Towards the end of the parade, the crowds cheered loudly for the military units which provided a rapid response to natural disasters across Mexico. This program celebrated 50 years of life in 2016, after beginning in 1966 when a river overflowed in eastern Mexico. Displays on the back of truc...
A private is a soldier of the lowest military rank (equivalent to NATO Rank Grades OR-1 to OR-3 depending on the force served in). In modern military parlance, 'private' is shortened to 'Pte' in the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth countries and to
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Grant, but there is an ambiguity in the Congressional act and the intention may not have been to create an actual rank beyond General, and no new insignia, certainly not with Five Stars, was created. Nevertheless, a special supreme rank, "General of the Armies of the United States," was...
While in the US Army, when someone was promoted, there was a “tacking on ceremony,” where your metal rank insignia was pushed into your collar, and then the CO, First Sgt., and selected others then hit your new rank, without the protective tabs into your flesh. Thankfully, in the ...
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The flag should never have any mark, insignia, letter, word, number, figure, or drawing of any kind placed on it, or attached to it. The flag should never be used for receiving, holding, carrying, or delivering anything. When the flag is lowered, no part of it should touch the ground...
A classic Mayan calendar would in fact be a monument like the “El Castillo,” or Temple of Kukulcan in Chichen Itza, Yucatan, Mexico. It has four stairways of 91 steps each and a top platform, for a total of 365 surfaces (91*4+1), each used to count the days of the year. So...
These were the days before dog tags. Occasionally during the Civil War, when men suspected they were being ordered to their deaths, they’d write their names on scraps of paper and pin them inside their clothing. At Gettysburg, corpses could only be identified by company insignia or marks of...