Sentences with phrase «then army chief»
Not exact matches
A week ago Army was looking forward to accepting a bowl bid for the first time, but then the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces, President Johnson, reportedly voiced his now - famous view that football «hardly gives a picture of a peace - loving nation» (SCORECARD, Nov. 20).
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Pakistan's PM and then Chief of Army Staff Rahil Sharif even tried to mediate between Saudi Arabia and Iran to de-escalate the situation.
And then there was the coup warning by the Chief of Army staff, Lt. Gen Tukur Buratai, who warned the nation that unnamed politicians were actively procuring military officials for unpatriotic purposes.
So what do we then say of President Muhammadu Buhari whose DG DSS is from his own hometown and whose Minister of Defence, Chief of Army Staff, Chief of Air Staff, NSA, IGP, CGP, CGI, CGP are all from his Northern Region?
«It is on record that APC wrote to the United States of America not to sell arms to Nigeria, reported the country to the European Union, United Nations and went to the bizarre extent of reporting the then Chief of Army Staff, Azubuike Ihejirika, to the International Criminal Court (ICC), not for committing the kind of genocide committed against the Shiite Muslims in Zaria and Agatus in Benue, but for killing Boko Haram insurgents.
The president's short stint back then ended in August 1985, following a coup led by his Chief of Army Staff, Ibrahim Babangida.
Those at the meeting were the former Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshall Alex Badeh; then Chief of Army Staff, Lt.Gen.
The dispute over ethics arose in November, when it was revealed that then police chief Thomas Vasta had obtained a free generator for the town from U.S. Army Surplus, contrary to an April vote of the town board.
Thomas Killion, the Army's chief scientist, defends this work in much the same way Lewis defends the Air Force's high - risk ventures: The important thing about Future Combat Systems was that the Army defined «a vision and stuck to it [and then over time] calibrated it with technical reality.»
She then served in the U.S. Army as defense counsel for military personnel accused of criminal offenses and as Chief, Legal Claims Division during Operation Desert Storm where she was awarded the Bronze Star for meritorious service during war.