• Ghost soldiers or ghost battalions refers to absentee army troops whose names appear on military rolls, but who are not actually in military service,...
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    Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission (Doubleday, 2001) is a non-fiction book written by Hampton Sides. It is about...
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  • Ghost soldier may refer to: Ghost soldiers, people whose names appear on military rolls, but are not in military service, generally used to divert salaries...
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    to draw German troops away from the actual sites.[citation needed] Ghost soldiers were encouraged to use their brains and talent to mislead, deceive,...
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  • Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier is a third-person tactical shooter video game developed and published by Ubisoft for the PlayStation 3, Xbox...
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    author and journalist. He is the author of Hellhound on His Trail, Ghost Soldiers, Blood and Thunder, On Desperate Ground, and other bestselling works...
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  • highly classified. In Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier, it is shown that the Ghost's unit has multiple designations and is part of JSOC; they...
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    proving tax evasion in such cases can be difficult. Featherbedding Ghost soldiers Ñoqui nonjob Sinecure White monkey William K. Rashbaum, Once Again,...
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    extorting locals, military officers funding themselves by inventing ghost soldiers and the months of unpaid ANSF salaries that followed the April 2021...
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    The Ghost Dance (Caddo: Nanissáanah, also called the Ghost Dance of 1890) is a ceremony incorporated into numerous Native American belief systems. According...
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    Afghan Army (redirect from Afghan soldiers)
    significant portion of the Afghan National Army manpower were made up of ghost soldiers. Following the withdrawal of U.S. and allied troops from Afghanistan...
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  • interest in ghosts and Gettysburg remains to the present day. In recent times, people have claimed to have seen ghost soldiers, and sometimes even ghost battles...
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  • Bogatyrev. In 1941, a detachment of Soviet soldiers, including a lone-wolf fighter called the "Red Ghost", come up against an elite death squad within...
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  • sequels. Ghost Recon puts the player in charge of the eponymous Ghosts, a fictional squad of United States Special Operations Forces soldiers from Delta...
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    much lower due to ghost soldiers, severely reducing combat ability. After six days of combat and massive desertions, Iraqi soldiers received orders to...
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    Abadi announced that 50,000 "ghost soldiers" had been identified and would be removed from army payrolls. "Ghost soldiers" were men on army payrolls who...
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  • Electoral fraud (redirect from Ghost voter)
    allowed, but politicians may rig voting buttons or otherwise illegally cast "ghost votes" while absent. The three main strategies for the prevention of electoral...
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    February 2020 at the Wayback Machine - details in 1976 "7000 ghost soldiers found. Soldiers have been paid in cash, and in March actually had to show up...
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    Philippine province of Palawan. Allied soldiers, imprisoned near the city, were killed by Imperial Japanese soldiers. Only eleven men managed to survive...
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  • Ghost Rider is the name of multiple superheroes or antiheroes appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Marvel had previously used...
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    Inc. ISBN 978-1-4327-7555-1. OCLC 782073328. Sides, Hampton (2001). Ghost Soldiers. New York: Anchor Books. ISBN 978-1-299-07651-8. OCLC 842990576. Stephens...
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  • Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands is a third-person tactical shooter video game developed by Ubisoft Paris and Ubisoft Milan, and published by Ubisoft...
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    A ghost town, deserted city, extinct town, or abandoned city is an abandoned settlement, usually one that contains substantial visible remaining buildings...
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    The Ghost of Kyiv (Ukrainian: Привид Києва, romanized: Pryvyd Kyieva, pronounced [ˈprɪʋɪd ˈkɪjeʋɐ]) is the nickname given to a mythical MiG-29 Fulcrum...
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    of American soldiers fighting on the ground in the Vietnam War. His third book about the war, it is based upon his experiences as a soldier in the 23rd...
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    towers. At its peak, the camp held 8,000 American soldiers (along with a small number of soldiers and civilians from other nations including the United...
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  • 7-year-old brother, Paul. She is very headstrong, somewhat like Meg. In Ghost Soldiers, Sarah is revealed to be behind a series of modern websites dedicated...
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  • Several of Alphin's novels are ghost stories. Two, Ghost Cadet and Ghost Soldier, deal with ghosts of child-soldiers from the American Civil War who...
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  • also titled Soldier of Fortune, featuring Brandon Lee and Ernest Borgnine Soldiers of Fortune (1919 film), a lost American silent drama Soldiers of Fortune...
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  • reprint). ISBN 978-1120909152. Brinkmeyer, Robert H. (2009). The fourth ghost: white Southern writers and European fascism, 1930-1950. Baton Rouge: Louisiana...
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