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    The Carrier Corps was a labour corps created in Kenya during the First World War to provide military labour to support the British campaign against German...
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    composed of squadrons of the same type of carrier-based aircraft when not deployed. The United States Marine Corps equivalent command-level organization to...
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    The Scalable Plate Carrier (SPC) is a plate carrier used by the United States Marine Corps as an alternative to the heavier Modular Tactical Vest (MTV)...
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    squadrons, are also embedded in Navy carrier air wings and operate from the aircraft carriers. The history of the Marine Corps began when two battalions of Continental...
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    Marine Personnel Carrier (MPC) is a wheeled armored personnel carrier under development for acquisition by the United States Marine Corps. The program was...
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    aircraft carriers. New directives issued in 1946 and in 1948 assigned tail codes to individual Navy and Marine Corps squadrons as well as for carrier air groups...
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    The Universal Carrier, also known as the Bren Gun Carrier and sometimes simply the Bren Carrier from the light machine gun armament, is a common name...
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    A carrier strike group (CSG) is a type of carrier battle group of the United States Navy. It is an operational formation composed of roughly 7,500 personnel...
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    derived from the swahilization of the British colonial occupation's "Carrier Corps", that used to be based in the area. Today, Kariakoo is mainly known...
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  • time limit. This idea became the nuclear missile carrier. Retro Gamer credited Wakeley for Blast Corps's idiosyncratic ideas and humor in light of the game's...
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    monument was erected in honour of the King's African Rifles and the Carrier Corps. The main feature of the monument is "The Askari", a bronze sculpture...
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  • This is a list of vehicles and aircraft used by the United States Marine Corps, for combat, support, and motor transport. The below list contains vehicles...
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    Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni or MCAS Iwakuni (岩国飛行場, Iwakuni hikōjō) (IATA: IWK, ICAO: RJOI) is a United States Marine Corps air station located in...
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    The Nimitz class is a class of ten nuclear-powered aircraft carriers in service with the United States Navy. The lead ship of the class is named after...
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  • Lightning II and F/A-18 Hornet are flown off of Navy carriers by Marine Corps pilots. The Marine Corps also operates the KC-130J to serve as a tanker and...
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    land, the British set up the Congo Carrier Section of the East India Transport Corps (Carbel) with 7,238 carriers, conscripted from Ugandan civilians...
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    LVTP-5 (category Amphibious armoured personnel carriers)
    used by the Philippine Marine Corps, the Republic of China Marine Corps, and, formerly, the United States Marine Corps. It was designed by the BorgWarner...
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    Homing pigeon (redirect from Carrier pigeon)
    communication. Messenger pigeons are often incorrectly categorized as English Carrier pigeons, an ancient breed of fancy pigeons. They were used historically...
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    A bulk carrier or bulker is a merchant ship specially designed to transport unpackaged bulk cargo—such as grain, coal, ore, steel coils, and cement—in...
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    Service Commissioned Corps (USPHS), and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Commissioned Officer Corps (NOAA Corps), captain is the senior-most...
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  • The escort carrier or escort aircraft carrier (U.S. hull classification symbol CVE), also called a "jeep carrier" or "baby flattop" in the United States...
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    restored to aircraft carrier operations before the end of the 1970s. In the early 1950s the United States Navy and Marine Corps tested the concept of...
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    Training Program (USN) United States Marine Corps Aviation Naval flight officer Modern United States Navy carrier air operations List of United States naval...
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    largest aircraft carrier fleet, with 11 in service, 1 undergoing trials, two new carriers under construction, and six other carriers planned as of 2024...
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    This list of aircraft carriers contains aircraft carriers listed alphabetically by name. An aircraft carrier is a warship with a full-length flight deck...
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  • Fleet Replacement Squadron (category United States Marine Corps aviation)
    Fleet Replacement Squadrons of the U.S Navy and U.S. Marine Corps. On 1 April 1958 Carrier Air Group FOUR (tail code AD) was re-tasked as the Atlantic...
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    CATOBAR (category Aircraft carriers)
    used for the launch and recovery of aircraft from the deck of an aircraft carrier. Under this technique, aircraft launch using a catapult-assisted take-off...
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    USS Hornet (CV-8) (category Yorktown-class aircraft carriers)
    the seventh U.S. Navy vessel of that name, was a Yorktown-class aircraft carrier of the United States Navy. During World War II in the Pacific Theater,...
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    The Gun Carrier Mark I was a British vehicle of the First World War. The gun carrier was designed to transport a 6-inch howitzer or a 60-pounder gun forward...
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    2017 at the Wayback Machine Savage, Donald C., and J. Forbes Munro. "Carrier Corps Recruitment in the British East Africa Protectorate 1914–1918." Journal...
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