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With a staff of 900 (80 per cent of whom were recruited from the Austrian police), it was the largest Gestapo office outside Berlin. An estimated 50,000 people were interrogated or tortured there. [381] The Gestapo in Vienna was headed by Franz Josef Huber, who also served as chief of the Central Agency for Jewish Emigration in Vienna.
The first use of Army branch insignia was just prior to the American Civil War in 1859 for use on the black felt hat. A system of branch colors, indicated by piping on uniforms of foot soldiers and lace for mounted troops, was first authorized in the 1851 uniform regulations, with Prussian blue denoting infantry, scarlet for artillery, orange for dragoons, green for mounted rifles, and black ...
The 1st Special Forces Command (Airborne) is a division-level special operations forces command within the United States Army Special Operations Command. [7] The command was first established in 1989 and reorganized in 2014 grouping together the Army Special Forces (a.k.a. "the Green Berets"), [8] [9] [10] psychological operations, civil affairs, and support troops into a single organization ...
The first basic military map symbols began to be used by western armies in the decades following the end of the Napoleonic Wars.During World War I, there was a degree of harmonisation between the British and French systems, including the adoption of the colour red for enemy forces and blue for allies; the British had previously used red for friendly troops because of the traditional red coats ...
He wields a nodachi and claw-like armor spikes and his finishing move is Black Lightning Slash (暗黒跳飛斬り, Ankoku Chohigiri, lit. "Darkness Leaping Slash"), which fires several black lasers. According to The Encyclopedia of YST, if Cale was to use his powers for good, he would guide those lost in the darkness. [citation needed]
Rudolph "Lightning" Jackson (voiced by Tyrone Savage) is a jock bully contestant on Total Drama: Revenge of the Island and Total Drama All-Stars. He is an arrogant athlete who is talented at football and almost always refers to himself in the third person. Despite his lack of intelligence, he makes it to the finale and faces off against Cameron.
A header on the Lightning's website identifies the team as "formerly known as the Oregon High Desert Storm". The change of brand was necessitated because of the existence of another AF1 team with the Storm name, the Southwest Kansas Storm , while the legal revival of the Oregon High Desert Storm allows the team to remain legally distinct from ...
A quarterstaff (plural quarterstaffs or quarterstaves), also short staff or simply staff is a traditional European polearm, which was especially prominent in England during the Early Modern period. The term is generally accepted to refer to a shaft of hardwood from 6 to 9 feet (1.8 to 2.7 m) long, sometimes with a metal tip, ferrule , or spike ...