Wood took the proposal to Chief of Staff Hugh L. Scott, who passed it on to Baker a month before the actual declaration of war against Germany.

In the judgment of Chief of Staff Scott it was ironic that the draft policy of a Democratic President, aimed at Germany, had to be pushed through the House of Representatives by the ranking minority member of the Military Affairs Committee -- a Republican Jew born in Germany!!

He was Julius Kahn for whom the Chief of Staff thought no honor could be too great.

The FAA is headed by Chief of Staff Geraldo Sachipengo Nunda since 2010, who reports to the Minister of Defense, actually Cândido Pereira Van-Dúnem.

* 1985 – The Nigerian government is peacefully overthrown by Army Chief of Staff Major General Ibrahim Babangida.

Later from May to September 4, 1992 he served as Chief of General Staff of Azerbaijani Armed Forces.

After Lt Gen Barshadli became Chief of General Staff, subsequent defense ministers from 1992 have included:

* 1955 – Jacob Lew, American politician, 25th White House Chief of Staff

In situations in which an aircraft becomes a threat while taking off – which gives very little reaction time – a decision on shooting it down may be taken by an Indian Air Force officer not below the rank of Assistant Chief of Air Staff ( Operations ).

As of 2011 the Atlanta Falcons Executive Committee consisted of ten people: Arthur Blank, Owner and Chairman ; Rich McKay, President & CEO ; Thomas Dimitroff, General Manager ; Kim Shreckengost, Executive Vice President / Chief of Staff for AMB Group, LLC ; Greg Beadles, Senior Vice President-Chief Financial Officer ; Jim Smith, Chief Marketing Officer ; Danny Branch, Vice President of Information Technology ; Dave Cohen, Vice President of Sales and Service ; Reggie Roberts, Vice President of Football Communications and Tim Zulawski, VP of Sponsorship Sales and Service.

The Ministry of Defence is in charge of political leadership while military command remains in the hands of the General Staff, headed by the Chief of Staff.

Currently headed by Chief of Staff general Simeon Simeonov, the General Staff is responsible for operational command of the Bulgarian Army and its 3 major branches.

After the war he became Commander-in-Chief of the British Army of the Rhine ( BAOR ) in Germany and then Chief of the Imperial General Staff.

After Gott was killed flying back to Cairo Churchill was persuaded by Brooke, who by this time was Chief of the Imperial General Staff to appoint Montgomery, who had only just been nominated to replace Alexander as commander of the British ground forces for Operation Torch.

The German army Chief of Staff, Hans von Seeckt, moved doctrine away from what he argued was an excessive focus on encirclement towards one based on speed.

Among them, Guderian claimed, was Chief of the General Staff Ludwig Beck ( 1935 – 38 ), who he alleged was skeptical that armored forces could be decisive.

The professional head of the British Army is the Chief of the General Staff, currently General Sir Peter Wall KCB CBE ADC Gen.

" The directive comported with the view of General Lucius D. Clay and the Joint Chief of Staff over growing communist influence in Germany, as well as of the failure of the rest of the European economy to recover without the German industrial base on which it previously had been dependent.

The battle impacted the highest levels of the army leadership, as Daoud Soumain, its Chief of Staff, was killed.

The Army is under the responsibility of the Chief of Staff, Général de division Nkoa Atenga, whose staff is in Yaoundé.

This brigade is a tactical battle unit under the authority of the Chief of Staff of the armed forces.

He kept his old friend General Antoine Gambi as Chief of Staff.

After Westcott's departure, Mathers appointed Florence Farr to be Chief Adept in Anglia, and Dr. Henry B. Pullen Burry succeeded Westcott as Cancellarius — one of the three Chiefs of the Order.

According to the Chief Kremlin physician, Dr. Yevgeny I. Chazov, Chernenko had also developed both chronic hepatitis and cirrhosis.

Madhuri Dixit was a Guest of Honour along with her husband Dr. Shriram Nene to promote a Blood Donation Camp organised by the MLA Anil Bhosale on the occassion of the birthday of Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar on Sunday at Sambhaji garden on JM Road at Pune, Mumbai. Madhuri also tweeted post her short appearance: Enjoyed spending time in Pune.

The idea that courts could nullify statutes originated in England with Chief Justice Edward Coke's 1610 opinion in Dr. Bonham ’ s Case, 8 Co. Rep. 107a.

The first Chief Executive Officer ( CEO ) of Porsche AG was Dr. Ernst Fuhrmann, who had been working in the company's engine development.

This retcon itself was later retconned, in Star Trek: Enterprise, via a storyline in which it is revealed that the original, quasi-human appearance of the Klingons is due to a genetic mutation caused by an engineered virus – as it happened, " genetic engineering " ( Chief O ' Brien ) and " viral mutation " ( Dr. Bashir ) had been the guesses Worf refused to confirm or deny.

During the second season, actress Gates McFadden was replaced by Diana Muldaur, who played Chief Medical Officer Dr. Katherine Pulaski.

In 1970, Mahmood was promoted as Chief Engineer ( CE ) at the KANUPP-I, country's first commercial nuclear power plant, in Karachi with the support of his mentor, Dr. Naeem Ahmad Khan.

Dr. John McLoughlin, baptized Jean-Baptiste McLoughlin, ( October 19, 1784 – September 3, 1857 ) was the Chief Factor of the Columbia Fur District of the Hudson's Bay Company at Fort Vancouver.

Although officially the Hudson's Bay Company discouraged settlement because it interfered with their lucrative fur trade, their Chief Factor at Fort Vancouver, Dr. John McLoughlin, gave substantial help including employment until they could get established.

Dr. Lowell Stone (" Buster ") is quoted in interstitial material in The Cat Who Walks Through Walls and referenced as Chief Surgeon at Ceres General.

In the 1999 episode " The Grift of the Magi " we learn that Dr. Hibbert lives next door to Police Chief Wiggum.

The film is set in a teaching hospital in Manhattan and centers around Dr. Bock ( George C Scott ), the Chief of Medicine, whose life is in disarray: his wife has left him, his children don't talk to him, and his once-beloved teaching hospital is falling apart.

University officers include Dr. James L. Gaudino, president ; Dr. Marilyn Levine, provost ; George Clark, chief financial officer ; Sherer Holter, Chief of Staff.

" The current Director-General and Chief Executive is Dr John Chipman CMG.

* Chief ( comics ), also known as Dr. Niles Caulder, a DC Comics character

Dr. Hunter McGuire was Chief Surgeon of the Second " Jackson's " Corps of the Army of Northern Virginia.

* Patricia Cornwell is a crime novelist well known for her creation of Dr. Kay Scarpetta, a fictional medical examiner based on the Commonwealth of Virginia's former Chief Medical Examiner, Dr. Marcella Fierro.

* Sasha Alexander plays the title character of Dr. Maura Isles, MD on the TNT series Rizzoli & Isles, the Massachusetts Chief Medical Examiner.

The Commission delegates operational management to the Chief Executive, Dr Simon Thurley, who was appointed in 2002.

In 2002, Vilsack named Dr. Stephen Gleason as his Chief of Staff.

Dr. E. Urner Goodman, the founder of the Order of the Arrow and later the founder of the Cub Scout program, served as Chief of the Fire in the formation of Nentico Lodge.

Two years later, Dr. Havilah Beardsley moved westward from Ohio and purchased one square mile of land from Pierre Moran ( a half French, half Native American Potawatomi Chief ) in order to establish a rival town named Elkhart.