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Joint Publication 1-02 Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms Joint Publication 1-02 (As Amended Through April 2010) chalk commander — (*) The commander of all troops embarked under one chalk number. See also chalk number; chalk troops. chalk number — The number given to a complete load and to the transporting ...
A chalk loading onto a helicopter. In military terminology, a chalk is a group of paratroopers or other soldiers that deploy from a single aircraft. [1] A chalk often corresponds to a platoon-sized unit for air assault operations, or a company-minus-sized organization for airborne operations. For air transport operations, it can consist of up ...
9098 n/a Ensembl ENSG00000129204 n/a UniProt P35125 n/a RefSeq (mRNA) NM_001304284 NM_004505 NM_005152 n/a RefSeq (protein) NP_001291213 NP_004496 n/a Location (UCSC) Chr 17: 5.12 – 5.18 Mb n/a PubMed search n/a Wikidata View/Edit Human Ubiquitin carboxyl-terminal hydrolase 6 (USB6), also termed TRE17 and Tre-2, is a deubiquitinating enzyme that in humans is encoded by the hominid (i.e ...
An 1858 New Model Army black-powder cap-and-ball revolver replica. The cylinder has been removed from the frame. The modern revolver circular speedloader holds a full cylinder complement of cartridges in a secure fashion, spaced in a circular configuration so as to allow the cartridges to drop simultaneously into the cylinder easily (although non-circular types such as half moon clips are very ...
A wax bullet is a non-lethal projectile made of wax material — often paraffin wax or some mixture of waxes and other substances that produce the desired consistency — that mimics the external ballistics but not the terminal effects of real bullets.
Armstrong's mixture is a highly shock and friction sensitive [1] explosive. Formulations vary, but one consists of 67% potassium chlorate, 27% red phosphorus, 3% sulfur, and 3% calcium carbonate. [2] [3] It is named for Sir William Armstrong, who invented it sometime prior to 1872 for use in explosive shells. [4] [additional citation(s) needed]
There was some speculation that the first series of Chesapeake and Ohio 2-6-6-6 H-8 “Allegheny” locomotives, built by the Lima Locomotive Works in 1941, may have weighed as much as 778,200 lb (353,000 kg), exceeding the Big Boys, but subsequent re-weighs of early-production H-8s, under close scrutiny by the builder and the railroad, found ...
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