Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Adjutant General's Corps, formerly the Adjutant General's Department, is a branch of the United States Army first established in 1775. This branch provides personnel service support by manning the force, providing human resources services, coordinating personnel support, Army band operations, and recruiting and retention.
This experience, and the Thompson–LaGarde Tests of 1904, led the Army and the Cavalry to decide a minimum of .45-caliber was required in a new handgun. Thompson and Major Louis La Garde of the medical corps arranged tests on cadavers and animals in the Chicago stockyards, resulting in their declaring that the .45 was the most effective pistol ...
[2] 1386 – King Charles III of Naples and Hungary is assassinated at Buda. [3] 1525 – A Spanish-Austrian army defeats a French army at the Battle of Pavia. [4] 1527 – Coronation of Ferdinand I as the king of Bohemia in Prague. [5] 1538 – Treaty of Nagyvárad between Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I and King John Zápolya of Hungary and ...
In response to the report of the Fort Hood Independent Review Committee, the Army has established the People first task force (PFTF), an Army-wide task force that is headed by 3 chairs: 1) Lt. Gen. Gary M. Brito, 2) Diane M. Randon, and 3) Sgt. Maj. Julie A.M. Guerra, who are: 1) the deputy chief of staff G-1, 2) the assistant deputy chief of ...
Ilya Vladimirovich Ponomarev [b] (Russian: Илья́ Влади́мирович Пономарёв, Ukrainian: Ілля Володимирович Пономарьов, romanized: Illia Volodymyrovych Ponomariov; born 6 August 1975) is a Russian-Ukrainian politician who was a member of the Russian State Duma from 2007 to 2016.
Germany has been the home of many famous inventors, discoverers and engineers, including Carl von Linde, who developed the modern refrigerator. [2] Ottomar Anschütz and the Skladanowsky brothers were early pioneers of film technology , while Paul Nipkow and Karl Ferdinand Braun laid the foundation of the television with their Nipkow disk and ...
Thomas Ridgway, U.S. Army officer and father of General Matthew Ridgway [630] Johnny Ritchey, professional baseball player [631] [632] Dave Roberts, professional baseball player and manager [633] [634] Cliff Robertson, Oscar-winning actor [635] [636] Alfred D. Robinson and Marion James Robinson, builders of Rosecroft [637] [638]