Sentences with phrase «army officer on»

This powerful drama about a Danish army officer on trial after his patrol suffers a traumatising loss in Afghanistan blurs boundaries between bravery and blame

At a press conference, s representative of the Council condemned in no uncertain terms the lynching of the army officer on Monday at Denkyira - Obuasi and called on all resident of Denkyira to clad themselves in black attire on the day.

Not exact matches

Bruic spends her days now working at the Afghan army's two - year - old signals school, where she advises Afghan officers on communications networks and training.

Wexley has taken on some unusual projects — a mass paper - airplane launch, for instance — but the company's founders were still surprised when they got a call from a U.S. Army colonel who had read about them in Inc. and wanted to send his communications officer for a little on - the - job training.

Each listing includes the item (s) to be delivered, the number of miles from point A to point B, and the price to be paid, explains David Hater, a 50 - year - old retired Army officer who's delivered more than 400 gigs for Roadie, earning anywhere from $ 8 for a local delivery to $ 400 for «delivering a few extra boxes and making a stop or two along the way» on interstate trips.

To steel herself for the conversation, Tabatha called on her 20 years of experience as an officer in the army.

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.

Some regiments of the British Army still maintain the practice of officers serving men in the mess on Christmas Day.

I suppose I could brag on my son, a retired Army officer, and a contractor for the Army now.

They have two children, James, an army officer who is headed for Afghanistan as a translator of Farsi, and Caitlin, who finishes up at Washington University in St. Louis this May and then plans on serving a two - year stint teaching inner - city elementary - school kids for Teach for America.

Born into a well - to - do military family (on the Feast of the Assumption, 15 August 1930), presented at court and married to an army officer, Chiara Hatton - Hall set up a riding school, in the idyllic Kentish countryside, for the international social elite.

The «Father» of the Nation, being the United States of America is quoted saying; «The General is sorry to be informed — , that the foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing, a vice heretofore little known in an American army, is growing into a fashion; — he hopes the officers will, by example as well as influence, endeavor to check it, and that both they and the men will reflect that we can have little hope of the blessing of Heaven on our arms, if we insult it by impiety and folly; added to this, it is a vice so mean and low, without any temptation, that every man of sense and character detests and despises it.»

A consultant on poverty may be an ADC mother, a caseworker, a sociology professor, a Salvation Army officer, a black nationalist.

The daughter of Gertrude Elizabeth Anscombe and Alan Wells Anscombe (science master at Dulwich College), Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret Anscombe, known to the academic world as «Miss Anscombe» and to her friends as «Elizabeth,» was born on March 18, 1919 in Limerick, Ireland, where her father, then a British army officer, was posted.

However, on July 26th, sect members reportedly murdered two people in the Shaffa who had fled to the area following a series of attacks on Damboa in June and July which claimed the lives of an army commander, a police officer, 5 policemen, 16 soldiers, and many civilians.

I surfed around on the web and found a couple etymological explanations, with the most plausible being based on a ritual performed by army officers in ancient times.

One Augustan, a retired Army officer in his 70s, first tried to sell his four - day badge on March 28.

Komansky, who has roughly 1,000 different pins, claims he had his first «conversation» in Russian while standing on a ski slope at the Sarajevo Winter Games next to a Soviet army officer.

The Inspector General of Police Intelligence Response Team (IRT) and the Kaduna State Command SIB operatives, smashed a deadly killer gang and arrested 4 suspects in connection with the kidnapping and subsequent murder of an army officer, Col. Samaila Yunusa, in Kaduna on 27th March, 2016.

Dan - Ali noted that the passing out of another set of officers to the Nigerian Army came at a period when the country was consolidating on the gains of counter-insurgency operation, adding that «the Nigerian Armed Forces, as you are aware, have been involved in an extensive combat against insurgency and terrorist groups.

Col. Azubike Nass, a retired officer of the Nigerian Army, who saw war as a member of the Boys Brigade, before later going on to train at the Nigerian Defence Academy, writes on Baifra's 50th anniversary.

It should be noted also that the new government made a strong emphasis on that the Yanukovich, the police and army officers are guilty in suppressing the revolt.

The leak on Britain likely began with a Trump - related leaker, said Steven Bucci, a visiting fellow at The Heritage Foundation, who is a former Pentagon official and former Army Special Forces officer.

Former President Jerry John Rawlings in his address to National Democratic Congress (NDC) members in Wa in the Upper West Region on Sunday to mark the 38th - anniversary of June 4 revolution, touched on a number of issues, including the NDC's election defeat, the need for an overhaul of the party he founded, and the killing of army officer, Captain Maxwell...

Addressing the journalists during the commissioning of the center, the Theater Commander Operation LAFIYA DOLE Major General Yusha'u Mahmood Abubakar represented by the General Officer Commanding 7 Division Nigerian Army Major General Lamidi Adeosun, urged the journalists to use the media centre to clear areas they are in doubt instead of relying on unknown sources to get information on Operation LAFIYA DOLE.

Erin Cole, a former Army intelligence officer who went on to work in the Cuomo administration, is seeking to challenge Mr. Collins in her first run for public office.

The Chief of Army Staff, Lt. - Gen. Tukur Buratai, has warned officers and men of the Nigerian Army against discussing their grievances or operational strategies on...

Details are emerging about how Denkyira - Obuase township and its surroundings have virtually turned into a ghost town following the killing of the army officer who was said to be jogging Monday morning before he was accosted and lynched because the townsfolk claimed he was on an armed - robbery operation.

Lt. Jerry John Rawlings, have called for swift action on the part of the government to find the killers of the army officer.

Suspect Yaw Amankwa aka Bulla, Yaw Annor and Kwesi Asante are on the police wanted list after fleeing the area following the murder of the army officer who was buried last Friday.

But a statement from the Ministry of Defence on Monday, signed by Col. Tukur Gusau, the Public Relations Officer to the Minister, Mansur Dan - Ali, said the CDS, Olonisakin, the army chief, Buratai, the air chief, Abubakar, and the naval chief, Ete - Ibas, would continue in office.

Gibson, a retired army officer, is a proponent of boots on the ground, and it paid off on Election Day.

In line with the Chief of Army Staff Lieutenant General Tukur Buratai's disposition to have a professionally responsive Nigerian Army in the discharge of its constitutional responsibilities, the General Officer Commanding (GOC) 82 Division Nigerian Army, Major General Adamu Baba Abubakar had in the early hours of Monday 15 May 2017, led some security chiefs on a visit to the conflicted villages of Cross River and Ebonyi States with the aim of resolving the crisis.

The Award which was presented to Gen. Buratai by former Ghanian President, Dr. John Draman Mahama at the Sandro Sun Hotel, South Africa was received by the General Officer Commanding 3 division (GOC), Nigerian Army, Major general Peter Dauke on behalf of the COAS.

The Army boss made this call while leading his officers and men on a new year 10 km route match exercise on Friday in Abuja.

In this regard, the defence spokesman said, «the Chief of Defence Staff held a Briefing session with the Chief of Army Staff, Chief of Air Staff, the Theatre Commander and Senior Principal Staff Officers of the military high command at the Military Command and Control Centre on 1st August 2017, on the reviewed strategic direction and operational plans, in compliance to the directive of the Acting President.

The General Officer Commanding 82 Division (GOC) Nigerian Army, Major Gen Adamu Abubakar on Friday 27th April2018 paid a one day visit to 13 Brigade, Calabar.

More seismic events in Ghana's history played a part in Adom - Otchere's world view as they shed some light on the social strata around the then - six - year - old son of a young army officer.

It is the APC Federal Government that has eliminated all our officers from the Army, that has prematurely retired all our meritorious officers from the Customs, that has systematically removed all South - Easterners who on the strings of hard work rose to the pinnacle of their career in the Ministries, Departments and Agencies of the APC Federal Government.

Former President Jerry John Rawlings in his address to National Democratic Congress (NDC) members in Wa in the Upper West Region on Sunday to mark the 38th - anniversary of June 4 revolution, touched on a number of issues, including the NDC's election defeat, the need for an overhaul of the party he founded, and the killing of army officer, Captain Maxwell Mahama.

Our contemporary Christmas traditions are largely a Victorian creation; back in 1800 Christmas was ignored in many places, and where it was celebrated it was a «season of misrule,» when normal patterns of social order were inverted (the tradition, still current in the British army, of officers serving men in the mess on Christmas Day is an echo of this older celebration).

Mistaken for an armed robber because he had a pistol on him while going on jogging, the army officer was lynched by men, women and children.

The father of late Harun, Major General Mamman Jiya Vatsa, was a senior Nigerian Army officer and writer who was executed by the government of Major General Ibrahim Babangida on 5 March 1986 following a military tribunal death sentence for treason associated with an abortive coup.

Rather than conduct a rigorous enquiry into how a military officer whose entire career had been in the army, could afford those purchases, the Minister of Defense in a statement published in Vanguard Newspapers on June 27, 2016 dismissed the issue as «the allegations was part (sic) of attempts by unpatriotic elements to distract the leadership of the armed forces from the successes of the war against terrorism...».

Following the brutality meted on a physically challenged man at the new market, Onitsha by two Army officers, the Nigerian Army has confirmed that the two officers have been demoted and jailed.

Welcoming participants, Chief of administration, Nigerian Army, Major General Idris Alkali noted that officers and soldiers of the Nigerian Army were involved in several operations within and outside the country hence the need for personnel to improve on their professional competence and catch up with modern trends in theatres of operation.

In August 2010, Mercer warned that dissident Irish terror groups may be planning to attack the party conferences including the Conservative Party Conference in Birmingham based on intelligence from serving army officers.

Former General Officer Commanding 1 Division, Nigerian Army, Kaduna, Major General Kamaldeen Role on Saturday commended late Brigadier General Solomon Giwa Amu, the former Aide De Camp (ADC) to former President Olusegun Obasanjo, for his impact in the education of children of soldiers in the barracks community.

The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lieutenant General Tukur Y Buratai who was on an operational visit to boost morale of his officers and men, visited troops at Mafa, Dikwa and Logomani.

Own troops celebrated Christmas on 25 Dec 16 with the Chief of Army Staff (COAS) and other Principal Staff Officers (PSOs) from Army Headquarters / Corps Commanders / General Officers Commanding in all their locations within the Theatre.