Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
AA – AEGIS Ashore. AAA - anti-aircraft artillery. AAA – anti-aircraft artillery "Triple A". AAAV – Advanced Amphibious Assault Vehicle. AAC - Army Acquisition Corps. AAD – Armored Amphibious Dozer. AAE - Army Acquisition Executive. AADC – Area Air Defense Commander. AAG – Anti-Aircraft Gun.
An E-1 Private may be referred to as "E-Nothing", or "PV-Nothing" (as opposed to PV2, the next rank) due to their lack of rank insignia. E-1 Privates were also called a "Fuzzy" or "E-Fuzzy" during the War on Terror era due to the bare velcro patch-holders on the Army Combat Uniform (ACU).
The U.S. Army is a uniformed service of the United States and is part of the Department of the Army, which is one of the three military departments of the Department of Defense.
Dining in is a formal military ceremony for members of a company or other unit, which includes a dinner, drinking, and other events to foster camaraderie and esprit de corps. The United States Army, the United States Navy, the United States Coast Guard, and the United States Air Force refer to this event as a dining in or dining-in.
Lieutenant-General Bernard Montgomery, the new commander of the British Eighth Army, and Lieutenant-General Brian Horrocks, the new GOC XIII Corps, discussing troop dispositions at 22nd Armoured Brigade HQ, 20 August 1942. The brigade commander, Brigadier George Roberts is on the right (in beret).
There are three versions of the Medal of Honor, one for each of the military departments of the Department of Defense (DoD): the Department of the Army, Department of the Navy (Naval Service), and Department of the Air Force (Air and Space Forces).
This timeline of United States government military operations, based in part on reports by the Congressional Research Service, shows the years and places in which U.S. military units participated in armed conflicts or occupation of foreign territories.
On 22 September 2014, the United States officially intervened in the Syrian civil war with the stated aim of fighting the terrorist organization ISIS in support of the international war against it, code named Operation Inherent Resolve.
The Ukrainian Ground Forces ( Ukrainian: Сухопутні війська Збройних сил України ), also referred to as the Ukrainian army, are the land forces of Ukraine and one of the eight branches of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. They were formed from Ukrainian units of the Soviet Army after Ukrainian independence, and trace ...
The Imperial Guards of the Tang dynasty, also known as the Forbidden Troops ( simplified Chinese: 禁军; traditional Chinese: 禁軍; pinyin: jìn jūn ), were initially honor guards of the emperor and garrisons of the imperial capitals during the Tang's formation in the early 7th century.