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President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Selective Training and Service Act.. The Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, also known as the Burke–Wadsworth Act, Pub. L. Tooltip Public Law (United States) 76–783, 54 Stat. 885, enacted September 16, 1940, [1] was the first peacetime conscription in United States history.
Boards of Supervisors were originally composed of the various town/township supervisors from across the county. This system gave every township one vote on the county board regardless of its population, resulting in less populous townships having influence in decision-making that was disproportionate to their populations.
Chelsea Elizabeth Manning [3] (born Bradley Edward Manning, December 17, 1987) is an American activist and whistleblower. [4] [5] [6] She is a former United States Army soldier who was convicted by court-martial in July 2013 of violations of the Espionage Act and other offenses, after disclosing to WikiLeaks nearly 750,000 classified, or unclassified but sensitive, military and diplomatic ...
James Harold Doolittle (December 14, 1896 – September 27, 1993) was an American military general and aviation pioneer who received the Medal of Honor for his raid on Japan during World War II, known as the Doolittle Raid in his honor. [1]
The Sri Lanka Army General Service Corps (SLAGSC) a corps of the Sri Lanka Army. The corps carries out much of the administrative work of the army. The role of the Corps is to provide logistic backing to Regular and Volunteer units by performing Financial/ Accounting Services, pay duties, legal services, running of agriculture projects and farms etc.
Tablighi Jamaat (Urdu: تبلیغی جماعت lit. ' Society of Preachers ', [5] [6] also translated as "propagation party" or "preaching party") [2] [3] [4] is an international Islamic religious movement [2] [3] focuses on exhorting Muslims to be more religiously observant [1] and encouraging fellow members to return to practising their religion as per the Islamic prophet Muhammad, [7] [4 ...
General of the Army shoulder strap insignia, from 1866 to 1872. General of the Army shoulder strap insignia, from 1872 to 1888. Toward the end of the American Civil War, Ulysses S. Grant achieved the first fixed promotion to lieutenant general in the U.S., since George Washington. [3]
According to the website of the U.S. Army Institute of Heraldry, the insignia of the Army Service Forces consisted of "a blue five-pointed star, one point up, 1 3 ⁄ 8 inches in diameter on a white background within a red border, outside diameter 2 1 ⁄ 4 inches, inside invected of six."