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INFO: Full form for FTD is Far Target Designator in Military and Defence category
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INFO: Full form for DOW is Data Orderwire in Military and Defence category
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INFO: Full form for BOR is British Other Ranks in Military and Defence category
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INFO: Full form for CBU is Cluster Bomb Unit in Military and Defence category
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INFO: Full form for CBU is Conference Bridge Unit in Military and Defence category
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INFO: Full form for CBU is Construction Battalion Unit in Military and Defence category
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INFO: Full form for DBI is Defense Budget Issue in Military and Defence category
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INFO: Full form for DDG is Guided-missile Destroyer in Military and Defence category
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INFO: Full form for DDG is Dual Display Generator in Military and Defence category
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A brigade is a major tactical military formation that is typically composed of three to six battalions plus supporting elements. It is roughly equivalent to an enlarged or reinforced regiment. Two or more brigades may constitute a division.

Brigades formed into divisions are usually infantry or armored (sometimes referred to as combined arms brigades). In addition to combat units, they may include combat support units or sub-units, such as artillery and engineers, and logistic units. Historically, such brigades have sometimes been called brigade-groups. On operations, a brigade may comprise both organic elements and attached elements, including some temporarily attached for a specific task.

Brigades may also be specialized and comprise battalions of a single branch, for example cavalry, mechanized, armored, artillery, air defence, aviation, engineers, signals or logistic. Some brigades are classified as independent or separate and operate independently from the traditional division structure. The typical NATO standard brigade consists of approximately 3,200 to 5,500 troops. However, in Switzerland and Austria, the numbers could go as high as 11,000 troops. The Soviet Union, its forerunners and successors, mostly use "regiment" instead of brigade, and this was common in much of Europe until after World War II.

A brigade's commander is commonly a major general, brigadier general, brigadier or colonel. In some armies, the commander is rated as a general officer. The brigade commander has a self-contained headquarters and staff. The principal staff officer, usually a lieutenant colonel or colonel, may be designated chief of staff. Until the late 20th century British and similar armies called the position 'brigade-major’ and most British brigades have a major as the chief of staff. Some brigades may also have a deputy commander. The headquarters has a nucleus of staff officers and support (clerks, assistants and drivers) that can vary in size depending on the type of brigade. On operations, additional specialist elements may be attached. The headquarters will usually have its own communications unit.

In some gendarmerie forces, brigades are the basic-level organizational unit.

INFO: Full form for BAO is Battlefield Aerosols and Obscurants in Military and Defence category
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INFO: Full form for DOW is Duration of The War in Military and Defence category
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INFO: Full form for DOW is Died of Wounds in Military and Defence category
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Dogs of War may refer to:

INFO: Full form for DDG is Draw Down Guidance in Military and Defence category
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INFO: Full form for JDD is Joint Doctrine Distribution in Military and Defence category
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INFO: Full form for NED is Nuke Encryption Device in Military and Defence category
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INFO: Full form for NED is Non-explosive Device in Military and Defence category
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INFO: Full form for PKD is Point, Kill, Death in Military and Defence category
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Data structure alignment is the way data is arranged and accessed in computer memory. It consists of three separate but related issues: data alignment, data structure padding, and packing.

The CPU in modern computer hardware performs reads and writes to memory most efficiently when the data is naturally aligned, which generally means that the data's memory address is a multiple of the data size. For instance, in a 32-bit architecture, the data may be aligned if the data is stored in four consecutive bytes and the first byte lies on a 4-byte boundary.

Data alignment is the aligning of elements according to their natural alignment. To ensure natural alignment, it may be necessary to insert some padding between structure elements or after the last element of a structure. For example, on a 32-bit machine, a data structure containing a 16-bit value followed by a 32-bit value could have 16 bits of padding between the 16-bit value and the 32-bit value to align the 32-bit value on a 32-bit boundary. Alternatively, one can pack the structure, omitting the padding, which may lead to slower access, but uses three quarters as much memory.

Although data structure alignment is a fundamental issue for all modern computers, many computer languages and computer language implementations handle data alignment automatically. Fortran, Ada, PL/I, Pascal, certain C and C++ implementations, D, Rust, C#, and assembly language allow at least partial control of data structure padding, which may be useful in certain special circumstances.

The U.S. Army Medical Center of Excellence (MEDCoE) is located at Fort Sam Houston, Joint Base San Antonio, Texas. MEDCoE comprises the 32d Medical Brigade, the U.S. Army Medical Professional Training Brigade (MPTB), and the AMEDD Noncommissioned Officers Academy (NCOA). It serves the U.S. Army in educating and training all of its medical personnel. The Center formulates the Army Medical Department's (AMEDD's) organization, tactics, doctrine, equipment, and academic training support. In 2015, the mission for the Academy of Health Sciences (AHS) moved from the School to the Center, and was renamed the Department of Training and Academic Affairs (DoTAA) as result of a reorganization.

Although its institutional lineage dates back to 1920, the present "C&S" were established by permanent order of the Surgeon General in 1991.

INFO: Full form for AHS is Assault Hoseline System in Military and Defence category
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INFO: Full form for AICD is Alpha Infantry Combat Division in Military and Defence category
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INFO: Full form for IDS is Information Display System in Military and Defence category
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INFO: Full form for IDS is Individual Deployment Site in Military and Defence category
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INFO: Full form for IDS is Integrated Deployment System in Military and Defence category
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