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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.
AAA – Anti-aircraft artillery "Triple A". AAAV – Advanced Amphibious Assault Vehicle. AAC – Army Acquisition Corps. AAD – Armored amphibious dozer. AADC – Area air defense commander. AAE – Army acquisition executive. AAG – Anti-aircraft gun. AAK – Appliqué armor kit (US) AAL – Additional authorization list.
APPN – Appropriation Number (U.S. Military) APRT – Army Physical Readiness Test (U.S. Army) ARCENT/TUSA – US Army Central /HQ Third US Army (TUSA) [ 3] ARPANET – Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (e.g., 1969 to 1989; antecedent of the information superhighway; now DARPA) ARM – Anti-Radar Missile.
2011: 2011 military intervention in Libya: Operation Odyssey Dawn, United States and coalition enforcing U.N. Security Council Resolution 1973 with bombings of Libyan forces. 2011: Osama Bin Laden is killed by U.S. military forces in Abbottabad, Pakistan as part of Operation Neptune Spear. 2011: Drone strikes on al-Shabaab militants begin in ...
1971 to 1980. "Today's Army Wants You" and "Today's Army Wants to Join You" were recruiting slogans from the 1971 Volunteer Army (Project VOLAR) campaign, introduced as the country prepared to transition to an all-volunteer military. When N. W. Ayer & Son, who were engaged by the US Army, believed they felt the army said "Today's Army is ...
Mineplex was a Minecraft minigame server created in 2013 by Gregory Bylos and Jarred van de Voort. [ 4][ 5] In 2016, Mineplex had millions of unique players monthly. [ 6] At its peak, the server had around 20,000 concurrent players at any given time. [ 7] Mineplex won the Guinness World Records award on January 28, 2015, for having 34,434 ...
When the system began the names were assigned by the Air Standardization Coordinating Committee (ASCC), made up of the English-speaking allies of the Second World War, the United States, United Kingdom, Canada and two non-NATO countries, Australia and New Zealand. The ASCC names were adopted by the U.S. Department of Defense and then NATO.
"Nasty Nick" – USS Nicholas, name given by crew due to the proclivity of the ship's AC units to break down in hot weather. "Nelly" – HMS Nelson – also "Nelsol" – from fleet oilers with names ending in "ol" that the Nelson class looked similar to in silhouette. "Niffy Jane" – HMS Iphigenia "NO Boat" – USS New Orleans