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Homeslice – Person, often a sarcastic overture to civilians from a drill instructor; from the terms homie and homeboy. Homesteading – Remaining at one duty station for an extended tour or consecutive tours. Honcho or Head Honcho – Person in charge, from the Japanese word for "boss', "hanchÅ"; also a nickname for Okinawan taxi drivers.
Decommissioning or decommissioned may refer to: Infrastructure. Nuclear decommissioning, the process of closing a nuclear facility;
A Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility (NISMF) is a facility owned by the U.S. Navy as a holding facility for decommissioned naval vessels, pending determination of their final fate. All ships in these facilities are inactive, but some are still on the Naval Vessel Register, while others have been struck from that Register.
UDT 2 was sent to Roi-Namur where Lt. Crist earned a Silver Star. UDTs 1 and 2 were decommissioned upon return to Hawaii with most of the men transferred to UDTs 3, 4, 5, and 6. Admiral Turner ordered the formation of nine teams, three for III Amphibious Corps and six for V Amphibious Corps (in all Teams 3–11).
After completion of acceptance flights at Area 51 of this last new F-117A aircraft, the flight test squadron continued flight test duties of refurbished aircraft after modifications by Lockheed. In February/March 1992 the test unit moved from Area 51 to the USAF Palmdale Plant 42 and was integrated with the Air Force Systems Command 6510th Test ...
Prototype "fleet submarines"—submarines fast enough (21 knots (11 m/s)) to travel with battleships. Twice the size of any concurrent or past U.S. submarine. A poor tandem engine design caused the boats to be decommissioned by 1923 and scrapped in 1930.
Bruce Mansfield Power Plant, at a capacity of 2,490 MW, is the largest power plant to be decommissioned in the United States. This is an incomplete list of decommissioned coal-fired power stations in the United States.
On July 8, 2010, Harry Reid, Steven Chu and Ken Salazar announced that a 25-square-mile (65 km 2) portion of this area was being reassigned as a development and test area for new solar technologies. [9] One of the test stands of Area 25, the Reactor Maintenance, Assembly, and Disassembly (R-MAD) facility, has been demolished.