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A brigade is a military formation utilized by the United States Army since its creation as the Continental Army. The brigade traces its origins to the British Army of the 15th century as a temporary formation to control multiple regiments when necessary. The US Army also maintained this status until the middle of the 20th century, when the ...
Operation Winter Harvest was a search and rescue mission tasked to Intelligence Support Activity (ISA) in response to the kidnapping of U.S. Brigadier General James Dozier on 17 December 1981 by the Red Brigades, an Italian terrorist organization. ISA operatives worked in conjunction with Italian police to locate the kidnapped general primarily ...
144th Tank Brigade/Belorussian-Latvian Military District. 149th Tank Brigade/Moscow Military District. 150th Tank Brigade/3rd Guards Army/1st Ukrainian Front. 152nd Tank Brigade/52nd Army/1st Ukrainian Front. 153rd Tank Brigade/2nd Guards Army/3rd BR Front. 160th Tank Brigade, 11th Tank Corps, 1 July 1942 [9]
Margherita Cagol. Mara Cagol, c. 1971. Margherita Cagol (8 April 1945 – 5 June 1975), also known by the war name Mara, was a terrorist and a leader of the Italian far-left urban guerrilla and terrorist organisation the Red Brigades ( Brigate Rosse, BR ). She was married to Renato Curcio, another leader of this terrorist group.
11 e B.P. The 11th Parachute Brigade ( French: 11e Brigade Parachutiste, 11e BP) is one of the French Army 's airborne forces brigade, predominantly light infantry, part of the French paratrooper units and specialized in air assault, airborne operations, combined arms, and commando style raids.
This was the beginning of the Red Brigade movement. People didn’t know exactly what to call them at this stage so sometimes they were called “Maoists.” It was the beginning of a manifestation which was hatched in ‘69. I came back to Italy in 1979. We were still dealing rather dramatically, in some ways, with the Red Brigade.
The 1st Infantry Division ( 1ID) is a combined arms division of the United States Army, and is the oldest continuously serving division in the Regular Army. [5] It has seen continuous service since its organization in 1917 during World War I. [6] It was officially nicknamed "The Big Red One" (abbreviated "BRO" [2]) after its shoulder patch [6 ...
