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  2. Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets - Wikipedia

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    The Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets (VTCC) is the military component of the student body at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.Cadets live together in residence halls, attend morning formation, wear a distinctive uniform, and receive an intensive military and leadership educational experience similar to those at the United States service academies.

  3. Earl P. Yates - Wikipedia

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    Earl Preston "Buddy" Yates (December 23, 1923 – September 13, 2021) was a rear admiral in the United States Navy. [1] Yates graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1944 and was, in 1967, one of the youngest male graduates of the 20th century from the academy. [ 2 ]

  4. Helicopter Rope Suspension Technique - Wikipedia

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    Helicopter Rope Suspension Technique (HRST) is a military term for techniques and methods of rappelling, fast roping, Special Patrol Insertion/Extraction (SPIE) and Jacob's Ladder operations. Helicopter Rope Suspension was developed as a means to insert and/or extract, by helicopter, ground forces (primarily reconnaissance teams) into or from ...

  5. Yates v. United States (2015) - Wikipedia

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    Yates v. United States, 574 U.S. 528 (2015), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court construed 18 U.S.C. § 1519, a provision added to the federal criminal code by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, to criminalize the destruction or concealment of "any record, document, or tangible object" to obstruct a federal investigation. [1]

  6. Figure 8 (climbing) - Wikipedia

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    This device utilizes a large surface area in contact with a climbing rope to provide sufficient friction along with the proper technique to be used as a belay device or for rappelling. A figure 8 (sometimes just referred to as an 8) is used in conjunction with a climbing harness and locking carabiner to control a belayed climber's descent, or ...

  7. Abseiling - Wikipedia

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    Abseiling (/ ˈ æ b s eɪ l / AB-sayl or / ˈ ɑː p z aɪ l / AHP-zyle; from German abseilen 'to rope down'), also known as rappelling (/ ˈ r æ p ɛ l / RAP-pell or / r ə ˈ p ɛ l / rə-PELL; from French rappeler 'to recall, to pull through'), is the controlled descent of a steep slope, such as a rock face, by moving down a rope.

  8. List of artificial radiation belts - Wikipedia

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    The Starfish Prime radiation belt had, by far, the greatest intensity and duration of any of the artificial radiation belts. [1] The Starfish Prime radiation belt damaged the United Kingdom Satellite Ariel 1 and the United States satellites, Traac, Transit 4B, Injun I and Telstar I. It also damaged the Soviet satellite Cosmos V. All of these ...

  9. Dülfersitz - Wikipedia

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    Swiss soldiers abseiling using the Dülfersitz Abseiling by means of the Dülfersitz (not free-hanging). The Dülfersitz (named after mountaineer Hans Dülfer who had developed a different but related technique [1] [2]), also known as body rappel, is a classical, or non-mechanical abseiling technique, used in rock climbing and mountaineering.