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For the Southport riot, far-right activists had been promoting the demonstration that started in Southport, [79] prior to involvement in the riot. [80] HuffPost described far-right activists as having "hijacked" the vigil for the victims, [81] and the Manchester Evening News reported "far right thugs, fuelled by lies, sought to exploit the tragedy". [82]
Christiansen enlisted in the Army in 1944 and was trained as a paratrooper. World War II had ended by the time he was deployed in 1945, but he made occasional training jumps while stationed in Japan with occupation forces during the late 1940s. After leaving the Army, he joined Northwest Orient in 1954 as a laborer stationed at Northwest ...
Kimberly A. Cheatle (born 1970/1971 [1]) is an American former law enforcement officer who served as the 27th director of the United States Secret Service from 2022 until 2024. After serving in the Secret Service from 1995 to 2019, she worked as senior director of global security at PepsiCo from 2019 to 2022.
Dean E. Preston (born 1969) [1] is an American attorney and member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.In November 2019, Preston won a special election to finish Mayor London Breed's term on the Board of Supervisors.
The Army Physical Fitness Test (APFT) was a test designed to measure the muscular strength, endurance, and cardiovascular respiratory fitness of soldiers in the United States Army. The test contained three events: push-ups , sit-ups , and a two-mile run with a soldier scoring from 0 to 100 points in each event based on performance.
Nidal Hasan was born on September 8, 1970, at Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington County, Virginia.His parents were naturalized American citizens of Palestinian origin; they had immigrated years earlier from al-Bireh, a city in the West Bank near Jerusalem.
Established in October 1947, [2] [1] it is the sole service academy in Pakistan tasked with training cadets to serve as army officers. For educational training, the institution is accredited by the National University of Sciences & Technology. [3] [4] [5] Parade at the military academy in 2007.
Reduced-gravity aircraft training avoids neutral-buoyancy training's drag problem (trainees are surrounded by air rather than water), but instead faces a severe time limitation: periods of sustained weightlessness are limited to around 25 seconds, interspersed with periods of acceleration of around 2 g as the aircraft pulls out of its dive and ...