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After WWII Plon was chosen as the site for King Alfred School, a remarkable secondary school for British Forces children under the inspired, maverick headmastership of Freddie Spencer Chapman with his hand-picked staff and on the site of what is now the little-changed non-commissioned officer school, and as such the town holds a place of affection with many former pupils across the world and the declining number of surviving teachers and their families.
* Arlie Metheny ( 1918 – 2008 ), former Mayflower school superintendent, Army officer and Marine Corps non-commissioned officer
Contemporary accounts reported that this was due to the popular Sir Philip Skippon's success in exhorting them to stay on, but historians have suggested that the reasons were economic: the former non-commissioned officers ( NCOs ) did not think they could find work outside the Army.
Mikkeli on the front yard of the former reserve non-commissioned officer school in Karkialampi near the land-force headquarters,
There, he took in a training session for a football team made up of non-commissioned officers led by West Bromwich Albion's former half-back Jimmy Murphy.
The Michigan Militia, or the Michigan Militia Corps ( MMC ), is an organized paramilitary organization founded by Norman Olson, a former U. S. Air Force non-commissioned officer, of Alanson, Michigan, USA.
Jonathan Keith " Jack " Idema ( May 30, 1956January 21, 2012 ) was a former army reserve special operations non-commissioned officer with a controversial history.
The battalion consisted of around 9, 000 black recruits and non-commissioned officers ( mostly Angolan nationals associated with the former FNLA ) and was staffed by white South African officers, although commissioned military personnel from countries such as Australia, Rhodesia, Portugal and the United States were active with the battalion, especially in its early stages.
O ' Ballance, writing in 1977, says that the ' period from 1955 to 1963 was simply one of guerilla survival, scarcely removed from banditry, and that it was successful due to a score or so of former southern army officers and warrant officers, and a small number of non-commissioned officers.
The rank was abolished 1917 by Bolsheviks ( but still existed in 1917-1921 in the White Army ) and restored in 1970s in the former USSR for non-commissioned officers and was equivalent to Warrant Officer rank.
Staff Sergeant William J. Guarnere ( born April 28, 1923 ) is a former non-commissioned officer with Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, in the 101st Airborne Division of the United States Army during World War II.
In the ROK Navy, warrant officers are mostly former non-commissioned officers who had earned the rating of Wonsa ( Master Chief Petty Officer ) and who had been selected for and completed a warrant officer candidate program.

former and officer
An internal police operation managed by Scott McLeod, a former F.B.I. man installed as security officer upon congressional insistence, was part of the vengeance.
Eastern Tennessee was held for the Confederacy by two unimpressive brigadier generals appointed by Jefferson Davis, Felix Zollicoffer, a brave but untrained and inexperienced officer, and soon to be Maj. Gen. George B. Crittenden, a former U. S. Army officer with apparent alcohol problems.
Hastings, a former British Army officer, first meets Poirot during Poirot's years as a police officer in Belgium and almost immediately after they both arrive in England.
* 1982 – 57 people are killed by former police officer Woo Bum-kon in a shooting spree in Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea.
* Adrian Johns ( born 1951 ), English governor of Gibraltar and former senior officer in the Royal Navy
She answered her accusers that she received tuition from Thomas Reid, a former barony officer who had died at the Battle of Pinkie some 30 years before and also from the Queen of the Elfhame which lay nearby.
Catherine Grace " Cady " Coleman ( born December 14, 1960 ) is an American chemist, a former United States Air Force officer, and a current NASA astronaut.
The crew is made up of four unique characters: Jet Black, a former ISSP police officer who retired following a mob hit that cost him his arm, Spike Spiegel, a laid-back exiled hitman of the ruthless Red Dragons ' Syndicate, Faye Valentine, a beautiful amnesiac con artist who awakened into the future world after a lengthy period of cryogenic hibernation, and Radical Edward, a hyperactive and barefooted preteen girl with a reputation as a prolific computer hacker.
Other key executives responsible for the company's meteoric growth in the late 80s and early 90s were Ross A. Cooley, another former IBM associate, who served for many years as SVP of GM North America ; Michael Swavely, who was the company's chief marketing officer in the early years, and eventually ran the North America organization, later passing along that responsibility to Mr. Cooley, when Swavely retired.
* 1933 – Donald J. Kutyna, former United States air force officer
Briton Simon Mann, a former officer in the Special Air Service, led the plot, which also included former members of the South African Army 32 Battalion.
* 1909 – Amedeo Guillet, former officer of the Italian Army ( d. 2010 )
The Guards were under the command of Ali Aaltonen, a former officer in the Imperial Russian Army, who had been appointed in December 1917.
On 15 January, Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, like Aaltonen a former officer in the Russian army, was appointed supreme commander of the White Guards, and on 25 January the Senate renamed the White Guards the Finnish White Army.
As a former Russian army officer, Mannerheim was well aware of the demoralization of the Russian army.
However, it was not until the start of the 19th century that Brask's proposals were put into action by Baltzar von Platen, a German-born former officer in the Swedish Navy.
Of the ten Australians appointed since 1965, Lord Casey, Sir Paul Hasluck and Bill Hayden were former federal parliamentarians ; Sir John Kerr was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales ; Sir Ninian Stephen and Sir William Deane were appointed from the bench of the High Court ; Sir Zelman Cowen was a vice-chancellor of the University of Queensland and constitutional lawyer ; Peter Hollingworth was the Anglican Archbishop of Brisbane ; and Major-General Michael Jeffery was a retired military officer and former Governor of Western Australia.
* Gilbert C. Maurer, former head of Hearst Magazines, then executive vice president and chief operating officer under Bennack, now a consultant
Harry's godparents were Prince Andrew ( his paternal uncle ); Lady Sarah Armstrong-Jones ( his paternal cousin once removed ); Lady Vestey ; Mrs. William Bartholomew ; Bryan Organ ; and Gerald Ward, a former officer in the Household Calvary.
Since 2000 he has portrayed Odafin " Fin " Tutuola, a former undercover narcotics officer transferred to the Special Victims Unit.
* John Walker ( RAF officer ) ( born 1936 ), former Chief of Defence Intelligence

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He was " a former soldier and a Greek " ( miles quondam et graecus ), he tells us, and his enrollment among the elite protectores domestici ( household guards ) shows that he was of noble birth.
The former president Lula and Brazilian Army soldier s, part of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
The original Deathlok was a former soldier in a dystopian future.
* Archie: An ex-convict and former Confederate soldier who is imprisoned for the murder of his adulterous wife, he is taken in by Melanie and then later became Scarlett's coach driver.
Bradley, now the American commander of the 12th Army Group, remarked that he would have preferred to work with Alexander, rather than Montgomery, as he regarded the former as " a restrained, self-effacive, and punctilious soldier ".
Nakai Umenari, an acquaintance of Kanō's father and a former soldier, agreed to show him kata, but not to teach him.
* 1999 – U. S. Army private Barry Winchell dies from baseball-bat injuries inflicted in his sleep the previous day by a fellow soldier, Calvin Glover, for his relationship with transgender showgirl and former Navy Corpsman Calpernia Addams.
* 1883 – Patrick J. Hurley, American soldier, statesman, and diplomat ; 51st United States Secretary of War and former United States Ambassador to the Republic of China ( d. 1963 )
The 2009 film The Men Who Stare at Goats stars Ewan McGregor as a reporter named Bob Wilton who follows a former soldier ( George Clooney ) who claimed to be a " Jedi warrior ", a nickname for psychic spies in the US military.
Also in the article, Voight accused four-star General and former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO Wesley Clark of having " shame upon him, having been relieved of his command " and said that Clark " has done their Obama camp's ' bidding and become a lying fool in his need to demean a fellow soldier and a true hero.
Neither the Historia nor the Annales calls him " rex ": the former calls him instead " dux bellorum " ( leader of battles ) and " miles " ( soldier ).
The Karađorđevići derive their name from Đorđe Petrović " Karađorđe ", a farmer, hajduk and a former Austrian soldier.
Kaleb installed a native Himyarite viceroy, Sumyafa ' Ashwa ', who ruled until 525, when he was deposed by the Aksumite general ( or soldier and former slave ) Abraha with the support of disgruntled Ethiopian soldiers.
Nevertheless, it is fair to say that it was less of a disgrace for a soldier to lose his helmet, breastplate or greaves than his hoplon, since the former were designed to protect one man, whereas the hoplon also protected the man on his left.
* The Athenian soldier and statesman, Aristides, as well as the former Athenian archon Xanthippus, return from banishment in Aegina to serve under Themistocles against the Persians.
To check the situation on the ground, Bento de Góis, a Portuguese former soldier and explorer who had joined the Jesuits as a Lay Brother in Goa, India, traveled in 1603 – 1605 from India via Afghanistan and one of the routes of the traditional Silk Road ( via Badakhshan, the Pamirs, Yarkand, Kucha, and Turpan to the Ming China's border as Suzhou, Gansu.
Manuel Antonio Noriega Moreno (; born February 11, 1934 ) is a former Panamanian politician and soldier.
The film stars Zero Mostel as Max Bialystock, the producer, and Gene Wilder as Leo Bloom, the accountant, and features Dick Shawn as L. S. D., the actor who ends up playing the lead in the musical within the movie, and Kenneth Mars as the former Nazi soldier and playwright, Franz Liebkind.
Its first leader was Gusty Spence, a former British soldier.
* Tommy West ( October 1975 – 1976 ) A former British Army soldier, West was already the Chief of Staff at the time UVF volunteer Noel " Nogi " Shaw was killed by Lenny Murphy in November 1975 as part of an internal feud.
Spence, a former British soldier, was from the Shankill Road.
Joseph Darby, former US Army sergeant who as the first soldier to take official action against suspected and later confirmed mistreatment of prisoners by other soldiers in Abu Ghraib.
: A Romance of Ancient China by Lanny Fields centers around Qin Shi Huang and a former Roman soldier named Marcus Lucius Scipio, whom Qin Shi Huang befriends after Marcus Scipio saves his life on multiple occasions.
In April 2012, former fellow soldier of Bouterse and also suspect in the Decembermurders Ruben Rozendaal said that in the 80s and early 90s Bouterse supplied the FARC of Colombia with weapons in exchange for cocaine.
It was built to qualify the younger Lugo, a former Spanish colonial soldier, for a land grant from the Spanish crown.

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