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Sinsy Nghipandua
Rear Admiral Sinsy Ndeshi Bamba Nghipandua is a retired Namibian military officer whose last appointment served was as the Commander of the Namibian Navy. He was appointed the Commander of the Namibian Navy in 2017. Prior to that he served as Commander of Naval Operations with the rank of Rear Admiral. Career Exile Admiral Ngipandua joined People's Liberation Army of Namibia under SWAPO in exile in 1978 as a 17 year old teenager and received military training in the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia and Cuba. NDF career Rear Admiral Nghipandua's career in the Namibian Defence Force started in 1990 as a captain after Namibia's independence when he was appointed as a Staff Officer 3 Military Intelligence Branch DHQ in the Namibian Army. In 1995 he attended the Naval Surface Warfare Course Brazil. In 2000 he was attached to the Brazilian Navy as a ship captain under instruction as an Executive Officer. Nghipandua became the first Namibian Ship Commanding Officer as he was appointed as captain ...
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Brazilian Navy
) , colors= Blue and white , colors_label= Colors , march= "Cisne Branco" ( en, "White Swan") (same name as training ship ''Cisne Branco'' , mascot= , equipment= 1 multipurpose aircraft carrier7 submarines6 frigates2 corvettes4 amphibious warfare ships5 mine countermeasures vessel23 oceanic patrol boats 20 fast patrol craft30 oceanic auxiliary ships12 river patrol boats16 river auxiliary ships , equipment_label=Fleet , battles=War of Independence (1821–24)Confederation of the Equator (1824)Cisplatine War (1825–28) Cabanagem Revolt (1835–40)Ragamuffin War (1835–45) Balaiada Revolt (1835–41)Uruguayan Civil War (1839-51)Platine War (1851–52) Bahia incident (1864)Uruguayan War (1864–65) Paraguayan War (1864–70) Naval Revolt (1893–94) Federalist War (1893-1895)World War I (1917–18) Lieutenants Revolts (1922–27)Constitutionalist war (1932)World War II (1942–45) Lobster War (1961–63)Araguaia guerrilla (1972–74)" UN missions"Haiti (2004–2017)Lebanon (20 ...
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Alweendo Amungulu
Rear Admiral Alweendo Paulus Amungulu is a Namibian military officer who's serving as the Commander of the Namibian Navy. He was appointed the Commander of the Namibian Navy in September 2020. Prior to that he served as Commander of Naval Operations(CNO) with the rank of Rear Admiral(JG). Career Exile Admiral Amungulu joined SWAPO in Angola in 1979 where he undertook his Secondary schooling in Kwanza Sul at the Namibia Education Centre. Between 1981 to 1984 he trained in the German Democratic Republic and earned his diploma in Auto mechanics and deployed as a mechanic at a SWAPO transit camp at Viana outside Luanda, Angola. In 1985 he was appointed as the Road construction secretary at Kwaza Sul. He would join the People's Liberation Army of Namibia under SWAPO in 1987 and received military training at the Tobias Hainyeko training centre in Lubango, Angola and specialized as a signaler. NDF career Rear Admiral Amungulu's career in the Namibian Defence Force started in 1990 a ...
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Peter Vilho
Peter Hafeni Vilho (born 2 February 1962) is a Namibian politician and retired rear admiral who is a member of the Parliament of Namibia, a former Minister of Defence, and a former commander of the Namibian Navy. He was appointed the commander of the maritime wing of the Namibian Defence Force in 2002. In September 2017 he was appointed as executive director of the Ministry of Defence. In March 2020, Namibian president Hage Geingob appointed Vilho as the Minister of Defense and Veteran Affairs. Vilho served until his resignation in April 2021 after allegations of holding an undeclared bank account. Career Vilho joined SWAPO in exile 1977 as a 15-year-old teenager. In 1981 he then joined the People's Liberation Army of Namibia (PLAN). After joining PLAN in 1981 for basic training he specialised as a combat engineer in 1982, by 1983 Vilho was an engineering instructor at the Tobias Hainyeko Training Centre, Lubango, Angola. In 1984 he was appointed as an engineer company comman ...
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NDF Commendation Ribbon
NDF or ndf may refer to: Militaries * National Defence Forces (Syria), a pro-Syrian government militia during the Syrian Civil War from 2011 * Norwegian Defence Force, the military of Norway * Namibia Defence Force, the armed forces of Namibia Organisations * National Democratic Front (other), several political organisations * National Democratic Force, in Burma * Neighborhood Development Foundation, an urban-renewal project in New Orleans, US * National Development Front, an Islamic political organization in South India * Neue deutsche Filmgesellschaft (ndF), a film production company in Germany * Nordic Development Fund, a regional bank of north European countries * Norges Døveforbund, Norwegian Association of the Deaf. Other uses * Neutral density filter, a photographic filter * Neutral detergent fiber, a fiber-evaluating method used in animal nutrition * No defect found, things returned for repair not found to be faulty * Non-deliverable forward, a financial i ...
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Namibia Independence Medal
Namibia (, ), officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in Southern Africa. Its western border is the Atlantic Ocean. It shares land borders with Zambia and Angola to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south and east. Although it does not border Zimbabwe, less than 200 metres (660 feet) of the Botswanan right bank of the Zambezi River separates the two countries. Namibia gained independence from South Africa on 21 March 1990, following the Namibian War of Independence. Its capital and largest city is Windhoek. Namibia is a member state of the United Nations (UN), the Southern African Development Community (SADC), the African Union (AU) and the Commonwealth of Nations. The driest country in sub-Saharan Africa, Namibia has been inhabited since pre-historic times by the San, Damara and Nama people. Around the 14th century, immigrating Bantu peoples arrived as part of the Bantu expansion. Since then, the Bantu groups, the largest being the Ovambo ...
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Army Pioneer Medal Ribbon
An army (from Old French ''armee'', itself derived from the Latin verb ''armāre'', meaning "to arm", and related to the Latin noun ''arma'', meaning "arms" or "weapons"), ground force or land force is a fighting force that fights primarily on land. In the broadest sense, it is the land-based military branch, service branch or armed service of a nation or country. It may also include aviation assets by possessing an army aviation component. Within a national military force, the word army may also mean a field army. In some countries, such as France and China, the term "army", especially in its plural form "armies", has the broader meaning of armed forces as a whole, while retaining the colloquial sense of land forces. To differentiate the colloquial army from the formal concept of military force, the term is qualified, for example in France the land force is called ''Armée de terre'', meaning Land Army, and the air and space force is called ''Armée de l'Air et de l’Esp ...
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Naval War College
The Naval War College (NWC or NAVWARCOL) is the staff college and "Home of Thought" for the United States Navy at Naval Station Newport in Newport, Rhode Island. The NWC educates and develops leaders, supports defining the future Navy and associated roles and missions, supports combat readiness, and strengthens global maritime partnerships. The Naval War College is one of the senior service colleges including the Army War College, the Marine Corps War College, and the USAF Air War College. Additionally, the U.S. Department of Defense operates the National War College. History The college was established on October 6, 1884; its first president, Commodore Stephen B. Luce, was given the old building of the Newport Asylum for the Poor to house it on Coasters Harbor Island in Narragansett Bay. Among the first four faculty members were Tasker H. Bliss, a future Army Chief of Staff, James R. Soley, the first civilian faculty member and a future Assistant Secretary of the Navy, and ...
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Polytechnic Of Namibia
The Namibia University of Science and Technology (NUST), formerly known as Polytechnic of Namibia, is a public university located in the city of Windhoek, Namibia. Andrew Niikondo is its acting vice-chancellor. NUST was headed by the founding vice-chancellor Tjama Tjivikua until March 2019. After two acting appointments, Erold Naomab was appointed vice-chancellor in January 2021. The largely ceremonial role of chancellor of the university is held by Peter Katjavivi. History It emerged from the ''Academy for Tertiary Education'', found in 1980, which was the first institution of higher education in the Republic of Namibia. Act 9 of 1985 of the South African administration defined three sections for this academy, a university part, the ''College of Out-of-School Training'' (''COST'') for vocational training programs and the ''Technikon Namibia'' for technical programs related to science and technology. When in 1992 the University of Namibia (UNAM) was founded, the academy lost i ...
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University Of South Africa
The University of South Africa (UNISA), known colloquially as Unisa, is the largest university system in South Africa by enrollment. It attracts a third of all higher education students in South Africa. Through various colleges and affiliates, UNISA has over 400,000 students, including international students from 130 countries worldwide, making it one of the world's mega universities and the only such university in Africa. As a comprehensive university, Unisa offers both vocational and academic programmes, many of which have received international accreditation, as well as an extensive geographical footprint, giving their students recognition and employability in many countries the world over. The university lists many notable South Africans among its alumni, including two Nobel prize winners: Nelson Mandela, the first democratically elected president of South Africa and Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Founded in 1873 as the University of the Cape of Good Hope, the University of Sout ...
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Executive Officer
An executive officer is a person who is principally responsible for leading all or part of an organization, although the exact nature of the role varies depending on the organization. In many militaries and police forces, an executive officer, or "XO", is the second-in-command, reporting to the commanding officer. The XO is typically responsible for the management of day-to-day activities, freeing the commander to concentrate on strategy and planning the unit's next move. Administrative law While there is no clear line between principal executive officers and inferior executive officers, principal officers are high-level officials in the executive branch of U.S. government such as department heads of independent agencies. In ''Humphrey's Executor v. United States'', 295 U.S. 602 (1935), the Court distinguished between executive officers and quasi-legislative or quasi-judicial officers by stating that the former serve at the pleasure of the president and may be removed at their di ...
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