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... Armed Forces Insignia - Annotated Bibliography is a catalog of over 4,000 references addressing military and supporting auxiliary services insignia, rank/rate, and decorations. Compiled materials span the period from 1810 to 2010. Materials compiled from a variety of resources including articles and publications available through Internet libraries....

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...information access. Through their use, I hope that otherbibliographers are able to correct my novice undertaking and expand upon this attempt.By advan... ...we could have made itthis long.With these social interactions, people were able to move past other animals in nature tobecome human. Social interactio... ... rocks. The cost analysis is reliant how many will needslings and are they able to collect rocks on their march. As warfare goes, this is a lowcost as... ...sided hat.19 The limited resources also created issues within the military rankstructure. Depending on the status of the soldier, they were to wear a ... ...ntal Army was able to import materials to facilitate uniformity within the ranks.On 18 June 1780, regulations changed to standardize the wear and appe... ...ions changed to standardize the wear and appearance ofenlisted and officer ranks.21The Revolutionary War would also bring about a formal soldier recog... ... rate’s implementation. [642]J433 Stacey, John. “Seaman Guard: An Earlier Generation.” Trading Post ... ...n Guard. During World War I, the U.S. Navy approved the designation of Seaman Guard and Seaman Watch. John Stacey includes several rate badges... ...lectronics WarfareS SquadronS1C Seaman 1st Class VB Bombing Squadron or LightSATD S...

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...n Army Corps on the March By the Bivouac's Fitful Flame Come up from the Fields Father Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim As Toilsome I Wander'd Virginia's Woods Not the Pilot Year That Trembled and Reel'd beneath Me. The Wound-Dresser Long, Too Long Americ...

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...the Fields FatherVigil Strange I Kept on the Field One NightA March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road UnknownA Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray ... ... yet experient of myriads of seasons,Of every hue and caste am I, of every rank and religion,A farmer, mechanic, artist, gentleman, sailor, quaker,Pri... ...icate around the bowels as around the head and heart,Copulation is no more rank to me than death is.I believe in the flesh and the appetites,Seeing, h... ...ing MachineNo labor-saving machine,Nor discovery have I made,Nor will I be able to leave behind me any wealthy bequest to found a hospital or library... ... Tuscan going down the Arno, and the Venetian along the Po,I see the Greek seaman sailing out of Egina bay. 6I see th... ...ee sense at last, and are insatiate henceforward,Not you any more shall be able to foil us, or withhold yourselves from us,We use you, and do not cast... ...-appears the body, man’s or woman’s, well-shaped, natural, gay,Every part able, active, receptive, without shame or the need of shame.)Air, soil, wat...

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...sibly within a decade, both the United States and the USSR would be able to destroy each other, and neither could achieve an advantage i... ...ecision by Eisenhower to sponsor a satellite.”58 The government was able to trust these leaders to establish the right of overflight—its... ...ing to do with airplanes, then why were we working on it?”96 Robert Seamans would serve as associate and then deputy administrator of NA... ...nt of the Medal of Honor for leading the raid on Tokyo, rose to the rank of lieutenant general in the AAF during World War II, and was a... ... tion, 7. 96. Hansen, Spaceflight Revolution, 17–18. 97. Seamans, Aiming at Targets, 61. 98. Roland, SP-4103 Model Research... ...nar-probe program because he would rather have a good IRBM “than be able to hit the moon, for we didn’t have any enemies on the moon!”45... ...o the National Security Council that would involve fewer but higher-ranking members such as the secretary of defense, secretary of state... ...e Eisenhower had put forth.192 Senator Styles Bridges (R-N.H.), the ranking minority member, suggested the language “must be tied closer... ...an.”167 In the end, Glennan was able to hire a civilian, Robert C. Seamans. Another type of support alluded to already was the family...

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...e Air Force (the most technicallyoriented of the services), I selected Bob Seamans. Then a profes-sor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Bo... ...D). I intended to take full advantage ofthe military experience of our top-ranking generals and admirals,whose advice had often gone unsought in previ... ...ooperative relation-ship with the services “participatory management.” Bob Seamansand John McLucas were two of our most capable partners in thisendeav... ...McLucas’s lateryears, comments by Joe Pelton and Ed Martin were again valu-able, as were reviews of relevant portions by two visionary spaceentreprene... ...d defense officials on the subject ofacquisition reform. He was never quite able, however, to coalescethis research into a more comprehensive theory fo... ...olleagues who gave generously of their time andknowledge. If John had been able to write a preface, he wouldhave given them all proper credit. We have... ... my job in the Pentagon, where I had beenserving as the Air Force’s second-ranking civilian for about15 months. While visiting the Carolinas, land of ... .... Along with a hun-dred other recent civilians, I learned the rudiments of seaman-ship, navigation, naval protocol, and military discipline duringa th... ...d working for me. Normally inthe military, criticism flows only from higher rank to lower. Inthis case, I’m glad the opposite occurred. I think this fe...

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...love for her had been so passionate, so intense, so overwhelming, that the green poison of jealousy had seeped into his heart and soon he hadn't been able take it anymore. She had been his everything and he had failed her. He hadn't been up to the challenge, had been no match for her ebullience. That was his fault. Eventually he hadn't felt loved in return though she profe...

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... green poison of jealousyhad seeped into his heart and soon he hadn't been able take it anymore. She had been hiseverything and he had failed her. He ... ...e paid to the port authorities andvarious bribes no doubt. But you must be able to prove you have title to the boat, hence thedeed and a birth certifi... ... whimpering. He hesitates. Then moves out of his hiding place drenched in rank sweat. A dynamitestick on the floor, lit wick. Snuffs it in panic. Tip... ...s setting upon him. Stay awake!Minutes turn into agonizing hours. Won't be able to hold out much longer...Then theincongruous shock, a booming noise, ... ...ue delightfully past that abhorred wrinkled ring -Anushorribilis- into his rank poop chute? Tongues teasing sweaty soft skin, teeth nimbly nipple nib... ...s heart beats faster at the sight. How he loveshim! His mangal! His loving seaman. If it weren't for him... But there is more than hisattachment to Ju... ...The air is hot and stifling, his feet squish and squelch in and out of the rank mud, hescratches his skin repeatedly as he worms his way through the m...

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...rough the French and Indian war and Samuel’s twin brother,Jonathan, was the able and efficient colonel of the 5th Essex County Regiment from February1... ...pose to be the character of any) let them exert themselves by hiring a good ablebodied man, and see him well clothed and equipped, then hand him over ... ...here’s no man, let his abilities and circumstances be what they will, butis able to do something (in this day of difficulty and distress) for the good... ... and upon the promotion of MajorJohonnot he became Major. He served in this rank through 1775 in the 21st U. C. regiment, andin 1776 in the 14th Conti... ...nt in either the 21st U. C. or the 14th ContinentalRegiments. Those of this rank who were promoted to a higher rank in these commands havealready been... ...any inthe 14th Continental in 1776. FIRST LIEUT. ROBERT WILLIAMS held that rank first in Captain Joseph Swasey’sCompany in the 14th Continental in 17... ...1738-9, and may have been theman who from April 10 to November 14, 1759 was seaman on board the ship “King George,”Captain Benjamin Halowell, Jr. Acco...

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...altered state of affairs, ordered him togo forward and do duty as a common seaman, telling him that he didnot intend to have any land-lubbers or idler... ...ce--that "there is many a slip 'twixt the cup and thelip." Heroes in every rank of life are peculiarly liable to such slips, and_our_ hero was no exce... ...owed Peter to encourage and spur him on, alsotumbled in. Muggins alone was able to stop short in time."Hallo, boys!" he cried in a hoarse whisper, "ar... ...ht-heartedly as they did, and it is probablethat they would have been less able to meet those difficulties anddangers when they appeared.Be this as it... ...derd'rection. Me is used to de woods, you sees, so kep' clear o' destoopid seamans, who soon tires der legses, as me knows bery well;den come round in... ...merica where vesselstouched, was a place from which they might probably be able to maketheir way to California. He added that there was a rumour of go...

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...ns. The Chief Officer,the ’Praefectus Vigilum’was of equestrian rank. Recruitment wasat first slow, and as an inducement, freed... ...e bases with thecomplete rolls of the cohort inscribed on them, giving the ranksof all the members. The ’aquarius’was a water carrier and it is lik... ...e whom God hath honoured to be the first King of Great Britain,ought to be able to say in some proportion that We found Our citieand suburbs of London... ...Companies devised the system of firemarking: sothat they were able to identify their clients* houses each policyholder was provided with ... ...id so that in theevent of large scale fires and emergencies, they would be able to(1) T. Paul, op. cit., page 51*(2) Ibid., page 51*(3) Report of t... ...ctual loss or the pay for the period of a whole-time fireman of equivalent rank on appointment, whichever is theless*'(1) G. Perry, op. cit., page 55... ...st obvious difference between the ship andthe industrial plant is that the seaman lives at his place of work,amongst his colleagues and ...

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...e basis of the technological challenge involved, Surveyor andLunar Orbiter rank as two of the outstanding accomplishments of NASAand the U.S. aerospac... ...biter. LaRC management deliberated carefully and concludedthat it would be able to handle such a mission. The Center was veryreceptive to the challeng... ...involved in a project mustbe highly sensitive to environmental factors and able to adapt to thefast pace of environmental change. Within their respect... ...tor Webb and his principal associates, Dr. Hugh L. Drydenand Dr. Robert C. Seamans, Jr., became deeply concerned about failureson Ranger, the JPL in-h... ... and the D c ~ pSpace Instrumentation Facility forLunar Orbiter, were also able to make direct use of what had beenlearned from Surveyor. Langlcy Rese... ... of both those responsiblefor planning the Apollo landings and the growing ranks of scientistsinterested in information on the Moon. Lunar Orbiter h...

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...edapproach of what, at least, appears to be death. If you have, you willbe able to understand the intense relief and thankfulness felt by thefugitives... ...ng, but they heard a suggestive crash and a sharpexclamation.Had they been able to see, they would have understood the situationwell enough without th... ...ump a'most out o' my mouth.""What have 'ee found there, doctor?" asked the seaman, on observingthat his companion was groping behind a mass of herbage... ...ockins?""Ay, I heard it sure enough. What is it, think 'ee, lad!" said the seamanto the negro.Ebony, who was gazing into the dark cavern with glaring ... ...sightimmediately in the deep gloom."Softly, softly, doctor," whispered the seaman, as he followed, "theremay be holes or pits within--""All right; I'm... ...s nearly to choke him."Git along, massa," he said in a gaspy whisper, when able to articulate,"we's got to go troo wid it _now_."Acting on this advice... ...hick hair was all the capthey wore, excepting two or three men of superior rank, who worecloths wrapped in turban fashion on their heads, and a volumi... ...better than a slave--in somecases worse--while the officers of the highest rank possessedunreasonable power.Military rank was founded on a system whic... ...or the sergeant, and soon up to thirteen for a field-marshal of the higher rank--a few havingsixteen honours! Those thus highly _honoured_ were not nu...

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...in the institution.3 In this study I describe when, how, and why this remark-able shift in leadership from bomber generals to fightergenerals occurred... ...or war andwartime attrition had catapulted 90 percent of them to flagofficer rank and responsibilities by war’s end—the vastmajority would finish the ... ...oosted members of thisgroup who were commissioned before Pearl Harbor to the rankof colonel by war’s end. The junior generation of futurefour-star gen... ... mid-1965 to 1977, with the last retiring in 1981. Air Force officers at the rank of major and below in theKorean War would become the senior leaders ... ...eon. Extensive psychological screening attempted toselect those who would be able to learn how to fly with theleast difficulty, and psychiatric screen... ...on bombing, the strategy of the faithful becameone of hope. 53 Without being able to agree where to placeemphasis, the effort increased in size and sc... ...than the cost of Southeast Asia. —Secretary of the Air Force Robert C. Seamans Jr., March 1969 The retirement of Curtis E. LeMay in 1965 ... ...erview byDr. Edgar F. Puryear Jr., 12 July 1978, 24, AFHRA; and Dr. Robert C.Seamans Jr., transcript of oral history interview by Lt Col Lynn R. Offic... ...erence. Laird pressured General Ryan and Secretary ofthe Air Force Robert C. Seamans to bring young people intothe four-star ranks.10 Secretary Seaman...

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...er as aircraft commander for the WB-50. Heresigned his commission with the rank of captain in 1965 .THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK A... ...dwards AirForce Base; and John Bohn of Offutt Air Force Base. The able assistance of JulieMcAuley from Eglin Air Force Base; Al Misenko... ...eat superiority in one, can account for victory. Withoutattempting to rank order these factors, it is obvious that the country possessingbetter... ...craft (manned mother ships guiding radio-controlledunmanned missiles) ranked second in priority (ahead of a new Larynx), with thelowest prio... ...range . USAFselected the BANSHEE for this task because it seemed best able to succeed . 8 1EVOLUTION OF THE CRUISE MISSILE... ...g-range armed missile. In early 1969,Secretary of the Air Force Robert C . Seamans, Jr., set out the official USAFposition in testimony before the Sen... ...car,18-20, 27, 28; Huisken, 65, 66; USAF Oral History Interview, Robert C. Seaman, Jr., 1973-74, 64[AFSHRC-K239 .0512-687A] ; "The Trouble With SCAD: ... ...em with using wide-bodied transports is that such an aircraft would not be ableto penetrate Soviet defenses, an issue which, while relevant to this st... ... Scud. See Subsonic Unarmed Decoy problems: 116 Seamans, Robert C., Jr.: 146 reliability : 117 Sea Launched...

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.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143Secretary of the Air Force Robert C. Seamans, Jr . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166Army Mechanized Infa... ... instance, the US Armyhas identified problems with leadership, morale in the ranks, andits doctrines in the early 1970s whichboth compelled and result... ...s. Even if a pursuit plane found and caught up with a bomber,it might not be able to shoot it down. All things considered, bomber,advocates had good r... ... managed to recapture nearly $270 million in supple- mental funds, LeMay was able to have the money applied to thepurchase of additional B-36s. All he... ...d a diversified supply network thatproved difficult to define, and they were able to move supplies inbad weather and at night with impunity.39 By conc... ...lipped beyondthe scope of Air Force missions. The Air Defense Command (ADC) ranked below TAC in theSAC-dominated Air Force of the 1950s. The Air Forc... ...intenance networks they demanded. Managers began to rise more rapidly in the ranks than their warrior counterparts, in part because the skills of the ... ...iation on 19 March 1969, newly installed Secretary of theAir Force Robert C. Seamans, Jr., said: There seems to be a trend toward viewing all nationa... ...s, was especially affected, and eventually disaffected. In asense, Secretary Seamans's speech to the Air Force Association,focusing as it did on the ...

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...of this respected scientist with the title ofsensed and had convinced high-ranking officials that such problems required an prof... ... be authorized, than an elderly professor, it was a seaman with the rank of Vice Admiral who cameunhindered by bureaucratic red... ... than an elderly professor, it was a seaman with the rank of Vice Admiral who cameunhindered by bureaucratic red tape, to make r... ... the military rank of captain first class. ... ...his sometimes very blunt opinions on matters of technical able to maintain, even if he possessed those qualities before his appointme... ...native land. After returning from comfortable Thuringia, not everyone was able to findquarters in conditions that were reasonable even by the postwar... ...nd. Former Corporal Viebach, a participant in many combat launches,we were able to monitor the launch phase using test range systems. The rocket flew ... ... From the author’s archives.of one of Pilyugin’s testers, former seaman Nikolay Lakuzo, they decided to take the Missile lau... ... Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002). See also the essays by Robert C. Seamans, James E. Webb,more employees for all the services supporting our a...

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...en around a good many years and was solely attributable to the fact that no one had been able to establish a definite requirement for additional airli... ...ift, for example, MATS had been operating its aircraftat about 4 hours a day, and it was able with priority effort to increase its rate to 5 .5hours a... ...the start of the Korean War, MATS wasoperating at a rate of 2-12 hours a day, and it was able to increase to only 4.3 hours during the first 30 days. ... ...r. He further remarked that torpedoes for the Navy and iron bombs for the Air Forcewould rank high on the illustrative priority list.192 Unlike most.... ...Walt W. Rostow, who would head the StateDepartment's Policy Planning Council, found high-ranking Soviet delegatesgravely concerned with the prospect t... ...elieved that interservice competition tended to generate moreeffective weapons. 62 High-ranking Air Force officers, however, expressed greatfait... ...f money on their part." 14 But from a user's viewpoint, Secretary ofAir Force Robert C. Seamans, Jr., anc General Ryan agreed that Soviet prototype d... ... sometimes call in the colloquial, "fly before you buy." We would like to do this.ts Seamans assumed that the Soviets could follow such a course o... ...flight time too short to allow adequate time to "flush" an alert bomber force. Secretary Seamans noted that "with the ICBM launchers now under constru...

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...72. bureaucracies outlive presidentialadministrations, each agency is able to perpetuate itself by maintaining a cloudof secrecy around its opera... ...digenousspontaneity and cantankerous nature. At the same time, the FBI was able toexploit this rather uncoordinated obstreperousness for its own ends.... ... of existence. Given the great power granted the military command over its ranks, it isastonishing how many underground papers there were. The insulat... ...authority to controlthe voice of dissent among servicemen. Intimidation by rank, the right totransfer, to demote, imprison and simply make life misera... ...and used disciplinary, judicial, andsurreptitious tactics. Intimidation by rank andthreats of prosecution by military courts oftenprovoked self-censor... ... PRIEST During the spring of 1969, the Navy took action against Journalist SeamanApprentice Roger Priest. This action was significant because it indic... ... General had ruled that in allprobability "offenses have been committed by Seaman Priest arising out of hispublication and dissemination of a publicat... ...mmittee(unpublished), Expression Repression File A-3.121 Philip M. Stern, "Seaman Priest," The New Republic, Yol. 162, No.7, Issue1877, Feb. 14, 1970....

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... Seafaring Lexicon being a Provisional Collection of Seamanship Jargon, Argot, Cant, Patois, Slang, Figures of Spe... ...ncesabaft toward the stern, aft‘abandon ship!’ an unambiguous command of urgencyable seaman a knowledgeable sailoraboard on ship, or, alongside ship [... ...s finest warriors out to battle with her and her pirates, Prince Alf and his men are able to board her ship and gain the upper hand in the battle, she... ...t too thought to be inspired by the death’s head entered in the captain’s log when a seaman diesbar a sandbank or shoal in the mouth of a harbor or ri... ...f-letters-turned-pirate who begins a successful career, is invited into Blackbeard’s ranks, is eventually browbeaten by the 9... ...orward or advance‘born with a silver spoon in his mouth’ said of any young gentleman able to enter the Navy without examination and with promotion ass... ... or have a grasp of a jobkraken [Scandinavian] the feared giant squid, thought to be able to capsize the largest seagoing vessel ...

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...and 1959, America’s first primate spacefarers, 4two squirrel monkeys named Able and Baker (known at that time as Miss Able andMiss Baker) were launche... ...they had been taught to do dur-ing the presumably terrifying rocket rides. Able and Baker were encased in caststo protect them against gravitational c... ...ace Exploration1959, America was enthralled by the “virtuous, no nonsense, able and professionalastronauts” who “put a very human face on the grandest... ...ed for life and the enjoyment of life. The missions and expeditions were ranked by prevalence of the seven factorsthat might correspond with the dif... ... crews from baseline. From high-est to lowest in compromising factors, the rankings fell in the following order: LadyFranklin Bay (7); Wrangel Island,... ...Apollo 11 mission all had high degrees ofrisk. The later polar expeditions rank below these missions. Both the space missions and the earliest polar... ...rationSeamans, Robert C. Aiming at Targets: The Autobiography of Robert C. Seamans. NASA SP-4106, 1996.Garber, Stephen J., ed. Looking Backward, Loo... ...ission. Monographs in Aerospace History, No. 36, 2005. NASA SP-2005-4536.Seamans, Robert C., Jr. Project Apollo: The Tough Decisions. Monographs in ...

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...dtranquillity than she could expect from the administration of the bestand ablest usurper.We should do great injustice to those who held this language... ... ready to rally round him, was very large. It is aremarkable fact that two able and experienced statesmen, who hadborne a chief part in the Revolution... ...e affairs of the greatcommonwealth of nations. The attention of the ablest English politicianshad long been almost exclusively occupied by disp... ...x had beengrave indeed. He had long before been conspicuous in their front rankduring a hard fight for liberty. When they were at length victorious,wh... ...onspicuous. Quickness, energy, and audacity, united, soonraised him to the rank of a privileged man. His enemies, and he hadmany enemies, said that he... ...ter part ofFebruary. So intense was the public anxiety that, if any man of rankwas missed, two days running, at his usual haunts, it was immediatelywh... ... incapable administrator, he still stoodso high in general estimation as a seaman that the government wasunwilling to lose his services. He was assure... ...at of admiral. It wassaid of him, also, that to the dauntless courage of a seaman he unitedthe suavity and urbanity of an accomplished gentleman.665 H...

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...hat William should behis own Foreign Secretary.It may be observed that the ablest and best informed of those whohave censured the manner in which the ... ...ome great moral and intellectual qualities; but, as atactician, he did not rank high; and of his many campaigns only twowere decidedly successful. In ... ...o leavea matter so delicate and so full of risk to their master, and to be able toprotest with truth that not a line to which the most intolerant Prot... ... That nothing might bewanting which could kindle emulation through all the ranks of a gallantand loyal army, the magnificent King himself had set out ... ...he French lines was so wellperformed that no messenger sent by William was able to cross them.The garrison did not know that relief was close at hand.... ...bove Ludowick Muggleton or Joanna Southcote. But itwould be most unjust to rank the sect which regards him as its founderwith the Muggletonians or the... ...tossing on the waves. The whole edifice was surmounted by a colossalwooden seaman, who, from between two dolphins, looked down on thecrowds of Leadenh... ...tained the conflict with their usual courage and with morethan their usual seamanship. After a hard and doubtful fight of fivehours, Tourville thought... ...as a speculativeseaman, confident in his theories. Russell was a practical seaman,proud of his achievements. The strength of Nottingham lay in speech;...