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Jack Ramsaur II Major General Jack W . Ramsaur II ( born c . 1952 ) is the mobilization assistant to the commander , United States Strategic Command , Offutt Air Force Base , Nebraska . He is the principal advisor to the commander on Reserve Component matters . He assists the director in planning and executing all assigned missions . Biography . The general began his Air Force career in 1974 upon receiving his commission through the Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps . His first operational assignment was at Barksdale Air Force Base , LA where he served as a KC - 135 pilot and simulator instructor for the 71st Air Refueling Squadron ; from there he transferred to the 78th Air Refueling Squadron as a pilot and evaluator . His subsequent positions include instructor pilot of the 76th Air Refueling Squadron , McGuire Air Force Base , N . J . , squadron commander of the 970th Associate Airborne Control Squadron , Tinker Air Force Base , OK . , senior individual mobilization augmentee to the director , plans and programs , Headquarters Air Force , Pentagon , Washington D . C . , assistant deputy commander of operations of the 340th Flying Training Group , Randolph Air Force Base , Texas , vice commander of the 916th Air Refueling Wing , Seymour Johnson Air Force Base , N . C . , and mobilization assistant , commander of the 19th Air Force , Randolph Air Force Base , Texas . Prior to his current position he was the mobilization assistant , director of global operations , USSTRATCOM , Offutt Air Force Base , Neb . General Ramsaur is a command pilot with more than 5 , 300 hours in the B - 707 , B - 727 , E - 3 , C - 18 , DC - 10 , KC - 10 , KC - 135A / R , T - 37 , T - 38 and T - 1 aircraft . The general earned a Bachelor of Science and Master of Arts degree at Louisiana Tech University . He attended : Squadron Officer School by correspondence ; Air Command and Staff by correspondence ; Air War College by correspondence . Awards . His major awards include the Defense Superior Service Medal , Legion of Merit , the Meritorious Service Medal with two oak leaf clusters , the Aerial Achievement Medal , the Air Force Commendation Medal and the Air Force Achievement Medal with one oak leaf cluster .
Voltigeur - class destroyer The " Voltigeur " class was a class of two destroyer s of the French Navy built between 1908 / 09 , used during the First World War . The ships were modelled on the preceding . The machinery consisted of three shafts : the central shaft had a triple expansion engine for economical cruising and the two outer shafts had Rateau ( " Voltigeur " ) or Breguet ( " Tirailleur " ) turbines for additional speed , all powered by four Normand ( " Voltigeur " ) or Du Temple ( " Tirailleur " ) boilers .
Aarne Arvonen Aarne Armas " Arska " Arvonen ( 4 August 1897 – 1 January 2009 ) was , at age 111 , a Finnish supercentenarian , the all - time oldest living male person in Finland . Arvonen was also the last living person in Finland born in the 19th century . He was the third - oldest man in Europe since the death of 110 - year - old Frenchman Aimé Avignon , on 23 August 2007 . He also became the seventh - oldest man in the world upon the death of American George Francis on 27 December 2008 . Biography . Arvonen was born in Helsinki and was the last surviving veteran of the Finnish Civil War of 1918 having served for the Red Guard . Arvonen later lived in Kallio , Helsinki , and had two daughters , Irma and Paula , with his wife Sylvi Emilia Salonen . At this time Arvonen was a smoker . His wife died in 1938 , and that year he moved to Järvenpää , where he eventually lived in the Vanhankylänniemi rest home . In the summer of 2005 , Arvonen was still living in a house he had built himself . Soon afterwards , however , he was hospitalized due to nephritis . He recovered from the inflammation , and his health was good still in 2008 , but he had lost his sight and needed a hearing aid . Arvonen was interested in astronomy since his childhood , and in 1921 he became a founding member of the Finnish amateur astronomy association Ursa . His membership lasted nearly 87 years . He visited London during his centenary celebrations in 1997 , and celebrated his 111th birthday in 2008 with his family , but skipped his yearly trip to the local McArthur pub , making it a low key affair . At the time of his death in January 2009 , Arvonen ranked among the 20 oldest verified European men ever .
German submarine U - 285 German submarine " U - 285 " was a Type VIIC U - boat of the Nazi German " Kriegsmarine " during World War II . The submarine was laid down on 7 July 1942 at the " Bremer Vulkan " yard at Bremen - Vegesack as ' werk ' 50 . She was launched on 3 April 1943 and commissioned on 15 May under the command of " Oberleutnant " Otto Walter . Service history . " U - 285 " served with the 8th U - boat Flotilla for training from May to July 1944 and operationally with the 7th flotilla from 1 August . She was then reassigned to the 11th flotilla on 1 October . She carried out three patrols , sinking no ships . The boat ' s first patrol was preceded by a short voyage from Kiel on 15 August 1944 to Kristiansand in Norway , arriving there on 20 August . 1st and 2nd patrols . " U - 285 " s first patrol proper took her to northwest Scotland . She docked at Bergen on 18 September 1944 . Her second sortie was west of Ireland and into the St . George ' s Channel , ( between southeast Ireland and southwest Wales ) . She had passed between Iceland and the Faroe Islands and into the Atlantic Ocean . The submarine returned to Bergen on 31 January 1945 . 3rd patrol and loss . The boat was attacked and sunk by depth charge s dropped from the British frigates HMS " Grindall and " Keats " on 15 April 1945 southwest of Ireland . Forty - four men died ; there were no survivors .
P - 25 mine The P - 25 is a plastic cased Italian anti - personnel stake mine . It was developed along with the larger P - 40 mine in the late 1970s by Misar SpA and entered production in 1978 . The mine consists of a plastic cylinder with a fuse protruding from the top . The mine can either be stake mounted or buried , although it was designed to be stake mounted . Pull pressure on the tripwire results in the fuse head tilting sideways , releasing a striker into the detonator assembly . The mine has a steel fragmentation liner , which when it detonates scatters fragments to an effective radius of 15 meters . The mine has been sold to Iraq ( 1980 ) , Iran ( 1984 ) and to Australia , to whom , in 1986 , the production technology was licensed . Production of the mine has ceased , and all Italian operational stocks of the mine have been destroyed .
Lucius Arruntius the Elder Lucius Arruntius ( ca . 60 BC – AD 10 ) was a Roman admiral . He saw action during the War with Sextus Pompeius , and the war of Mark Antony and Augustus . He is most notable for his participation during the Battle of Actium , where he was in command of victorious Augustus ' central division . He was also instrumental in convincing Octavian to pardon Gaius Sosius , one of Mark Antony ' s generals , after his capture . Arruntius was consul in 22 BC . He was one of the great military men in the regime whose loyal sword at Augustus ' bidding helped deter would - be challengers . His son of the same name Lucius Arruntius the Younger was consul in AD 6 . The younger Arruntius played a prominent role in the Senate in the days after Augustus died . Martha Hoffman Lewis included Arruntius among those elevated to patrician status in 29 . He attended the Ludi Saeculares in 17 according to an inscription CIL 6 . 32323 = ILS 5050 as a quindecimvir . According to Gaius Stern , he appears on the Ara Pacis within the college of the quindecimviri sacris faciundis . A Lucius Arruntius is also mentioned in Seneca ' s " Epistulae morales ad Lucilium " ( " Ep . Mor . " 114 . 17 ) as an imitator of Sallustius ' literary style and as the author of a historical work on the Punic War . This could either be the Arruntius mentioned above or his son , the consul of AD 6 . An adopted grandson , Lucius Arruntius Camillus Scribonianus ( cos . AD 32 ) , rebelled against Claudius in a brief civil war , but committed suicide when the rebellion failed in AD 42 .
VMG 1927 The VMG 1927 is a light machine gun designed by Heinrich Vollmer . In 1916 Heinrich Vollmer began working on a design of a light machine gun . At the end the weapon was known as a MG Vollmer , later also as VMG 1927 . It consisted of only 78 parts while the standard MG of those days , the MG 08 / 15 consisted of 383 parts . It operated on the principle of short recoil with a rotary locking mechanism for the bolt , carried by helical grooves . It was fed from a small drum magazine underneath the receiver . In 1927 Vollmer also obtained a patent covering the breech mechanism of the weapon . Later on , Vollmer co - developed the gun with Mauser Werke as the MV 31 ( Mauser - Vollmer 1931 ) . It was offered for to the German ordnance board ( Inspektion für Waffen und Gerät - IWG ) but , after testing , it was not adopted for service . This guns had a quick - change barrel and used a drum magazine . Two exemplars are known to exist , one is at the and the other at the .
David Starkey ( maritime historian ) Professor David J Starkey ( born 1954 ) is a specialist in eighteenth - and nineteenth - century British maritime history . His research focuses on shipping , seafaring , privateering , fisheries and marine environmental history . Life . He works at the University of Hull where he is director of the Maritime Historical Studies Centre . Starkey is co - president of the North Atlantic Fisheries History Association ( NAFHA ) , and chairman of the British Commission for Maritime History .
Alexandroni Brigade The Alexandroni Brigade ( 3rd Brigade ) is an Israel Defense Forces brigade that fought in the 1948 Arab - Israeli war . Along with the 7th Armoured Brigade both units had 139 killed during the first battle of Latrun - Operation Ben Nun Alef ( an attempt to conquer the Latrun area ) . The unit is currently a reserve unit . Katz controversy . In 1998 , Teddy Katz wrote a master ' s thesis at Haifa University arguing that the Alexandroni Brigade committed a massacre in the Palestinian village of Tantura during the 1948 Arab - Israeli war . The veterans of the brigade sued Katz for libel . During the court hearing Katz conceded by issuing a statement withdrawing his own work . He then tried to withdraw his statement , but the court disallowed it and ruled against him . A committee at Haifa University found problems with the thesis and ruled that it : " failed at the stage of presenting the raw material for the reader ' s judgment , both in terms of its organization according to strict criteria of classification and criticism , and in terms of the apparent instances of disregard for the interviewees ' testimony " . Some quotations in the thesis did not accord with interview recordings . The university suspended his degree and asked him to resubmit his thesis . The new thesis was rejected .
USS Sumpter ( 1853 ) USS " Sumpter " was a steamship in the United States Navy during the American Civil War . " Sumpter " or " Sumter " , ex - " Atlanta " , ex - " Parker Vein " , was built in 1853 by Hillman and Streaker , Philadelphia , Pennsylvania . The merchant steamer " Atlanta " was chartered by the Navy on 13 September 1858 , to take part in the expedition against Paraguay ; purchased outright on 26 May 1859 , and renamed " Sumpter " . Service history . Under the command of Commander Daniel R . Ridgely , " Atlanta " and 18 other warships arrived at Asunción , on 25 January 1859 , to take action against that country for firing on in 1855 . However , the government of Paraguay offered an apology and paid an indemnity which settled the affair without resorting to violence . When the squadron returned to the United States , the ship was purchased outright and renamed " Sumpter " . " Sumpter " and four other screw steamers were assigned to cruise the coasts of Cuba and Africa to suppress the slave trade . " Sumpter " sailed from the west coast of Africa , on 10 August 1861 , and returned to the United States on 15 September . On 6 January 1862 , " Sumpter " was ordered to report to Port Royal , South Carolina , and join the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron and on 2 February was reported to have joined the squadron , and the next day sailed to Charleston . On 18 March , she participated in the capture of the British blockade runner " Emil St . Pierre " off that port . The ship returned to Port Royal , on 23 April , for repairs and departed on the 29th to take station off Wassaw Inlet , Georgia . " Sumpter " rejoined the blockade off Charleston in early May and remained there until August . In mid - May , she sent a boat to Port Pulaski to gain information regarding Confederate gunboats ; but the boat wandered into St . Augustine Creek , near Fort Jackson , and was captured . She was then ordered to Fernandina , Florida , to join the blockade there . The steamer sailed from there on 6 October en route to New York City for repairs , via Port Royal . After her repairs were completed , " Sumpter " was assigned to the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron at Hampton Roads . Her duty was to search for Confederate cruiser s and blockade runners . She was stationed off Hampton Bar in May 1863 but , the following month , was sent to the Yorktown , Virginia area to search for the Confederate privateer , " Clarence " . In the morning of 24 June , she collided with the Union transport , eight or nine miles from the Smith Island lighthouse and sank in seven fathoms of water . The officers and crew were rescued by and taken to Newport News , Virginia . As of 2005 , no other ship in the United States Navy has borne the Sumpter name , although there was a USS Sumter ( APA - 52 ) which served with the US Navy during World War II and the USS Sumter ( LST - 1181 ) decommissioned in 1993 .
Vereen Bell Vereen M . Bell ( 5 October 1911 – 26 October 1944 ) was an American novelist and naval officer , who was killed on active duty during World War II . Early life . Born in Cairo , Georgia , he graduated from Davidson College in North Carolina in 1932 . Career . Bell wrote the novel " Swamp Water " set in the Okefenokee Swamp , which was originally published in 1940 as a serial in the " Saturday Evening Post " . The novel was successfully adapted as a film ( B & W ) of the same title in 1941 and again as a color film , " Lure of The Wilderness " , in 1952 . Previously he had edited magazines and written short stories . Bell continued writing during his service in the navy . In May 1944 he was observed pecking at a typewriter in a stateroom aboard the Gambier Bay . The working title of his last work was " The Renegade Queen " . Death . During World War II Bell was a lieutenant assigned to Composite Squadron VC - 10 aboard the USS Gambier Bay ( CVE - 73 ) as an intelligence officer . On the day of the attack by Kurita ' s Center Force , October 25 , Bell rushed to the ready room to put on his flying gear but was ordered by Commander Huxtible to remain on board . Bell survived the sinking of the Gambier Bay but succumbed to exposure and delirium sometime during the evening of the 26th . Honors . Davidson College today awards the Vereen Bell Award for creative writing in his honor . Further reading . Vereen Bell , " Brag Dog and Other Stories : The Best of Vereen Bell " , Belgrade , Mont . , Wilderness Adventures Press , 2000 . < br > Alexander Sesonske , " Jean Renoir in Georgia : " Swamp Water " , " " Georgia Review " 26 ( Spring 1982 ) , pp 24 – 66 .
Denis Decrès Denis Decrès , ( 18 June 1761 – 7 December 1820 ) , was an officer of the French Navy and count , later duke of the First Empire . Early career . Decrès was born in Châteauvillain , Haute - Marne on 18 June 1761 and joined the Navy at the age of 18 , in the squadron of Admiral De Grasse . He took part in the Battle of the Saintes in 1782 , where he was promoted to " enseigne de vaisseau " , and was in India when the French Revolution broke out . Revolution era . In October 1793 , Decrès was sent as a messenger to request assistance for the Isle de France ( now Mauritius ) . He was arrested on his arrival in Lorient , on 10 April 1794 , for being a member of the nobility . He was restored to his rank of capitaine de vaisseau in June 1795 , and promoted to command of the 80 - gun ship " Formidable " in October 1795 . While in command of her , he took part , as a division commander , in the attempt to invade Ireland in 1796 . Promoted to contre - amiral in April 1798 , he was in command of a light squadron during the campaign in Egypt , covering the landing on Malta . Napoleon appointed him to command the frigate squadron accompanying Brueys ' s fleet in the expedition to Egypt , and took part in the Battle of the Nile on the 40 - gun frigate " Diane " and managed to escape to Malta , where he hoisted his flag aboard the 80 - gun ship " Guillaume Tell " . During the period of 1799 - 1800 , Decrès had under his command a rear admiral , Jacques Bedout , whom he saw fit to relieve of his command . Bedout ' s subsequent resignation was refused and in 1802 , Napoleon gave Bedout a five - ship squadron . The flagship was the " Argonaute " . Consulate and First Empire . Attacked by three British ships as he was trying to break the blockade of Malta on 30 March 1800 , with 200 sick and 1000 soldiers aboard , he surrendered early next day , after a defence of nearly eight hours , after disabling two of his opponents , and with half of his crew killed or wounded . He was exchanged in August 1800 , and returned to France , where the First Consul personally gave him an honour sabre - a grant of the " Arms of Honour " which Napoleon had introduced as a decoration before instituting the Légion d ' honneur - and appointed him as maritime prefect at Lorient . From 3 October 1801 to the end of the Empire on 1 April 1814 , he served as Napoleon ' s Minister of the Navy . During this period , he was again promoted - this time to vice - amiral - on 30 May 1804 , and was made a duke in April 1813 . Upon Napoleon ' s return from Elba to France , Decrès briefly resumed his post as Minister of the Navy again during the Hundred Days from 20 March to 22 June 1815 , and from then until his successor was appointed on 7 July . He died in a fire at his house in Paris on 7 December 1820 , set by one of his servants who was trying to kill and rob him . He is buried in Père Lachaise Cemetery . He played a great role in the organization of the French Navy , but is rumoured to have chosen mediocre collaborators , out of jealousy .
USNS Sampan Hitch ( T - AGM - 18 ) USNS " Sampan Hitch " ( T - AGM - 18 ) was a missile range instrumentation ship which earlier operated as the U . S . Air Force " Ocean Range Vessel " USAFS " Sampan Hitch " ( ORV - 1836 ) on the U . S . Air Force ' s Eastern Test Range during the late 1950s and early 1960s . " Sampan Hitch " operated under an Air Force contract with Pan American Airways Guided Missile Range Division headquartered in Cocoa Beach , Florida . " Sampan Hitch " , assigned to the South Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean area , provided the Air Force with metric data on intercontinental ballistic missiles launched from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station ( CCAFS ) in Florida . " Sampan Hitch " operated in the intercontinental ballistic missile re - entry area near Ascension Island , and was home - ported out of South Atlantic Fleet Hqtrs , Chagaramus ( Port of Spain ) Trinidad , BWI . Acquisition by the Navy . " Sampan Hitch " was acquired from the U . S . Air Force by the U . S . Navy in 1964 . Operational data . Operational data while on U . S . Navy service during post - 1964 period on this vessel is lacking . Inactivation . " Sampan Hitch " was struck from the Navy List at an unknown date , and was sold for scrapping 23 April 1973 to Dongkuk Steel Mill Company , Ltd . , South Korea . Her subsequent fate is not known .
HMS Menelaus ( 1810 ) HMS " Menelaus " was a Royal Navy 38 - gun fifth rate frigate , launched in 1810 at Plymouth . Career . " Menelaus " entered service in 1810 under the command of Captain Peter Parker , and within weeks of commissioning was involved in the suppression of a mutiny aboard HMS " Africaine " . The notoriously brutal Captain Robert Corbet had been appointed to command " Africaine " and the crew had protested and refused to allow him to board . The Admiralty sent three popular officers to negotiate with the crew and ordered " Menelaus " to come alongside . If the crew of " Africaine " refused to agree with the appointment of Corbet , Parker had been ordered to fire on the ship until they submitted . The crew eventually agreed to allow Corbet aboard and " Menelaus " was not needed . In the summer of 1810 , Parker was ordered to sail for the Indian Ocean to reinforce the squadron operating against Île de France and participated in the capture of the island in December 1810 . In 1812 , " Menelaus " was part of the blockade of Toulon in the Mediterranean and operated against coastal harbours , shipping and privateers off the southern coast of France with some success . In 1813 , the frigate was transferred to the Atlantic for service convoying merchant ships to Canada in the War of 1812 . " Menelaus " was subsequently employed in raiding American positions along the Maryland coastline , destroying a coastal convoy in September . In 1814 , Parker was ordered to operate against French ships in the Atlantic and recaptured a valuable Spanish merchant ship in January . Following the French surrender , " Menelaus " returned to service off the American seaboard . " Menelaus " ' was sent up the Chesapeake to divert the attention of the enemy in that quarter , ' whilst General Ross ' s force was landed at Benedict . Thereafter , Peter Parker was killed at the Battle of Caulk ' s Field in Kent County , Maryland , on 30 August 1814 . From 13 to 15 September , " Menelaus " was present at the Battle of Baltimore , with one of her complement , William Pritchard , being hospitalised after losing two fingers . On 19 July 1815 , " Menelaus " was in company with , , , " Ferret " and when they captured the French vessels " Fortune " , " Papillon " , " Marie Graty " , " Marie Victorine " , " Cannoniere " , and " Printemps " . The attack took place at Corrijou ( Koréjou , east of Abervrach on the coast of Brittany ) , and during the action " Ferret " was able to prevent the escape of a French man - of - war brig that she forced ashore . Apparently , this cutting out expedition was the last of the war . Later career and fate . Following Parker ' s death , command passed to Edward Dix and he remained on the ship until she was laid up at Sheerness in 1818 . In 1820 she moved to Chatham and in 1832 became a hospital ship , becoming the quarantine ship at Sandgate Street . She was eventually sold 87 years after her construction , in 1897 .
39th Regiment Royal Artillery The Regiment is based in Newcastle . As of 2011 , the regiment was equipped with the Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System ( GMLRS ) . They will be the first unit to deploy the new Fire Shadow loitering munition ; training has already begun and they were planned to take it to Afghanistan in 2012 . The regiment recently deployed Batteries on Op Herrick and have fired the first GMLRS rounds in theatre . Under Future of the British Army ( Army 2020 ) , the regiment is being disbanded and its GMRLS launchers transferred to the other regiments and the Territorial Army . History . Recruiting Areas . 39 Regiment changed its recruiting area to cover Wales , and is now known as " The Welsh Gunners " . Before this they were known as the Northumberland Gunners , and prior to 1995 the Birmingham Gunners .