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644th Regional Support Group The 644th Regional Support Group ( RSG ) is a subordinate command of 103rd Sustainment Command ( Expeditionary ) . The 644th RSG was formerly called the 644th Area Support Group . under the 88th Regional Support Group prior to being transferred to the 103rd ESC . Operation Enduring Freedom . A detachment of Soldiers from 644th RSG mobilized to Joint Base McGuire - Dix - Lakehurst as part of TF Scorpion and deployed to Afghanistan as part of NATO Training Mission - Afghanistan . Distinctive Unit Insignia ( DUI ) . The Distinctive Unit Insignia is a silver color metal and enamel 1 1 / 8 inches in height overall consisting of a dark blue disc bearing a silver fleur - de - lis interlaced by a blue chevron and charges with a mullet of the like , all enclosed at top by a red scroll inscribed " NORTHERN STAR " in silver . It was approved on 31 Oct 2000 . The chevron represents the Support branch . The unit ' s motto , " Northern Star , " is recalled by a mullet and the stylized fleur - de - lis , a compass symbol for " north " and a reference to the unit ' s association with the 88th Regional Support Command . Dark blue symbolizes the firmament of the northern star . Silver denotes integrity and high ideals , scarlet signifies courage and sacrifice .
Sidney Osborne Bufton Air Vice Marshal Sidney Osborne Bufton CB , DFC ( 12 January 1908 – 29 March 1993 ) was a senior commander in the Royal Air Force during the middle part of the 20th century . He played a major part in establishing the Pathfinder project , over the objections of Arthur Harris . RAF career . Bufton joined the Royal Air Force in 1927 . As a young man he was a Welsh International Hockey player ( 1931 – 1937 ) as well as playing for the RAF and the Combined Services . He served in World War II as Officer Commanding No . 10 Squadron and then as Officer Commanding No . 76 Squadron before becoming Station Commander at RAF Pocklington in 1941 . He continued his war service as Deputy Director and then as Director of Bomber Operations . He was responsible for conceiving and forming the Pathfinder Force despite opposition from Arthur Harris . After the War he was appointed Commandant of the Central Bomber Establishment and then Deputy Chief of Staff ( Operations and Plans ) at Headquarters Air Forces Western Europe in 1948 . He was made Director of Weapons at the Air Ministry in 1951 , Air Officer Administration at Headquarters Bomber Command in 1952 and Air Officer Commanding at British Forces Aden in 1953 . His last appointments were as Senior Air Staff Officer at Headquarters Bomber Command in 1955 and as Assistant Chief of Staff ( Intelligence ) at the Air Ministry in 1958 before retiring in 1961 . After retiring from the RAF , he joined Radionic Ltd . as an inventor and later became Managing Director until 1970 .
Second Battle of the Stronghold The Second Battle of the Stronghold ( a . k . a . Lava Beds ) was a battle during the Modoc War between a band of the Native American Modoc tribe and the Army of the United States , in northeastern California . The battle began on April 15 , 1873 , and ended on April 17 , 1873 . The Army succeeded in forcing the Modoc to abandon their fortified position at Captain Jack ' s Stronghold in the Lava Beds , but failed to capture the band . Background . Following the assassination of Major General Edward Canby and another member of a peace delegation during a peace conference on April 11 , 1873 , the Army , under the command of Colonel Alvan Gillem , made preparations to attack the Stronghold . Fighting . On April 15 a general attack began , troops advancing from Gillem ' s camp on the west and Mason ' s camp at Hospital Rock , northeast of the Stronghold . Fighting continued throughout the day , the troops remaining in position during the night . Each advance of troops on the 16th was under heavy fire from the Modoc positions . That night the troops succeeded in cutting the Modoc off from their water supply at the shore of Tule Lake . By the morning of April 17 everything was in readiness for the final attack on the Stronghold . When the order was given to advance , the troops charged into the Stronghold . After the fighting along the shoreline of Tule Lake on the afternoon and night of April 16 , the Modocs defending the Stronghold realized that their water supply had been cut off by the troops commanding the shoreline . On April 17 , before the troops had received the order to charge the Stronghold , the Modoc escaped through a crevice left unguarded during a movement of troops from one position to another . Casualties . During the fighting at the Stronghold , April 15 – 17 , casualties included one officer and six enlisted men killed , and thirteen enlisted men wounded . The only Modoc casualty was a boy , reported to have been killed when a cannon ball , which he was attempting to open with an axe , exploded . Several Modoc women were reported to have died from sickness . Order of Battle . U . S . . Col . Alvan C . Gillem , 1st U . S . Cavalry commanding < br > < br > Mason ' s Command - Major Edwin C . Mason Green ' s Command - Major John Green Modoc . Modoc bands of Captain Jack , Scarface Charley and John Schonchin
Elias Briggs Baldwin Elias Briggs Baldwin ( June 17 , 1834 – Mar 26 , 1921 ) was a Union Army lieutenant colonel , later Provost Marshal , and pioneer of Labette County , Kansas . He is best remembered for his part in the Huntsville Massacre that occurred on January 10 , 1863 , near Huntsville , Arkansas . Biography . Baldwin was born in Dutchess County , New York , and raised on the family farm there . He attended high school in Red Creek , New York , and later taught school in both Rhode Island and Connecticut . On April 13 , 1861 , he joined the Union Army along with his four brothers , one of whom would be killed in action at the Battle of Resaca . He was initially elected as captain for Company C , 36th Regiment , Illinois Volunteer Infantry . The regiment was dispatched to Missouri , and in February 1862 he was made quartermaster . In August of that same year he was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel , over the 8th Regiment Missouri Volunteer Cavalry . While serving under the command of Union General Francis Herron , in Huntsville , Arkansas , Baldwin had nine local men executed on January 10 , 1863 , for reasons that still today are unknown . This became known as the " Huntsville Massacre " . Baldwin was later arrested for this event , and charged with " violation of the 6th Article of War for the murder of prisoners of war . " He was transported to Springfield , Missouri and held for trial . However , when many of the witnesses were found to be on active duty and unable to attend the trial , and many local civilian witnesses had been displaced or were otherwise unable to make the trip to Springfield , the charges against Baldwin were dropped , and he was dismissed from the army . By 1870 he was residing in Labette County , Kansas . He died in Oswego , Kansas on March 26 , 1921 .
Rapid Action Force The Rapid Action Force ( RAF ) is a specialised wing of the Indian CRPF ( Central Reserve Police Force ) . It was established on 11 December 1991 and became fully operational in October 1992 , to deal with riots and related unrest . It currently has 10 battalions which are numbered 99 to 108 in the CRPF . Administration . RAF has commanded by an IGP , functioning at New Delhi . Besides that RAF has divided to two ranges headed by a DIGP at New Delhi and Mumbai . Starting June 2012 , Mr . Rabindra Nath Misra is heading R . A . F . Riot control . This unit has been used to deal with communal violence , as well as terrorist attacks such as the November 26th attacks . Humanitarian Activities . RAF has also succeeded in projecting the human face of the Government and built bridges with the public by carrying out prompt rescue and relief operations during floods , earthquakes , cyclones and outbreak of epidemics in various parts of the country . Operations in the aftermath of the 1999 cyclone . During the super - cyclone that hit Odisha in October 1999 , six companies of RAF were deployed and carried out rescue and relief operations in five of the state ' s worst affected districts . Ten of the force ' s medical teams treated about 20 , 000 patients and provided much - needed medical and other assistance to the victims . CRPF personnel cremated about 300 decomposed bodies in Odisha ' s badly - affected Erasama block . Anti - Terror Operations . During the November 2008 Mumbai Terror Attacks , RAF was involved in cordoning the areas around the Oberoi Trident and the Taj Mahal hotels . Women in the RAF . CRPF is the only Paramilitary Force in the country to have two women battalions . The first such battalion was raised in 1986 with its headquarters at New Delhi . The second battalion came into existence in 1996 at Gandhinagar , Gujarat .
Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry ( June 5 , 1825 – February 12 , 1903 ) was a lawyer , soldier , U . S . Congressman , college professor and administrator , diplomat , and officer in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War . Biography . Curry was born in Lincoln County , Georgia , the son of Jabez and Rebecca Jordan Curry . His father , scion of a prominent Southern family , was cousin of Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar , the second president of the Republic of Texas and husband of Tabitha Jordan Curry , J . L . M . Curry ' s aunt . Curry grew up in Alabama and graduated from the University of Georgia in 1843 where he was a member of the Phi Kappa Literary Society . While studying at Harvard Law School , Curry was inspired by the lectures of Horace Mann and became an advocate of free universal education . He served in the Mexican - American War ; in the Alabama State Legislature in 1847 , 1853 , and 1855 ; in the United States House of Representatives in 1857 – 61 ; and in the Confederate Congress . As a lieutenant colonel in the Confederate Army , he was a staff aide to General Joseph E . Johnston and General Joseph Wheeler . After the war he studied for the ministry and became a preacher , but the focus of his work was free education in the South . He traveled and lectured in support of state normal schools , adequate rural schools , and a system of graded public schools . He was president of Howard College , Alabama , and a professor at Richmond College , Virginia . From 1881 until his death he was agent for the Peabody and Slater Funds to aide schools in the South and was instrumental in the founding of the Southern Education Board . The Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia is named for him . Curry served as envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Spain during 1885 – 1888 and as ambassador extraordinary to Spain on the coming of age of King Alfonso XIII in 1902 . His publications include works on education , American government , and Spanish history . He was awarded the Royal Order of Charles III and several honorary degrees . Curry died on February 12 , 1903 , and is buried in Richmond , Virginia . His wife is buried in Talladega , Alabama , where their home , the J . L . M . Curry House , also called the Curry - Burt - Smelley House , still stands , a National Historic Landmark today . Until October 2009 , Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry was honored by one of Alabama ' s two statues in the United States Capitol ' s National Statuary Hall Collection . It was donated in 1908 and sculpted by Dante Sodini . In October 2009 , the statue was replaced with one of Helen Keller , and Curry ' s statue went to Samford University .
ARA Gómez Roca ( P - 46 ) ARA " Gómez Roca " ( P - 46 ) is the sixth and last ship of the MEKO 140A16 " Espora " series of six corvettes built for the Argentine Navy . The ship is the first ship to bear the name of Lieutenant Commander Sergio Gómez Roca , who commanded the Argentine patrol ship ARA " Alferez Sobral " during the Falklands War ( ) and died in combat when the ship was attacked by Royal Navy helicopters . Originally the ship was to have been named " Seaver " after Captain Benjamin Seaver , a US - born naval hero of the Argentine War of Independence . Origin . " Gómez Roca " and her sister ships were part of the 1974 Naval Constructions National Plan , an initiative by the Argentine Navy to replace old World War II - vintage ships with more advanced warships . The original plan called for six MEKO 360H2 destroyers , four of them to be built in Argentina , but the plan was later modified to include four MEKO destroyers and six corvettes for anti - surface warfare and patrol operations . Construction . " Gómez Roca " was constructed at the Río Santiago Shipyards of the Astilleros y Fábricas Navales del Estado ( State Shipyards and Naval Factories ) state corporation . Her keel was laid down on 7 June 1983 and was launched on 14 November 1984 . Fitting out of " Gómez Roca " and her sister ship " Robinson " was suspended in 1992 , briefly resumed in July 1994 and finally started again on 18 July 1997 . Following the resumption of construction , the ship was delivered to the Navy in 2004 and commissioned in 2005 . Both " Robinson " and " Gómez Roca " benefitted from their construction delay with better automation , communication and electronic systems than their four sister ships . As with " Parker " and " Robinson " , " Gómez Roca " is fitted with a telescopic hangar . Service history . Following her commissioning " Gómez Roca " participated in several naval exercises and conducted fishery patrol duties in the Argentine Exclusive Economic Zone . She is homeported at Puerto Belgrano Naval Base and is part of the Navy ' s 2nd Corvette Division with her five sister ships . In March 2010 , she operated with the during the Gringo - Gaucho / Southern Seas 2010 exercises as the aircraft carrier transited around South America to her new home base at San Diego .
The Invasion of Canada The Invasion of Canada is a 1980 book by Pierre Berton . The book is an account of the first year of the War of 1812 , and the events leading up to it . Details of the book were drawn from memoirs and diaries of both common soldiers and commanding officers , as well as official military correspondence . The story of the war , to its conclusion , was continued in the follow - up book , " Flames Across the Border " ( 1981 ) .
Newton T . Gould Newton Thomas Gould ( May 14 , 1843 – April 2 , 1925 ) was a Union Army soldier during the American Civil War . He received the Medal of Honor for gallantry during the Siege of Vicksburg on May 22 , 1863 . Gould joined the 113th Illinois Infantry in August 1862 , and was mustered out in June 1865 . He died on April 2 , 1925 , at age 81 and was buried at Old City Cemetery in Sacramento , California . Union assault . On May 22 , 1863 , General Ulysses S . Grant ordered an assault on the Confederate heights at Vicksburg , Mississippi . The plan called for a storming party of volunteers to build a bridge across a moat and plant scaling ladders against the enemy embankment in advance of the main attack . The volunteers knew the odds were against survival and the mission was called , in nineteenth century vernacular , a " forlorn hope " . Only single men were accepted as volunteers and even then , twice as many men as needed came forward and were turned away . The assault began in the early morning following a naval bombardment . The Union soldiers came under enemy fire immediately and were pinned down in the ditch they were to cross . Despite repeated attacks by the main Union body , the men of the forlorn hope were unable to retreat until nightfall . Of the 150 men in the storming party , nearly half were killed . Seventy - nine of the survivors were awarded the Medal of Honor . Medal of Honor citation . " For gallantry in the charge of the volunteer storming party on 22 May 1863 . "
Christopher Ferguson Christopher J . Ferguson ( born September 1 , 1961 ) is a retired United States Navy Captain and NASA astronaut . He was the pilot of Space Shuttle " Atlantis " on his first mission to space , STS - 115 , which launched on September 9 , 2006 and returned to Earth on September 21 , 2006 . He then commanded STS - 126 aboard . Ferguson was assigned as commander of STS - 135 , which was the final mission of the space shuttle program . On December 9 , 2011 , he retired from NASA for a new job in the private sector . Biography . Education . Born in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , He attended Archbishop Ryan High School , Ferguson received a bachelor of science degree in mechanical engineering from Drexel University in 1984 , and earned his Master of Science degree in aeronautical engineering from the Naval Postgraduate School in 1991 . Military career . Ferguson was commissioned from the Navy ROTC program at the University of Pennsylvania . He received his Naval Aviator wings in NAS Kingsville , Texas in 1986 and was ordered to the F - 14 Tomcat training squadron in Virginia Beach , Virginia . After a brief period of instruction , he joined the ‘ Red Rippers ’ of VF - 11 deploying to the North Atlantic , Mediterranean and Indian Ocean on board the USS Forrestal ( CV - 59 ) . While with VF - 11 , he also attended the Navy Fighter Weapons School ( TOPGUN ) . He was selected for the United States Naval Test Pilot School program in 1989 and graduated in 1992 . Through June 1994 he was assigned to the Weapons Branch of the Strike Aircraft Test Directorate at the Naval Air Station Patuxent River , Maryland where he served as the project officer for the F - 14D weapon separation program , becoming the first pilot to release several types of air - to - ground weapons from the Tomcat . He served one year as an instructor at the Naval Test Pilot School before joining the ‘ Checkmates ’ of VF - 211 in 1995 and completing a deployment to the Western Pacific and Persian Gulf in defense of the Iraqi no - fly zone on board the USS " Nimitz " . He briefly served as an F - 14 logistics officer for the Atlantic Fleet prior to his selection to the space program . NASA career . Ferguson served as CAPCOM for the STS - 118 mission , and told the crew of " Endeavour " " Welcome home . You ' ve given a new meaning to higher education , " as they touched down safely . He also served as CAPCOM for the STS - 128 and STS - 129 missions . Ferguson retired from NASA on December 9 , 2011 . Post - NASA career . Ferguson currently works for The Boeing Company as director of Crew and Mission Operations for Boeing ’ s Commercial Crew Program . Personal . Ferguson , who is of Scottish and Polish descent , is married to Sandra and has three children . When he was in space for his wedding anniversary , NASA played the Frankie Valli song " Can ' t Take My Eyes Off You " as the wake - up music that morning , after which Ferguson wished his wife a happy anniversary . MP3
USS Vigil ( AGR - 12 ) USS " Vigil " ( AGR - 12 / YAGR - 12 ) was a " Guardian " - class radar picket ship acquired by the U . S . Navy in 1956 from the " mothballed " reserve fleet . She was reconfigured as a radar picket ship and assigned to radar picket duty in the North Atlantic Ocean as part of the Distant Early Warning Line . Liberty ship built in Florida . " SS Raymond Van Brogan " was laid down under a U . S . Maritime Commission contract ( MCE hull 2339 ) on 14 December 1944 at the Wainwright yard of the J . A . Jones Construction Co . in Panama City , Florida ; launched on 27 January 1945 ; sponsored by Mrs . Mary Anne Durham ; and delivered to the War Shipping Administration on 10 February 1945 . World War II services . Following a shakedown cruise in the Gulf of Mexico , the ship transited the Panama Canal on 19 February and headed for Terminal Island , California , where she was turned over to A . J . Bull & Co . for operation under contract to the War Shipping Administration . She performed several resupply missions in the Pacific Ocean theater , carrying aircraft as well as other materiel and some troops . Following the end of World War II , the War Shipping Administration transferred her contract to the Waterman Steamship Corporation , which firm operated her from Mobile , Alabama . In the summer of 1947 , " SS Raymond Van Brogan " was taken out of service and berthed with the National Defense Reserve Fleet at Mobile , Alabama . Conversion to radar picket . Nine years later , in June 1956 , she was brought out of the U . S . Maritime Commission ' s reserve fleet for conversion to a radar picket ship and active service with the Navy . She was moved to Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , where she completed her conversion at the naval shipyard . On 7 August 1956 , she received a new name and her Navy hull designation to become " Vigil " ( YAGR - 12 ) . She completed conversion early in 1957 and was placed in service on 5 March 1957 , Lt . Comdr . Stanley Abstetar , USNR , in command . During " Vigil ' s " eight - year naval career , she was assigned to the Continental Air Defense Command and served as one of that organization ' s radar picket ships operating as seaward extensions of its radar coverage system . The ship operated out of Davisville , Rhode Island , during her entire period of service and spent on the average of 200 days per year actually engaged in picket patrols in waters off the coast of New England . On 28 September 1958 , she was redesignated " AGR - 12 " , thereby dropping her yard craft designation and becoming a commissioned auxiliary . Decommissioning . On 3 March 1965 , " Vigil " was placed out of commission . Her name was struck from the Navy List on 1 April 1965 , and she was returned to the U . S . Maritime Commission for lay up with the Hudson River Group of the National Defense Reserve Fleet . On 23 November 1970 , she was sold to the Spanish firm , " Revalorizacion de Materiales " , for scrapping . Honors and awards . " Vigil " personnel qualified for the following medals :
Uchi - bukuro Uchi - bukuro a type of Japanese attire employed by the samurai class primarily around the Sengoku period ( 16th century ) of Japan . The Uchi - bukuro translated as a money purse that was usually carried at the waist or around the neck . These ways are known as being rather inconvenient , however . The best known way within feudal Japan to carry money is to paste old Japanese coins onto a folded strip of thick paper and put it between the collar s of the under area of the armor .