Sentences with phrase «senior military officials»

The Joint Chiefs of Staff is comprised of senior military officials who advise the defense secretary, and in turn the president, on military affairs.

But plans to end the ban on gays in uniform, as outlined in a law passed in December, will continue as scheduled, senior military officials said Thursday.

Guo and Xu Caihou, two former CMC vice-chairmen, were the most senior military officials to be hit by Xi's far - reaching anti-corruption campaign.

At a March 2013 Senate hearing, Gillibrand shakes hands with Judge Advocate General of the U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. Richard Harding and other senior military officials ahead of their testimony about sexual assault in the armed forces.

The president's order - by - social media caught senior military officials by surprise and short - circuited the customary interagency policy process that attends such sweeping decisions.

At the time, as senior military officials scrambled to determine how to carry out the order, White House officials said they would work with the Pentagon to devise a policy to fit Mr. Trump's tweets.

Provided subject matter expertise, briefed senior military officials, and routed critical information and messages.

That briefing was a «point of conversation» during the 5-1/2 hour national security team meeting Monday in Chicago, a senior military official said.

A source who spoke on the condition of anonymity said, «We lost four men, including the general (Jacob Kodji)» and a colonel, a senior military official who is involved in the fight against Boko Haram.

However, senior military officials have said that attitudes among troops about serving with openly gay service members have relaxed and many now do not worry about serving along side homosexual troops.

I developed and analyzed fire hazard risk assessments of base facilities and reported fire and life safety hazards to senior military officials.