Sentences with phrase «army chief of»

Following each funeral, Bahr, who is an Army representative from the Arlington Ladies, gives a note to the family from the Army chief of staff and his wife, as well as her own personal letter expressing «thanks, comfort, and understanding.»

Gordon R. Sullivan, chairman of the Military Advisory Board and former Army chief of staff, said in releasing a report that grew out of the conference.»

'' Gen. Gordon R. Sullivan, USA (ret), Military Advisory Board Chairman, former Army chief of staff and current president of the Association of the United States Army

Gordon R. Sullivan, chairman of the Military Advisory Board and former Army chief of staff, said in releasing the report at a Washington news conference.

The Army Chief of Staff has ordered them on the mission for propaganda purposes: Ryan's return will boost morale on the homefront, and put a human face on the carnage at Omaha Beach.

The COAS, who was represented by thethe Army Chief of Administration, Maj. - Gen.

He will probably rise to Army Chief of Staff some day.

In testimony last week before the House Armed Services Committee, Army Secretary John McHugh — who represented Stefanik's district in Congress between 1993 and 2009 — and Army Chief of Staff Gen. Raymond Odierno warned that drastic funding cuts could harm the Army's ability to meet its most basic combat goals.

Army Chief of Staff General Douglas MacArthur commanded the infantry and cavalry supported by six tanks.

«What happens here is normal,» said Chaplain (Lt. Col.) Carleton W. Birch, spokesman for the Army Chief of Chaplains.

The courage of U.S. Army Chief of Staff George C. Marshall, for example: Marshall insisted for two years that the only way to defeat Hitler and his war machine was to land a large force in France, beat the German army, and wrest control of the continent of Europe from the Nazi regime — a point Marshall had to carry against the virtually unanimous opposition of his British counterparts, who, like Winston Churchill, preferred a «periphery» strategy that would peck away at the Third Reich before a quick, end - game invasion administered the coup de grace to a collapsing German empire.

The Navy and Air Force had no objection to the letter, but the Army chief of chaplains, himself a Catholic, was worried that the line about not complying with the law was close to a call for civil disobedience.

I sincerely believe the Army chief of staff (CSA) when he says readiness is his number one priority.

Not exact matches

The rest of the tale is hearsay: that a heavily indebted Heywood, a former family friend and fixer who had helped get Bo junior into Harrow (Heywood's prestigious alma mater in England) had demanded a bigger cut of a business deal; that he threatened to expose underhanded dealings by Gu if he didn't get it; that Bo's police chief, Wang Lijun, had confronted him over the alleged murder (the death was originally put down to alcohol poisoning), after which Wang sought asylum at an American consulate; that Gu had shown up at a police station in a People's Liberation Army major - general's uniform to announce that she was under special orders from Beijing to «protect» Comrade Wang; that the couple had plotted to assassinate Wang and came up with three separate storylines to avoid being implicated.

As Commander - in - Chief of the Continental Army, George Washington immediately singles out Hamilton as his new «right hand man.»

The Iranian army's Deputy Chief of Staff Brigadier General Ali Shadmani said Tuesday that «If the enemy makes a small mistake, we will shut the Strait of Hormuz, kill their sedition in the bud and endanger the arrogant powers» interests,» according to the Fars news agency.

Netanyahu said he was unsure and followed the advice of his army chief and defense minister.

Army Gen. Joseph Votel, the chief of US Central Command, has said the war in Afghanistan has settled into a stalemate and that he thought «it will involve additional forces to ensure that we can make the advise - and - assist mission more effective.»

People's Liberation Army chiefs aim to ensure that applicants are in tip - top condition to join the rank and file of the world's largest military force.

The People's Liberation Army Daily on Wednesday published its list of attendees for the upcoming 19th party congress in Beijing on October 18, with two notable exclusions: Fang Fenghui, who was recently replaced as the chief at the Joint Staff Department in China's military and is currently under investigation for corruption, and General Zhang Yang, the director of the political work department, who also sits on the military commission.

During the Civil War, President Lincoln rewarded Grant with a promotion to lieutenant general and made him general - in - chief of the armies.

Sumter is «a very pro-military, patriotic community,» Col. Robert G. Young, Third Army Deputy Chief of Staff for Relocation, told Livability.com.

He was Myanmar's army chief responsible for operations in Rakhine state, where Washington and much of the world say «ethnic cleansing» of Rohingya Muslims has occurred.

Why has the Commander in Chief not ordered tens of thousands of members of the US Army, Navy and Air Force into BP's crisis; boots on the beaches to help build the barriers that are needed or military helicopters to better spray dispersant?

The 9th Dialogue was held in Singapore last week (4 - 6 June, 2010) with defence officials from 28 countries attending, including the US Secretary of Defence Robert Gates, the Deputy Chief of the Peoples» Liberation Army (PLA) of China, the National Security Adviser of India...

The four - member Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group, led by Foreign Affairs Minister Lloyd Axworthy, met with Pakistan's army ruler Pervaiz Musharraf, the Chief Justice of Pakistan, and other political leaders and government officials as they assessed the political situation in the country.

Notable duty assignments included command of a Tank Company at Fort Stewart, GA, Executive Officer of a Corps Support Group in Bamberg, Germany, and Division Chief of the Computer Support Activity for the Army Operations Center at the Pentagon, Washington D.C..

As Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg and an army of like - minded souls work to change the role of women on the business side of things, others are striving to advance the role of women and minorities within the predominately male Silicon Valley engineering culture.

«This weeklong course was used to train and develop Soldiers» abilities to identify and mitigate different risks involved in their positions and enhance Soldiers» knowledge in a wide variety of Army programs, supervisory functions, equipment readiness, self - awareness and dealing with the stressors of dining facility operations,» said Sgt. Maj. Keysa Chambers, chief culinary management noncommissioned officer.

Five armed services chiefs — of the Army, the Air Force, the Navy, the Marines and the National Guard Bureau — posted statements on social media condemning neo-Nazis and racism in uncompromising terms.

Compare the president with the chief of staff of the Army.

Namaan is not only a high - ranking member of the enemy Aramites but also the chief commander of his king's army — the army that brought down King Ahab with a well - placed arrow.

Jahangir for a time took strong steps to check his pervasive influence but, faced with an uprising by one of his army chiefs who was an adherent of Shaikh Ahmad, came to terms with him.

The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD) shot Communist heroes, including Mikhail Tukhachevsky, a Marshal of the Soviet Union and commander in chief of the Red Army (1925 — 1928) and Béla Kun, a Hungarian revolutionary who led the Hungarian Soviet Republic in 1919, as well as the majority of Lenin's Politburo.

(2) Son of man, set your face toward Gog, of the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him (3) and say, Thus says the Lord God: Behold I am against you, 0 Gog... (4) and I will bring you forth, and all your army... all of them with buckler and shield, wielding swords; (5) Persia, Cush, and Put are with them,... (6) Gomer and all his hordes; Beth - togarmah from the uttermost parts of the north... many peoples are with you.

The members who wrote the article are: Retired Army Gen. James J. Lindsay, the first commander of U.S. Special Operations Command; Retired Adm. Jerome Johnson, vice chief of naval operations; Retired Lt. Gen. E.G. «Buck» Shuler Jr., commander of the Strategic Air Command's 8th Air Force; and Retired Gen. Joseph J. Went, an assistant commandant of the Marine Corps.

According to Dr. Robert Redfield, chief of the Retrovirology Laboratory at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, 50 percent of male homosexuals in San Francisco are now infected with the HIV virus that causes AIDS, up from 7 percent in the early 1980s.

1 Modern scholars treat these terms as titles rather than proper names, Tartan as commander - in - chief of the army, Rabsaris as head of the eunuchs, and Rabshakeh as chief cupbearer.

A recent document approved in December, 1989 by the Army's chief of staff, General Carl Vuono, entitled «Military Operations in Low - Intensity Conflict,» describes the army's new aggressive plArmy's chief of staff, General Carl Vuono, entitled «Military Operations in Low - Intensity Conflict,» describes the army's new aggressive plarmy's new aggressive plans.

Tax cuts, a smaller role for government and a shift of social service to the faith - based «armies of compassion» were his chief agenda items.

I, pp. 51 - 57 (1789), 64 (1789), 213 - 224 (1796), etc. ■ George Washington, Address of George Washington, President of the United States, Late Commander in Chief of the American Army, to the People of the United States, Preparatory to his Declination (Baltimore: George & Henry S. Keatinge, 1796), pp. 22 - 23.

On May 5, 1868, General John Logan, who was Commander in Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, officially declared that May 30th was to be known as Decoration Day.

A rag - tag group of Apache warriors, led by an elderly man in his late seventies, took on the U.S. Army's Ninth Cavalry in revenge for the death of the great Apache war chief Victorio.

A special thanks to Matthew Montgomery, Fort Lee's Media Relations Officer; U.S. Army CW4 Russell D. Campbell, Chief of the Advanced Food Service Training Division Joint Culinary Center of Excellence (JCCoE); and CW4 Robert Sparks, Chief of Advanced Food Service Training Division Joint Culinary Center of Excellence (JCCoE).

A week ago Army was looking forward to accepting a bowl bid for the first time, but then the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces, President Johnson, reportedly voiced his now - famous view that football «hardly gives a picture of a peace - loving nation» (SCORECARD, Nov. 20).

While in the Army he became chief of the Cardiovascular Section of the Disease Research Institute of the Army Medical Center at Fort Sam Houston, Texas.

Construction in navigable waters requires permits from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, said Paul Mohrhardt, a corps planning branch chief in Chicago, who added that the park district has not yet applied for such permits.

Others are the Director General of the State Security Service, SSS, Lawal Daura; Inspector General of the Police, Ibrahim Idris; CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele and the Chief of Army Staff, Tukur Buratai, a Lieutenant General.

Pakistan's PM and then Chief of Army Staff Rahil Sharif even tried to mediate between Saudi Arabia and Iran to de-escalate the situation.

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