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PAF Base Samungli PAF Base Samungli is a Pakistan Air Force ( PAF ) airbase located near Quetta , in the Balochistan province of Pakistan . Originally used as a forward operating location during exercises and wartime , it was converted into a main operating base during the 1970s . Samungli currently houses two PAF squadrons flying the Chengdu F - 7PG combat aircraft . History . During the years of the Royal Pakistan Air Force ( RPAF ) , the base was known as RPAF Station Samungli . The base was commanded by Major Sikandar Khan of the Pakistan Army from 14 May to 12 July 1954 . Squadron Leader K . M . Akbar of the RPAF took over as base commander and commanded a newly established GC Wing . In June 1957 an annual training camp , Shaheen Air Training Corps was inaugurated , commanded by Squadron Leader J . Z . Mikulski who was assisted by Flying Officer A . Hanif and Sergeants Sabir , Zahoor and Hussain . That month saw the SATC wings from Dacca , Sargodha , Drigh Road and Chaklala participating in the training camp . Wings from Lahore and Peshawar followed them the in July . In October 1970 the Care and Maintenance ( C & M ) Party Samungli was redesignated as PAF Base Samungli and it was proposed that two squadrons would be based there by 1974 . From 1970 to 1978 the base saw fighter squadrons from Masroor , Sargodha and Peshawar deploying during summertime for several weeks . College students were invited to annual summer camps . Firepower and close air support demonstrations were held each summer for Quetta Staff College students by various PAF squadrons , the biggest in September 1976 by No . 5 , 7 , 11 , 15 and 18 Squadrons . The tradition continues today although mostly by the squadrons now based at Samungli . PAF Base Samungli was converted from a satellite base to a main operating base on 31 March 1978 , after which the No . 23 Squadron was permanently deployed there . Later the No . 17 Squadron was also based at Samungli and the two squadrons were assigned to the No . 31 Wing established in May 1983 . The setting up of air defence units began in 1981 after HQ No . 4 Sector and its component units was moved nearby due to the Soviet - Afghan war . Originally the officers ' mess was in a small hut - type building . The SNCO ' s mess and airmen ' s mess were in a WW2 era barracks . These were replaced by the end of 1981 when new messes , domestic accommodation and a 20 - bed hospital were built . On 26 May 1981 a Afghan Air Force Mil Mi - 8 helicopter , flown by Captain Jamal - ud - Din and Flight Engineer Lieutenant Faisal Khan along with the pilot ' s brother Kamal - ud - Din , was hijacked from Qandahar and landed at Samungli . On 15 May 1982 the base held a colour presentation ceremony for the No . 23 Squadron after the unit was officially re - assigned an air superiority role . The base has been used by the United States for military logistical operations in support of the 2001 war in Afghanistan . According to an anonymous source , the Pentagon is able to make use of the base " as and when " .
USS Essex ( 1874 ) USS " Essex " , the third ship of that name , a wooden screw steamer , was built on contract for the United States by Donald McKay at East Boston , Massachusetts ; commissioned at the Boston Navy Yard on 3 October 1876 , Commander Winfield Scott Schley commanding ; and reported to the North Atlantic Squadron . Service history . During the following year " Essex " cruised to Liberia and along the west coast of Africa and in 1878 - 79 joined the South Atlantic Squadron . While at Monrovia , Liberia , on 31 October 1877 , Ordinary Seaman John Millmore and First Class Fireman Henry Lakin Simpson rescued a shipmate from drowning , for which they were later awarded the Medal of Honor . " Essex " sailed on the Pacific Station from November 1881 to December 1882 and thence on the Asiatic Station for two years during which she took on board Captain S . H . Morrison and crew members of the shipwrecked " Ranier " . Following repairs ' she returned to the Asiatic Station under command of Commander T . F . Jewell in June 1886 and in October anchored at Ponape , Caroline Islands , to afford protection to American missionaries during a native uprising . She returned to New York via the Suez Canal and was placed out of commission in May 1889 . Regarded as one of the finest ships of the fleet , " Essex " was designated next as a training ship . A three - month cruise with cadets at the Naval Academy at Annapolis in 1893 was followed by two lengthy tours to train naval apprentices ( January 1894 - April 1898 , and September 1898 to December 1903 . ) " Essex " was lent to the Ohio Naval Militia ( 1904 – 16 ) and served in the Ninth Naval District from 1917 to 1926 . During that period she underwent a major refit , receiving new boilers and engine . The number of masts was reduced to two , and were not used as a means of propulsion . The Naval Reserve of the State of Minnesota used her as training and receiving ship from 1921 until 27 October 1930 when she was stricken from the Navy List . She was sold for scrap on 23 December 1930 and subsequently burned near Duluth : the National Register of Historic Places lists her remains .
Elizabeth Islands Military Reservation Elizabeth Islands Military Reservation was a coastal defense site located in Cuttyhunk , Massachusetts in the town of Gosnold . History . The Elizabeth Islands Military Reservation was built on private land . It consisted of an early radar , an observation post , fire control towers , and artillery batteries . The site today . The site today consists of the foundation of the various buildings and guns . One fire control tower also remains standing .
USCG 65 ' Small harbor tug The USCG 65 ' small harbor tug is a class of fifteen tugs used by the United States Coast Guard for search and rescue , law enforcement , aids - to - navigation work and light icebreaking . The tugs are capable of breaking of ice with propulsion ahead and of ice backing and ramming . They were designed with steel hulls to replace the wooden - hulled tugs that had been in service since the 1940 ' s and were built by Gibbs Gas Engine Company , Jacksonville , Florida ; Barbour Boat Works of New Bern , North Carolina ; and Western Boat Builders Corporation , Tacoma , Washington from 1961 to 1967 . They were originally powered by a single 400 horsepower diesel engine , however several have been re - powered with 500 horsepower main drive engines since they were constructed .
Fairchild C - 26 Metroliner The Fairchild Aircraft C - 26 " Metroliner " is the designation for the Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner series twin turboprop aircraft in the service of the United States military . It was not officially named by the US Armed Forces , but is unofficially known by the same name as its civilian counterpart . The C - 26A is the military version of the Model SA227 - AC Metro III ; the C - 26B is the military version of the Model SA227 - BC Metro III and Model SA227 - DC Metro 23 ; and UC - 26C is the military designation for the Model SA227 - AT Merlin IVC . Design and development . The United States Air Force bought eleven C - 26A aircraft based on the SA227 - AC , two of these being supplied to the Venezuelan Air Force . The first three C - 26Bs were procured later in the 1980s , two for the US Army and one for the USAF . These three had been built as SA227 - BC models . Later C - 26Bs were the military equivalent of the Metro 23 and the USAF took delivery of 37 examples . Some of these were transferred to the Peruvian Air Force and the US Army , while six were transferred to the US Navy as C - 26Ds . The US Army also took a second - hand Merlin IVC and operated it as the solitary UC - 26C . A Metro III , c / n AC - 614 , was modified as the Fairchild Aircraft / Lockheed Multi Mission Surveillance Aircraft , featuring a Lockheed phased array radar in a long pod under the fuselage . Several aspects of the MMSA aircraft were incorporated on some USAF C - 26s redesignated as the RC - 26B , operated by the Air National Guard ( ANG ) in various states . These aircraft have been primarily used for Department of Defense reconnaissance mission support to various agencies of the Department of Homeland Security such as the United States Coast Guard ( USCG ) and Customs and Border Protection ( CBP ) in the War on Drugs , and to USCG and / or the Federal Emergency Management Agency ( FEMA ) in the wake of natural disasters . The RC - 26B aircraft were originally configured with a belly pod containing a sensor turret and a data recorder . Recently , this pod has been removed and a sensor turret has been added to the belly of the aircraft . Some of the RC - 26Bs were operated for a time with civil registrations . The US Navy operates several C - 26D aircraft , modified for range support , at the Pacific Missile Range Facility Barking Sands .
Helmut Friebe Helmut Friebe ( 4 November 1894 – 14 January 1970 ) was a highly decorated Generalleutnant in the Wehrmacht during World War II who commanded the LXIV . Armeekorps . He was also a recipient of the Knight ' s Cross of the Iron Cross . The Knight ' s Cross of the Iron Cross was awarded to recognise extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership . He took up his command in Crete in May 1944 after the kidnap of General Kreipe by Patrick Leigh Fermor and Bill Stanley Moss working with Cretan andartes . Friebe was captured by American troops in May 1945 and was released in 1947 . Helmut Friebe was the older brother of Generalmajor Werner Friebe , who is also a Knight ' s Cross recipient .
Joseph Blanchard Joseph Blanchard ( 1704 - 1758 ) was born in Dunstable , New Hampshire ( now Nashua ) on February 11 , 1704 to Capt . Joseph Blanchard and his wife Abiah Hassell . In 1724 he joined the New Hampshire Militia as a lieutenant and served in Capt . Eleazer Tyng ' s Company . On September 26 , 1728 he married Rebecca Hubbard of Groton , Massachusetts . They would have 12 children , including Jonathan Blanchard , a New Hampshire delegate to the Congress of the Confederation in 1784 . Joseph Blanchard would serve as town selectman , a surveyor for the state of New Hampshire , Counsellor of the State by mandamus from the Crown , and Judge of the Superior Court of New Hampshire . At the start of the French and Indian War Joseph Blanchard was already a colonel in the militia , and in 1754 he ordered Capt . John Goffe along with a company of men ( Robert Rogers was part of this company ) to patrol the upper reaches of the Merrimack River valley . In 1755 Joseph Blanchard was appointed as Colonel of the New Hampshire Provincial Regiment sent to serve under Sir William Johnson in an attack on Crown Point on Lake Champlain . Along the march they built Fort Wentworth at Northumberland , New Hampshire on the Connecticut River . The regiment was at Fort Edward and fought at the Battle of Lake George . The regiment returned home in December of 1755 . Col . Joseph Blanchard died on April 7 , 1758 . In 1761 a new more accurate map of New Hampshire that Joseph Blanchard had prepard in connection with Samuel Langdon was published . Massachusetts Historical Society copy of the Blanchard / Langdon map
Midwest Joint Regional Correctional Facility The Midwest Joint Regional Correctional Facility ( J . R . C . F . ) is a military prison at 831 Sabalu Road , Fort Leavenworth , Kansas which opened in 2010 . The prison on has a design specification of 512 beds with 43 in special housing and the rest in general housing and dormitory . The prison handles inmates sentenced to terms of five years or less . It also will house people who are awaiting trial . It is one of three major federal prisons on the grounds of Fort Leavenworth . The other two are the civilian United States Penitentiary , Leavenworth on the southwest edge and the United States Disciplinary Barracks on the northeast side by Sherman Army Airfield . The Joint Regional Correctional Facility is across Coffin Road just southwest of the Disciplinary Barracks . The prison opened as part of the Base Realignment and Closure with the consolidating ( and closing ) of prisons in Lackland Air Force Base , Fort Sill and Fort Knox . The prison , rather than using traditional block house construction , utilizes modular cells . The facility has 480 geothermal wells , each deep to handle its cooling and heating . The street reaching it is named for Master Sgt . Wilberto Sabalu Jr . , an Army Corrections non - commissioned officer killed in a small arms attack in the Afghanistan War on 6 May 2007 . Selected inmates . Following are inmates who are serving or have served time in the prison .
Georgia National Cemetery Georgia National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located near the city of Canton , in Cherokee County , Georgia . It encompasses , and is currently undergoing development with the intention of servicing the interment needs of United States military veterans and their families for the next fifty years . History . The land for the cemetery was donated by World War II veteran , Scott Hudgens . J . M . Wilkerson Construction Company , Inc . was hired to develop the land . The cemetery opened for interments on April 24 , 2006 with space available for nearly 30 , 000 gravesites . As of fiscal year 2008 , there were 2 , 154 interred on the site .
Friedrich Wilhelm von Buxhoeveden Friedrich Wilhelm Count von Buxhoevden ( , Fyodor Fyodorovich Booksgevden ; other spellings : Feodor Buxhoeveden , Buxhœwden ) ( September 14 , 1750 – August 23 , 1811 ) was a Russian infantry general and government official . Buxhoeveden commanded the Russian armies during the Finnish War . Family . The Buxhoeveden s , a Baltic German family from Estonia , traced their roots to Bexhövede in Lower Saxony . Buxhoevden ' s wife , countess Natalia Alexeyeva , was the illicit daughter of Grigori Orlov ( 1734 – 1783 ) by a lady of the court , but her mother – contrary to some claims – was not the Empress Catherine , but a member of the Apraksin family . Buxhoeveden ' s granddaughter Varvara Nelidova was a mistress of Nicholas I of Russia ( 1796 - 1855 ) for 17 years ( 1832 - 1855 ) . Career . In 1805 Buxhoevden took part in the Battle of Austerlitz as a commander , contributing to the Third Coalition ' s failure to defeat Napoleon by being drunk during the battle . In 1808 he served as Commander - in - Chief in the Russian conquest of Finland , and led Russian troops during the initial battles of the Finnish War ( 1808 - 1809 ) . Estates . Buxhoevden received the castle and lands of Koluvere in western Estonia after Duchess Augusta of Brunswick - Wolfenbüttel had died there in 1788 in suspicious circumstances . He also owned a manor at Ligovo near Saint Petersburg .
USS Hornet Museum The USS Hornet Museum is a museum ship in Alameda , California , USA . It is composed of the aircraft carrier , exhibits from the NASA Apollo moon exploration missions , and several retired aircraft from the Second World War and the transonic and early supersonic jet propulsion period . A number of compartments contain exhibits concerning contemporary carriers that are supported by related associations . The flight deck , hangar deck , and first deck below are open for self - guided tours . Docent - led tours are available into the ship ' s navigation and flight deck control areas of the island and down into one of the engineering spaces containing two of the four ship ' s propulsion turbines . It is located on the southernmost pier of the former Naval Air Station Alameda . There are plans to relocate it to the corner of the Seaplane Lagoon closest to the Alameda Point Museum in conjunction with a ferry terminal and a light rail or bus connection to BART .
John N . McMahon John N . McMahon ( born July 3 , 1929 ) is a former senior U . S . official of the Central Intelligence Agency . He joined the CIA in 1951 , and served as Deputy Director for Operations from 1978 – 81 and later as Deputy Director of Central Intelligence from 1982 to 1986 .
Fliegerhorst Vlamertinge Fliegerhorst Vlamertinge is a former military air base , located 8 . 4 km east - southest of Poperinge in West Flanders , Belgium . It was closed in 1945 and is now in agricultural use . History . After the German invasion of Belgium in May 1940 , the area was surveyed by military engineers looking for a suitable location to establish a Luftwaffe military airfield . During 1941 Vlamertinge airfield was begun by a construction team , although most of the construction was begun on land near the village of Dikkebus , a few KM south . A grass runway was laid out and some buildings of wood were set up . In 1942 , a 4 KM length of ring road was constructed and a 2 , 000 ' concrete runway was laid out . The ring road had branches to various hardstands and maintenance shops , and some small aircraft shelters . It is unknown which Luftwaffe units used the facility during the period of German occupation . After the Allied invasion of France in June 1944 , the Germans destroyed the runway on 10 June , and later the buildings on 2 September . The landing field was plowed up and electrical wiring was removed . British forces moved through the area in late 1944 and aviation engineers were able to restore the base for operations by Royal Air Force fighter and Allied transport aircraft . It was re - designated Advance Landing Ground B - 59 . The RAF continued operations from the field until March 1945 , when it was abandoned and turned over to local authorities . Over the years , the runway was removed and the land returned to agricultural use . Many old German buildings were converted to agricultural buildings and are still scattered around the area .
John B . Salling John B . Salling ( May 15 , 1856 – March 16 , 1959 ) claimed to be the second - oldest surviving Confederate Veteran of the American Civil War , though his claim of being born in 1846 has since been debunked . According to the 1860 census for Scott County , Virginia , John Salling is listed as being four years old , making him born in about 1856 . In 1991 , William Marvel examined the claims of Salling and several other " last Civil War veterans " for a piece in the Civil War history magazine " Blue & Gray " . Marvel found multiple instances of census data that indicated Salling was born in 1856 , not 1846 . At the time of his death , John Salling was officially considered the next - to - the last Confederate veteran . Walter Williams of Houston , Texas was frequently listed as the last Confederate veteran , but shortly before Williams died 20 December 1959 , a New York Times report cast strong doubt on his claim . The John Salling case gained currency after Guinness World Records listed him as the " oldest soldier " of all time , erroneously as 113 years and 1 day old ( it was later found that John claimed shortly before his death to have been born in May 1846 , not March 1846 ; Guinness had made a typographical error ) . Thus , Salling ' s age was first dropped from 113 to 112 , and then a census search suggested that he was really ' only ' 100 . In any case , no documentation to support his claim to being a veteran was ever produced . Many of the records of Southern troops during the Civil War are incomplete because many records were lost or destroyed . John Salling claimed in his application for a pension that he was a saltpeter digger in Scott County during the war and that he had been put on detail duty in that job after enlisting in the 25th Virginia Infantry . In 2006 , Guinness pulled recognition of this case . The last authenticated Confederate veteran was Pleasant Crump , who was 104 when he died on December 31 , 1951 .
Jack L . Tilley Jack L . Tilley was sworn in as the 12th Sergeant Major of the Army on June 23 , 2000 and served until January 15 , 2004 . Early life . Tilley was born in Vancouver , Washington , on December 3 , 1948 . Military career . He entered the U . S . Army in November 1966 and attended basic training at Fort Lewis , Washington , and advanced individual training at Fort Knox , Kentucky . Following tours in Vietnam and Fort Benning , Georgia , SMA Tilley left the active duty Army for two years and served in the Reserve Component before enlisting again in the Active Component in September 1971 . He held a variety of important positions culminating in his assignment as the Sergeant Major of the Army . He previously held the senior enlisted position as Senior Enlisted Leader of the United States Central Command at MacDill Air Force Base , Florida . Other assignments he held as Command Sergeant Major were 1st Battalion , 10th Cavalry , Fort Knox , 194th Armored Brigade , 1st Armored Division , Bad Kreuznach , Germany and United States Army Space and Missile Defense Command , Arlington , Virginia . Throughout his 36 - year career , SMA Tilley held every key leadership position including tank commander , section leader , drill sergeant , platoon sergeant , senior instructor , operations sergeant and first sergeant . His military education includes the First Sergeants Course and the Sergeants Major Academy . He is also a graduate of the basic airborne course , drill sergeant school and master gunner ' s course . Jack is currently Senior Instructor , Operations Sergeant And First Sergeant at Oak Grove Technologies in Falls Church VA Post - military career . Jack Tilley retired from the Army in January 2004 . He is now the co - founder , Chairman , and CEO of the American Freedom Foundation . This organization raises awareness for military personnel , their service , and sacrifice , and raises money for various organizations that help service members , veterans and their families . The organization also sponsors military career fairs and hiring events regularly in major military areas around the country . These events are usually in conjunction with high - profile concerts or entertainment . Special emphasis is always given to the men & women who were ( WIA ) wounded in action . References . < br > " The Sergeants Major of the Army " , Daniel K . Elder , Center of Military History , United States Army Washington , D . C . 2003 .
Eastcotts Castle Eastcotts Castle was a medieval castle located in the parish of Eastcotts , at the edge of Exeter Wood , in the county of Bedfordshire , England . Eastcotts Castle is believed to have been constructed during the late 11th , or early 12th , centuries . It was a small motte castle , made of timber , located on the northern edge of the Bedfordshire Greensand Ridge . It was in a prime location , overlooking the village of Cardington , as well as the River Ouse . Only earthworks remain at the site , which is a Scheduled Monument , located in Exeter Wood , 780m south east of Wood Farm .