Secretary of the Navy
Navy Secretary | head of a former executive department, combined with the War Secretary to form the Defense Secretary in |
mission
charge commission | a special assignment that is given to a person or group, a confidential mission to London, his charge was deliver a message |
perpetration
commission committal | the act of committing a crime |
| commission commissioning | the act of granting authority to undertake certain functions |
army ant
driver ant
legionary ant | tropical nomadic ant that preys mainly on other insects |
army cutworm
Chorizagrotis auxiliaris | larvae (of a noctuid moth) that travel in large groups and destroy grains and alfalfa in the midwestern states |
armyworm army worm
Pseudaletia unipuncta | noctuid moth larvae that travel in multitudes destroying especially grass and grain |
| army base | a large base of operations for an army |
Army High Performance Computing Research Center
AHPCRC | a United States defense laboratory to conduct research in high-performance computing for defense technology applications, a partnership of government and university and industry |
| Charlestown Navy Yard | the navy yard in Boston where the frigate `Constitution' is anchored |
hut army hut
field hut | temporary military shelter |
| navy base | base of operations for a naval fleet |
navy yard
naval shipyard | a military shipyard |
tank army tank
armored combat vehicle
armoured combat vehicle | an enclosed armored military vehicle, has a cannon and moves on caterpillar treads |
United States Army Criminal Investigation Laboratory
U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Laboratory
US Army Criminal Investigation Laboratory
USACIL | a defense laboratory of the Criminal Investigation Command, the United States Army's primary forensic laboratory in support of criminal intelligence |
dark blue
navy
navy blue | a dark shade of blue |
commission
military commission | an official document issued by a government and conferring on the recipient the rank of an officer in the armed forces |
| Navy Cross | a United States Navy decoration for extraordinary heroism against an armed enemy |
| commission charge direction | a formal statement of a command or injunction to do something, the judge's charge to the jury |
navy bean
pea bean
white bean | white-seeded bean, usually dried |
| network army | a group of like-minded people united by the internet, a new kind of social or political of business group that may exert broad influence on a shared concern, a network army of software programmers contribute free software to those who want it |
Alex Boncayao Brigade
ABB
Revolutionary Proletarian Army
RPA-ABB | an urban hit squad and guerrilla group of the Communist Party in the Philippines, formed in the s |
Armata Corsa
Corsican Army | a terrorist organization founded in to oppose the link between nationalists and the Corsican mafia, the attacks of Armata Corsa are aimed at symbolic targets of colonialism in Corsica |
Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia
ASALA
Orly Group
rd October Organization | a militant Marxist-Leninist terrorist organization formed in to force Turkey to acknowledge killing more than a million Armenians and forcibly removing them from border areas in , wants Turkey to pay reparations and cede territory to Armenia, ASALA bombing at Orly Airport in Paris in killed and wounded people |
Army for the Liberation of Rwanda
ALIR
Former Armed Forces
FAR
Interahamwe | a terrorist organization that seeks to overthrow the government dominated by Tutsi and to institute Hutu control again, in ALIR guerrillas kidnapped and killed eight foreign tourists |
Continuity Irish Republican Army
CIRA
Continuity Army Council | a terrorist organization formed in Ireland in as a clandestine armed wing of Sinn Fein |
Irish National Liberation Army
INLA
People's Liberation Army
People's Republican Army
Catholic Reaction Force | a radical terrorist group dedicated to the removal of British forces from Northern Ireland and the unification of Ireland |
Irish Republican Army
IRA
Provisional Irish Republican Army
Provisional IRA
Provos | a militant organization of Irish nationalists who used terrorism and guerilla warfare in an effort to drive British forces from Northern Ireland and achieve a united independent Ireland |
Islamic Army of Aden
IAA
Islamic Army of Aden-Abyan
Aden-Abyan Islamic Army | Yemen-based terrorist group that supports al-Qaeda's goals, seeks to overthrow the Yemeni government and eliminate United States interests, responsible for bombings and kidnappings and killing western tourists in Yemen |
Jaish-i-Mohammed
Jaish-e-Muhammad
JEM
Army of Muhammad | a terrorist organization founded in , a militant Islamic group active in Kashmir and closely aligned with al-Rashid Trust, seeks to secure release of imprisoned fellow militants by kidnappings |
Japanese Red Army
JRA
Anti-Imperialist International Brigade | a terrorist group organized into overthrow the Japanese government and monarchy and to foment world revolution, is said to have close ties with Palestinian terrorists, in the Japanese Red Army was responsible for a massacre at an airport in Israel |
Lashkar-e-Taiba
Lashkar-e-Toiba
Lashkar-e-Tayyiba
LET
Army of the Pure
Army of the Righteous | a brutal terrorist group active in Kashmir, fights against India with the goal of restoring Islamic rule of India, Lashkar-e-Toiba has committed mass murders of civilian Hindus |
| Lord's Resistance Army | a quasieligious rebel group in Uganda that terrorized and raped women and kidnapped children who were forced to serve in the army |
National Liberation Army
ELN
Nestor Paz Zamora Commission
CNPZ | a terrorist organization in Bolivia that acts as an umbrella for numerous small indigenous subversive groups, a revival of a group with Marxist-Leninist ideologies originally established by Che Guevara in the s |
| National Liberation Army ELN | a Marxist terrorist group formed in by Colombian intellectuals who were inspired by the Cuban Revolution, responsible for a campaign of mass kidnappings and resistance to the government's efforts to stop the drug trade, ELN kidnappers target foreign employees of large corporations |
New People's Army
NPA | a terrorist organization that is the militant wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines, a Maoist organization formed to overthrow the government, uses hit squads called Sparrow Units, opposes United States military presence in the Philippines |
Real IRA
Real Irish Republican Army
RIRA
Dissident Irish Republican Army | a radical terrorist group that broke away in when the mainstream Provisional IRA proposed a cease-fire, has continued terrorist activities in opposition to any peace agreement |
Red Army Faction
RAF | a Marxist and Maoist terrorist organization in Germany, a network of underground guerillas who committed acts of violence in the service of the class struggle, a successor to the Baader-Meinhof Gang, became one of Europe's most feared terrorist groups, disbanded in |
Tupac Katari Guerrilla Army
EGTK | a terrorist group that is the remnants of the original Bolivian insurgents trained by Che Guevara, attacks small unprotected targets such as power pylons or oil pipelines or government buildings |
| Salvation Army | a charitable and religious organization to evangelize and to care for the poor and homeless |
Atomic Energy Commission
AEC | a former executive agency (from to ) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States |
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
NRC | an independent federal agency created in to license and regulate nuclear power plants |
Interstate Commerce Commission
ICC | a former independent federal agency that supervised and set rates for carriers that transported goods and people between states, was terminated in , the ICC was established in as the first federal agency |
| Postal Rate Commission | an independent federal agency that recommends changes in postal rates |
Federal Communications Commission
FCC | an independent government agency that regulates interstate and international communications by radio and television and wire and cable and satellite |
| Navy Department | a former executive department of the United States government, created in and combined with the War Department in |
| army | a large number of people united for some specific purpose |
| army unit | a military unit that is part of an army |
army
regular army
ground forces | a permanent organization of the military land forces of a nation or state |
navy
naval forces | an organization of military vessels belonging to a country and available for sea warfare |