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The army rank of captain (from the French capitaine) is a commissioned officer rank historically corresponding to the command of a company of soldiers. The rank is also used by some air forces and marine forces. Today, a captain is typically either the commander or second-in-command of a company or artillery battery (or United States Army cavalry troop or Commonwealth squadron). In the Chinese People's Liberation Army, a captain may also command a company, or be the second-in-command of a battalion.
In NATO countries, the rank of captain is described by the code OF-2 and is one rank above an OF-1 (lieutenant or first lieutenant) and one below an OF-3 (major or commandant). The rank of captain is generally considered to be the highest rank a soldier can achieve while remaining in the field.
In some militaries, such as United States Army and Air Force and the British Army, captain is the entry-level rank for officer candidates possessing a professional degree, namely medical professionals (doctors, nurses, pharmacists, dentists) and lawyers. (In the United States Army, lawyers who are not already officers at captain rank or above enter as lieutenants during training, and are promoted to the rank of captain after completion of their training if they are in the active component, or after a certain amount of time, usually one year from their date of commission as a lieutenant, for the reserve components.)
An army (from Latin arma "arms, weapons" via Old French armée, "armed" (feminine)) or ground force is a fighting force that fights primarily on land. In the broadest sense, it is the land-based military branch, service branch or armed service of a nation or state. It may also include other branches of the military such as the air force via means of aviation corps. Within a national military force, the word army may also mean a field army. They differ from army reserves who are activated only during such times as war or natural disasters.
In several countries, the army is officially called the Land Army to differentiate it from an air force called the Air Army, notably France. In such countries, the word "army" on its own retains its connotation of a land force in common usage. The current largest army in the world, by number of active troops, is the People's Liberation Army of China with 2,250,000 active troops and 800,000 reserve personnel followed by the Indian Army with 1,129,000 active troops and 2,142,900 reserve personnel.
The Medal of Honor is the United States of America's highest military honor, awarded for personal acts of valor above and beyond the call of duty. The medal is awarded by the President of the United States in the name of the U.S. Congress to U.S. military personnel only. There are three versions of the medal, one for the Army, one for the Navy, and one for the Air Force. Personnel of the Marine Corps and Coast Guard receive the Navy version.
The Medal of Honor was created as a Navy version in 1861 named the "Medal of Valor", and an Army version of the medal named the "Medal of Honor" was established in 1862 to give recognition to men who distinguished themselves "conspicuously by gallantry and intrepidity" in combat with an enemy of the United States. Because the medal is presented "in the name of Congress," it is often referred to as the "Congressional Medal of Honor". However, the official name is the "Medal of Honor," which began with the U.S. Army's version. Within United States Code the medal is referred to as the "Medal of Honor", and less frequently as "Congressional Medal of Honor".
Actors: Gerry Hambling (editor), Alan Parker (director), Alan Parker (writer), Randy Edelman (composer), Tamlyn Tomita (actress), Molly Maginnis (costume designer), Pruitt Taylor Vince (actor), Sab Shimono (actor), Michael York (actor), Tamlyn Tomita (actress), Allan Graf (actor), Colm Meaney (actor), Dennis Quaid (actor), Luca Kouimelis (miscellaneous crew), Beau Holden (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: Portraying one of the shadier details of American history, this is the story of Jack McGurn, who comes to Los Angeles in 1936. He gets a job at a movie theatre in Little Tokyo and falls in love with the boss's daughter, Lily Kawamura. When her father finds out, he is fired and forbidden ever to see her again. But together they escape to Seattle. When the war breaks out, the authorities decide that the Japanese immigrants must live in camps like war prisoners.
Keywords: 1930s, 1940s, actor, agitator, american-flag, arranged-marriage, arrest, arson, asian-american, atomic-bombActors: Sybil Danning (actress), Bruno Mattei (editor), Claudio Fragasso (writer), Lou Ferrigno (actor), Claudio Fragasso (director), Bruno Mattei (director), Menahem Golan (producer), Salvatore Borghese (actor), Brad Harris (actor), Giovanni Cianfriglia (actor), Emilio Messina (actor), Yoram Globus (producer), Yehuda Efroni (actor), Dov Seltzer (composer), Nicola Di Gioia (actor),
Plot: A bandit leader endowed with supernatural powers by his sorceress mother makes yearly raids on a peasant village. However, the women of the village come into possession of a magic sword, and go in search of a hero who is able to wield it and save their village from the evil bandit.
Keywords: ancient-rome, barbarian, bare-chested-male, battle, bikini, catfight, chariot-race, cheesecake, chopping-wood, clusium-italyActors: Mirta Miller (actress), José María Blanco (actor), Víctor Israel (actor), Tien Lung Chen (actor), John Liu (producer), John Liu (actor), John Liu (director), John Liu (writer), Martín Garrido (actor), Casanova Wong (actor), Raquel Evans (actress), Christian Anders (actor), Christian Anders (composer), Roger Paschy (actor), Jolanda Egger (actress),
Plot: Kung fu champ John is given the chance to train CIA agents in martial arts by using self-hypnosis. But when he discovers the reason he escapes and the CIA go after him. John must fight for his life all over Europe as he flees the CIA.
Keywords: agent, cia, cold-war, hand-to-hand-combat, kgb, martial-arts, ninja, spyActors: Harry Towb (actor), Phyllis Townshend (miscellaneous crew), Edwin Astley (composer), Bob Todd (actor), John Bluthal (actor), Victor Maddern (actor), Frank Thornton (actor), Michael Pertwee (writer), Spike Milligan (actor), Jim Dale (actor), Milo O'Shea (actor), Norman Rossington (actor), Victor Spinetti (actor), Jim Connock (editor), Kenneth J. Warren (actor),
Plot: Before his adventure begins, Digby is given to Bill by a friendly vet, but as Bill's grandfather doesn't like to have an English sheepdog in his house, Bill is forced to give him away. He gives Digby to a guy who works in a defense lab that experiments with animals and plants for space travel. A growth-boosting chemical is made in the lab, and the animal trainer steals some to boost his own tomato crop. Accidentally, the dog is fed some and, as a result, is growing all the time; eventually, he's the size of an ocean liner. As weird animals are attractions, Digby is stolen by two well-dressed hoods and sold to a circus, from which Digby escapes, hunted by the military, both Army and Air Force!
Keywords: based-on-novel, character-name-in-title, dog, giant-dog, giant-sheepdog, independent-film, sheepdogActors: Dennis Price (actor), Mark Dignam (actor), Nicholas Phipps (actor), Cyril Chamberlain (actor), Cecil Parker (actor), Basil Dignam (actor), Eric Barker (actor), Raymond Huntley (actor), Sid James (actor), Lloyd Lamble (actor), George Cole (actor), John Le Mesurier (actor), Warren Mitchell (actor), Clive Morton (actor), Michael Ripper (actor),
Plot: When the school burns to the ground there's clearly been some arson around. The pupils are found guilty and the judge hands them into the care of a pretty dubious child psychiatrist. The sixth form are soon kidnapped and on their way to Arabia with the Ministry of Education, Barchester police, and an Army Bath Unit after them. But real rescue is at hand in the shape of Britain's finest fighting force - St. Trinian's fourth form.
Keywords: independent-film, school, schoolgirl, sequel, uniformActors: Dean Martin (actor), Wallace Ford (actor), Mike Mahoney (actor), Jerry Lewis (actor), Al Hill (actor), Chick Chandler (actor), Donald Kerr (actor), Sayre Dearing (actor), Kenner G. Kemp (actor), Joe Gray (actor), Douglas Fowley (actor), Lester Dorr (actor), Billy Curtis (actor), Michael Ross (actor), Ralph Peters (actor),
Plot: Another movie with Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin. Jerry and Pete are two friends with no money, looking for some job. They finally find one as workers in a circus, but Jerry has different dreams. He wants to become a clown...
Keywords: character-has-same-name-as-actor, circus, circus-performer, crosley-automobile, handicapped-child, number-in-titleActors: Carl M. Leviness (actor), Ernie Adams (actor), Tom Kennedy (actor), Leonard Bremen (actor), Don Brodie (actor), Fred Aldrich (actor), Lane Chandler (actor), Dick Crockett (actor), Hume Cronyn (actor), Donald Curtis (actor), Marcel De la Brosse (actor), Harry Depp (actor), John Carroll (actor), Sam Finn (actor), Norman Lloyd (actor),
Plot: Evie's co-workers at the uniform shirt factory, and her almost-fiancée's inability to kiss, inspire her to slip a letter into a size sixteen-and-a-half shirt for some anonymous soldier. It's received by "Wolf" Larson, who immediately throws it away, but his sensitive, dreaming--and short--buddy John McPherson snags it, and begins a correspondence with Evie, pretending to be Wolf. But things get complicated when Evie wants to meet her tall, handsome soldier. And even more complicated when Wolf sees Evie and likes what he sees.
Keywords: kitten, letter, mistaken-identity, pen-pal, wartime-romance, world-war-twoActors: Gilbert Emery (actor), Leslie Denison (actor), Donald Douglas (actor), Alec Craig (actor), Jean De Briac (actor), Robert Bice (actor), Felix Basch (actor), Sven Hugo Borg (actor), Lynton Brent (actor), Hank Bell (actor), Frederic Brunn (actor), Wilson Benge (actor), Jack Chefe (actor), Gino Corrado (actor), Herbert Evans (actor),
Genres: Drama, War,Actors: Ted Adams (actor), Gordon De Main (actor), Dave O'Brien (actor), Forrest Taylor (actor), Chief Thundercloud (actor), Rick Vallin (actor), Billy Wilkerson (actor), Chief Yowlachie (actor), Edward Finney (producer), Sherman L. Lowe (writer), Edward Finney (director), Frederick Bain (editor), Fred Burns (actor), Iron Eyes Cody (actor), Chief Many Treaties (actor),
Plot: In this western, set in the Western wilderness, a wily and dangerous wild stallion, the leader of a pack of wild horses, threatens all that enter his domain including humans. Both Indians and cowboys are after the stallion Only brave Chief Ha-Ha-Wi can tame him.
Keywords: archive-footage, b-movie, b-western, bow-and-arrow, capture, chase, crook, deception, false-accusation, father-daughter-relationshipActors: Carlyle Moore Jr. (actor), Tex Phelps (actor), Chuck Baldra (actor), Ernie Adams (actor), Buzz Barton (actor), Tex Palmer (actor), Ed Cassidy (actor), Joe Dominguez (actor), Don Barclay (actor), Martin Garralaga (actor), Ray Jones (actor), Jack Kirk (actor), Horace B. Carpenter (actor), LeRoy Mason (actor), Bud Pope (actor),
Plot: The government assigns cavalry captain Bob Bradley (Bob Baker) to an area where pony express riders are being killed by arrows and their mail is being rifled. Posing as horse buyers, Bob and his pal, Andy Sharpe (Don Barclay), center their investigation around the ranch owned by Don Ricardo Hernandez (Martin Garralaga) where, in addition to learning that the Don has a pretty daughter named Lorita (Cecelia Callejo), he discovers that Jack Sommers (LeRoy Mason) and his lead henchman Phelps (Jack Kirk) are getting possession of the huge ranches, created by Spanish land grants, by having Ramon (Carleton Young), a disloyal Hernandez servant, kill the riders with arrows (hoping the Indians will be blamed) and taking the certificates of registry.
Keywords: ambush, american-indian, archive-footage, assignment, b-movie, b-western, bow-and-arrow, california, captain, captureArmy Captain Sarah Cudd would not give up during the final moments of the grueling 12 mile foot match to achieve her Expert Field Medical Badge at Fort Dix in New Jersey.
Captain Jane Renee "JR" Lund surprises her daughter Bella with an early return from Afghanistan in front of 80,000 fans at Camp Randall.
The story of the advancement of Pakistan Army is the tale of the birth of Pakistan, since its inception from the freckled nucleus of a regal legacy to its present status of an avant-garde and combat-tested field Army; it is an epoch of development which leaves behind its trials and tribulations, calamities and conflicts, as it struggled, with scarcity of possessions to embark on its shaping years. This is, conceivably, the enormous paradigm amongst few armies in history to have faced a war right at its setting up and, in the subsequent years, besides guarding the geographical precincts, it is always prepared to protect the ideological boundaries of the country. Nations can dream of their socio-economic progress and development only when they are sure that their guardians are strong enou...
In the 1980's, President Reagan passed an executive order calling for all troops to look uniform -- which meant no facial hair and no religious headwear. But for one Army captain, his beard and turban are sacred articles of his faith. Don Dahler explains what happened when he challenged the rule.
UP Police beaten an army captain in Faizabad. Around 25 police men attacked him when his car met with an accident. Zee News always stay ahead in bringing current affairs from all the valley of National interest, Politics, Entertainment, Sports and International happenings. We take you to the depth of every matter by providing every small detail and makes you familiar with all the happening around you. Zee News is the highly popular Hindi News channel of India’s largest television network ZMCL. The channel, which has a huge following in India and abroad, has won several prestigious national and international awards. Among its popular programs are - Dr. Subhash Chandra Show: https://goo.gl/fCugXC Daily News and Analysis: https://goo.gl/B8eVsD Manthan: https://goo.gl/6q0wUN Fast n...
During a fuel stop at Pease International Airport, Portsmouth New Hampshire Lt. Bonita Graham was promoted to Captain as the Pease Greeters watched.
President awards William Swenson, a former active duty Army Captain, the Medal of Honor for conspicuous gallantry. Captain Swenson received the Medal of Honor for his courageous actions while serving as an Embedded Trainer and Mentor of the Afghan National Security Forces with Afghan Border Police Mentor Team, 1st Battalion, 32nd Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, during combat operations in Kunar Province, Afghanistan on September 8, 2009.
Humayun Khan, a Muslim U.S. Army captain, was killed in a suicide car bombing in Iraq in 2004.
Jason Kander is a former Army Captain who volunteered to serve in Afghanistan. Visit www.jasonkander.com to learn more.
Army Captain Saves Lives in Fiery North Carolina Car Crash (VIDEO) A Fort Bragg soldier is being hailed as a hero for rescuing three people after a weekend collision in eastern Chatham County. Watch Army captain drag victims to safety as car goes up in flames Army captain makes daring rescue Off Duty Army Captain Pulls Man From Fiery North Carolina Car Crash Off-duty army captain wearing Captain America t-shirt pulls man from fiery North Carolina car crash Army Captain Saves Lives in Fiery North Carolina Car Crash ABC News Army Captain Saves Lives in Fiery North Carolina Car Crash. More. Video shows Steve Volgezon helping people trapped inside their burning Army Captain Steve Voglezon saves North Carolina couple trapped Daily Mail Off-duty Army Captain credited with saving NC couple ...
The movie story is about Jagdish, an army captain, is back in Mumbai for a holiday to be with his parents and two sisters. They want him to get married and finds a bride Nisha for him. After the usual bickerings the couple fall in love. Meanwhile Jagadish an intelligence officer in the military, has a mission to crack down on terrorist sleeper cells in Mumbai.
The movie story deals with General Dong an evil dictator of a kingdom called Dongrila. He has kidnapped dozens of school girls and plans to use them as suicide bombers to bomb populated areas in India. One of his hostages is Dolly who is the daughter of Major Krishna Rao. Krishna Rao recruits the best Indian army officers Captain Ranvir, Captain Aditya, Captain Javed, Captain Anju and former disgraced Major Dharam Singh. Together they go on a perilous journey between the borders of China and India to rescue Dolly as well as dozens of school girls held in Dong's captive and destroy Dong's kingdom of Dongrila.
Sunder Khanna is an orphan and lives a poor lifestyle in India. He is friendly with wealthy Gopal Verma, the only child of Judge Verma and a wealthy girl named Radha, who is the daughter of an army Captain. The trio grow up and Sunder falls head-over-heels in love with Radha, but she as well as her parents reject him. Sunder decides to prove himself to be worthy of them and enrolls in the Indian Air Force, carries out a risky flight to help army soldiers, disappears, and is believed to be dead, but re-surfaces virtually unscathed, and returns to get married to Radha. Will the situations remain the same on Sunder's return?
It's 1885 in Arizona and an Army Captain has dispersed his troops to keep the whites off of Government land thereby keeping the peace with the Apaches. But there are those in Tucson that want the miners back looking for gold and they put pressure on officials in Washington. Soon a new commander arrives, the troops are recalled, and the miners go after gold. Whites then kill a miner with an arrow so they can attack the Indians hoping the troops wipe them out when they retaliate.
Prem Aggan full movie New Hindi Movies starring Fardeen Khan, Meghna Kothari and Sameer Malhotra in the new bollywood full movie hot. Keep watching Unisys music for all latest movies hindi 2015 full movies ✿ SUBSCRIBE to UnisysMusic : http://goo.gl/pgKaJq ✿ Like us on Facebook : http://www.facebook.com/unisysmovies Movie:- Prem Aggan Cast:- Fardeen Khan, Meghna Kothari and Sameer Malhotra Director:- Feroz Khan Writer:- Feroz Khan Producer:- Feroz Khan Music Director:- Kalyanji Anandji, biddu Synopsis : Jai Kumar is a wealthy industrialist, and lives in a palatial house with his wife: Sheena, son: Vishal, and daughter: Sapna. He has made arrangements for Sapna to get married to Vishal, who is the son of his partner in a business venture. But Sapna is in love with Suraj Singh, who plays...
Redleg is joined by Medal of Honor recipient, Retired Army Captain Florent Groberg.