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Li Jinai Li Jinai ( ) ( b . July 1942 ) is a general in the People ' s Liberation Army . Biography . Li Jinai was born in Tengzhou , Shandong province in July 1942 . He joined the Chinese Communist Party ( CPC ) in May 1965 and joined the People ' s Liberation Army in December 1967 . He graduated from the Harbin Institute of Technology in 1966 majoring in Engineering Mechanics . He was rose to the General Political Department of the PLA in 1985 and became the deputy director there in 1990 . From 1992 to 1998 , he served the State Commission of Science and Technology for National Defense Industry as deputy political commissar and later political commissar . From 1998 to 2002 , he was the political commissar and vice party ' s secretary of the General Armament Department and was elected as director of that department as well as a member of the Central Military Commission ( CMC ) of the Communist Party in 2002 . One year later , he was elected as a member of CMC of the state . In September 2004 , he was appointed the director of the General Political Department of the PLA while holding the position of member of CMC of the party and the state . He was an alternate member of the 14th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and a regular member of the 15th , 16th and 17th central committees .
Battle of Qurna The Battle of Qurna , ( 3 to 9 December 1914 ) was between British forces and Ottoman forces that had retreated from Basra , which they lost at the Battle of Basra ( 1914 ) during the Mesopotamian campaign of World War I . Background . By capturing Basra , the British had taken an important communications and industrial centre . The Ottomans retreated up the Tigris River . The British need to secure their position in Basra and the oil fields at Abadan . After the defeat at Basra , the Ottomans decided to take up a defensive position at the small town of Qurna to the north . Since both the Tigris and Euphrates join together at Qurna , it made for an ideal position to make a stand since the British would have to cross the two rivers . The Ottomans had about 1 , 000 men under the command of Colonel Subhi Bey , the Wali or Governor of Basra . The British had about 2 , 100 under Major General C . I . Fry . The battle . On 3 December , the Ottomans were dug in at Qurna . A British force of two Indian battalions ; the 104th Wellesley ' s Rifles and the 110th Mahratta Light Infantry , and a double company of British soldiers from the Norfolk Regiment accompanied by several gunboats attacked them . The Royal Navy vessels on the Euphrates kept the Ottomans under fire while British troops managed to cross the Tigris . The British and Indian troops advanced across open ground but no crossing could be made across the river into Qurna itself . The British force retired . On the 6th , reinforced by the rest of the Norfolk Regiment , the 7th Rajput s and 120th Infantry and some mountain guns , they tried again . The Ottomans had moved back into positions they had lost in the previous engagement so the British and Indian troops had to re - take those positions . Again they drove the Ottomans back but could not cross the river into Qurna . On the 8th the 104th and 110th Infantry were sent up the Tigris to find a place to cross . They did , and in doing so cut the Ottomans off from retreat to the north while the gunboats kept up an effective bombardment of their positions in the town . The night of the 8th an Ottoman steamer sailed down the river with lights and sirens blazing . Lieutenant Commander Wilfrid Nunn of the British gunboat Espiegle took aboard three Ottoman officers . The Ottomans wanted to surrender the town and march away . Nunn , who was not in touch with Fry , insisted on unconditional surrender which upset the Ottomans . However they eventually agreed . On the 9th of December , the Ottoman commander , Colonel Subhi Bey , the Wali or Governor of Basra , surrendered his forces . Going into captivity were 42 Ottoman officers and 989 soldiers . The British / Indian losses were 27 soldiers killed and 242 wounded and two sailors killed and 10 wounded . Aftermath . Despite being more of a skirmish than a battle , the Battle of Qurna is important because it gave the British a secure front line in Southern Mesopotamia . Basra was secure , and the oil refineries at Abadan in Persia were safe . However , the Ottomans would try again at Shaiba and the British would later launch an offensive to take Baghdad .
USNS Montford Point ( T - MLP - 1 ) USNS " Montford Point " ( T - MLP - 1 ) , the lead ship of her class of Mobile Landing Platform s ( MLP ) , is a ship named in honor of African American Marine Corps recruits who trained at Montford Point Camp , North Carolina , from 1942 to 1949 . After $ 115 million was allocated for long - lead time material and advanced design efforts , in late 2010 General Dynamics ' s National Steel and Shipbuilding Company was awarded the contract , worth approximately $ 500 million , to build the first of three planned vessels . Design . The Mobile Landing Platform is a new concept , part of the Maritime Prepositioning Force of the future . To control costs , the ships will not be built to combat vessel standards and are designed primarily to support three military hovercraft ( such as the Landing Craft Air Cushion ) , vehicle staging with a sideport ramp and large mooring fenders . A decision was made to eliminate helicopter capability and ship - to - ship transfer of heavy equipment . An auxiliary support ship , " Montford Point " s role would be a seagoing pier for friendly forces in case accessibility to onshore bases are denied . Such flexibility would be useful following natural disaster s and for supporting US Marines once they are ashore . The MLP in its basic form possesses a core capability set that supports a vehicle staging area , side port ramp , large mooring fenders and up to three landing craft air cushioned vessel lanes . The propulsion motors are of British design and build . Power conversion company Converteam was selected as the supplier of Integrated Power Systems with the award of an additional contract to design and supply the electric power , propulsion and vessel automation system . Construction . " Montford Point " s keel was laid down in San Diego , California , on 19 January 2012 . The honoree of the keel - laying ceremony was Mrs . Pat Mills , wife of US Marine Corps lieutenant general Richard P . Mills . " Montford Point " completed its first float out operation at the General Dynamics NASSCO shipyard in San Diego , California , on 13 November 2012 . " Montford Point " was christened in March 2013 , successfully completed builder ' s sea trials on March 20 , and will be delivered to the Military Sealift Command ' s Maritime Prepositioning Force in May 2013 . The Navy accepted delivery of the vessel from General Dynamics - NASSCO on May 14 , in San Diego , California . Operational use is scheduled to start in fiscal year 2015 . As an MLP , the ship is expected to come under the command of the United States Navy ' s Military Sealift Command , and thus will not be commissioned into the Navy ( hence her designation prefix , " USNS " ) . Most of the civilian mariner positions - both entry - level & licenced - will be filled with members of the Seafarers International Union ' s Government Service Division and the American Maritime Officers union .
USS Munargo ( AP - 20 ) USS " Munargo " ( AP - 20 ) was a commercial vessel - class transport acquired by the U . S . Navy for service as a troop carrier during World War II . She operated in the Atlantic Ocean , and , during the war , she was converted into a U . S . Army Hospital ship and renamed " Thistle " . " Munargo " ( AP 20 ) was completed in December 1921 by New York Shipbuilding Corp . , Camden , New Jersey ; acquired by the Navy from the Army 6 June 1941 ; and commissioned 4 June 1941 , Comdr . Harold F . Ely in command . World War II North Atlantic operations . Following conversion at Brooklyn , New York , " Munargo " was attached to the Naval Transportation Service at Brooklyn in December 1941 . On 16 December she embarked troops and sailed to Bermuda , arriving St . George ’ s Harbor 2 days later . She departed 19 December for San Juan , Puerto Rico , with troops and civilian passengers , and thence steamed to Trinidad to take aboard suspected German agents for transportation to New York , arriving 5 January 1942 . For the first 3 - 1⁄2 months of 1942 , " Munargo " carried troops between New York and Reykjavík , Iceland . On 17 April she embarked British troops on Iceland , then carried them to Gourock , Scotland . After another such voyage , she returned to Boston , Massachusetts , 27 June to disembark British officers , then spent 4 months In New York . South Atlantic and Pacific operations . " Munargo " left New York 30 December with troops , cargo , and U . S . currency for Trinidad and Brazil , from which she sailed through the Panama Canal to San Francisco , California , arriving 18 March 1943 . On 17 May she reached Noumea , New Caledonia with troops , returning to California to reload , and once again arriving in Noumea 18 July . She sailed almost at once for Samoa , Hawaii , Guantánamo Bay , and the U . S . East Coast She decommissioned at Brooklyn 18 October 1943 , and was returned to the War Department . Conversion to hospital ship . The U . S . Army converted her to a hospital ship and she renamed " Thistle " . Operating from Charleston , South Carolina , she made nine voyages of mercy to the Mediterranean . Ordered to the Pacific Ocean in September 1945 , she called at Leyte and returned to the west coast in December . Where she took a load of Army Air Force men and dependents to be stationed in Alaska . She sailed under the USS Thistle name to Alaska . She was decommissioned as a hospital ship in March 1946 . Post - war decommissioning . She was subsequently returned to the Maritime Commission and remained under its custody for lay up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet until 1968 . Final disposition : she was scrapped in 1957 .
ACCS ACCS is the NATO Air Command and Control System programme , which is intended to replace the existing air command and control systems in Europe from 2009 onwards . At the highest level it comprises the Combined Air Operations Centre ( CAOC ) from which the air battle is run . Beneath this level of command is the Air Control Centre ( ACC ) , Recognised Air Picture ( RAP ) Production Centre ( RPC ) and Sensor Fusion Post ( SFP ) . The programme comprises both static and deployable elements . Under separate funding , NATO will also procure deployable sensors for the deployable ACCS component ( DAC ) . Oversight of the programme is provided by the NATO ACCS Management Organisation Board of Directors , senior representatives of the Nations engaged in the NATO ACCS programme . The Board is responsible to the Secretary General of NATO for the delivery of the programme . The NACMA is responsible for the day - to - day management of the programme with scientific support from NC3A , system and software engineering support from NPC , logistic support from NAMSA and operational support from SHAPE . The contract to build ACCS was awarded to the Air Command Systems International ( ACSI ) consortium in November 1999 . Since 2000 ACSI is part ThalesRaytheonSystems ( TRS ) . After years of initial cost overruns , delays and interoperability problems , NATO ’ s Air Command and Control System ( ACCS ) is entering the final stretch of software testing and validation , with national - level replication sites beginning to roll out across the alliance . Although some data - exchange interoperability problems continue to beleaguer the system , ACCS is now scheduled to reach an initial operating capability during 2013 - 15 , according to janes . com . There is a paradox though that NATO ACCS , if eventual delivered , will be significantly less capable and more expensive to further evolve , than the systems it was intended to replace . The Integrated System Support of the ACCS system when fielded will be provided by the NATO Maintenance and Supply Agency ( NAMSA ) supported by the NPC .
2nd Field Artillery Regiment ( United States ) The 2nd Field Artillery Regiment is a field artillery regiment in the United States Army . Lineage . Constituted 25 January 1907 in the Regular Army as the 2d Field Artillery Organized 6 June 1907 from new and existing units with Headquarters at Fort D . A . Russell , Wyoming Assigned 31 January 1918 to the 8th Division Relieved 5 September 1919 from assignment to the 8th Division Inactivated 2 February 1922 at Camp Bragg , North Carolina Assigned 1 August 1922 to the 4th Division and activated ( less 2d Battalion ) at Camp Bragg , North Carolina ( 2d Battalion concurrently activated at Camp George G . Meade , Maryland ) Relieved 5 September 1927 from assignment to the 4th Division ( 1st Battalion concurrently inactivated at Fort Bragg , North Carolina ) Assigned 17 March 1930 to the Panama Canal Division Relieved 15 April 1932 from assignment to the Panama Canal Division Reorganized and redesignated 13 January 1941 as the 2d Field Artillery Battalion Inactivated 29 March 1946 at Camp Kilmer , New Jersey Activated 1 August 1946 at Fort Sill , Oklahoma Redesignated 20 January 1948 as the 2d Rocket Field Artillery Battalion Redesignated 31 July 1949 as the 2d Field Artillery Battalion Inactivated 25 June 1958 at Fort Sill , Oklahoma Consolidated 15 December 1961 with Headquarters and Headquarters Battery , 2d Artillery Group , and the 2d , 12th , and 42d Antiaircraft Artillery Battalions ( all organized in 1821 as the 2d Regiment of Artillery ) to form the 2d Artillery , a parent regiment under the Combat Arms Regimental System 2d Artillery ( less former Headquarters and Headquarters Battery , 2d Artillery Group and the 2d , 12th , and 42d Antiaircraft Artillery Battalions ) reorganized and redesignated 1 September 1971 as the 2d Field Artillery , a parent regiment under the Combat Arms Regimental System ( former elements concurrently reorganized and redesignated as the 2d Air Defense Artillery — hereafter separate lineage ) 2d Field Artillery withdrawn 16 January 1986 from the Combat Arms Regimental System and reorganized under the United States Army Regimental System Transferred 2 October 1991 to the United States Army Training and Doctrine Command Redesignated 1 October 2005 as the 2d Field Artillery Regiment Campaign participation credit . Philippine Insurrection : Jolo 1903 World War I : Streamer without inscription World War II : Northern France , Rhineland , Central Europe Vietnam : Counteroffensive , Phase II ; Counteroffensive , Phase III ; Tet Counteroffensive ; Counteroffensive , Phase IV ; Counteroffensive , Phase V ; Counteroffensive , Phase VI ; Tet 69 / Counteroffensive ; Summer - Fall 1969 ; Winter - Spring 1970 ; Sanctuary Counteroffensive ; Counteroffensive , Phase VII
HMS Zinnia ( K98 ) HMS " Zinnia " was a that served in the Royal Navy . She was built at Smiths Dock Company , South Bank - on - Tees , launched on 28 November 1940 and commissioned on 30 March 1941 . She protected convoys in the North Atlantic during the Second World War as part of the Battle of the Atlantic . On 23 August 1941 while escorting convoy OG - 71 she was hit by a torpedo from " U - 564 " commanded by Reinhard Suhren , exploded and sank west of Portugal at .
Bernard Brocas Sir Bernard Brocas , also Barnard Brocas Senior ( 1330 – 1395 ) was a prominent commander in the English army during King Edward III ' s French campaigns of the Hundred Years War . He was also a close friend of the Black Prince and William of Wykeham . Brocas was the son of Sir John Brocas of Clewer in Berkshire , a Master of the King ' s Horse . He grew up with the Black Prince at Windsor Castle , at a time of rebuilding by the Royal architect William of Wykeham . After a scandalous first marriage , the Prince intended Brocas to marry his cousin , Joan , the Fair Maid of Kent but when Joan said she loved Edward , he decided to marry her himself . As compensation , he found Brocas another great heiress , Mary des Roches , a kinswoman of Peter des Roches , Bishop of Winchester . Brocas fought with Edward at the Battles of Poitiers , Crécy and Nájera . After the Peace of Bretigny , he helped to settle Aquitaine and was appointed Constable there . It has been claimed that he captured and chopped off the head of a King of Morocco , but the story seems to be apocryphal . In England , Brocas acted as Queen ' s Chamberlain to Anne of Bohemia . He had residences at Clewer Brocas Manor in Berkshire , and at Beaurepaire in Sherborne St John and Roche Court near Fareham , both in Hampshire . He was a great patron of Southwick Priory . He served as High Sheriff of Wiltshire for 1382 and was MP for Wiltshire in 1391 and then MP eight times for Hampshire . He married three times and had at least five children , amongst them , Sir Bernard Brocas the Younger , who was executed for treason in 1400 . Brocas died on 20 September 1395 and was buried in St Edmund ' s Chapel in Westminster Abbey , where his fine effigial monument can still be seen today . The name Brocas lives on in the name " Viscount Brocas " , one of the subsidiary titles of the Earl Jellicoe .
Robert Benjamin Hilton Robert Benjamin Hilton ( 1821 – January 10 , 1894 ) was a lawyer , newspaper editor , soldier , and Confederate politician from Florida who served in the Congress of the Confederate States during the American Civil War . Biography . Hilton was born in Virginia as Robert Benjamin Smith . He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Brown University in 1843 . He later moved to Tallahassee , Florida , where he established a successful law practice . He legally changed his surname to Hilton in January 1849 . Later that year , he and Augustus Maxwell entered the newspaper business when they co - owned and edited the Tallahassee " Floridian " . They later merged the paper with the " Southern Journal " to form the " Floridian and Journal " . In 1858 , he was elected as the Clerk of the Florida House of Representatives . At the outbreak of the Civil War , he received a commission in April 1861 as the captain of Company D of the 1st Florida Infantry . He subsequently represented the state in the First Confederate Congress and the Second Confederate Congress from 1862 to 1865 . He successfully sponsored a bill in January 1864 to withdraw the exemption from military service that had previously been granted to men of military age if they could provide a paid substitute . He also was active in legislation concerning tax limits and funding the Confederate currency . After the war he served briefly as a state court judge in 1867 . He died in Tallahassee and was buried there in St . John ' s Episcopal Cemetery . The journal Hilton maintained during the war is in the archives of the University of Florida in Gainesville .
Charles Francis Adams III Charles Francis Adams III ( August 2 , 1866 – June 10 , 1954 ) was the United States Secretary of the Navy under President Herbert Hoover and a well - known yachtsman . Life . A scion of the Adams family that gave the country two presidents , Charles Francis III was born in Quincy , Massachusetts to John Quincy Adams II ( 1833 – 1894 ) ; the oldest son of the Secretary ' s grandfather Charles Francis Adams , Sr . ; his great - grandfather was sixth U . S . President John Quincy Adams ; and his great - great - grandfather was second U . S . President John Adams . He was also the great - grandson of U . S . Secretary of the Navy Benjamin Williams Crowninshield ; Fanny Cadwalader Crowninshield ' s grandfather . Charles Francis Adams , Jr . ( 1835 – 1915 ) was the uncle , not the father of Charles Francis Adams III , an assumption regularly made by virtue of sequential name succession . Charles F . Adams , Jr . had five children , the first three being daughters , which may explain why his brother John Q . Adams II took the prerogative to name his son after their uncle . Charles , Jr . ' s only sons ( twins ) were born in 1875 . Adams graduated " cum laude " from Harvard College ( 1888 ) and from Harvard Law School ( 1892 ) . He was first a lawyer , then went into business . He married Frances Lovering , the daughter of U . S . Representative William C . Lovering , in 1899 . They had one son , Charles , and one daughter , Catherine ( " both noted below " ) . Adams served as Mayor of Quincy , Massachusetts from 1896 to 1897 . Chas . F . Adams , III is the third cousin twice removed of Otis Norcross , 19th Mayor of Boston . Both descending from their fourth great grandfather , Joseph Adams ; Otis from his first wife Mary [ Chapin ] , and Charles from his second wife Hannah [ Bass ] . In 1920 , he skippered the America ' s Cup defender " Resolute " and soon became known as the " Dean of American Helmsmen " . He was inducted into the America ' s Cup Hall of Fame ( 1993 ) . " The Charles Francis Adams Memorial Trophy " for yacht racing was established in his memory , and the Navy destroyer USS " Charles F . Adams " was dedicated in his honor . As Secretary of the Navy , ( 1929 – 1933 ) , he vigorously promoted public understanding of the Navy ' s indispensable role in international affairs , and worked strenuously to maintain naval strength and efficiency during a period of severe economic depression . He served at the London Naval Conference in 1930 where he successfully maintained the principle of United States naval parity with Britain . He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1932 . He died in 1954 and is interred in Mount Wollaston Cemetery in Quincy , Norfolk County , Massachusetts next to his father , John Quincy Adams II , and his grandfather , Charles Francis Adams , Sr . Family . Charles Francis Adams III and Frances [ " nee " Lovering ] had two children : Charles Francis Adams III was a brother of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity ( Alpha chapter ) . Family tree . The following is a selective family tree of notable members of the Adams family relative to Charles Francis Adams III :
USS Narragansett ( 1859 ) The first USS " Narragansett " was a 2nd class screw sloop in the United States Navy during the American Civil War . " Narragansett " was built at the Boston Navy Yard , launched on 15 February 1859 , and commissioned on 6 November 1859 , Commander T . A . Hunt in command . Service history . Civil War , 1860 – 1865 . " Narragansett " operated along the East Coast into the spring of 1860 . On 31 March of that year she departed Norfolk , Virginia , for the Pacific , arriving at Valparaíso , Chile , 4 August . Throughout the Civil War she cruised in the Pacific with the primary mission of protecting American mail steamers from Confederate raiders . On 15 December 1864 she departed the Eastern Pacific for the East Coast , arriving at New York City on 18 March 1865 . There she remained in ordinary for several years . Gulf of Mexico , 1869 . Back in full service in 1869 , she was ordered south , to cruise off the Cuban and Floridian coasts . With the outbreak of yellow fever in the ship in the late spring , " Narragansett " was ordered to Portsmouth , New Hampshire , where she decommissioned 2 July 1869 . Pacific , 1871 – 1875 . Inactive for over two years , she again set sail for the Pacific on 26 March 1871 , arriving at San Francisco on 17 September . In December she sailed for the Southwest Pacific and an extended cruise through the Marshalls , Gilberts and Samoan Islands to Australia , arriving at Sydney on 2 April 1873 . On her return from this cruise , the sloop was assigned special duty in connection with the survey and examination of the steamer routes along the coasts of California and Mexico . While she was at Mare Island Naval Shipyard , California , in November 1874 , Seaman Thomas Lakin jumped overboard and rescued two shipmates from drowning , for which he was later awarded the Medal of Honor . Detached from that duty in 1875 , " Narragansett " entered the Mare Island Naval Shipyard , where she decommissioned and was laid up until 3 November 1883 , when she was sold to Win . E . Mighell of San Francisco .