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The Theophile Bruguier Cabin is a historic building located in Sioux City, Iowa, United States. Bruguier was a Quebec native who was a trader with the American Fur Company. He was the first Caucasian settler in what would become Sioux City. [2] He settled at the confluence of the Missouri and the Big Sioux Rivers in 1849.
The greatcoat: Rear and front perspectives of the uniform greatcoat for an officer of the Light Infantry of the Grande Armée commanded by Napoléon. A greatcoat (also watchcoat) is a large, woollen overcoat designed for warmth and protection against wind and weather, and features a collar that can be turned up and cuffs that can be turned down to protect the face and the hands, whilst the ...
Flecktarn, an updated version of the earlier plane tree pattern, is still used by the modern German Bundeswehr. [12] In 1945 a new 6-colour camouflage known as Leibermuster, which inspired the postwar US ERDL pattern, was introduced. The colors were black, tan, olive, pale green, white, and red-brown. [13]
1990 – 1994: Controlled by the Bundeswehr. The border guards' numbers were rapidly reduced. Half were dismissed within five months of the opening of the border. [1] The border was abandoned and the Grenztruppen were officially abolished on 1 July 1990; [2] all but 2,000 of them were dismissed or transferred to other jobs.
The passing of the German Emergency Acts on 30 May 1968 relieved the BGS of its quasi-military tasks, because the Bundeswehr could now operate inside the Federal Republic in the case of an emergency. A military rank structure similar to that of the Bundeswehr was replaced in the mid-1970s by civil service-type personnel grades.
A soldier of the Bundeswehr in plain olive green combat uniform, 1982. In the 1950s, West Germany's Bundeswehr used two versions of the wartime "splinter", a four-colour pattern called BV-Splittermuster. Thereafter, from 1961 until 1990 they used the so-called olive-green battle dress.
The 113th Cavalry Regiment is a cavalry regiment of the Iowa National Guard, with history tracing back to the 19th century Indian Wars.. It was heavily involved in fighting during World War II against German forces in France, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Germany from June 1944 to May 1945.
The entire regiment was called up to perform the following state duties: riot control during the “Cow War” in Cedar County/Burlington, Iowa, 21 September–25 November 1931; riot control during a workers’ strike at the Swift Meat Packing Plant in Sioux City, Iowa, 19 October–21 November 1938.