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• Military cadence
  ...k song sung by military personnel while running or marching. In the United States, these cadences are sometimes called jody calls or jodies, after Jody, a re ...nning-in-formation (double time) march. This serves the purpose of keeping soldiers "dressed", moving in step as a unit and in formation, while maintaining the
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• Quartermaster Corps (United States Army)
  ...(CSS)) branch of the [[United States Army]]. It is also one of three U.S. Army logistics branches, the others being the Transportation Corps and the Ordna {{see also|Quartermaster General (United States)}}
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• U.S. Soldier's Creed
  ...all [[United States Army]] personnel are encouraged to adhere to. All U.S. Army enlisted personnel are taught the Soldier's Creed during basic training, an ...01.txt Ft Benning Bayonet article]</ref> and was first presented to senior Army leaders on June 7, 2003.<ref>[http://afs.sagepub.com/cgi/content/refs/31/4/
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• 1983 Beirut barracks bombing
  ...dmark|name=USMCBarracksatBeirutAirport|display=inline,title}}<br/>[[United States Marine Corps]] [[barracks]], [[Beirut Airport]] ...s struck separate buildings housing [[Military of the United States|United States]] and [[Military of France|French military forces]]—members of the Multin
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• Hooah
  ...g to or meaning anything and everything except ''no''."<ref>http://www.amc.army.mil/amc/rda/rda-ap/hooah.html - AMC Acquisition Policy</ref> ...cue, and Combat Controllers. It is also known to be used by the [[Canadian Army]]."</ref>
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• United States 40 mm grenades
  The [[United States Army]] has created a plethora of different types of [[40 mm grenade]]s in both t ...velocity 40x53mm cartridge as well, probably in response to the desire by soldiers for such ammunition in ambush or similarly short range engagements.
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• Carl Gustav recoilless rifle
  ...em'', but often called ''the Gustav'' or simply the ''Carl Johnson'' by US soldiers. In Australia it is irreverently known as ''Charlie Gusto'' or ''Charlie Gu ...me [[anti-tank]] role as the [[United States Army|US Army]] [[Bazooka]], [[United Kingdom|British]] [[PIAT]] and [[Germany|German]] [[Panzerschreck]]. Unlike
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• Dahlgren gun
  ...ding parties {{Harv|Ripley|1984| p=87}}. Light artillery borrowed from the army proved unsatisfactory. In 1849, then Lieutenant, Dahlgren began to design ...rvice, but the howitzers could also use friction primers obtained from the army.
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• M2 Browning machine gun
  |origin= {{flag|United States}} ...e War]] <br>[[Falklands War]] <br>[[South African Border War]]<br>[[United States invasion of Panama]] <br>[[Gulf War]] <br>[[Somali Civil War]] <br>[[Operat
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• Mefloquine
  | pregnancy_category = C <small>([[United States|U.S.]])</small> ...ated with HCl). Mefloquine was developed in the 1970s at the [[Walter Reed Army Institute of Research]] in the U.S. as a synthetic analogue of [[quinine]].
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• Morphine
  ...f>[http://www.amusingfacts.com/facts/Detail/soldiers-disease-morphine.html Soldiers Disease A Historical Hoax?]</ref> ...ine with integral needle for immediate use. From WWII. On display at the [[Army Medical Services Museum]].]]
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• Depleted uranium
  ...ons exposed to DU."<ref name="Hindin" /> The [[World Health Organization]] states that no consistent risk of reproductive, developmental, or carcinogenic ef In the 1970s, [[the Pentagon]] reported that the [[Red Army|Soviet military]] had developed [[armor plating]] for [[Warsaw Pact]] tanks
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• Gunpowder
  ...leloading]] rifles and pistols in FFFG granulation size. [[Quarter (United States coin)|Coin]] (diameter 24 mm) for comparison.]] ...ore, short pistols and most commonly for priming [[flintlock]]s). In the [[United Kingdom]], the gunpowder grains are categorised by mesh size: the BSS [[Mes
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• Embalming chemicals
  In the United States alone, about 20 million liters of embalming fluid are used every year.<ref ...servative chemical) than one simply for [[viewing]] (known in the [[United States]] and [[Canada]] as a [[Funeral#Visitation|funeral visitation]]) at a funer
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• Chlorine
  ...s well as the elemental state of zero (see Table). Progressing through the states, hydrochloric acid can be oxidized using manganese dioxide, or [[hydrogen c ...irst introduced as a weapon on April 22, 1915 at [[Ypres]] by the [[German Army]],<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.drcordas.com/education/weaponsmassd/Chl
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• Eric Robert Rudolph
  ...an]] responsible for a series of [[bombing]]s across the [[southern United States]] between 1996 and 1998, which killed two people and injured at least 150 o ...8, the year before his discharge, Rudolph had attended the [[United States Army Air Assault School|Air Assault School]] at Fort Campbell. He attained the r
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• Assassination of George Tiller
  ...who was nationally known for being one of the few doctors in the [[United States]] to perform [[late-term abortion]]s, was shot and killed by '''Scott Roede Calling the murder "an abhorrent act of violence", [[United States Attorney General|U.S. Attorney General]] [[Eric Holder]] announced,
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• Militant
  ...ermination, freedom and independence, as derived from the [[Charter of the United Nations]], of peoples forcibly deprived of that right [...], particularly p ...any armed force, it generally refers to a permanent, professional force of soldiers or guerrillas.
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• Counter-terrorism
  .... [[Image:US Customs and Border Protection officers.jpg|thumb|250px|United States Customs and Border Protection officers]] | author = United Nations Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial executions
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• Insurgency
  ...nstituted authority (for example, an authority recognised as such by the [[United Nations]]) when those taking part in the rebellion are not recognised as [[ ...power, and thus Confederate warships were given the same rights as United States warships in foreign ports.
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