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Channel Fleet The Channel Fleet was the Royal Navy formation of warship s that defended the waters of the English Channel from 1690 to 1909 . History . The Channel Fleet dates back at least to 1690 when its role was to defend England against the French threat under the leadership of Edward Russell , 1st Earl of Orford who was then the Commander - in - Chief , Channel Fleet . By 1801 its main role was still to stop French ships from the French naval bases at Brest , Le Havre and elsewhere in the Bay of Biscay from entering the English Channel . During the 19th century , as the French developed Cherbourg as a base for steam - powered ships , the Royal Navy developed Portland Harbour as a base for the fleet . The harbour was built between 1849 and 1872 when the Royal Navy created a breakwater made of blocks from local quarries on the Isle of Portland . The Channel Squadron only became a permanent formation in 1858 . With the amelioration of Anglo - French relations , and the rise of German militarism towards 1900 , the need for the Channel Fleet diminished and the main European naval arena shifted to the North Sea . Admiral Sir Arthur Wilson was officially " Senior Officer in Command of the Channel Squadron " from 1901 to 1903 . His subordinate flag officer in that squadron was the Second - in - Command , who commanded a division of battleships . On 14 December 1904 the Channel Fleet was re - styled the ' Atlantic Fleet ' and the Home Fleet became the ' Channel Fleet ' . On 24 March 1909 , under a fleet re - organisation , the Channel Fleet became the 2nd Division of the Home Fleet . Channel Fleet in literature . The Channel Fleet features in several historical novels about the Royal Navy , notably " Hornblower and the Hotspur " by C . S . Forester , in which Forester ' s fictional hero becomes a favourite of the real Channel Fleet commander , Admiral William Cornwallis . The fleet also features in several of the Aubrey - Maturin novels by Patrick O ' Brian . The novel Billy Budd by Herman Melville is set on board ships of the Channel Fleet , in the immediate aftermath of the Spithead and Nore mutinies of 1797 . In the novel The War of the Worlds , the Channel Fleet protects the huge mass of refugee shipping escaping from the Essex coast in the face of the Martian onslaught . The initial heroic fight of the HMS Thunderchild and the subsequent general engagement , is detailed in the chapter entitled " The Thunderchild " . Commanding officers . Commanders - in - Chief have included :
Integrated Undersea Surveillance System insignia The Integrated Undersea Surveillance System insignia is a military badge of the United States Navy which has been in existence since the 1990s . The insignia is awarded to those personnel who have been trained and qualified in naval sonar and undersea surveillance technology . A direct result of the Cold War , the Integrated Undersea Surveillance System insignia was originally created due to the rise in Soviet submarine technology during the 1960s and 1970s . With the fall of the Soviet Union , the Integrated Undersea Surveillance System insignia became a symbol of the “ brown water ” submarine threats of such nations as North Korea and China . To be awarded the Integrated Undersea Surveillance System insignia , a service member must have completed initial sonar technology training followed by 18 – 24 months of field experience in naval undersea surveillance . The Integrated Undersea Surveillance System insignia is only presented following completion of prescribed personal qualification standards ( PQS ) , as well as a successful completion of a written and oral examination board . The insignia , itself , consists of a seahorse superimposed on a winged globe . The insignia is issued in two degrees : silver for enlisted personnel and gold for officers . The Integrated Undersea Surveillance System insignia is one of the rarest insignia of the Navy as it is only presented to enlisted sailors who hold sonar ratings and to limited duty and restricted line officers trained in sonar operations . An enlisted member who receives the Integrated Undersea Surveillance System Specialist warfare qualification are authorized to place the designator ( IUSS ) after his / her rating designator . For example , if Bob Jones is an IUSS - qualified Sonar Technician Surface First Class Petty Officer , then his written name would be STG1 ( IUSS ) Jones or if he is a Sonar Technician Submarine First Class Petty Officer , then his written name would be STS1 ( IUSS ) Jones .
Ante Kotromanović Ante Kotromanović ( ; born 8 May 1968 ) is Croatian politician and army officer . In December 2011 , he became Defence Minister of Croatia . Biography . Kotromanović was born in Potravlje near Hrvace . He graduated from Command and Staff Academy " Blago Zadro " and War College " Ban Josip Jelačić " . In 1990 he become member of special forces of the Croatian police . A year later , in 1991 , he become commander of special forces company in headquarters of the Croatian Army . In 1992 , he was named commander of a battalion in teaching center in Sinj . From 1993 till 1996 he was commander of the 126th Sinj Brigade and Sinj Operational Zone . From 1996 till 19 October 1999 he was commander of the 4th Guard Brigade . After that , he attended War College " Ban Josip Jelačić " , and in 2001 he was named commander of the Dubrovnik Divisional District . In 2002 he retired from army service . From 11 January 2008 until 22 December 2011 he was Member of " Sabor " , after which he become Minister of Defence under Zoran Milanović as Prime Minister .
USS Tigress ( 1905 ) The fourth USS " Tigress " was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1918 or 1919 . " Tigress " was built in 1905 as a private yawl of the same name by W . A . Robinson at Bridgeport , Connecticut . On 26 June 1917 , the U . S . Navy inspected her in the 7th Naval District for possible naval use and chartered her from her owner that year for use as a section patrol boat during World War I . She never received a section patrol ( SP ) number , but was commissioned on 18 August 1917 as USS " Tigress " . Assigned to the 7th Naval District and manned by naval reservists , " Tigress " served on section patrol duties in the Tampa , Florida , area for the rest of World War I . The Navy returned her to her owner soon after the end of the war .
Alexander Dallas Bache Alexander Dallas Bache ( July 19 , 1806 – February 17 , 1867 ) was an American physicist , scientist and surveyor who erected coastal fortifications and conducted a detailed survey mapping of the United States coastline . Biography . Alexander Bache was born in Philadelphia , the son of Richard Bache , Jr . , and Sophia Burrell Dallas , nephew of George M . Dallas , and great - grandson of Benjamin Franklin . After graduating from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1825 , he acted as assistant professor there for some time . As a lieutenant in the United States Army Corps of Engineers , he was engaged for a short time in the erection of coastal fortifications , including Fort Adams in Newport , Rhode Island . Bache resigned from the Army on June 1 , 1829 . Bache spent the years 1836 to 1838 in Europe on behalf of the trustees of what became Girard College in 1848 . Abroad , he examined European systems of education and , on his return , published a valuable report . From 1839 to 1842 , he served as the first president of Central High School of Philadelphia , one of the oldest public high schools in the United States . He occupied the post of professor of natural philosophy and chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania from 1828 to 1841 and again from 1842 to 1843 . He married Nancy Clark Fowler on September 30 , 1838 at Newport , Rhode Island . She was born in Newport , Rhode Island , and died on January 13 , 1870 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania . She was his associate in the preparation of much of his published material . They were the parents of one son , Henry Wood Bache , born in 1839 and died on November 7 , 1878 at Bristol , Long Island , New York . In 1843 , on the death of Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler , Bache was appointed superintendent of the United States Coast Survey . He convinced the United States Congress of the value of this work and by means of the liberal aid it granted , he completed the mapping out of the whole coast by a skillful division of labor and the erection of numerous observing stations . In addition , magnetic and meteorological data was collected . Bache served has head of the Coast Survey for 24 years until his death in 1867 . He was elected an Associate Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1845 . He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh on 15 March 1858 , and a Foreign Member of the Royal Society on 24 May 1860 . After the Civil War , Bache was elected a 3rd Class Companion of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States ( MOLLUS ) in consideration of his contributions to the war effort . He died at Newport , Rhode Island and was buried in the Congressional Cemetery in Washington , DC , where a monument was built by American architect Henry Hobson Richardson . Two survey ships were named for him , the " A . D . Bache " of 1871 and its successor in 1901 . The cydippid ctenophore " Pleurobrachia bachei " A . Agassiz , 1860 was named for him ; it was discovered in 1859 by Alexander Agassiz who was working as an engineer on a ship surveying the United States / Canada boundary between Washington State and British Columbia .
Frank W . Hackett Frank W . Hackett ( April 11 , 1841 – August 10 , 1926 ) was a civilian administrator and lawyer who served as an Assistant Secretary of the Navy under President William McKinley . During the American Civil War , he was an assistant paymaster serving the Atlantic Fleet . Hackett was on board the USS " Miami " during its skirmish against the CSS " Albemarle " . After the war , he passed the bar exam and eventually opened a law office in Washington , D . C . From April 1900 to December 1901 , Hackett served as Assistant Secretary of the Navy .
Conway Hillyer Arnold Admiral Conway Hillyer Arnold , USN , was a rear admiral of the United States Navy , in command of the Third Squadron of the Atlantic Fleet in 1910 . Born 14 November 1848 , the son of Commander Henry Nathan Tewkesbury and Cornelia Van Vleck Sleight , Conway Arnold was a native of New York City . In 1867 , he graduated from the United States Naval Academy , and in 1868 was commissioned as an ensign in the United States Navy . On 17 November 1870 , he married Fannie Wood of Raleigh , North Carolina , daughter of William W . W . Wood , Engineer in Chief of the United States Navy . That same year , Arnold was commissioned as a master . The following year , he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant . After many years as a Lieutenant , Arnold was commissioned to the rank of Lieutenant Commander in 1892 . At the onset of the Spanish American War , he was promoted to the rank of Commander . In 1902 he obtained the rank of captain . Then , by 1908 , he was promoted to the position of Rear Admiral and placed in charge of the Third Squadron of the Atlantic Fleet His son Conway Hillyer Arnold Jr , who also served with distinction in the military , died at a young age on 6 April 1908 in Denver , Colorado , possibly of tuberculosis . At his death on 16 July 1917 in New York City Conway Hillyer Arnold Sr was survived by his wife , Fannie and his two grandchildren .
Oliver Brooks Oliver Brooks ( 31 May 1889 – 25 October 1940 ) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces . Born in Paulton , Somerset , he was 26 years old , and a lance - sergeant in the 3rd Battalion , Coldstream Guards , British Army during the First World War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC . On 8 October 1915 near Loos , France , Lance - Sergeant Brooks led a party of bombers against the enemy who had captured 200 yards of Allied trenches . The regaining of this lost ground was entirely due to the bravery and presence of mind of this NCO who accomplished his task in the midst of a hail of bombs from the enemy . He later achieved the rank of sergeant . His Victoria Cross is displayed at The Guards Regimental Headquarters ( Grenadier Guards RHQ ) , Wellington Barracks , London
32d Air Division The 32d Air Division ( 32d AD ) is an inactive United States Air Force organization . Its last assignment was with Air Defense Command , assigned to First Air Force , being stationed at Gunter Air Force Base , Alabama . It was inactivated on 31 December 1969 . History . Assigned to Air Defense Command ( ADC ) for most of its existence , the 32d organized , administered , equipped , trained , and prepared for operation , all of its assigned units . The division participated in exercises such as Creek Brave , Top Rung and Natchez Echo . Initially , it assumed responsibility for an area including Maine , Vermont , Massachusetts , New Hampshire , and part of New York . During the Cuban Missile Crisis ( October 1962 ) , the division controlled numerous deployments and aerial sorties . Later , beginning in 1966 , the area expanded to include Mississippi , Alabama , Georgia , and parts of South Carolina , Louisiana and Florida when it assumed responsibility for the mission of the inactivated Montgomery Air Defense Sector . Assumed additional designation of 32d NORAD Region after activation of the NORAD Combat Operations Center at Cheyenne Mountain , Colorado and reporting was transferred to NORAD from ADC at Ent AFB in April 1966 . Inactivated in November 1969 as ADC phased down its interceptor mission as the chances of a Soviet bomber attack on the United States seemed remote , its mission being consolidated into the 23d Air Division .
28th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment 28th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment of the Leningrad Order of Kutuzov ( 28 GIAP ) was an Aviation Regiment of the Soviet Air Forces during the Second World War , the Korean War , and became part of the Russian Air Force after 1991 . The regiment was formed in 1940 as the 153rd Fighter Regiment ( 153 IAP ) . In November 1942 , the order of NGO Guards regiment awarded the title , he became the 28th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment . In 1950 it was despatched to North Korea . Initially , the regiment was equipped with I - 153 and MiG - 3 fighters . In 1942 it was re - equipped with P - 39 Airacobra , then with Yak - 15s , MiG - 9s , Mig - 15s , MiG - 17s , MiG - 19s , Su - 15s , and then finally with MiG - 23Ps and MiG - 29s . The regiment lost 64 pilots and 94 aircraft in World War II . In the Korean War from June 22 , 1950 to October 29 , 1951 - lost 3 aircraft . Commanders : It served with the Moscow Air Defence District ( Soviet Air Defence Forces ) until 1994 . Then reports on the regiment diverge . Holm says that the regiment absorbed the 773rd Fighter Aviation Regiment . Piotr Butowski , writing in ' International Air Power Review , ' Vol . 13 , Summer 2004 , says that the regiment was disbanded . Butowski goes on to say that the number and traditions of the 28 Gv IAP were taken up by the 33rd Fighter Aviation Regiment , which had just returned to Andreapol from Wittstock ( and briefly at Damgarten ) in Germany , under the 16th Guards Fighter Aviation Division . Whatever the changes in 11994 , the regiment continued to serve with the 16th Air Army in the Moscow Military District . it was disbanded in 2009 . Awards . Order of Kutuzov
Streitkräftebasis Streitkräftebasis ( Joint Support Service , SKB ) is a branch of the German " Bundeswehr " established in October 2000 as a result of major reforms of the German Bundeswehr . It handles various logistics and organisational tasks of the German Armed Forces . It adds a fifth service - like organization to the four other major branches of the Bundeswehr , the Army , Navy , Air Force , and Medical Service . Unlike the roughly comparable British Defence Logistics Organisation and the Australian DOD ' s Support Command Australia , however , Germany ' s current military environment has led to a number of combat - associated commands being allotted to it . Principally these are the residual German territorial defence structure embodied in the four Wehrbereichskommandos , or Military District Commands , and the national supervision of German military operations ' out of area ' , performed by the Einsatzführungskommando , usually translated as Bundeswehr Operations Command , which is headquartered at Potsdam . It was formed on the basis of the former IV ( GE ) Korps . Most of the remaining elements of the SKB have been reassigned from the Central Military Agencies of the Bundeswehr , encompassing a wide range of logistics agencies , schools , and other support units . Germany is divided into four Wehrbereichskommandos ( Military District Command ) . Each Military District Command controls several Landeskommandos ( State Command ) due to the federal structure of Germany . Previously this function was carried out by the Verteidigungsbezirkskommandos ( VBKs ) or Military Region commands ( literally ' Defence District Commands ' . These command authorities are in charge of all military facilities in their area of responsibility , and additionally of several supporting regiments . The top command authorities are the Streitkräfteunterstützungskommando ( Joint Support Command ) which is in charge of numerous of command and control roles . The Streitkräfteamt ( Armed Forces Office ) directs all schools , training and research centres , the Military Counterintelligence Service ( MAD ) , and the Armed Forces higher academies and universities . Personnel . 56 , 919 soldiers
Joseph Spencer Joseph Spencer ( October 3 , 1714 – January 13 , 1789 ) was an American lawyer , soldier , and statesman from Connecticut . During the Revolutionary War , he served both as a delegate to the Continental Congress and as a major general in the Continental Army . Spencer was born in East Haddam , Connecticut . He was trained as a lawyer and practiced until 1753 when he became a judge . He was active in the militia , serving in King George ' s War and as a Lieutenant Colonel of the Middlesex militia in the French and Indian War . By the time the American Revolution began , Spencer had advanced to Brigadier General of Connecticut ’ s militia , and in April 1775 he led them to support the Siege of Boston as the 2nd Connecticut Regiment . In June , when these units were adopted into the national army , he was made a brigadier general in the Continental Army ; he was amongst the first eight Continental Army brigadier generals so appointed . In 1776 Spencer was promoted to major general in support of William Heath in the Eastern Department . The following year his military career became difficult . He cancelled a planned attack on British forces in Rhode Island and was censured by the Continental Congress . He demanded a court of inquiry and was exonerated , but when the controversy was resolved , he resigned his commission on June 14 , 1778 . Spencer first served on the Connecticut Council ( or state senate ) in 1776 . Free of military responsibility , the state sent him as a delegate to the Continental Congress in 1779 . In 1780 he was returned to the council , and served there until his death . Twice married , Spencer had sixteen children . He died in East Haddam and was buried in Millington Cemetery west of the Millington Green section of East Haddam near where he lived . Later he and his wife were re - interred at the Nathan Hale Park of East Haddam and a monument was erected in his honor .
British Army Jungle Warfare Training School The British Army Jungle Warfare Training School ( Training Team Brunei ) is the British Army ' s training establishment located at the BGB at Seria , Brunei . The courses run from the TTB which train soldiers and Royal Marine s are :
HMS Everingham ( M2626 ) HMS " Everingham " was one of 93 ships of the of inshore minesweepers . Their names were all chosen from villages ending in " - ham " . The minesweeper was named after Everingham in the East Riding of Yorkshire . < br >
Gerhard Raht Gerhard Ferdinand Otto Raht ( 6 June 1920 – 11 January 1977 ) was a German Luftwaffe night fighter ace and recipient of the Knight ' s Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves during World War II . The Knight ' s Cross of the Iron Cross and its higher grade Oak Leaves was awarded to recognise extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership . Raht claimed 58 nocturnal aerial victories in 171 combat missions .
Siege of Tottori The siege of Tottori castle in 1581 is one of the few in which starvation tactics were used to a successful completion of the siege . The forces of Toyotomi Hideyoshi cut the castle ' s supplies and surrounded it for 200 days . The siege ended when the lord of the castle , Kikkawa Tsuneie , surrendered and committed suicide .
USS Julius A . Raven ( APD - 110 ) USS " Julius A . Raven " ( APD - 110 ) , ex - DE - 600 , was a United States Navy high - speed transport in commission from 1945 to 1946 . She later served in the Republic of Korea Navy as ROKS " Ung Po " ( PG - 83 ) . Construction and commissioning . " Julius A . Raven " was laid down as the " Rudderow " - class destroyer escort USS " Julius A . Raven " ( DE - 600 ) on 26 January 1944 by Bethlehem - Hingham Shipyard , Inc . , at Hingham , Massachusetts , and was launched on 3 March 1944 , sponsored by Mrs . Irene E . Raven , the widow of the ships namesake , Lieutenant , junior grade , Julius A . Raven . The ship was reclassified as a " Crosley " - class high - speed transport and redesignated APD - 110 on 17 July 1944 . After conversion to her new role , she was commissioned on 28 June 1945 with Commander William J . Barney , Jr . , USNR , in command . Service history . After shakedown training in the Caribbean , " Julius A . Raven " served as a training ship at Miami , Florida , for student officers during her active U . S . Navy career . Decommissioning and disposal . " Julius A . Raven " was decommissioned on 31 May 1946 at Green Cove Springs , Florida , and placed in reserve there as part of the Atlantic Reserve Fleet . In July 1959 she was moved to the Texas Group , Atlantic Reserve Fleet , where she remained until stricken from the Navy List on 15 January 1966 . South Korean service . Loaned to South Korea on 13 January 1966 under the Military Assistance Program , " Julius A . Raven " became ROKS " Ung Po " ( PG - 83 ) in the Republic of Korea Navy . She later was redesignated APD - 823 and then DE - 825 . South Korea purchased " Ung Po " outright from the United States on 15 November 1974 . The Republic of Korea Navy deleted " Ung Po " in 1984 , and she subsequently was scrapped .
USS Viking ( SP - 3314 ) The second USS " Viking " ( SP - 3314 ) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in service from 1918 to 1919 . " Viking " was built in 1915 as the motorboat " Caesar " by the U . S . Navy and sold to civilian civilian owner soon afterwards without seeing any naval service . " Caesar " later was renamed " Viking " while under private ownership . She operated at Norfolk , Virginia , while in private use . On 5 September 1918 , the U . S . Navy inspected " Viking " for possible naval service , and on 24 September 1918 acquired her from her owner , Mrs . E . S . Wood , for use as a section patrol boat during World War I . She served as USS " Viking " ( SP - 3314 ) , probably in a non - commissioned status . Assigned to the 5th Naval District , " Viking " operated in the vicinity of Norfolk , presumably on patrol duties , at least through the end of World War I . On 2 February 1919 , the United States Secretary of the Navy authorized the Commandant of the 5th Naval District to dispose of " Viking " as junk . She was stricken from the Navy List on 19 February 1919 and sold on 20 February 1919 .