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Training Development Branch The Training Development ( Trg Dev ) Branch is a personnel branch of the Canadian Forces ( CF ) . It primarily deals in training and development of both new recruit s and experienced officers , air men and women , sailors and soldiers of the CF . Training . Canadian Forces Training Development Centre . The Canadian Forces Training Development Centre ( CFTDC ) in Borden , Ontario is the Centre of Excellence for training and training development for the Department of National Defence DND and the Canadian Forces . Mission . The CFTDC mission is to provide training in instructional methods and training development , e - Learning development services , and training development support to the CF . The CFTDC also provides advice and guidance on instructional design and delivery of training to CF training establishments across the country . In addition , CFTDC is active in the evaluation , research and development of training methods and technologies .
General Service Medal ( 1962 ) The General Service Medal ( 1962 GSM , also sometimes referred to as the Campaign Service Medal ) , was introduced in 1962 to combine the General Service Medal ( 1918 ) , as awarded to the Army and RAF , and the Naval General Service Medal ( 1915 ) . The 1962 GSM was awarded until 2007 , when it was replaced by the Operational Service Medal . GSMs have the name , rank , service number and regiment or corps of the awardee annotated on the rim of the medal . Clasps . 13 Clasps were awarded to the 1962 GSM . The maximum awarded to any one individual appears to have been six . Malay Peninsula . Not if you were serving in Singapore after singapore left the federation , EG serving in singapore from dec 1965 . Air Operations Iraq . Also Awarded to members of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary ( RFA ) who served on the Arabian Gulf Ready Tanker ( AGRT ) during above dates
Dimitrios Botsaris ( 1813 – 1871 ) Dimitrios Botsaris ( , 1813 – 1871 ) was a Greek Army officer and Minister of War . D . Botsaris was the son of Markos Botsaris , hero of the Greek War of Independence and captain of the Souliotes . After his father ' s death ( 1823 ) and the independence of Greece ( 1828 ) he studied in Munich , Germany , and later became an officer in the Greek Army ( artillery ) . Dimitrios Botsaris became also three times Minister of War under kings Otto and George I .
USS Dade ( APA - 99 ) USS " Dade " ( APA - 99 ) was a that served with the US Navy during World War II . " Dade " was launched 14 January 1944 by Ingalls Shipbuilding , Pascagoula , Mississippi , under a Maritime Commission contract ; transferred to the Navy 29 April and placed in partial commission the same day ; decommissioned 9 May for conversion at Todd - Hoboken Yards , Hoboken , New Jersey ; and placed in full commission 11 November 1944 , Commander M . P . Du Val in command . Operational history . Departing Norfolk , Virginia 15 December 1944 " Dade " arrived at San Francisco 30 December to embark passengers and cargo . On 7 January 1945 she sailed for Espiritu Santo , New Hebrides , and Tulagi , Solomon Islands where she off - loaded her passengers and cargo and trained for the forthcoming assault on Okinawa . Okinawa . After final staging at Ulithi , " Dade " participated in the invasion landings at Okinawa 1 April , landing Marines and combat cargo on Blue Beach and embarking casualties under frequent air attack . Sailing to Pearl Harbor , she arrived 23 April to embark Navy and Marine passengers , casualties , and medical evacuees for San Francisco . After overhaul , " Dade " departed San Francisco 22 June 1945 via Pearl Harbor , to San Pedro Bay , Philippine Islands , with construction battalion men and cargo , arriving 27 July . She served as receiving ship at Eniwetok from 13 to 19 August . After hostilities . With the end of the war , " Dade " returned to the Philippines , embarking troops at Manila for the occupation of Japan and landing them at Yokohama 13 September . Aiding in the reoccupation of China , she carried American marines from Guam to Tsingtao , and Chinese troops from Indochina to Chinwangtao and Taku . She embarked homeward bound troops at Manila and sailed for the West Coast , entering San Francisco Bay 17 December 1945 . " Dade " cleared on 11 January 1946 for New York , arriving 29 January . She was decommissioned there 25 February and returned to the Maritime Commission the same day . Dade received one battle star for World War II service . According to an article by FOX19 news in Cincinnati , Dade was sold to Matson Navigation Company . She was renamed " Hawaiian Retailer " and functioned as a merchant ship . According to the Naval Historical Center the Dade was sold to scrap in September 1970 .
German submarine U - 381 German submarine " U - 381 " was a Type VIIC U - boat built for the Nazi German Kriegsmarine for service during World War II . She failed to return in May 1943 and was declared missing in unknown circumstances . The boat was laid down on 26 April 1941 at the " Howaldswerke " in Kiel as ' werk ' 12 , launched on 14 January 1942 and commissioned on 25 February ; " Kapitänleutnant " Graf Wilhelm - Heinrich Pückler und Limburg was her CO throughout her career . < br > She did not sink any ships . She began her service life in the 5th U - boat Flotilla , a training organization , between 25 February 1942 and 30 September of the same year , before moving on to the 7th flotilla for operations . Operational history . 1st patrol . " U381 " s first sortie took her from Kiel to a point three - quarters of the way across the Atlantic before steaming empty - handed to St . Nazaire in France . 2nd patrol . Her next patrol was no better , starting and finishing in St . Nazaire between 19 December 1942 and 19 February 1943 , ( a total of 63 days at sea ) . She was unsuccessfully attacked on the return leg west of Portugal by a Catalina flying boat of 202 squadron , RAF . 3rd patrol and loss . U - 371s third patrol ended abruptly after 52 days when she was sunk with the loss of all hands on 21 May 1943 ( probably ) . She was lost in mid - Atlantic ( south of Greenland ) through unknown circumstances .
USS George Washington Parke Custis ( 1861 ) USS " George Washington Parke Curtis " was a barge acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War for the purpose of using her as a balloon - launching platform in order to spy on Confederate defenses a long distance off . This initial balloon experiment by John A . Dahlgren led to intensified balloon spying during the remainder of the war . Conversion to balloon barge by John A . Dahlgren . " George Washington Parke Custis " , a coal barge built in the mid - 1850s , was purchased by the Union Navy in August 1861 ; fitted out with a gas - generating apparatus developed by Thaddeus Sobieski Constantine Lowe ; and modified by Dahlgren at the Washington Navy Yard for her service as a balloon barge . Balloon launched to view Confederate forces in Virginia . Early in the morning of 10 November 1861 , steamer towed " George Washington Parke Custis " out of the Navy Yard and down the Potomac River . The next day Lowe , accompanied by General Daniel E . Sickles and others , ascended in his trial balloon from the barge off Mattawomen Creek to observe Confederate forces on the Virginia shore some three miles away . On the 12th Lowe reported : Balloon launches cause technological leap in reconnaissance . This operation and John La Mountain ' s earlier ascension from " Fanny " began the widespread use of balloons for reconnaissance work during the Civil War and foreshadowed the Navy ' s future use of the air to extend its effective use of sea power . Final decommissioning . No data available .
Flight sergeant Flight sergeant ( Flt Sgt , F / Sgt , or FS ) is a senior non - commissioned rank in the British Royal Air Force and several other air force s which have adopted all or part of the RAF rank structure . It is equivalent to a staff sergeant in the British Army and has a NATO rank code of OR - 7 . History . The rank was devised in the British Royal Flying Corps ( RFC ) in 1912 and passed to the Royal Air Force ( RAF ) , on its formation in 1918 . RFC flight sergeants wore a four - bladed propeller between the chevrons and the crown . On 1 July 1946 , aircrew flight sergeants were redesignated Aircrew I and replaced their chevrons with three six - pointed stars within a wreath and surmounted by an eagle and a crown . This proved unpopular however , and in 1950 they reverted to their old rank and badge , although Flight Sergeants Aircrew wear an eagle between chevrons and crown . Flight Sergeants in ground trades wear only a crown above the three chevrons . Between 1950 and 1964 , the rank of Chief Technician was equivalent to flight sergeant and was held instead of it by technicians , but now chief technician is a junior rank ( still held only by technicians ) , although classified by NATO in the same grade . Usage . In the RAF , Flight Sergeant ranks above Chief Technician and below Warrant Officer . The insignia for aircrew flight sergeants has an eagle in between the chevrons and the crown . Apart from the RAF , the rank of Flight Sergeant is also used by many Commonwealth air forces , including the Royal Australian Air Force , the Royal New Zealand Air Force , the Sri Lankan Air Force , the Ghana Air Force , the Bangladesh Air Force , the Sri Lanka Air Force , the South African Air Force and the Air Force of Zimbabwe . It was also used in the former Royal Rhodesian Air Force . In Canada , since the unification of the Canadian Forces in 1968 , this rank has been replaced by Warrant Officer though the rank is still used by the Royal Canadian Air Cadets . The rank is also used in the Irish Air Corps where it is equivalent to the Irish Army rank of Company Sergeant . The Flight Sergeant rank in the Indian Air Force was replaced with the rank of Junior Warrant Officer ( JWO ) , which ranks below a Warrant Officer and above a Sergeant . In the RAF , the rank insignia is three downward pointing chevron s below a crown and flight sergeants are usually addressed as " Flight " and are never addressed by the junior rank of " Sergeant " . Flight Sergeant is also used in many cadet organizations around the world , such as the Air Training Corps , Combined Cadet Force ( RAF Section ) , the Australian Air Force Cadets and the Royal Canadian Air Cadets .
Naval Battle of Calicut ( 1752 ) The Battle of Calicut was a battle between the Portuguese nau " Nossa Senhora da Misericórdia " , commanded by João de Melo Saraiva and 21 Maratha ships that attempted to attack the city of Calicut . The Portuguese were victorious and managed to make the Marathas flee .
NTrT Ary Parreiras ( G - 21 ) The NTrT Ary Parreiras ( G - 21 ) Was a vessel of the Custódio de Mello Class used to transport troops across the ocean and the first ship to use this name in honor of the Admiral Ary Parreiras . Built in Japan , was incorporated to the Brazilian Navy in February 15 of 1957 , all ships of the Custódio de Mello Class were descomissioned between 2001 and 2002 .
Milecastle 53 Milecastle 53 ( Banks Burn ) , one of the milecastle s on Hadrian ' s Wall , is situated west of the hamlet of Banks , Cumbria and northeast of Lanercost Priory ( ) . It lies 1520m west of Milecastle 52 and 1436m east of Milecastle 54 . It measures 21 . 9m east to west by 23 . 3m north to south . It has Type III gateways . It was excavated in 1932 .
Califfi Castle Califfi Castle ( ) is a 17th - century castle on the Croatian island of Ugljan ( Dalmatia ) , located in the town of the same name . The castle was built by the Califfi family in the 17th century . The Bercich ( in Croatian Berčić or Brčić ) family from Zara - Zadar acted as stewards of the castle , and the castle eventually took on their name . More recently the castle has been restored and carries the name Dvor Krešimir Ćosić after the former Croatian basketball star .
USS Blandy ( DD - 943 ) USS " Blandy " ( DD - 943 ) was a " Forrest Sherman " - class destroyer , named for Admiral William H . P . Blandy USN ( 1890 – 1954 ) , " Blandy " was built by the Bethlehem Steel Corporation ' s Fore River Shipyard in Quincy , Massachusetts and was launched 19 December 1956 , sponsored by Mrs . John M . Lee , daughter of Admiral Blandy ; and commissioned 26 November 1957 , Commander William F . Cafferata in command . History . In 1958 , " Blandy " bore the American Unknown Soldier of World War II ' s European Theater from Naples to a rendezvous off the Virginia Capes with " Boston " ( CAG - 1 ) , which bore the Unknowns of the Pacific Theater and the Korean War , and " Canberra " ( CAG - 2 ) . After the selection of the Unknown of World War II was made on board " Canberra " , the selected casket and the Korean Unknown were transferred to " Blandy " for transportation to Washington , D . C . Arriving at the U . S . Naval Gun Factory on 28 May , both caskets lay in state in the Capitol Rotunda until 30 May , after which they were interred in the Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington National Cemetery . In 1961 , " Blandy " won the Marjorie Sterrett Battleship Fund Award for the Atlantic Fleet . Fate . The ship was decommissioned on 5 November 1982 and struck from the Navy List on 27 July 1990 . She was sold for scrap to the Fore River Shipyard and Iron Works on 11 December 1992 . When the shipyard went bankrupt in 1993 , she was resold to N . R . Acquisition Incorporated of New York City by the Massachusetts Bankruptcy Court and scrapped by Wilmington Resources of Wilmington in North Carolina in 1996 .
Cuthbert Bromley Major Cuthbert Bromley VC ( 19 September 1878 – 13 August 1915 ) 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 . Bromley was born on 19 September 1878 to Sir John Bromley CB and Lady Bromley , of Sutton Corner , Seaford , East Sussex . He was 36 years old , and a temporary major in the 1st Battalion , The Lancashire Fusiliers , British Army during the First World War , and was awarded the VC for his actions on 25 April 1915 , during the landings at W Beach , Gallipoli , Turkey , and during which he was wounded . Citation . Bromley was wounded during the W Beach landing , and sustained a bullet injury to the knee on 28 April . He was wounded again during the Battle of Gully Ravine on 28 June , and was evacuated to Egypt to recover . On 13 August 1915 , returning to the Gallipoli peninsula aboard the troopship , he was killed when the ship was torpedoed in the Mediterranean between Alexandria and Gallipoli , by the . Major Bromley was one of the six members of the regiment elected for the award , one of the famous ' six VC ' s before breakfast ' . Bromley is remembered in his home town of Seaford on the War Memorial , and on a brass memorial in St . Leonard ' s Church . A road in the town is also named after him .
Dora 2 Dora 2 is an unfinished German military submarine base and bunker in Trondheim , Norway , next to DORA 1 . Construction on Dora 2 was undertaken during the Second World War , but the complex was never finished . Construction . The German civil and military engineering group , Organisation Todt , started constructing the facility as a submarine base after finishing DORA 1 in 1943 . The Dora constructions were one of Organisation Todt ’ s first projects in Norway , but Dora 2 was only half finished by the time the Germans abandoned Norway towards the end of the war . The walls are of concrete , almost 3 meters thick . There have been several unsuccessful attempts to demolish Dora 2 , which is currently temporarily preserved . Current use . Today Dora 2 is used as a warehouse and garage for boats and cars by companies such as Trondheim Verft AS and Skipsmaling AS .
Eduard von Jachmann Eduard Karl Emanuel von Jachmann ( March 2 , 1822 – October 23 , 1887 ) was a German vice admiral ( " Vizeadmiral " ) . Jachmann was born in Danzig and attended grammar school in Marienwerder . He started sea travelling with a trip to the West Indies ( 1839 – 1844 ) . From 1844 to 1848 , he served on the corvette " Amazone " in the Mediterranean and at the American coast . In 1845 , he was promoted lieutenant . From 1849 to 1852 , he commanded a gunboat flotilla at Stralsund before he was transferred to the Prussian Ministry of War . As First Lieutenant , Jachmann took part in an expedition to the Americas in 1853 / 54 . Afterwards , he was appointed Chief Officer of the Danzig shipyard and lieutenant commander . In 1857 , he became departmental head in the newly established admiralty . From 1859 to 1862 , he was commander of an expedition to East Asia and China . During the Second Schleswig War ( 1864 ) , Jachmann was in command of all armed forces in the Baltic Sea . After the naval action of Jasmund ( Isle of Rügen ) on March 17 , 1864 , he was appointed rear admiral . After the war , he became commander of the naval base in Kiel . In 1867 , he was promoted to vice admiral and Praeses of the Ministry for the Navy . During the Franco - Prussian War ( 1870 / 71 ) , Jachmann was Commander - in - Chief for the North Sea . Jachmann resigned when Albrecht von Stosch was nominated Minister for the Navy on December 31 , 1871 . He died in Oldenburg .
Jerry York ( businessman ) Jerome Bailey York ( June 22 , 1938 – March 18 , 2010 ) , commonly known as Jerry York , was an American businessman , and the Chairman , President and CEO of Harwinton Capital . He was the former CFO of IBM and Chrysler , and was CEO of Micro Warehouse . He was a chief aide to Kirk Kerkorian and his Tracinda investment company . In February 2006 , Kerkorian helped elect York to the board of directors of General Motors , from which he had previously resigned . Biography . York was born in Memphis , Tennessee in 1938 and lived in Oakland Township , Michigan . He earned degrees from the United States Military Academy at West Point , the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , and the University of Michigan ' s Ross School of Business , and was trained as an engineer . A gymnastics injury prevented York from serving in the military . York eventually became the CFO at Chrysler . When Lee Iacocca retired as Chrysler CEO in 1992 , York was a leading candidate to succeed him . After being passed over as Chrysler CEO , York became CFO of IBM Corporation . He later served as a special adviser to investor Kirk Kerkorian during Kerkorian ' s 2007 failed takeover bid for Chrysler and his other investments in Ford Motor Company and General Motors where he previously served as a board member from February to October 2006 before resigning over frustration resulting from GM ' s failure to distribute materials to the Board in advance of its meetings and a reluctance to implement change recommendations , including the shedding of peripheral brands , which GM ultimately affected during bankruptcy in the form of terminating the Pontiac , Saturn , and Hummer brands ( after a failed sale attempt to Chinese Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery ) and the sale of its SAAB division to Spyker Cars . From 1999 to 2003 , York was Chairman and CEO of Micro Warehouse , which went bankrupt . He was also on the board of Apple Inc . after Steve Jobs ' comeback in 1997 . York was also an enthusiast of alternative energy , particularly wind energy . He was the CFO and a Member of the Board at USWind , a wind energy company of which he was a co - founder and active management team member . York was also part of a team developing the next generation portable computer . York was hospitalized on March 17 , 2010 after collapsing in his suburban Detroit home from a brain aneurysm . He died the next day .
William Watson ( sergeant ) William Watson ( born 1826 ) was an author and soldier in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War . He is most noted for an autobiographical book " Life in The Confederate Army " that he wrote after the war chronicling his army life . William Watson was born in 1826 in the Scottish village of Skelmorlie , some twenty - five miles west of Glasgow on the Firth of Clyde . His father , a landscape gardener named Henry Watson , had been born in England . He had come to Skelmorlie in 1820 to lay out the grounds of Ashcraig , the estate of Andrew D . Campbell . Watson immigrated about 1845 to the Caribbean Islands , where he worked as a civil engineer and occasional captain of sailing vessels . Sometime about 1850 he moved to Louisiana and by 1860 was part owner of a sawmill and a coal and steamboat business in Baton Rouge . When the Civil War broke out , he enlisted in the Confederate Army as a sergeant in the 3rd Louisiana Infantry and served in a number of military campaigns with the regiment . " Life in The Confederate Army " was published first in England in 1887 .
James Durrant Major General James Murdoch Archer Durrant CMG , DSO ( 17 March 1885 – 17 September 1963 ) was an Australian Army general . Durrant was born in Glenelg , South Australia and enlisted on 1 July 1907 at Lawley , South Australia , service number QP20006 . He was appointed captain in the 13th Battalion on 20 December 1914 , major on 2 May 1915 and Lieutenant - Colonel on 20 August 1916 . On 1 October 1919 he was Staff Officer in charge Repatriation and Demobilisation Department . In 1939 Durrant was District Officer Commanding 5th Military District and in 1942 he was General Officer Commanding Queensland Lines of Communication Area . He was discharged 5 April 1944 .
Newark Castle , Nottinghamshire Newark Castle , in Newark , in the English county of Nottinghamshire was founded in the mid 12th century by Alexander , Bishop of Lincoln . Originally a timber castle , it was rebuilt in stone towards the end of the century . Dismantled in the 17th century after the English Civil War , the castle was restored in the 19th century , first by Anthony Salvin in the 1840s and then by the corporation of Newark who bought the site in 1889 . The Gilstrap Heritage Centre is a free - admission museum in the castle grounds about the history of the town of Newark . History . In a charter generally thought to date to 1135 , King Henry I granted the Bishop of Lincoln permission to build a castle . The charter reads Alexander also established a mint at the castle . This early castle was most likely of timber construction , and was rebuilt in stone towards the end of the century . King John died at this castle on the night of 18 October 1216 . The castle was slighted in 1648 and left derelict . Between 1845 and 1848 architect Anthony Salvin restored the castle , and in 1889 the corporation of Newark purchased the building and carried out further restoration work . The castle is a Scheduled Ancient Monument , a " nationally important " historic building and archaeological site which has been given protection against unauthorised change . It is also a Grade I listed building ( first listed in 1950 ) and recognised as an internationally important structure . The Gilstrap Heritage Centre is located on the castle grounds . The centre features exhibits about the castle , and the town ' s history during the English Civil Wars . Admission is free .