Sentences with phrase «former armed forces»

Being discharged and former armed forces is an advantage in the civilian workforce and it will help you with securing a job in civilian employment.
Bolt Burdon Kemp have created a simple flowchart to help former armed forces employees understand the key steps in both an AFCS and civil claim process.
Former armed forces personnel without degrees will be fast - tracked into teaching in England under a new government programme.
A study has revealed how former Armed Forces personnel can get ignored and mistreated by an unsympathetic social security system.
A former armed forces minister has admitted giving inaccurate information to parliament at the Baha Mousa inquiry.
Former armed forces minister Kevan Jones said questions needed to be answered about the role of Mr Fox and Adam Werritty, the charity's only employee.

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Former Special Air Service trooper Scott Houston knows what it takes to successfully transition from the armed forces into the private sector.
Among their ranks are MP Erin O'Toole (captain, Canadian Armed Forces), Jim Leech, CEO of the Ontario Teachers» Pension Plan (RMC graduate), Tim Hodgson, former CEO of Goldman Sachs Canada (reserve officer, Canadian Armed Forces), and Larry Stevenson, former CEO of Chapters (captain, Canadian Airborne Regiment).
Former Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron promised to restore cuts to the size of Britain's armed forces seen under Labour.
If you are a current or former member of the U.S. armed forces (or the current or surviving spouse of one), you may be eligible for this mortgage.
«It is more important than ever to re-energize the national dialogue surrounding the nation's armed forces to inspire and influence business, government, nonprofit leaders and the general public to get involved,» said former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates.
In addition, the Starbucks College Achievement Plan education benefit expanded to provide partners who are current or former members of the U.S. Armed Forces with an additional tuition - covered education to extend to a spouse or child.
Lance Coulter is a former assistant to Edmonton - Griesbach Member of Parliament Kerry Diotte and previously served in the Canadian Armed Forces.
«The former Minister of Municipal Affairs Danielle Larivee sent the Canadian Armed Forces home, while the fire raged on.
Hwang Pyong So was apparently dismissed as director of the Korean People's Army General Political Bureau and succeeded by Kim Jong Gak, former minister of the People's Armed Forces.
Cross, who's also a former president of the Armed Forces Christian Union told Premier: «Even Trump admitted, that living in the Oval office, you see things differently.»
Just this week, a former Chilean minister revealed that the Chilean government too had wanted Mr Barros out as the preacher to the Chilean armed forces, and was «surprised» when Francis named him instead to head up Osorno.
Recovery of that which has been wrongly taken and punishment of evildoing are not explicitly named as justifications for the use of armed force by states in international law, but arguably they have been subsumed into the concept of self - defense: the former being recast as defense against an armed attack still in progress, as in the recovery of Kuwait from Iraq in 1991, the latter being recast as the right of retaliation.
Consistent with the Hoover Report's recommendations that the United States had to reconsider «long - standing American concepts of fair play» and «learn to subvert, sabotage and destroy our enemies,» the shadow government built alliances between U.S. government officials, the Mafia, and international drug cartels; assassinated many thousands of civilians in Southeast Asia; carried out or attempted assassination of foreign leaders; trained death squads and secret police forces; worked to shore up unpopular dictators like the Shah of Iran and the Somoza dictatorship in prerevolutionary Nicaragua; worked to destabilize «unfriendly» governments such as Allende in Chile and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua; cooperated with the Colombian drug cartel to plot the assassination of the former U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica, Lewis Tambs, with the intention of justifying a U.S. invasion of Nicaragua by blaming his death on the Sandinistas; contracted with the Reagan administration and the National Security Council to find ways of circumventing a congressional ban prohibiting aid to the contras, including the trading of arms to Iran in exchange for hostages and money for the contras; illegally shipped weapons from the United States to the contras and allowed returning planes to use the same protected flight paths to transport drugs into the United States; 11 targeted the U.S. people for disinformation campaigns; and helped prepare contingency plans for declaring a form of martial law in the United States that would have formally suspended constitutional freedoms.
A former New York Times foreign correspondent, Hedges got some attention for War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, a 2002 book drawn from his twenty years of field reporting on armed conflicts.
Lord Dannatt, the former head of the army and Vice President of the Armed Forces Christian Union says he understands that they have chosen that way of life but many will return home, needing to reintegrate in society.
In the tradition of the Humanitarian Bowl (the former name of the Famous Idaho ® Potato Bowl), many events during game week will raise funds and awareness for local charities, including the United Way, Optimist Youth Football, Big Brothers Big Sisters, the Boise School District, Treasure Valley YMCA, Boys and Girls Clubs, Girl Scouts, and Armed Forces personnel.
The Malaysia cup kicks off in just over three weeks time, JDT have been drawn in Group B with Felda United PKNS FC, T - Team While Johor who will be managed by Edres Selamat (Mohamed's former assistant) face Sime Darby FC, Selangor and Armed Forces.
In 2012, former Attorney General, Martin Amidu had said that late President Mills set up a Committee of Enquiry to investigate the acquisition of aircrafts for the Armed Forces negotiated by then vice-President John Mahama.
Representing 9.7 million people, including current armed forces personnel, former members and forces families, the Legion's work covers issues important to nearly a sixth of the UK population.
SERAP's Executive Director, Mr Adetokunbo Mumuni, in a letter, which read in part, said: «SERAP is sending you this open letter to seek explanations from you, as former President and Commander - in - Chief of the Nigerian Armed Forces, on what you knew, or had reason to know on the apparent diversion and sharing of the over $ 2 billion meant to purchase arms to empower Nigerian soldiers to fight Boko Haram.
The former Conservative defence secretary Sir Malcolm Rifkind has accused Labour of having «failed» the armed forces with resources.
The Libyan conflict is spreading British armed forces «very thin», the former chief of the defence staff has warned.
The letter dated 8 January 2016 and signed by SERAP executive director Adetokunbo Mumuni reads in part: «SERAP is sending you this open letter to seek explanations from you, as former President and Commander - in - Chief of the Nigerian Armed Forces, on what you knew, or had reason to know on the apparent diversion and sharing of the over $ 2 billion meant to purchase arms to empower Nigerian soldiers to fight Boko Haram.»
His statement in full, «The attention of the Nigerian Army has been drawn to the unfortunate statement made by a former Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Theophilus Yakubu Danjuma, during the convocation ceremony of the Taraba State University on Saturday 24 March 2018 in which he categorically asserted that the Armed Forces of Nigeria was colluding with militias and other criminal elements and was unable to provide security for the citizens of Taraba State.
Liberians honour Nigerian General Suraj Alao Abdurahman; Former Chief of Staff Liberian Armed Forces.
The Presidential Committee on Defence Equipment Procurement in the Nigerian Armed Forces has now invited three former Chiefs of Army Staff (COAS)-- Lt. - Gen.
Members of the reserve will be recruited from across society, and will include regular personnel leaving the armed forces, current and former reservists, and people with no previous military experience.
The latter are often made up of former members of various armed forces, who embark on merchant ships and guard them during transits through high risk waters.
The former head of Government and Official Spokesperson for the erstwhile Armed Forces Revolution Council (AFRC), Major Boakye has chided former President Jerry John Rawlings asking him to wake up from his slumber and accept that the NDC has outgrown him.
The Office of HE John Dramani Mahama has described as irresponsible and reckless, an allegation by Defence Minister Dominic Nitiwul that the former president is occupying or has appropriated a land or property belonging to the Ghana Armed Forces.
In a subsequent letter to Andrew Robathan, the former minister of state for the armed forces, James Arbuthnot MP, chair of the armed forces bill committee, welcomed the government response.
Meanwhile, former President John Dramani Mahama's aide, Joyce Bawah Mogtari, has described as irresponsible and reckless claims by Defence Minister, Dominic Nitiwul, that the land on which the former president's residence is sited, belongs to the Ghana Armed Forces.
In November 2007, several former Chiefs of Defence — including General Lord Guthrie, Admiral Lord Boyce, Marshal of the Royal Air Force Lord Craig, Field Marshal Lord Bramall and Field Marshal Lord Inge — criticised Brown for departing from the military covenant — a convention within British politics stating that in exchange for risking their lives for the sake of national security, members of the armed forces should be suitably looked after by the government.
A former National Coordinator of the National Disaster Management Organisation and an officer of the Ghana Armed Forces, Major General Francis Vib - Sanziri has been appointed as the Head of Mission and Force Commander of the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF).
According to Nyiam, the former Minister's allegations did not indict the corporate establishment of the armed forces, but exposed President Buhari.
Secondus also accused the Federal Government of mass killings and instigating violence against the people, adding that «a retired General, former Minister of Defence and elder statesman, General Theophilus Y. Danjuma has openly accused the armed forces of Nigeria of colluding with the killer herdsmen and providing them cover to kill helpless and unarmed citizens.»
Webb, himself a Vietnam veteran and a former Secretary of the Navy, sits on the Senate Armed Forces Committee and is the Chairman of the Armed Forces Personnel Subcommittee.
Nigeria's former Defence Minister and Chief of Army Staff, T. Y. Danjuma, on Saturday accused the Nigerian armed forces of aiding the on - going killings...
The former army chief also alleged that the armed forces were «unable to provide security for the citizens of Taraba State» and called on the people «to take up arms and defend themselves.»
«It's really sickening,» said former NYPD Detective Anthony «Tony» Senft, 70, who lost an eye while trying to defuse a bomb planted by FALN — or Armed Forces of National Liberation — at the Brooklyn federal courthouse in 1982.
And former shadow Armed Forces minister Toby Perkins said: «Both my parents were members of CND and I will certainly have made some of the arguments as a 13 - year - old as we heard from the front bench some moments ago.»
A former Presidential candidate of the People's National Convention (PNC), Hassan Ayariga, says he offered to pay the $ 20 million being invested by the United State into the Ghana Armed Forces this year as part of an agreement that will allow their troops to be stationed in Ghana.
Wounded and half dead, Gary stumbles into the home of a Catholic couple, the owner being a former medic who spent twenty years in the armed forces and a man who tells him that «the army does not care about you: you are treated like a piece of meat.»
His peaceful kingdom becomes threatened by outside forces, including the arms dealer Ulysses Klaue (Andy Serkis) and Erik Killmonger (Michael B. Jordan), a former Wakandan out for revenge.
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