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Operation Stand Down Rhode Island reopened a historic Woonsocket property on Nov. 27 as a transitional home for homeless female veterans.The house was named in honor of the late Marine Cpl. Andrea ...
Come join us for a day of golfing to raise funds for Operation Stand Down RI, the Family Assistance Center and the Ocean State Warrant Officers Association. To register or for details visit ...
Operation Stand Down is a United States non-profit organization providing social services to United States Armed Forces veterans, helping them transition into civilian life. It has chapters across the United States, with one in Nashville, Tennessee , among the most prominent.
If you have put yourselves in harm's way for our great country, thank you for your service.
The expression "boots on the ground" is an example of synecdoche which has an extended military-jargon history. It certainly dates back at least to British officer Robert Grainger Ker Thompson, strategist of the British counter-insurgency efforts against the Malayan National Liberation Army during the Malayan Emergency, 1948-1960 (see entry).
Stand down means to go off duty or relax from a state of readiness, particularly in a military situation. Stand down may also refer to: Irish Stand Down, a form of bare-knuckle boxing
In 1944, Henry S. Golas of Central Falls was 1st sergeant of 2nd Platoon, Company C, 2nd Ranger Battalion. A few days before D-Day, Golas got a good news/bad news message.He had been promoted to ...
Definition and Citation, Boots on the Ground, Double-Tongued Dictionary; Boots on the Ground, The New York Times Magazine, On Language: Let's Do This, by William Safire, 7 November 2008; Women in the Line of Fire: What You Should Know About Women in the Military, by Erin Solaro; foreword by Volney F. Warner, USA (Ret.), pp. v-vi