Army Definition and 41 Threads

Is any tool available for a person to use instead of putting their weak finger nail into the groove of one of the functions of a swiss army knife or victorinox knife in order to open that function? Some of our nails are just not tough enough to put into those grooves to pull the function out...

Hello everyone! My name is Tim and I am going to be a junior physics major this upcoming fall of 2018. I started college in fall of 2014 as a physics major at a junior college and joined the army national guard in the spring of 2015. I went to basic that fall and missed an entire year of school...

Hello, I'm Michael, am 17 and uncertain about my future (as I'm sure anyone my age is). you see, I aim to be a theoretical physicist in the future and I am worried a bit: Yes, I know, you shouldn't pick a job just for the money, but I do worry about how much does a theoretical physicist make. do...

Hello everybody, this is my first post on here. I'd like to make my entrance by asking a question that's very important to me. I would like to ask what it's like to get your University PhD in Physics paid for by the Canadian Air Forces. I've been asking a lot of people, but I thought its time to...

Setting info - take it as granted. Strategy - treat it as an open issue, if you see an alternative solution, please suggest it. Setting - natural conditions Planet to defend - Earthlike, tidal locked around red dwarf, water world, cold, 3 atm Main weakness point - gates - that allow...

Hi, I was just wondering, is there a reason why the word corps (a branch of a military organization assigned to a particular kind of work) and corpse (a dead body, especially of a human being) are sounding so similar?

Homework Statement An army tank on a mountainside fires its gun horizontally. The shell strikes the ground at a horizontal distance of 6000 m away from the tank. As the vertical component of the shell’s striking velocity is vy=200 m/s, how soon after it is fired does the shell strike the...

I'm planning a semi-hard SF (around Mohs scale 4). I wonder, what can be the weaknesses of a robotic army? That enables to defeat it in urban warfare, by rebel groups, who managed to access some unexpected cutting edge technology, and some support from regular armies. So far, my ideas ...

Yikes, things are heating back up in Egypt. http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/01/us-egypt-protests-idUSBRE95Q0NO20130701

Hello, I am currently getting out of the army after six years as an officer in the infantry. I would like to go back to graduate school for my Ph.D. in CSE. I have a BSEE with heavy coursework in CSE from the University of Washington. I am just wondering how difficult admissions will be to...

I am a bit baffled by this, but there is a doctor in the US Army who refuses to complete his duties without "proof" that Barak Obama was born in the USA. This man is a colonel. Isn't this madness? http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20002577-503544.html Can anyone explain this to me? Is...

I'm 17, a junior at SAR HS. I am looking forward to a career in physics. This has been my dream for years. I excel at it in my class and am involved in various science and math activities in school and out of school. I am also an Israeli citizen, which means I get a draft notice to join the...

Korean Salvation Army have spent somewhat 50 milion US dollars, to build their own building, (that is only a expense for construction, not including price of land which is very expensive) The donor must give money to salvation army for purpose of charity. but they use that money for their...

I know no one but me cares, but whatever. This was funny though, I found it posted on foxsports.com's message board:

This is too funny! It is like comedy central today. http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/09/john-mccain-acc.html Edit: The McCain camp now says that it was just supposed to be a photo of Americana - a school and flag - and not Walter Reed Medical.

http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Top_News/2008/02/12/british_army_officer_leaves_laptop_at_pub/2351/ As a Canadian I can't really point & laugh. Back in the 1980s Canada's minister of defence took a big folder full of sensitive NATO documents with him to a strip club in Germany. (at least he...

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-04-24-gore-trainees_N.htm Similar activities have been observed around 1790 prior to the French revolution, around 1916 prior to the Russian revolution, around 1933, prior to the German "revolution" well sort of. Remember,

Unearthed by Hadrians wall Northumberland, dozens of minature warriors the size of action men have been found along with a partiially legible latin plaque, the inscription bears all the hall marks of Nero Nesttenus, a renowned minaturist sculpter, it seems it is possible that Emperor Hadrian...

I hope they have a plan to get our troops out of there if necessary.:rolleyes: They are asking too much from too few for too long. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15220816/

http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/200203/camels.west.htm

In rewriting the field manual, the Pentagon has apparently decided to remove language referring to certain 3rd Geneval Convention provisions for human rights in treatment of prisoners of war. The core instructions for Army interrogators will thus no longer include certain provisions explicitly...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4808342.stm

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/04/AR2006030400860.html It's been two years why they just starting to lanuch a crimnal investegation? I don't watch football.But I'am kind of intersted to see what if it was propous what was the motive.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=1626571

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/16/AR2005111601427.html Looks like one again, the democrats are trying to fight our military and demanding a surrender. Do we listen to politicians or our men and women fighting for freedoms you take for granted?

I was very surprised to see on the BBCs website that privates in the US marines only get paid $1,023 per month. Is this a typo or are America's fighting elite really paid so badly? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/world/02/military_fact_files/v3_special_forces/html/pay.stm Anyone know...

Pengwuino is the commander of the Norwegian Army? http://www.funpic.hu/en.picview.php?id=25417&c=2&s=dd&p=1

This is probably one of the best FPS out there. Developed by the US Army, highly challenging, requires some strategy, teamwork and it's FREE! And now back to my so-called life...

http://images.ibsys.com/2005/0818/4866154_200X150.jpg http://www.nbc10.com/news/4866202/detail.html I'm thinking that they really need a draft.

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Army has approved the purchase of more than $29 million worth of weapons for the new Iraqi army from a Chinese state-owned company that's under indictment in California in connection with the smuggling of 2,000 AK-47 automatic rifles into the United States in 1996...

I remember watching the BBC news seeing a sickle and a hammer in a Russian army march in front of Putin and George Bush. My question is: Is the russian Flag the red, blue and white stripes? OR is there something I'm not aware of?

"There is evidence that suggests the 311th MI personnel and/or translators engaged in physical torture of the detainees," a memo from the investigator said. The January 2004 report said the prisoners' rights under the Geneva Conventions were violated. ... According to the report, the abuse...

I know I did. We built new forts, like every other month. We constantly improved everything. Our forts were entirely built out of stuff in the forest. We used things like long grass or hay for string. We also played army too. That was fun because it was quite serious with ranks and...

Times showing, transcripts, online video http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/

My mom works as a Physical Therapist at a children's hospital. The head pharmacist at the hospital was in the Army Reserves, and completed his required duty over 20 years ago, he's now in his early 50's. He just recently was called up for duty and sent an email to everyone at the hospital saying...

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996185 Eat up boys!

After a year I have been released to reserve and I'm now a free man. It's been unbelievable. The experience was a hell, but it was worth it. From hot days of july to cold winter (+30C -> -30C). I lost weight from 85 kg's to 68 kg's and I'm 180 cm tall. I could cry now :cry: Now I'm...

Hi. My class had done an experiment synthesizing isoamyl acetate, but MY class didn't actually get to do it. haa. You see the other classes in the same section did it but the power went out and we weren't able to do it. Anyways, that's enough fro mr. pointless. SO, as I recall from the outline...

The following is from http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=12342 When the Army Owns the Weather By Bob Fitrakis, Columbus Alive February 5, 2002 Humans have long sought to control the weather. Early people learned how to make fire and modify their micro-environments; rain...

" Over the past half-century, an obscure Pentagon group, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, has been behind some of the world's most revolutionary inventions -- the Internet, the global positioning system, stealth technology and the computer mouse, to name a few."...

[SOLVED] One-Man Army Movies What is your favorite one-man army movie? I think mine would have to be Rambo: First Blood Part II. You know, the one where he invades a POW/MIA, post-war, Vietnamese concentration camp sporting a red bandana and single-handedly firing a two-man bazooka...