burton, his former teacher, who was the commander.

When the sighting was made public in 1992, the British Defence Secretary Tom King was told, " There is no knowledge in the MoD of a ' black ' programme of this nature, although it would not surprise the relevant desk officers in the Air Staff and Defence Intelligence Staff if it did exist.

When he lost, the Rouse family moved from Bel Air, Maryland to Easton.

When Air Mauritanie existed, its head office was in the city.

When the Second World War began, Milland tried to enlist in the U. S. Army Air Forces, but was rejected because of an impaired left hand.

When the attack on Pearl Harbor brought the United States into World War II, he left college to enlist in the U. S. Army Air Corps ; however, the Army did not call him up, and in March 1942 he enlisted as a United States Navy aviation cadet.

When the distinction is made, proper nouns are limited to single words only ( possibly with the ), while proper names include all proper nouns ( in their primary applications ) as well as noun phrases such as United Kingdom, North Carolina, Royal Air Force, and the White House.

When the U. S. entered World War II in December 1941, LeMay was a major in the United States Army Air Forces ( he had been a 1st lieutenant as recently as 1940 ), and the commander of a newly created B-17 Flying Fortress unit, the 305th Bomb Group.

When World War II ended, he was appointed to the permanent rank of brigadier general in the Regular Army but held his temporary rank of major general in the Army until promotion to lieutenant general in the now separate United States Air Force in 1948.

When Bimini Island Air existed, its headquarters were in an unincorporated area.

When Charles Portal was made Chief of the Air Staff in October 1940 he supported Douglas, moving Park and Dowding and appointing Douglas to replace Dowding as Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief ( AOCinC ) of Fighter Command.

When the Royal Canadian Air Force donated land adjacent to RCAF Station Downsview to the Institute, the operations were quickly moved.

When Arnold became Chief of the Air Corps in 1938, the service was given a renewed focus on Research and Development.