Sentences with phrase «lieutenant general»

But there was no response until the next morning, when a colleague of Flynn's said the retired lieutenant general had talked with Kislyak sometime between Dec. 27 and Dec. 29.

Mr Browne attempted to appease critics by announcing a full inquiry into the capture, headed by lieutenant general Sir Rob Fulton of the Royal Marines, currently the governor general of Gibraltar.

At the time of his retirement from military service on March 1, Rives was judge advocate general of the Air Force with the rank of lieutenant general.

Toshiyuki Shikata, a Tokyo Metropolitan Government adviser and former lieutenant general, said that part of the rationale for the fifth M - V Hayabusa mission, from 2003 to 2010, was that the re-entry and landing of its return capsule demonstrated «that Japan's ballistic missile capability is credible.»

The expected guilty plea makes the retired Army lieutenant general the first person to have actually worked in the Trump White House to face formal charges in the investigation, which is examining possible coordination between Russia and the Trump campaign to influence the outcome of the 2016 election.

Dewar and Dallaire, a retired lieutenant general, were speakers at a sold - out professional development session on human rights law jointly organized by the Canadian Lawyers for International Human Rights and Roméo Dallaire Child Soldiers Initiative.

One such critic of Obama's Iran policy was Michael Flynn, a lieutenant general who was forced out as head of the Defense Intelligence Agency in 2014.

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

He dismissed questions about whether Flynn's work should have raised red flags for the new administration, saying the retired Army lieutenant general had «impeccable credentials.»

Confirmation of Herbert R. McMaster, Jr. to be Lieutenant General — Vote Confirmed (86 - 10, 4 Not Voting) The Senate confirmed the nomination of Herbert R. McMaster, Jr. to be a lieutenant general in the U.S. Army.

Flynn, a retired US Army lieutenant general, was forced to resign only weeks into President Donald Trump's presidency after he misled Vice President Mike Pence about his communications with the Russian ambassador to the US.

President Trump accepted Flynn's resignation letter and appointed Keith Kellogg, a decorated retired Army lieutenant general, as acting national security adviser.

Moore and Galloway, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant general and a journalist respectively, were both there, and they tell the story of life - and - death struggle with straightforward prose augmented by tactical charts, black - and - white photographs, and a layout of dead soldiers» names across the book's opening pages — an abbreviated memorial to Vietnam War veterans.

In July 1866, when Grant was promoted to full general, Sherman was promoted to lieutenant general and took over temporary command of the army.