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AN/PVS-4 ( Night Vision Sight, Individual Served Weapon, AN/PVS-4) is the U.S. military designation for a specification of the first second generation passive Night vision device . The AN/PVS-4 first saw widespread use during the Gulf War and later some deployment in the Iraq War and has since been replaced by modern third-generation weapon sights.
The two object-initial orders (OVS and OSV) are the rarest of all. Even the least common SO order, VSO, is still significantly more common (6.9%) than all three of the OS orders combined (2.9%). Hammarström (2016) [14] surveyed the word orders of 5252 languages in two ways: counting the languages directly, and stratifying them by language ...
This is a list of intelligence agencies by country. It includes only currently operational institutions. An intelligence agency is a government agency responsible for the collection, analysis, and exploitation of information in support of law enforcement, national security, military, and foreign policy objectives.
For absorbing the blast of a malfunctioning grenade in order to protect his fellow Marines. Donald G. Cook †. Marine Corps. Captain. South Vietnam. December 31, 1964 – December 8, 1967. For assisting fellow prisoners while a prisoner of war. Ardie R. Copas †.
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Members of the United States armed forces were held as prisoners of war (POWs) in significant numbers during the Vietnam War from 1964 to 1973. Unlike U.S. service members captured in World War II and the Korean War, who were mostly enlisted troops, the overwhelming majority of Vietnam-era POWs were officers, most of them Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps airmen; a relatively small number of ...
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In linguistic typology, object–verb–subject ( OVS) or object–verb–agent ( OVA) is a rare permutation of word order. OVS denotes the sequence object – verb – subject in unmarked expressions: Oranges ate Sam, Thorns have roses. The passive voice in English may appear to be in the OVS order, but that is not an accurate description.