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After protests by heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis ( then stationed at Fort Riley ) and the help of Truman Gibson ( then an assistant civilian aide to the Secretary of War ), Robinson also openly criticized segregated hotels and restaurants that served the Dodger organization ; a number of these establishments integrated as a result, including the five-star Chase Park Hotel in St. Louis.
In August 1987, Jones returned to Headquarters Marine Corps, where he served as senior aide to the Commandant of the Marine Corps.
The Duke at the time, the founder and colonel of the regiment, was the Duchess of Richmond's father, and he saw no active service overseas during the Napoleonic Wars ; his son and the Duchess's brother, the Marquis of Huntly ( later the 5th Duke ) was a distinguished general, but also missed the Waterloo campaign ; the senior representative of the family at the battle was in fact the Duchess's own twenty-three-year-old son, the Earl of March, who would eventually become the 5th Duke's heir in 1836, and who served as a major and an aide de camp to the Duke of Wellington ; another branch of the family was represented by another ADC, Colonel Sir Alexander Gordon, aged twenty-eight or twenty-nine, the brother of the Earl of Aberdeen ; in reality, both were young men similar in age and duty to Lord Hay.
Being consistent with his egalitarian view, Patton made certain at least some black officers served as judges in military tribunals with cases involving black defendants, and he was known, as was General George Washington before him, to spend significant time with his African-American aide, in this case, Sergeant Meeks, in which it was reported that it grew into a demonstrative mutual respect.
While there he also served as " an aide to assist at White House functions " at the request of President Theodore Roosevelt.
He served in the War of the Austrian Succession becoming an aide to General John Ligonier and participating in the Battle of Dettingen in June 1743 and the Battle of Fontenoy in May 1745.
Haig later served ( 1950 – 51 ) with the X Corps, as aide to MacArthur's Chief of Staff, General Edward Almond, who awarded Haig two Silver Stars and a Bronze Star with Valor device.
He served as an officer in the U. S. Navy from 1944 to 1946, reaching the rank of Captain and serving as assistant naval aide and then naval aide to President Truman, for whom he became a trusted personal adviser and friend.
Trumbull's children were also influential in the war effort: Joseph Trumbull was a colonel in the Continental Army, Jonathan Trumbull, Jr. was secretary to George Washington, and John Trumbull served first as a soldier and then as Washington's personal aide during the war.
In addition to other posts, Hodgkins served as aide de-camps on Illinois Governor Joseph W. Fifer's staff, holding the rank of Colonel.
One of the Leet descendants, David Shields, served as Hays ' personal aide during the Civil War.
Custis later married and had children ; he served as an aide to Washington during the siege of Yorktown in 1781 during the American Revolutionary War.
After this he served as a judge advocate, and aide to his cousin, Lt. Gen. James Longstreet.
During Senator Johnson's unsuccessful bid for the 1960 Democratic U. S. presidential nomination, Moyers served as a top aide, and in the general campaign he acted as liaison between Democratic vice-presidential candidate Johnson and the Democratic presidential nominee, U. S. Senator John F. Kennedy.
Later in the Russo-Japanese War, he served as aide to General Kodama Gentarō in Manchuria.
In the 1970s Wolfowitz served as an aide to Democratic Senator Henry M. Jackson, who influenced several neoconservatives, including Wolfowitz and Richard Perle.
The private secretary served as the President's de facto chief aide in a role that combined personal and professional assignments of highly delicate and demanding natures, requiring great skill and discretion.
He served as a cavalry officer, a military aide to President Theodore Roosevelt, and in Washington with the general staff.
Barbour later served as a political aide in the Reagan Administration and worked on the 1988 Presidential campaign of George H. W. Bush.
He then served under Suffren, who made him his aide in 1782.
Bible Student Alexander H. Macmillan, who served as an aide to the executive committee, later wrote that tensions at the Watch Tower Society headquarters mounted as the day for election of the Society's officers approached.
Dayton served as a legislative aide to Senator Walter Mondale.
Released, he served briefly in the 11th Hussars before serving as wagonmaster and as aide de camp to General Jean Antoine Rossignol.
Appointed a major, he served as an aide to General Sullivan in the Battle of Rhode Island.

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He also served on special assignments for Jewish soldiers in the U. S. Army in the 1950s, receiving the simulated rank of Brigadier General for these missions.
Nigerian officers have served as chiefs of defence in other countries, with Brigadier General Maxwell Khobe serving as Sierra Leone chief of staff in 1998 – 1999, and Nigerian officers acting as Command Officer-in-Charge of the Armed Forces of Liberia from at least 2007.
Mofaz served in a series of senior military posts, having been promoted to the rank of Brigadier General ( 1988 ).
He served on the court martial of Brigadier General Billy Mitchell and was president of the American Olympic Committee during the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam.
The county was officially organized on January 5, 1833, and is named after Brigadier General Eleazar Wheelock Ripley, a soldier who served with distinction in the War of 1812.
Lyon County is named in honor of Brigadier General Nathaniel Lyon, who served in the Mexican-American War and the Civil War.
* Major William Atha Gay-( 1912 – 1944 ) POW on Oryoku Maru Japanese Hell Ship ; served on the staff of Brigadier General Hugh Casey in Luzon ; decorations included Legion of Merit, the Bronze Star, and the Purple Heart.
Camp Whitside is named in honor of Brigadier General Samuel M. Whitside, who served as commander of Company B, 6th Cavalry Regiment, at Fort Riley, between the years of 1871 and 1874.
Wainwright was promoted to Colonel in 1935, and served as commander of the 3rd Cavalry Regiment until 1938, when he was promoted to Brigadier General in command of the 1st Cavalry Brigade at Fort Clark, Texas.
Planning of the operation ( and discovery of the gap ) is credited to Brigadier Eric Dorman-Smith, who served as an adviser to O ' Connor.
Siding with the revolutionary forces after the Chinese Revolution, he joined Brigadier Cai E in the October 1911 expeditionary force that marched on Qing forces in Sichuan, and served as a regimental commander in the campaign to unseat Yuan Shikai in 1915-16.
George Washington offered a general's commission and staff position to William Washington, and he accepted the rank of Brigadier General and served on George Washington ’ s staff.
He served as a Brigadier General in the Continental Army and later in the Virginia militia.
To commemorate the airport's vital role during that conflict, a plaque was dedicated at the airport terminal in 1994 by the P-51 Fighter Pilots Association and Brigadier General James H. Howard, who was the only European Theater fighter pilot to be awarded the Medal of Honor in World War II and later served as the last wartime base commander of Pinellas Army Airfield.
ICEC chief engineer, Brigadier General David Leskov, developed many combat engineering systems, and received three Israel Security Prizes, he served until his death at the age of 86.
He served 27 years in the National Guard, retired as a Brigadier General in 1973 and then served six years in the Army Reserves.
As a lieutenant, he served in the Vera Cruz expedition under Brigadier General Frederick Funston.
Hines served with the regiment in Nebraska and Montana from 1891 to 1898 where he married Harriet Schofield " Rita " Wherry, one of the daughters of Brigadier General William M. Wherry and Alice Grammer.
During World War II Whaddon Hall served as headquarters of Section VIII of MI6, under the command of Brigadier Gambier-Parry.
He attended the U. S. Army War College at Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania ( delayed for a year so that he could undergo back surgery for a congenital back condition that was aggravated by his combat services ), served on the Army General Staff at The Pentagon, was deputy commander of U. S. Forces Alaska under Brigadier General Willard Latham, and served as commander of the 1st Brigade of the 9th Infantry Division at Fort Lewis, Washington.
* Grenfell Horace Gerald Smith-Dorrien ( born 1904 ) served in the army, reaching the rank of Brigadier.
He served as the chief medical officer and was the senior commander of the Israeli Defense Forces medical corps for 25 years, and reached a rank of Tat Aluf ( Brigadier General ).
Another grandson, Brigadier Richard Gambier-Parry ( 1894-1965 ), served in the Royal Welch Fusiliers in World War I and was mentioned in dispatches twice.

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