Sentences with phrase «former army»

I'm a West Pointer and former Army Officer who runs a REIC on the side in DFW.

«Members of the military often put off buying a home earlier in their careers because they're moving around the country a lot,» says Kate Kohler, former Army captain and chief operating officer for the PenFed Foundation.

Former Army PFC Steve Wiideman left Fort Hood, Texas with 12 job interviews scheduled and a clipboard with four pages of potential positions he compiled two weeks before his ETS date.

For some reason most former military people try to downplay their former army experience which we think is a wrong thing to do.

Amelia adds: «This year we've recruited a broad range of non-cognates including a former army officer and an archaeology graduate.»

Mast, a former Army sergeant who lost both legs to injuries suffered in Afghanistan, wrote that «seeing death first hand while having to hold your fellow soldiers as the last breath went out of them — gives you a perspective on life and the value of humanity that few other experiences can match.

Mast's position is striking: He's a former Army sergeant who lost both legs and a finger when a bomb exploded under him in Afghanistan, and has experience with similar weapons.

Swann, a civilian Department of Defense lawyer and former Army judge advocate colonel, worked on the 9/11 case during the Bush years, as did Ryan.

In late 2012 an arrest warrant for eight former army offices went out; six were accused of complicity to commit murder, and two for homicide.

The country is now run by former army chief, president Abdul Fattah al - Sisi, who won a third election in 2014 and who is seeking re-election as president this year.

Stafford, a 34 - year - old former army captain from England, set off into the jungles of Peru, the birthplace of the Amazon river, on April 2, 2008, attempting to be the first person to traverse its entire length.

She is a former Army JAG officer and has served as a special assistant United States attorney in South Carolina.

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 entries are on show at former Army barracks at Ebrington, in Londonderry.

It will also be part of an ambitious backdrop for a new public art program taking shape on this 172 - acre island, the former Army and Coast Guard base in New York Harbor.

The entries have been on show at a former Army barracks at Ebrington, in the city.

In 1989 the pair directed the remodel of the former army barracks at Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, resulting in a series of furniture for lectures, seminars and encounters that required flexibility of use.

Spearheaded by the first edition of the prestigious Turner Prize outside England on the site of a former army barracks, the City of Culture year has provided the catalyst for a surge of activity and creativity in our galleries, in re-imagined venues and on our streets.

Artist Robert Irwin, when invited to create an installation at Donald Judd's Chinati Foundation in Marfa, focused on the ruins of a former army hospital as the site for his highly conceptual work.

Artist Robert Irwin, when invited to create an installation at Donald Judd's Chinati Foundation in Marfa, focused on the ruins of a former army

The venue for the prize has not yet been decided, but Mr McGonagle said the first choice would be the former army barracks at Ebrington.

Aka Peace is the brainchild of former army reservist and Sunday Times photographer Bran Symondson, who, when serving in Afghanistan, noticed how policemen would decorate their guns.

With the help of the Dia Art Foundation, Judd created the Chinati Foundation on the site of a former army barracks for the purpose of exhibiting his work as well as that of his contemporaries John Chamberlain and Dan Flavin, with an emphasis on works linked to the surrounding environment.

Halfway through, it occurred to me that the Kabakovs» efforts that I'd previously responded to were assemblies of found, highly charged material, recombined to create resonant, albeit fictive environments — for example, the haunting purported residue of an abandoned Soviet - era elementary school, complete with battered examples of the students» work, official pictures, and tattered textbooks, installed in an unrestored former army barracks in Donald Judd's Chinati Foundation, in Marfa, Texas.

Zhang finds Gillman Barracks alternative in its concept: the government re-appropriating old colonial houses in a former army barracks into art spaces.

Located in a former army house, Ruang MES 56 also provides residence for young photographers living and working in the space.

Come and spend a summer afternoon visiting the Governors island and the studios of our fellow 20 + Artist - in - Residence in the former army warehouse turned LMCC's Arts Center, where you can see a variety of in - progress and completed visual, literary, and performing art works by LMCC artists - in - residence.

And he tried his hand at architecture, renovating and expanding in often striking ways several buildings that he owned in and around Marfa, including the barracks, hangers and gymnasium on a former Army post and the structures on a 45,000 - acre ranch overlooking the Rio Grande.

The rougher, former military - industrial buildings include such meditations on conflict as Mr. Storr's choices of Italian artists Paolo Canevari, whose «Bouncing Skull» (2007) features a child kicking around a skull in front of a gutted tower block in the former army HQ in Belgrade, and Gabriele Basilico's sumptuously ruinous cityscapes, «Beirut 1991» (2003).

By 1974, Judd purchased what remained of a former Army compound between Marfa's main highway and the Southern Pacific Railroad Track, referring to this space as both The Block, because the property takes up a whole city block, and La Mansana de Chinati, in reference to the Chinati Mountains south of Marfa.

Work will be shown at Ebrington, the site of a former army barracks.

A new headquarters, the Defense Language Institute (DLI), was established in Washington, D.C., and the former Army Language School commandant, Colonel James L. Collins, Jr., became the Institute's first director.

The historic Inn at Diamond Cove is built in a former army barrack restored meticulously to preserve its historic detail.

Fort Baker Beneath the Golden Gate Bridge, this former army post now houses Cavallo Point - The Lodge at the Golden Gate, a prime place for you and your pooch to grab lunch while taking in the iconic views of San Francisco.

Ten years ago, people from throughout the Bay Area helped transform Crissy Field from a former Army airfield to a national park.

August 12: Fort Baker Fog Fall Soak in the architectural beauty of this former Army post, then settle in for one of summer's most spectacular shows: the «waterfall» of fog that spills over Slacker Ridge.

A former Army medic flew from California to North Carolina last weekend to reclaim the dog she lost more than six years ago.

«Dogs work well in any type of social environment, are tractable to humans, and their mobility gives them an advantage over any other type of technical device,» says Kjellsen, a former Army Special Operations Unit member who employs trainers and behaviorists from U.S. and British military backgrounds, as well as law enforcement and dog sports.

Cain's Blood is aimed at adult fans of sci - fi thrillers, and it follows the story of a former Army Ranger, Shawn Castillo.

As he inventoried the lot, Archy listened, at times screwing up his eyes, to the dead man's minty quadrophonic pressing of Airto's Fingers (CTI, 1972) played through the store's trusty Quadaptor, a sweet gizmo that had been hand - dived from a Dumpster by Nat Jaffe and refurbished by Archy, a former army helicopter electrician holding 37.5 percent — last time he'd bothered to check — of a bachelor's in electrical engineering from SF State.

Two former army trucks sit in the sand, with a neatly organised camp between them featuring the sort of awnings you'd see shielding cars from the elements at a clubman rally.

He's the former Army captain who piloted helicopters in Kosovo and ran around Iraq in Humvees.

Another is for Ms. Alhammadi, a former Army supply officer who is also studying online, through Kaplan University.

North Shore School District # 112, which serves Highland Park and other affluent suburbs north of Chicago, is seeking to detach from its jurisdiction a former Army base that is used for overflow housing for the Great Lakes Naval Training Center, a major Navy installation several miles to the north.

Fresh from compiling seventh - grade science standards the previous year, the gregarious ex-bouncer and former army sergeant says he saw ways to meet standards everywhere.

If the former Army base, Fort Sheridan, is detached successfully using a 1992 state law, then the North Shore...

The former army officer famously conducted much of his business from bed while indulging a frequently unhealthy lifestyle — not a model politician, but certainly one who got the job done.

This adaptation of Stephen King's 2009 doorstop of the same name features all the familiar characters: James «Big Jim» Rennie (Dean Norris), a used - car salesman who is second selectman of Chester's Mill and would very much like to be first selectman; Dale «Barbie» Barbara (Mike Vogel), a former Army captain in town on some sort of business; Deputy Linda (Natalie Martinez), the kindhearted cop; lovely Angie (Britt Robertson) who has a regrettable fling with not - so - lovely «Junior» (Alexander Koch); intrepid newspaper reporter Julia Shumway (Rachelle Lefevre); and so on...