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The Army Physical Fitness Test (APFT) was a test designed to measure the muscular strength, endurance, and cardiovascular respiratory fitness of soldiers in the United States Army. The test contained three events: push-ups , sit-ups , and a two-mile run with a soldier scoring from 0 to 100 points in each event based on performance.
The cloth tab is a teal blue colored arc tab 3 + 1 ⁄ 4 inches (8.3 cm) in length and 11 ⁄ 16 inch (1.7 cm) in height overall, the designation "SPECIAL FORCES" in gold-yellow letters 5 ⁄ 16 inch (0.79 cm) in height and is worn on the left sleeve of utility uniforms above a unit's Shoulder Sleeve Insignia and below the President's Hundred ...
Watertown is along the Big Sioux River. [9]According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 25.04 square miles (64.85 km 2), of which 17.45 square miles (45.20 km 2) is land and 7.59 square miles (19.66 km 2) is water. [10]
They concern the eleven new USATC S118 Class locomotives that the United States Army Transportation Corps brought to the WP&YR in 1943. The first is that they were converted from 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 + 3 ⁄ 8 in) metre gauge gauge to 3 ft (914 mm) gauge by the WP&YR shops in Skagway, Alaska. The second is that they were built for Iran and diverted ...
FM manufactures the Hi-Power under license from 1968. [43] The license expired in 1989. FM made a machine pistol of the FM Hi-Power known as the PB a Rafaga, which was used by Argentine special forces in anti-Montoneros opearations. [44] The fire selector (semi or full auto) is on the right side, located above the trigger. [45]
WKNC-FM – 88.1 FM (College rock), operated by students of North Carolina State University; WRKV – 88.9 FM (Contemporary Christian), operated by Educational Media Foundation; WCPE-FM – 89.7 FM (Classical) WUNC-FM – 91.5 FM (National Public Radio, North Carolina Public Radio) operated by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The word swastika is derived from the Sanskrit root swasti, which is composed of su 'good, well' and asti 'is; it is; there is'. [31] The word swasti occurs frequently in the Vedas as well as in classical literature, meaning 'health, luck, success, prosperity', and it was commonly used as a greeting.
The heavy Rhodesian emphasis on individual marksmanship and the ballistic qualities of the 7.62×51mm round often allowed outnumbered Rhodesian patrols to fight their way through larger groups of insurgents from the Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army (ZANLA) or Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZIPRA), both of which were equipped ...