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AKO was established in the late 1990s as an experimental outgrowth of a project of the General Office Management Office.This early project led to A2OL (America's Army Online), but legal concerns over this name and the parallelism to other commercial vendors caused the Army Project team to seek a new name.
When the Soviet Union prepared to occupy Czechoslovakia in 1968, the GDR government committed the 7th Panzer Division and the 11th Motorised Infantry Division to support the intervention (assigned to 20th Guards Army and 1st Guards Tank Army respectively), becoming the first deployment of German troops outside Germany for the first time since ...
Uniforms for the War of 1812 were made in Philadelphia.. The design of early army uniforms was influenced by both British and French traditions. One of the first Army-wide regulations, adopted in 1789, prescribed blue coats with colored facings to identify a unit's region of origin: New England units wore white facings, southern units wore blue facings, and units from Mid-Atlantic states wore ...
The Czech Armed Forces (Czech: Armáda České republiky, lit. 'the Army of the Czech Republic'), also known as the Czech Army, is the military service responsible for the defence of the Czech Republic as part of the Armed Forces of the Czech Republic (Czech: ozbrojené síly České republiky) [14] alongside the Military Office of the President of the Republic and the Castle Guard. [15]
Nepal Army's Guruju Paltan (a ceremonial infantry company) in traditional uniform Khukuri, Karda and Chakmak.Khukuri is the symbolic weapon of the Nepali Army. The Nepali Army (Nepali: नेपाली सेना, romanized: Nēpālī Sēnā), also referred to as the Gorkhali Army (गोरखाली सेना, Gōrakhālī Sēnā; see Gorkhas), is the land service branch of the ...
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Georg Meiring, 84, South African military officer, chief of the Army (1990–1993) and SANDF (1993–1998). [517] Mohan Natrajan, 71, Indian actor (Kottai Vaasal, Mahanadhi) and film producer (Kannukkul Nilavu). [518] Zdeněk Rylich, 93, Czech basketball player (Czechoslovakia national team). [519]
The Army Institute of Heraldry describes the War Office Seal as follows: . In the center is a Roman cuirass below a vertical unsheathed sword, point up, the pommel resting on the neck opening of the cuirass and a Phrygian cap supported on the sword point, all between on the left an espontoon and on the right a musket with fixed bayonet crossed in saltire behind the cuirass and passing under ...