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Military Police: Enemy Prisoners of War, Retained Personnel, Civilian Internees and Other Detainees — is the full title of a United States Army regulation usually referred to as AR 190 8, that lays out how the United States Army should treat captives.[1] This document is notable as the United States Supreme Court advised the Department of Defense … Wikipedia
Retained firefighter — In the United Kingdom, retained firefighters, also known as retained duty system firefighters are part time or on call professional firefighters who have full time employment outside of the fire service but respond to emergency calls in their… … Wikipedia
Personnel branch — Personnel branch, in the Canadian Forces (CF), refers to a grouping of related military occupations.Personnel branches were officially established at unification in 1968 to amalgamate the old Canadian Army Corps and similar occupational groupings … Wikipedia
National Personnel Records Center fire — Fire in progress The National Personnel Records Center fire of 1973,[1] also referred to as the 1973 National Archives fire was a fire that occurred at the United States National Personnel Records Center (NPRC) in Overland, Missouri, a suburb of … Wikipedia
Competent tribunal — is a term used Article 5 paragraph 2 of the Third Geneva Convention, which states: Should any doubt arise as to whether persons, having committed a belligerent act and having fallen into the hands of the enemy, belong to any of the categories… … Wikipedia
Clandestine HUMINT asset recruiting — This article is a subset article under Human Intelligence. For a complete hierarchical list of articles, see the intelligence cycle management hierarchy. Concepts here are also associated with counterintelligence. This article deals with the… … Wikipedia
Unlawful combatant — An unlawful combatant or unprivileged combatant/belligerent is a civilian who directly engages in armed conflict in violation of the laws of war. An unlawful combatant may be detained or prosecuted under the domestic law of the detaining state… … Wikipedia
RP — reconstitution priority; release point (road); retained personnel … Military dictionary
Guantanamo military commission — Court room where initial Guantanamo military commissions convened. The Guantanamo military commissions are military tribunals created by the Military Commissions Act of 2006 for prosecuting detainees held in the United States Guantanamo Bay… … Wikipedia
Detention (imprisonment) — Detention is the process when a state, government or citizen lawfully holds a person by removing their freedom of liberty at that time. This can be due to (pending) criminal charges being raised against the individual as part of a prosecution or… … Wikipedia
