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  2. Royal Army Pay Corps - Wikipedia

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    In 1870 a Pay Sub-Department of the Control Department was formed; an officer-only establishment, it gained autonomy as the Army Pay Department in 1878. [1] In 1893 an Army Pay Corps was formed, composed of other ranks, to support the work of the Department. In 1920 the Army Pay Department and the Army Pay Corps were amalgamated to form the ...

  3. Royal Bhutan Army - Wikipedia

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    The Royal Bhutan Army (RBA; Dzongkha: བསྟན་སྲུང་དམག་སྡེ་, romanized: bStan-srung dmag-sde) [1] is a branch of the armed forces of the Kingdom of Bhutan responsible for maintaining the country's territorial integrity and sovereignty against security threats.

  4. Portal Runner - Wikipedia

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    The PlayStation 2 version received "mixed" reviews according to video game review aggregator Metacritic. [4] The Game Boy Color version gave an earliest review from Nintendo Power, which gave it a score of two-and-a-half stars out of five, just nearly five months before the game was released.

  5. Portal (series) - Wikipedia

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    Portal is a series of first-person puzzle-platform video games developed by Valve.Set in the Half-Life universe, the two main games in the series, Portal (2007) and Portal 2 (2011), center on a woman, Chell, forced to undergo a series of tests within the Aperture Science Enrichment Center by a malicious artificial intelligence, GLaDOS, that controls the facility.

  6. Cameroon Armed Forces - Wikipedia

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    The Army is under the responsibility of the Chief of Staff, Major-General Nkoa Atenga, whose staff is in Yaoundé. Currently, the organization dates from 2001 with a distribution in several types of units: combat units, response units ( unités d'intervention ), unités de soutien et d'appui , and finally special reserve units as part of 3 ...

  7. Korea Area Incentive Program - Wikipedia

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    The Assignment Incentive Program - Korea is a system which gives members of the U.S. military an incentive pay for voluntarily extending their tour of duty in the Republic of Korea. [ 1 ] Reasons

  8. Forty-seven rōnin - Wikipedia

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    The Ako Incident occurred on 31 January 1703 when the rōnin of Asano Naganori stormed the residence of Kira Yoshinaka in Edo. (While the attack was carried out on 31 January, the event is commemorated annually on 14 December in Japan.) [ 3 ] According to a carefully laid-out plan, they split up into two groups and attacked, armed with swords ...

  9. United States Army Training and Doctrine Command - Wikipedia

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    General Creighton Abrams, Chief of Staff of the US Army, identified that the Army needed to be reoriented and retrained to counter the conventional threat of the Soviets and ordered the establishment of Training and Doctrine Command. [5] TRADOC was established as a major U.S. Army command on 1 July 1973; its first chief was William Depuy. [6]