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An official special designation is a "nickname granted to a military organization" which has been authorized by the Center of Military History and recognized through a certificate signed by the Secretary of the Army. [1] A division's nickname may derive from numerous sources:
Mike Calvert, British Second World War leader of Special Forces formations [79] Mike Hoare, British officer and mercenary leader [80] "Magoo" – Tod D. Wolters, US Air Force General and NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe "Majoren" (Norwegian, "The Major") – Hans Reidar Holtermann, Norwegian World War II military leader
special operations military activities conducted by specially designated, organized, trained and equipped forces using operational techniques and modes of employment not standard to conventional forces. These activities are conducted across the full range of military operations independently or in coordination with operations of conventional ...
Military slang is a colloquial language used by and associated with members of various military forces. This page lists slang words or phrases that originate with military forces, are used exclusively by military personnel or are strongly associated with military organizations.
Operation Prime Chance – special operations forces operating off U.S. Navy vessels in the Persian Gulf, mid-1980s. Operation Prize Bull – September 1971 trikes against North Vietnamese POL storage sites [38] Promise Kept – International Committee of the Red Cross facilitated visit to the crash site of Scott Speicher, Iraq, 1995. [218]
Special Operations Network: consisting of numbered divisions each dealing with a different secret threat: Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next novels: Book The Virginia Gentleman's Company "The Virgins", or "Alderman Technical Solutions". Private magical military contractor organization based out of Charlottesville, Virginia.
The Daily Advertisers – 5th Lancers [3] The Dandies - 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards; The Dandy Ninth – 9th (Highlanders) Battalion Royal Scots [25]; The Death or Glory Boys - 17th Lancers (Duke of Cambridge's Own) later 17th/21st Lancers, then Queen's Royal Lancers [1] [3] (from the regimental badge, which was a death's head (skull), with a scroll bearing the motto "or Glory")
The Special Forces Tab may be awarded retroactively to all personnel who performed the following wartime service: 5.1) 1942 through 1973. Served with a Special Forces unit during wartime and were either unable to or not required to attend a formal program of instruction but were awarded SQI "S", "3", "5G" by the competent authority. 5.2) Before ...