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2. Picket (military) - Wikipedia

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   Picket (Fr. piquet, a pointed stake or peg, from piquer, 'to point or pierce'), is thought to have originated in the French Army around 1690, from the circumstance that an infantry company on outpost duty dispersed its musketeers to watch, with a small group of pikemen called piquet remaining in reserve. [2]

3. Milagra Ridge - Wikipedia

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   In 1956 Nike missile site SF-51 was built here and converted to the Nike-Hercules system in 1958. Typical of Nike sites, SF-51 was divided into an administrative area (SF-51A), an integrated fire control area (SF-51C), and a launcher area (SF-51L); [ 2 ] SF-51A and -51L lie within the area of Milagra Ridge, [ 3 ] [ 4 ] while SF-51C is in the ...

4. United States Uniformed Services Privilege and Identification ...

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   A United States Uniformed Services Privilege and Identification Card (also known as U.S. military ID, Geneva Conventions Identification Card, or less commonly abbreviated USPIC) is an identity document issued by the United States Department of Defense to identify a person as a member of the Armed Forces or a member's dependent, such as a child ...

5. MIM-23 Hawk - Wikipedia

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   The Raytheon MIM-23 HAWK ("Homing All the Way Killer") [2] is an American medium-range surface-to-air missile.It was designed to be a much more mobile counterpart to the MIM-14 Nike Hercules, trading off range and altitude capability for a much smaller size and weight.

6. Naik (military rank) - Wikipedia

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   Naik (Nk; sometimes historically spelled nayak) is an Indian Army and Pakistan Army rank equivalent to corporal. [1] The rank was previously used in the Indian Army during the Raj and the Camel Corps, ranking between lance naik and havildar.

7. Winged Victory of Samothrace - Wikipedia

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   Nike of Samothrace: the conserved parts of the statue, after Benndorf, 1880. In 1863, Charles Champoiseau (1830–1909), acting chief of the Consulate of France in Adrianopolis (now Edirne in Turkey), undertook from March 6 to May 7 the exploration of the ruins of the sanctuary of the Great Gods on the island of Samothrace.