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• Abbreviations (military)
  '''ASU''' Active Service Unit ...each their target. Combat air patrols apply to both overland and overwater operations, protecting aircraft, fixed and mobile sites on land, and ships at sea.
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• Quartermaster Corps (United States Army)
  ...ved in every U.S. military operation from the Revolutionary War to current operations in Iraq (Operation Iraqi Freedom) and Afghanistan (Operation Enduring Freed * 92G - Food Service Operations
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• United States Navy Hospital Corpsman
  ...ned/closed circuit [[scuba diving]], military [[free-fall]] and amphibious operations. They act as advisers regarding health and injury prevention, and treat ill ...equivalent to this insignia. Additionally any sailor attached to a Marine unit can earn and wear an FMF warfare device. (Example, administrative rates suc
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• USS Willis (DE-395)
  That day, the task group put to sea for operations in the Central Atlantic that took its ships first to Casablanca-visited fro ...I-52]] to the bottom. The task group completed that stint of hunter-killer operations on 30 June when it arrived at Port Royal Bay, Bermuda. ''Willis'' departed
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• USS Flaherty (DE-135)
  ...e stars]] plus a [[Presidential Unit Citation (United States)|Presidential Unit Citation]] == World War II North Atlantic operations==
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• USS Herbert C. Jones (DE-137)
  |Ship honours=3 Battle stars for [[World War II]] and [[Navy Unit Commendation]] == World War II North Atlantic operations==
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• USS Chatelain (DE-149)
  ...stars]] plus the [[Presidential Unit Citation (United States)|Presidential Unit Citation]] ...stars]] and the [[Presidential Unit Citation (United States)|Presidential Unit Citation]].
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• USS Moore (DE-240)
  == World War II North Atlantic operations== ...]] for [[antisubmarine]] patrol duty west of the [[Cape Verde]] Islands. A unit of the [[U.S. 4th Fleet]] for under 2 months, she returned to Norfolk, 27 A
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• USS Otterstetter (DE-244)
  == World War II North Atlantic operations== ...stetter'' reported to Commander Destroyer Force, U.S. Atlantic Fleet, as a unit of Escort Squadron Sixteen.
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• USS Sloat (DE-245)
  == World War II North Atlantic operations== ...November, she escorted UGS-23 to Norfolk. On 11 November, ''Sloat'', as a unit of Escort Division ([[CortDiv]]) 7, stood out of New York with convoy UGS-2
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• USS Stanton (DE-247)
  == World War II North Atlantic operations== ''Stanton'' escorted other convoys to [[North Africa]] and back, as a unit in task force TF 64 or TF 65. These included UGS-31, GUS-30, and UGS-37. Sh
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• USS Sellstrom (DE-255)
  == World War II North Atlantic operations== On 13 January 1944, ''Sellstrom'' departed Norfolk as a unit of Task Force 63 bound for [[Gibraltar]]. On 31 January, [[Task Force]] 63
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• USS Joyce (DE-317)
  == World War II North Atlantic operations== ...ing for a straggler the following morning she was ordered to direct rescue operations for the gasoline tanker {{SS|Pan-Pennsylvania}}, which was torpedoed and se
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• USS Kirkpatrick (DE-318)
  == World War II North Atlantic operations== ...manned radar picket stations in the North Atlantic until 1960, a seaborne unit of the air defense system of the [[United States]] and [[Canada]]. Incident
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• USS Lowe (DE-325)
  == World War II North Atlantic operations== She saw extended duty with the [[North American Air Defense Command]] as a unit of the seaward extension of the [[DEW line]], eventually completing 67 tour
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• USS Janssen (DE-396)
  == World War II North Atlantic operations== ...s in [[Casco Bay]] and the [[Bermuda]] area. She got underway on offensive operations once more 28 March and conducted 2 weeks of Atlantic barrier patrol. Joinin
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• USS Wilhoite (DE-397)
  ==World War II North Atlantic operations== ...22.3 was to proceed to the vicinity of 46°15' N, 21°15' W for offensive operations against a westbound enemy submarine. At 1646 on the next day, ''Wilhoite''
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• USS Cockrill (DE-398)
  == World War II North Atlantic operations== ...ary 1945 for operational training with [[USS Bogue (CVE-9)]] and an escort unit, and then took part in carrier qualification training in [[Narragansett Bay
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• USS Brough (DE-148)
  In the fall of 1952 ''Brough'' participated in joint [[NATO]] operations in the Atlantic and visited various European ports including [[Bergen, Norw ...ea where high winds and forty foot waves were not uncommon. The pattern of operations was five or six days in port, nineteen to twenty-one days at sea. En route
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• USS Vance (DE-387)
  ...ecame the flagship for Escort Division (CortDiv) 45—a Coast Guard-manned unit—and convoyed a group of oil tankers from Norfolk, Va., to Port Arthur, Te In February 1944, the ship conducted local escort operations before joining the New York section of Convoy UGS-33, bound for Gibraltar.
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