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In 1940, the War Department approved the formation of a test platoon of Airborne Infantry under the direction and control of the Army's Infantry Board. A test platoon of volunteers was organized from Fort Benning's 29th Infantry Regiment, and the 2nd Infantry Division was directed to conduct tests to develop reference data and operational procedures for air-transported troops.
The Officers Training Academy (OTA) is a training establishment of the Indian Army that trains officers for the Short Service Commission (SSC). The 49-week course at the OTA prepares graduates for all branches of the Army, except for the Army Medical Corps. [1]
One of Sandia's first permanent buildings (Building 800) was completed in 1949. Sandia National Laboratories' roots go back to World War II and the Manhattan Project.Prior to the United States formally entering the war, the U.S. Army leased land near an Albuquerque, New Mexico airport known as Oxnard Field to service transient Army and U.S. Navy aircraft.
1st Military Police Brigade - Military Zone 1-A, Mexico City; 2nd Military Police Brigade - Air Force Base No. 1 Santa Lucía, State of Mexico [3] 3rd Military Police Brigade - El Sauz, Sinaloa [4] 4th Military Police Brigade - General Escobedo, Nuevo León [5] 5th Military Police Brigade - San Miguel de los Jagüeyes, State of Mexico [6] 6th.
Remnants of the old fort, with the new Fort Frontenac in the background. The Canadian Army Command and Staff College (CACSC), formerly the Canadian Land Force Command and Staff College, is a staff college for officers of the Canadian Armed Forces, specializing in staff and army operations courses.
Indian Army Corps of Signals is a corps and a combat support arm of the Indian Army, which handles its military communications. It was formed on 15 February 1911 as a separate entity under Lieutenant Colonel S H Powell, and went on to make important contributions to World War I and World War II. [ 1 ]
A Department of the Army Guard (DASG) is an armed, uniformed, civilian guard that provides physical security and access control at US Army locations, in conjunction with DACP. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The uniform is almost identical to DACP, but with "GUARD" rather than "POLICE" on the shoulder patch and badge. [ 6 ]
Before the dissolution of British India in 1947, the location had initially been used as the premises of a Physical Training and Mountaineering School of the British Indian Army, on the site of a vacant POW camp set up in 1902 for just a few months for prisoners from the Boer War, [8] and later it became a dwelling-operating space of the Royal Indian Army Service Corps.