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48th Armored Division – "Hurricane". 49th Armored Division – "Lone Star"; referring to its status as a Texas National Guard formation, after the state's nickname. 50th Armored Division – "Jersey Blues"; referring to the fact that it was a New Jersey National Guard unit. This is today's 50th Infantry Brigade Combat Team.
Arnold Walker, RAF pilot. Herbert Hasler, Second World War Royal Marines officer. "Blood" – J. A. L. Caunter, British general [21] "Blood-n-Guts" – George S. Patton, Jr., American general in World War II (a nickname he rejected) [22] "Bloody Bill" –. William T. Anderson, Confederate guerrilla leader. William Cunningham, Loyalist militia ...
The Lincolnshire Poachers – Lincolnshire Regiment [56] (from a traditional folk song) Linseed Lancers – Royal Army Medical Corps [56] [4] The Lions – The King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment) [1] [56] (from their cap badge) The Lions of England – Duke of Lancaster's Regiment. The Liverpool Blues.
Dogface (military) "Dogfaces" of the 172nd Infantry Regiment patrolling New Georgia, 1943. Dogface is a nickname for a United States Army soldier, especially an enlisted infantryman. [1] [2] The term gained widespread use during World War II. [3] [4]
Operation Able Sentry/Sabre 1993–1999 – U.S. Army task force attached to United Nations Preventive Deployment Force (UNPREDEP) in Macedonia to monitor border activity. Ace Guard was a NATO deployment of the ACE Mobile Force (Air) and surface to air missiles to Turkey, between 3 January 1991 – 8 March 1991.
used as the official helicopters of the President of the United States Marine One. 1959. 1961. 1500. Sikorsky S-61R. Medium-lift transport/SAR helicopter. Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation. The S-61R served in the United States Air Force and in the United States Coast Guard. 1959.
SNAFU. SNAFU is widely used to stand for the sarcastic expression Situation Normal: All Fucked Up, as a well-known example of military acronym slang. However, the military acronym originally stood for "Status Nominal: All Fucked Up." It is sometimes bowdlerized to all fouled up or similar. [5]
1810; 214 years ago. ( 1810) Ejército de Chile. China (PRC) People's Liberation Army Ground Force. 1927; 97 years ago. ( 1927) 中国人民解放军陆军. China (ROC/“Taiwan”)