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656 Squadron Army Air Corps
656 Squadron AAC is a squadron of the British Army's Army Air Corps (United Kingdom), Army Air Corps. It was chosen as one of the AAC new Apache squadrons and in April 2004 started its conversion to role. The first phase of this completed in October 2004. The squadron was the first operational Apache squadron in the Army Air Corps and was awarded fully operational status along with the remainder of 9 Regiment AAC in June 2005. It is under 4 Regiment AAC as of 2007. History Formation and the Second World War After their formation as No. 656 Squadron RAF, 656 (AOP) Squadron on 31 December 1942 at RAF Westley, the squadron deployed to the Far East in support of the Fourteenth Army (United Kingdom), 14th Army. 656 Squadron operated from 1943 to 1946 in India, Burma, and the Dutch East Indies. During the War, the squadron was to fly more operational hours than their counterparts in Europe. The squadron was then reduced in size and reformed into 1914 Flight in Federation of Malaya, Ma ...
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Female Apache Pilot MOD 45151297
Female (Venus symbol, symbol: ♀) is the sex of an organism that produces the large non-motile ovum, ova (egg cells), the type of gamete (sex cell) that fuses with the Sperm, male gamete during sexual reproduction. A female has larger gametes than a male. Females and males are results of the anisogamous reproduction system, wherein gametes are of different sizes, unlike isogamy where they are the same size. The exact mechanism of female gamete evolution remains unknown. In species that have males and females, Sex-determination system, sex-determination may be based on either sex chromosomes, or environmental conditions. Most female mammals, including female humans, have two X chromosomes. Female characteristics vary between different species with some species having pronounced Secondary sex characteristic, secondary female sex characteristics, such as the presence of pronounced mammary glands in mammals. In humans, the word ''female'' can also be used to refer to gender i ...
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