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NS Gemeinschaft Kraft durch Freude ( German for 'Strength Through Joy'; KdF) was a German NSDAP -operated leisure organization in Nazi Germany. [1] It was part of the German Labour Front (German: Deutsche Arbeitsfront ), the national labour organization at that time. Set up in November 1933 as a tool to promote the advantages of Nazism to the ...
The Kenya Defence Forces ( KDF) ( Swahili: Majeshi ya Ulinzi ya Kenya, stylized as "KENYA ARMED FORCES" capitalized on its coat of arms) are the armed forces of the Republic of Kenya. They are made up of the Kenya Army, Kenya Navy, and Kenya Air Force. The current KDF was established, and its composition stipulated, in Article 241 of the 2010 ...
The Special Operations Training School (SOTS) in Gilgil, Naivasha serves as the premier training establishment for all potential special forces operators. Kenyan special forces have been deployed in Southern Somalia, the Frontier counties of Mandera, Wajir and Garissa on the border with Somalia, Boni Forest near the Somali border and Eastern ...
1984–2024. Rank. General. Commands held. Chief of the Defence Forces. Commander of the Kenya Air Force. Vice Chief of Defence Forces. General Francis Omondi Ogolla (12 February 1962 – 18 April 2024) [1] was a Kenyan military officer who served from April 2023 to April 2024 as the Chief of Defence Forces (CDF) of the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF).
The brigade forms part of Kenya Special Forces with other specialized units from the Kenya Air Force and Kenya Navy. These units consist of the 20th Parachute Battalion, 30th Special Forces and 40th Rangers Strike Force. [2] The 20th Parachute Battalion is the regiment's oldest unit formed on March 17, 1983 and presented with its Regimental and ...
The Chief of Defence Forces (CDF) is the highest-ranking military officer in the Kenya Defence Forces and the principal military adviser to the President of Kenya and the National Security Council. The CDF outranks all respective heads of each service branch and has operational command authority over the service branches.
The Kenya Army Infantry service uniform. The units of the Kenya Army Infantry are the principal fighting arms of the Kenya Army.The primary mission of the Infantry formations is to fight and win land battles within area of operational responsibilities in the defence of the nation against land – based aggression, while the secondary mission is the provision of aid and support to civil ...
Name Al-Shabaab is also known as Ash-Shabaab, Hizb al-Shabaab ("Party of the Youth"), Al Osra Army in Somalia and as the Popular Resistance Movement in the Land of the Two Migrations (PRM). The term al-Shabaab means "the youth" in Arabic. It also refers to itself as the Islamic Emirate of Somalia since 2011. Organisation and structure Part of a series on Jihadism Practices and concepts Jihad ...