Sentences with phrase «army officers in»

AAFMAA was founded in 1879 by a group of Army Officers in response to the 1876 Battle of the Little Big Horn, or «Custer's Last Stand.»

USAA is founded by 25 US Army officers in order to self - insure each other because they could not get automotive insurance.

USAA Bank has its roots in the United Services Automobile Association, an automobile insurance company founded by a group of Army officers in 1922 in San Antonio, Texas.

The United Services Automobile Association was formed in 1922 by 25 Army officers in Texas to provide mutual self - insurance of their vehicles.

I surfed around on the web and found a couple etymological explanations, with the most plausible being based on a ritual performed by army officers in ancient times.

After service as an Army officer in World War II, he was playing shortstop for the Kansas City Monarchs of the Negro American League when he was signed to a minor league contract by «The Mahatma,» Branch Rickey, a cigar - chomping Methodist and the Dodgers» general manager.

One Augustan, a retired Army officer in his 70s, first tried to sell his four - day badge on March 28.

A former Army officer in Iraq, he's become a regular on the top - rated cable TV news outlet, the Fox News Channel.

Credit Guillermo del Toro, the Guadalajara - born director and co-writer, whose poetry comes across in features like «Pan's Labyrinth» (a stepdaughter of a sadistic army officer in Franco's Spain) and «Cronos» (a device that could grant eternal life has severe side effects).

Prior to becoming a therapist Jonathan was an army officer in Germany, serving as a platoon leader of combat medics in a forward - deployed tank battalion, followed by service as the company commander of the 130th Station Hospital in Heidelberg during Operation Desert Storm.

He experienced conflict first hand as a British Army Officer in the 80's before training in law and becoming a family lawyer in the early 90's.

Not exact matches

«The regiment actually had a football match with the Germans who beat them 3 - 2,» an officer in the Royal Army Medical Corps wrote in a letter to a friend in London.

In the 1900s, a U.S. army officer named George Owen Squier developed a method to transmit radio signals along electrical and telephone wires.

The plaintiffs in the ACLU suit include Petty Officer Brock Stone, 34, who has served in the U.S. Navy for 11 years, including a nine - month deployment to Afghanistan, and Staff Sergeant Kate Cole, 27, who has served in the U.S. Army for almost 10 years, including a year in Afghanistan where she was a team leader and designated marksman.

, now a professor of military history at Ohio State University, served 26 years in the Army with two tours in Iraq, to include duty as Petraeus» executive officer in 2007.

Lt. Nadd served in Afghanistan as a Black Hawk helicopter pilot and operations officer for the Army.

«This capability coming to [2nd Cavalry] is directly attributable to Russian aggression and we are actively working with our foreign partners in how to help shape our formation,» said Lt. Col. Troy Meissel, the regiment's deputy commanding officer, according to the Army.

Wexley has taken on some unusual projects — a mass paper - airplane launch, for instance — but the company's founders were still surprised when they got a call from a U.S. Army colonel who had read about them in Inc. and wanted to send his communications officer for a little on - the - job training.

Serving as a Communications Officer in the Army gave me my technical start to make a path for my future in the telecom space.

Later in the 1930s, he «began to arrest and kill leading workers in the party, government, and various social organizations in addition to army officers, intellectuals, and other faithful workers,» according to an report published in 1968.

After serving in Fordham University's Reserve Officers» Training Corps, he found his way into the Army Reserve, where he was deployed for six months.

Long before he played the greatest Starfleet officer of all time and directed the immortal «The Voyage Home» Leonard Nimoy spent 18 months in the Army reserve.

As the vision for the connecting tunnel between Folkestone and Calais became more concrete, Ministry of Defence (MoD) civil servants and senior military officers drew up the nuclear plan in order to thwart a possible invasion by the Soviet army from Calais, The Independent has discovered.

«I can think of no one more deserving of this extraordinary opportunity to win a 7 - Eleven franchise than one of our military veterans who has given so much for our country,» DePinto, a graduate of the Military Academy at West Point and former U.S. Army officer, said in a statement.

This year's Best Warrior competition will determine the top noncommissioned officer and junior enlisted Soldier who will represent the Army Reserve in the Department of the Army Best Warrior competition in October at Fort Lee, Va. (July 17, 2012 - Photo by Timothy Hale)

He was commissioned an engineer officer in the U.S. Army.

Christopher is privileged to have served his country as an Officer in the Canadian Army (Reserve) and was a recipient of the «Top 40 Under 40» award from Business In Vancouver in 201in the Canadian Army (Reserve) and was a recipient of the «Top 40 Under 40» award from Business In Vancouver in 201In Vancouver in 201in 2017.

As a young military intelligence officer at the time, watching from a makeshift army base in Kuwait not far from the Iraq border.

To steel herself for the conversation, Tabatha called on her 20 years of experience as an officer in the army.

Many high school students join the Army Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (JROTC) program as a way to decide if they want to later enlist in the military.

My husband is an Army officer and we have moved nine times in 15 years of marriage.

His father served in the Army as a chief warrant officer 4.

Notable duty assignments included command of a Tank Company at Fort Stewart, GA, Executive Officer of a Corps Support Group in Bamberg, Germany, and Division Chief of the Computer Support Activity for the Army Operations Center at the Pentagon, Washington D.C..

«This weeklong course was used to train and develop Soldiers» abilities to identify and mitigate different risks involved in their positions and enhance Soldiers» knowledge in a wide variety of Army programs, supervisory functions, equipment readiness, self - awareness and dealing with the stressors of dining facility operations,» said Sgt. Maj. Keysa Chambers, chief culinary management noncommissioned officer.

Stallmer serves as an Officer in the United States Army Reserves.

Major Ryan Collins, 1st Special Forces Group (Airborne) signal officer, was awarded the Army Special Operations Forces Communicator of the Year April 18 for being the officer who provided the most significant contributions towards the special operations force mission of providing command, control, communications, computers and intelligence support in both garrison and tactical environments.

When settlements in New York and Pennsylvania were destroyed by the Six Nations and Butler's Rangers, Washington ordered ONE - THIRD of the Continental Army under its next highest ranking officer, Maj. Gen John Sullivan to march into and destroy Central New York.

Some regiments of the British Army still maintain the practice of officers serving men in the mess on Christmas Day.

She's also served as an Army officer and nonprofit CEO, studied at West Point, Embry - Riddle Aeronautical University, Arizona State, and Oxford University, and earned degrees in physics and theology.

The Salvation Army explicitly recommends that, so far as possible, ex-alcoholics be used in such work, but it is also recognized that many nonalcoholic officers do commendable work with alcoholics.

«Low intensity conflict is an economical option which we must, as a result of Vietnam, recognize as a legitimate form of conflict at least for the next twenty years, stated a former U.S. Army officer and veteran of the war in Southeast Asia.

They have two children, James, an army officer who is headed for Afghanistan as a translator of Farsi, and Caitlin, who finishes up at Washington University in St. Louis this May and then plans on serving a two - year stint teaching inner - city elementary - school kids for Teach for America.

An army of police officers has marched forth to investigate the most sordid of crimes in the most up - to - date way.

The son of Salvation Army Officers from the northern suburbs of Melbourne, Peter Norman grew up in an Australian cultural context similar to that of South African Apartheid.

No one serving in the army gets entangled in everyday affairs; the soldier's aim is to please the enlisting officer.

Born into a well - to - do military family (on the Feast of the Assumption, 15 August 1930), presented at court and married to an army officer, Chiara Hatton - Hall set up a riding school, in the idyllic Kentish countryside, for the international social elite.

No one knows whether ordinary soldiers, even from what is no longer in any normal sense a citizen army, would obey clearly illegal orders to oust an elected government or whether the officer corps would ever have sufficient confidence to issue such orders.

The «Father» of the Nation, being the United States of America is quoted saying; «The General is sorry to be informed — , that the foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing, a vice heretofore little known in an American army, is growing into a fashion; — he hopes the officers will, by example as well as influence, endeavor to check it, and that both they and the men will reflect that we can have little hope of the blessing of Heaven on our arms, if we insult it by impiety and folly; added to this, it is a vice so mean and low, without any temptation, that every man of sense and character detests and despises it.»

And with a background as an Army officer and Baptist pastor, with degrees in both physics and theology, she's also one of the most interesting!

Due to their interest in brave deeds, Muslims frequently join the army and follow careers as soldiers and officers.