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United States Navy Nurse Corps | Naval Station San Diego |
The United States Navy (USN) is the naval warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States. It is the largest navy in the world, with a battle fleet tonnage that is greater than...
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The Vietnam Air Force – VNAF (Vietnamese: Không lực Việt Nam Cộng hòa – KLVNCH) was the Air Force branch of the Republic of Vietnam’s Military Forces, the official military of the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) from 1955 to 1975. The VNAF began...
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Air Force Office of Sponsored Research | Altus Air Force Base |
The Department of the Air Force (DAF) is one of the three Military Departments within the Department of Defense of the United States of America. The Department of the Air Force was formed on September 18, 1947, per the National Security Act of 1947...
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| x United States Army |
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United States of America | U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment | Camp Bondsteel |
The United States Army is the main branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for land-based military operations. It is the largest and oldest established branch of the U.S. military, and is one of seven U.S. uniformed services. The modern...
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The Soviet Navy (Russian: Военно-морской флот СССР, Voenno-morskoj flot SSSR, literally "Military Maritime Fleet of the USSR") was the naval arm of the Soviet Armed Forces. Often referred to as the Red Fleet, the Soviet Navy would have played an...
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The German Army (German: Deutsches Heer, Heer pronounced [ˈheːɐ̯] ( listen)) is the land component of the armed forces of the Federal Republic of Germany. The Heer was founded in 1955 as part of the newly formed West German Bundeswehr along with the...
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The Marine ( listen (help·info))) is the navy of Germany and is part of the unified Bundeswehr (the German Armed Forces). It is deeply integrated into the NATO alliance. Its mission is protection of German and Allied territories as well as peace...
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United Kingdom |
The Royal Navy (RN) is the naval warfare service branch of the British Armed Forces. Tracing its origins to the 16th century, it is the oldest service branch and is known as the Senior Service. From the end of the 17th century until well into the...
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The Spanish Navy (Spanish: Armada Española) is the maritime branch of the Spanish Armed Forces, one of the oldest active naval forces in the world. The Armada is responsible for notable achievements in world history such as the discovery of Americas...
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| x Swedish Navy |
The Royal Swedish Navy (Swedish: Marinen) is the naval branch of the Swedish Armed Forces. It is composed of surface and submarine naval units – the Fleet (Flottan) – as well as marine units, the so-called Amphibious Corps (Amfibiekåren).
In Swedish...
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| x Finnish Navy |
The Finnish Navy (Finnish: Merivoimat, Swedish: Marinen) is one of the branches of the Finnish Defence Forces. The Navy employs 2,300 people and about 4,300 conscripts are trained each year. Finnish Navy vessels are given the ship prefix "FNS"...
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The French Navy, officially the Marine nationale ("National Navy") and often called La Royale, is the maritime arm of the French military. Tracing its roots back from 1624 it is one of the world's oldest naval forces and historically played a key...
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| x Russian Navy |
The Russian Navy (Russian: Военно-морской Флот Российской Федерации (ВМФ России); Voyenno-morskoy Flot Rossiyskoy Federatsii (VMF Rossii), literally Military-Maritime Fleet of the Russian Federation) is the naval arm of the Russian military. The...
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| x Polish Navy | 3rd Ship Flotilla |
The Marynarka Wojenna Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej - MW RP (Navy of the Republic of Poland) Polish Navy, (or unofficially Polska Marynarka Wojenna - PMW) is a military branch of Republic of Poland Armed Forces responsible for naval operations. It has...
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| x Imperial Japanese Navy |
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The Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) (Kyūjitai: 大日本帝國海軍 Shinjitai: 大日本帝国海軍 Dai-Nippon Teikoku Kaigun (help·info) or 日本海軍 Nippon Kaigun, literally "navy of the greater Japanese empire") was the navy of the Empire of Japan from 1869 until 1947, when it...
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| x Japan Self-Defense Forces |
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The Japan Self-Defense Forces (自衛隊, Jieitai), or JSDF, occasionally referred to as JSF or SDF, are the unified military forces of Japan that were established after the end of the post–World War II Allied occupation of Japan. For most of the post-war...
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| x Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force |
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The Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (海上自衛隊, Kaijō Jieitai), or JMSDF, is the naval branch of the Japan Self-Defense Forces, tasked with the naval defense of Japan. It was formed following the dissolution of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) after...
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| x Japan Air Self-Defense Force |
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The Japan Air Self-Defense Force (航空自衛隊, Kōkū Jieitai), or JASDF, is the aviation branch of the Japan Self-Defense Forces responsible for the defense of Japanese airspace and other aerospace operations. The JASDF carries out combat air patrols...
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| x Japan Ground Self-Defense Force |
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The Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (陸上自衛隊, Rikujō Jieitai), or JGSDF, is the Armed Force of Japan. The largest of the three services of the Japan Self-Defense Forces, the Ground Self-Defense Force operates under the command of the chief of the...
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| x Mexican Navy |
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The Mexican Navy (Armada de México or SEMAR) is the naval branch of the Mexican military responsible for conducting naval operations. Its stated mission is "to use the naval force of the federation for the exterior defense, and to help with internal...
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The Sturmabteilung (SA) (German pronunciation: [ˈʃtʊʁmʔapˌtaɪlʊŋ] ( listen);Storm Detachment or English: Assault Division)) functioned as the original paramilitary wing of the Nazi Party. It played a key role in Adolf Hitler's rise to power in the...
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| x Wehrmacht |
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The Wehrmacht (German pronunciation: [ˈveːɐ̯maxt] ( listen) (Defence Force) – from German: wehren, to defend and Macht, power, force, cognate to English might) was the unified armed forces of Germany from 1935 to 1945. It consisted of the Heer (army...
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| x Texas Air National Guard |
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The Texas Air National Guard is the air force militia of the U.S. state of Texas and a component of the Texas Military Forces (along with the Texas Army National Guard and the Texas State Guard). It is composed of airmen and officers assigned to...
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| x Imperial Japanese Army |
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The Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) (Kyūjitai: 大日本帝國陸軍, Shinjitai: 大日本帝国陸軍, Romaji: Dai-Nippon Teikoku Rikugun), or literally "army of the greater Japanese empire" was the official ground based armed force of Imperial Japan from 1871 to 1945. It was...
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| x Finnish Air Force |
The Finnish Air Force (FAF or FiAF) (Finnish: Ilmavoimat, Swedish: Flygvapnet) is one of the branches of the Finnish Defence Forces. Its peacetime tasks are airspace surveillance, identification flights, and production of readiness formations for...
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The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army (Russian: Рабоче-Крестьянская Красная Армия; РККА or Rabočě-Krěst'janskaja Krasnaja Armija; RKKA) started out as the Soviet Union's revolutionary communist combat groups during the Russian Civil War of 1918–1922....
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The Polish Air Force (Polish: Siły Powietrzne Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej – literally: Air Forces of the Republic of Poland) is a military branch of the Polish Armed Forces. Until July 2004 it was officially known as Wojska Lotnicze i Obrony...
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The New Zealand Army (Maori: Ngāti Tumatauenga, "Tribe of the God of war"), is the land component of the New Zealand Defence Force and comprises around 4,500 Regular Force personnel, 2,000 Territorial Force personnel and 500 civilians. Formerly the...
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| x Royal New Zealand Air Force |
The Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) (Maori: Te Tauaarangi o Aotearoa, "New Zealand Warriors of the Sky"; old title Te Hokowhitu o Kahurangi, "War party of the Blue") is the air arm of the New Zealand Defence Force. It was formed from New Zealand...
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| x Royal New Zealand Navy |
The Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN) (Maori: Te Taua Moana o Aotearoa, "The Sea Army of New Zealand") is the maritime arm of the New Zealand Defence Force. The fleet currently consists of twelve ships and five naval helicopters.
The first recorded...
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| x French First Army |
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The First Army (French: Ire Armée) was a field army of France that fought during World War I and World War II. It was also active during the Cold War.
On mobilization in August 1914 the First Army was put in the charge of General Auguste Dubail and...
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| x Republic of Korea Army |
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Camp Bonifas |
The Republic of Korea Army (ROK Army, ROKA, Korean: 대한민국 육군, Hanja: 大韓民國 陸軍, Revised Romanization: Daehanminguk Yuk-gun) is the largest of the military branches of the South Korean armed forces with 520,000 members as of 2011. This size is...
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| x Korean People's Army |
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The Korean People's Army (Korean: 조선인민군), commonly known in North Korea as the Inmin Gun (English: People's Army), are the combined armed forces of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Until December 2011, Kim Jong-il was the Supreme Commander...
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| x Eighth Air Force |
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The Eighth Air Force (8 AF) is a numbered air force of the United States Air Force Global Strike Command (AFGSC). It is headquartered at Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana. The command serves as Air Forces Strategic – Global Strike, one of the air...
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| x Schutzstaffel |
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The Schutzstaffel (German pronunciation: [ˈʃʊtsʃtafəl] ( listen), translated to Protection Squadron or defence corps, abbreviated SS—or with stylized "Armanen" sig runes) was a major paramilitary organization under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party....
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| x SS-Totenkopfverbände |
SS-Totenkopfverbände (SS-TV), meaning "Death's-Head Units", was the SS organization responsible for administering the Nazi concentration camps for the Third Reich.
The SS-TV was an independent unit within the SS with its own ranks and command...
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| x German Air Force |
Luftwaffe (German pronunciation: [ˈlʊftvafə] ( listen)) is a generic German term for an air force. It is also the official name for two of the four historic German air forces, the Wehrmacht air arm founded in 1935 and disbanded in 1946; and the...
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| x Haganah |
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Haganah (Hebrew: "The Defense", ההגנה HaHagana) was a Jewish paramilitary organization in what was then the British Mandate of Palestine from 1920 to 1948, which later became the core of the Israel Defense Forces.
The predecessor of Haganah was...
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| x Israel Defense Forces | Sayeret Matkal |
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) (Hebrew: צְבָא הַהֲגָנָה לְיִשְׂרָאֵל Tzva Hahagana LeYisra'el (help·info), lit. "Defensive Army for Israel"; Arabic: جيش الدفاع الإسرائيلي, Jaish Al-Difaa Al-Isra'ili), commonly known in Israel by the Hebrew...
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Patriot | Kentucky militia |
The Continental Army was formed after the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War by the colonies that became the United States of America. Established by a resolution of the Continental Congress on June 14, 1775, it was created to coordinate the...
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United Kingdom | 16th Air Assault Brigade |
The British Army is the land warfare branch of British Armed Forces in the United Kingdom. It came into being with the unification of the Kingdom of England and Scotland into the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707. The new British Army incorporated...
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Free French |
The Free French Forces were partisans in World War II, drawn from many countries, who continued the struggle against the Axis powers after the surrender of France in June 1940.
The movement was launched by General Charles de Gaulle, a French...
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| x Royal Air Force | United Kingdom | RAF Habbaniya |
The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the aerial warfare service branch of the British Armed Forces. Formed on 1 April 1918, it is the oldest independent air force in the world. The RAF has taken a significant role in British military history, playing a...
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Swiss Guards or Schweizergarde are the Swiss soldiers who have served as bodyguards, ceremonial guards, and palace guards at foreign European courts since the late 15th century. Apart from household and guard units, regular Swiss mercenary regiments...
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| x Waffen-SS |
The Waffen-SS (German pronunciation: [ˈvafən.ɛs.ɛs], Armed SS) was a multi-ethnic and multi-national military force of the Nazi Party, constituting the armed wing of the Schutzstaffel ("Protective Squadron").
The Waffen-SS grew from three regiments...
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The Australian Army is Australia's military land force. It is part of the Australian Defence Force (ADF) along with the Royal Australian Navy and the Royal Australian Air Force. While the Chief of Defence (CDF) commands the Australian Defence Force ...
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| x Indian Army |
The Indian Army (IA, Devanāgarī: भारतीय थलसेना, Bhāratīyan Thalasēnā) is the land based branch and the largest component of the Indian Armed Forces.
According to the IISS, in 2010 the army had a strength of 1,129,900 active personnel and 960,000...
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| x Royal Australian Air Force |
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Defence Establishment Orchard Hills |
The Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) is the air force branch of the Australian Defence Force. The RAAF was formed in March 1921. It continues the traditions of the Australian Flying Corps (AFC), which was formed on 22 October 1912. The RAAF has...
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| RAAF Base Amberley | |||||
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| x Australian Imperial Force | 4th Anti-Tank Regiment |
The Australian Imperial Force (AIF) was the name given to all-volunteer Australian Army forces dispatched to fight overseas during World War I and World War II.
Following the Federation of Australia in 1901, the Commonwealth Military Forces were...
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| x Indian Air Force |
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The Indian Air Force (IAF; Devanāgarī: भारतीय वायु सेना, Bhartiya Vāyu Senā) is the air arm of the Indian armed forces. Its primary responsibility is to secure Indian airspace and to conduct aerial warfare during a conflict. It was officially...
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| x Indian Navy |
The Indian Navy (Devanāgarī: भारतीय नौ सेना, Bhāratīya Nau Senā) is the naval branch of the armed forces of India. The President of India serves as the Commander-in-Chief of the Navy. The Chief of Naval Staff (CNS), usually a four-star officer in...
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| x Indian Coast Guard |
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The Indian Coast Guard (Hindi: भारतीय तटरक्षक) (ICG) is an Armed Force of the Union Of India. Its mission is the protection of India's maritime interests and enforcement of maritime law with jurisdiction over both territorial (including contiguous...
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| x Indian Paramilitary Forces |
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According to the official definition adopted in 2011, "Paramilitary Forces" refers to three organisations which assist the Indian Armed Forces particularly closely and are led by officers of the Indian Army or Indian Navy.there is no strict...
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| x Afghan National Army |
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The Afghan National Army (ANA) is the main branch of the military of Afghanistan and is responsible for land-based military operations or ground warfare to defend the nation against foreign military incursions. It is under the Ministry of Defense in...
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| x United States Army Reserve |
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The United States Army Reserve (USAR) is the federal reserve force of the United States Army. Together, the Army Reserve and the Army National Guard constitute the reserve components (RC) of the United States Army.
The Army Reserve was formed 23...
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| x Provisional Irish Republican Army |
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The Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) is an Irish republican paramilitary organisation whose aim was to remove Northern Ireland from the United Kingdom and bring about a socialist republic within a united Ireland by force of arms and political...
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The Real Irish Republican Army, otherwise known as the Real IRA (RIRA), and styling itself as Óglaigh na hÉireann (Volunteers of Ireland), is an Irish republican paramilitary organisation which aims to bring about a united Ireland. Formed in 1997...
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| x Royal Australian Navy |
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The Royal Australian Navy (RAN) is the naval branch of the Australian Defence Force. Following the Federation of Australia in 1901, the ships and resources of the separate colonial navies were integrated into a national force: the Commonwealth Naval...
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| x Irish National Liberation Army |
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The Irish National Liberation Army (Irish: Arm Saoirse Náisiúnta na hÉireann) or INLA is an Irish republican socialist paramilitary group that was formed on 8 December 1974. Its goal is to remove Northern Ireland from the United Kingdom and create a...
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