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• 1983 Beirut barracks bombing
  ...ation is thought to have been a ''nom de guerre'' for [[Hezbollah]]—or a group that would later become part of Hezbollah<ref>{{cite web|title=Informed Com ...In December 1983, U.S. aircraft from the {{USS|Enterprise|CVN-65}} battle group attacked Syrian targets in Lebanon, but this was in response to Syrian miss
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• Hooah
  ...Force Security Forces|Security Forces]], [[United States Air Force Combat Control Team|Combat Controllers]] or "[[Hooyah]]" among [[United States Air Force P *be uttered at random and in a group in order to boost morale. One or a few soldiers will begin chanting "hooah!
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• USS Willis (DE-395)
  ...d Task Group (TG) 21.11 at Hampton Roads on 26 February, the hunter-killer group formed around the escort carrier {{USS|Bogue|CVE-9}}. ...he British West Indies in mid-April. Besides ''Bogue'' and ''Willis'', the group was composed of {{USS|Haverfield|DE-393}}, {{USS|Swenning|DE-394}}, {{USS|J
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• USS Frederick C. Davis (DE-136)
  ...ods of replenishment at Naples. Equipped with special equipment to jam the control frequency of the enemy's rocket-propelled, radio-directed glider bombs, ''F
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• USS Chatelain (DE-149)
  ...ng the last year of the European war, while operating with the Guadalcanal group, ''Chatelain'' joined in the sinking of two German submarines, and the capt ...ransmissions were picked up, and planes and ships of the [[Task Force|task group]] pressed home a firm attack. ''Chatelain'' forced the enemy submarine to t
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• USS Wilhoite (DE-397)
  ...|DE-5|2}} were detached from the screen of GUS-40 to go to the aid of Task Group (TG) 21.11 which the [[Germany|German]] [[U-boat]] ''[[U-549]]'' had brazen ...mmeasurably more difficult by causing the damaged ship to yaw. Good damage control in Barr later lessened that problem; and, as the convoy neared Casablanca o
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• USS Brough (DE-148)
  ...on in reserve, attached to the [[United States Navy reserve fleets|Florida Group, U.S. Atlantic Fleet at Green Cove, Florida]], ''Brough'' was anchored at [ ...trip to Dunedin, N.Z. and her third consecutive year under the operational control of Commander Task Force 43. Arriving in Dunedin on 22 September, she depart
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• USS Bering Strait (AVP-34)
  ...ch as ship control, communications, general drills, engineering and damage control instruction, gunnery training, and [[antiaircraft]] and [[antisubmarine]] w ...trait'' received orders to organize and train an [[air-sea rescue]] [[task group]] made up of herself and the seaplane detachment of Rescue Squadron 2 (VH-2
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• USS Yakutat (AVP-32)
  ...[[Hiro Wan]], where she performed seaplane tender operations and seadrome control duties for a little over a month. ...]s and ammunition before reporting on the 7 December 1945 to the Bremerton Group of the [[Pacific Reserve Fleet]] at [[Bremerton, Washington|Bremerton]], Wa
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• USS Barataria (AVP-33)
  ...try and is unattributed.</ref> identified as “Hill 25.” Army Artillery Control contacted ''Barataria'' on 11 April 1945 and asked her to “fire on any av ...ataria'' provided air-sea rescue coverage for the movement of [[Marine Air Group]] 14 from [[Clark Field]], Luzon, to [[Okinawa]].
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• USS Shaw (DD-68)
  ...ready for distant service. She sailed a week later as one of the escort of Group 4 of the Expeditionary Force from the United States to [[France]]. On 26 Ju ...tting her on fire. ''Shaw''{{'}}s crew heroically brought her damage under control, and a skeleton crew of 21 men took the wreck 40 miles into port under her
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• USS Big Horn (AO-45)
  ...hat no vessels had been sunk in coastal waters since July 1942. This Task Group was designed to hunt U-boats in the central Atlantic; the three PC-boats wo ...ine Force, Atlantic Fleet|ComSubLant]], During the next two weeks the Task Group made a shakedown cruise.
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• The Colony (TV series)
  ...l be difficult as they must defend the warehouse when Andre returns with a group of raiders for an assault on the colony. | A group of gun-toting traders arrive to trade with the colonists for certain goods
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• USCGC Triton (WPC-116)
  ...k part in further attacks, along with the other ships of the hunter-killer group based on Key West; but, by that point, the enemy submersible had already be ...of her active service in the Coast Guard. Reverting to Treasury Department control after the end of [[World War II]], ''Triton'' was reclassified from WPC-116
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• USS Surprise (PG-97)
  ...[Rota, Spain|Rota]], [[Spain]], on 1 December 1970 and shifted operational control to the [[United States Sixth Fleet]]. ...Ships 1992-1993'', 95th Edition. Alexandria, Virginia: Jane's Information Group, 1992. ISBN 0 7106 9083 3.
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• Air Defense Anti-Tank System
  ...[[Oerlikon-Contraves]], a member of the [[Rheinmetall|Rheinmetall Defence Group]] of [[Germany]]. ...e), based on a 2.75-inch rocket and advanced Battle Management Command and Control Communication Computer and Information (BMC41), including [[TADIL-A|Link 11
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• ERYX
  ...tional Defense Review]]|date=7/1982|page=68|publisher=[[Jane's Information Group]]|issn=0020-6512}}</ref> ...DGES THE GAP|journal=Combat Weapons|date=Fall 1985|page=53|publisher=Omega Group Ltd.|issn=1052-5076}}</ref><ref>Photo above to the left is mislabeled as th
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• 76/62mm Allargato
  ...-man who is need to direct the cannon from data provided by the ships fire control system. All other actions when the cannon is fired are automatic. ...ment 1976 |editor=Dennis Henry Ross Archer |publisher=[[Jane's Information Group]] |edition= |pages=156|isbn=0356048012}}
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• United States 40 mm grenades
  ...tridge used primarily for training in the use of the '''XM674/M674''' riot control cartridge mentioned later in this article.<ref>United States, 1983. p. 27</ ==Less Lethal and Riot Control Cartridges==
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• Common Remotely Operated Weapon Station
  ...ogram, ('''CROWS''' or '''CROWS II''') is a [[Remote Weapon Station|remote-control weapon system]] that provides the operator with the ...-safe laser rangefinder. It is also furnished with a fully integrated fire control system that provides ballistic correction.<ref>[http://www.globalsecurity.o
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