I most humbly recommend Lieutenant Colonel Lars B. Ostervold Jr for the Army Engineer Association’s Silver de Fleury Metal for outstanding service to the Army Corps of Engineers and the Army Engineer Regiment. Lieutenant Colonel Lars B. Ostervold Jr completed the Reserve Officer Training Corps program at Tulane University in May of 1994 and commissioned as a Second Lieutenant. LTC Ostervold’s first assignment was a Platoon Leader of a horizontal construction platoon in Alpha Company, 94th Engineer
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Battle of Huế From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search | This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding reliable references. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (March 2010) | Battle of Huế | Part of the Tet Offensive, Vietnam War | US Marines fighting in Hue | Date | January 30 – March 3, 1968 | Location | 16°28′30.9″N 107°34′33.6″E / 16.47525°N 107.576°E / 16.47525; 107.576Coordinates:
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the Philippines from 1903 '' 1904, he was promoted to first lieutenant April 1904. He was an engineer officer and aide to the commander of the Pacific Division. He was promoted to captain on February 1911, then promoted to major December 1915, and colonel August 1917. He married Lousie Cromwell Brooks in 1922 and then divorced in 1929. He then married Jean Marie Faircloth in 1937. In December 1937 he retired from active service but continued as adviser to the Philippine government. July 1941 he was
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to comment on it. Perre Boulle who witnessed the disasters of the second World War in the Far East used his own experiences to write this masterpiece of literature. The book portrays well the characters of the British Lieutenant Colonel Nicholson and Japanese Colonel Saito. In the meantime the novel has received huge criticism because of the behaviour of Nicholson. Survivals of such war camps state that such rebellious attitude (that of Nicholson) would have led to his elimination at an early stage
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A Coward by Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893) Translators: Albert M.C. McMaster, A.E. Henderson, Mme. Quesada, & others. In society he was called "Handsome Signoles." His name was Vicomte Gontran-Joseph de Signoles. An orphan, and possessed of an ample fortune, he cut quite a dash, as it is called. He had an attractive appearance and manner, could talk well, had a certain inborn elegance, an air of pride and nobility, a good mustache, and a tender eye, that always finds favor with women
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to discrimination and racism. During War, Captain Shaw is hurt in the Battle of Antietam and sent home to Boston. He visits his family there and meets the abolitionist Frederick Douglass, a previous slave. Shaw is offered a chance to be ranked as Colonel to order one of the principal every single dark regiment in the Union Army, the 54th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. He agrees and asks his friend, second Lieutenant Cabot Forbes, to fill in as his second in charge. Their first
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fight for their independence. Kosciuszko was commission as the colonel engineers by the continental congress. They impacted America's fight for independence from Britain. During 1776 August, he transfers to the Pennsylvania Committee of Defense in Philadelphia. Also, he took part in creating a plan for the fortifications to defend the residents of the continental congress against the British. He received the rank of engineer colonel for the help. He supported a government where they did not abuse
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move would occur arose. Major General Dan Harel, head of the Southern Command was in charge of the entire mission. Harel decided to have a roundtable that would decide how this mission was to be executed. Among those that were invited was Lieutenant Colonel Daniel, a chief psychologist of the Southern Command. Daniels leadership proved to be that of someone that is consultative. A consulting leader is one that is concerned about the support dimension, but there is still a high emphasis on the task itself
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Charter Exercise Begin creating a Project Charter by adding these items: Project Name: Joint Tactical Information Distribution System (JTIDS) Class II EPROM Firmware Update Sponsor: Colonel Greg Roberts, Chief Force Command Requirements, NATO Airborne Early Warning and Force Command Project Manager: Major Paul A. Woods, Chief Operational, Test, Trials and Software Branch, NATO E-3A Component Purpose and Justification: Due to an upcoming NATO Mid-Term (NMT) software
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Truth’s father, James Baumfree, was captured into slavery in Ghana. Truth’s mother, Elizabeth Baumfree, was also a slave from Guinea ( Biography ). A man by the name of Colonel Hardenbergh owned the Baumfree family for a while, but once he died the ownership of the family went to his son named Charles. The death of the colonel in 1806 broke up the family.
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