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For general morale reasons and to encourage the efforts of his supply officers, when food was short for combat troops he cut the rations of his headquarters staff accordingly.
" Harris and other staff officers removed Johnston from his horse and carried him to a small ravine near the " Hornets Nest " and desperately tried to aid the general by trying to make a tourniquet for his leg wound, but little could be done by this point since he had already lost so much blood.
Harris and the other officers wrapped General Johnston's body in a blanket so as not to damage the troops ' morale with the sight of the dead general.
Police officers and court officials have a general power to use force for the purpose of performing an arrest or generally carrying out their official duties.
The Japanese general in charge of all forces in China, General Okamura, had personally trained officers who later became generals in Chiang's staff.
On 8 – 9 July 1960, the soldiers were invited to appoint black officers, and ' command of the army passed securely into the hands of former sergeants ,' as the soldiers in general chose the most-educated and highest-ranked Congolese army soldiers as their new officers.
He graduated in the middle of the class of 1915, which became known as " the class the stars fell on ", because 59 members eventually became general officers.
At a February 2, 2010 congressional hearing, Senator John McCain read from a letter signed by " over one thousand former general and flag officers ".
Because the Army Distinguished Service Medal is principally awarded to general officers, a list of notable recipients would include nearly every general and admiral since 1918, many of whom received multiple awards, as well as a few civilians and sergeants major prominent for their contributions to national defense.
He was admitted to General John Campbell's quarters, where he was invited to eat and drink with the general and several other British field officers.
Much military information is not made publicly available, including budget information, the names of the general officers and the military ’ s size ( which is considered a state secret ).
In the military, handguns are usually issued to those who are not expected to need more potent firearms, such as general and staff officers, and to those for whom there is no room for a full-sized rifle, such as vehicle crews.
Nonetheless, the politically astute army officers then stepped aside from political office ( the national presidency ), and made way for a general election of the national government of Guatemala.
The German army was to be limited to 100, 000 officers and men ; the general staff was to be dissolved ; vast quantities of war material were to be handed over and the manufacture of munitions rigidly curtailed.
The word, in its most general sense, encompasses all matters relating to the duties and responsibilities of officers of arms.
Most states require that excess line insurers submit financial information, articles of incorporation, a list of officers, and other general information.
While Stalin personally told a Polish general they'd " lost track " of the officers in Manchuria, Polish railroad workers found the mass grave after the 1941 Nazi invasion.
As of December 2006, Jones was one of five serving Marine Corps four-star general officers who outranked the current commandant of the Marine Corps ( General James T. Conway ) in terms of seniority and time in grade — the others being Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Peter Pace ; former commandant Michael Hagee, commander of U. S. Strategic Command James E. Cartwright, and Assistant Commandant Robert Magnus.
Philby found that the award proved helpful in obtaining access to fascist circles: " Before then ," he later wrote, " there had been a lot of criticism of British journalists from Franco officers who seemed to think that the British in general must be a lot of Communists because so many were fighting with the International Brigades.
Alfred strongly believed in the superiority of breech-loaders, on account of improved accuracy and speed, but this view did not win general acceptance among military officers, who remained loyal to tried-and-true muzzle-loaded bronze cannon.
In contemporary use in the U. S. Armed Forces, the Legion of Merit is typically awarded to Army, Marine Corps, and Air Force general officers and colonels, and Navy and Coast Guard flag officers and captains occupying command or very senior staff positions in their respective services.
Sandinista officers remained at the head of all general staff directorates and military regions.

general and who
Students are approximately equally divided between those who regard vocational preparation as the primary goal of an ideal education and those who chose a general liberal education.
The students who are most willing to acquiesce in the suppression of civil liberties are also those who are most likely to be prejudiced against minority groups, to be conformist and traditionalistic in general social attitudes, and to lack a basic faith in people.
College in gross -- just the general experience -- may have varying effects, but the students who are successful emerge with strengthened and clarified democratic values.
Those who do have occasion to deal with the invasions in a more general way, like T.W. Shore and Arthur Wade-Evans, are on the side of a gradual and often peaceful Germanic penetration into Britain.
Without really changing the general subject, I take this opportunity to confess that I am troubled by doubts, not only about pacifism, but also when asked to join in the protest against a law that most of those who consider themselves humane and liberal seem to regard as obviously barbarous ; ;
The arguments advanced by those individuals and groups who oppose the system in force and who would drastically curtail or do away entirely with hospital care for the non-service-connected case, seem to be coldly impractical and out-of-step with the wishes of the general public.
According to Friends, the unit was organized by John Snook, a former World War 2, commando who is vice president and general manager of the telephone company.
This problem of fair and equitable assessment of value is a difficult one to solve in that the determination of fair valuation is dependent on local assessors, who in general are non-professional and part-time personnel taking an individualistic approach to the problem.
Of majestic build, rubicund and slash-mouthed, he resembled the late General Winfield Scott, who was said to be the most imposing general of his century, if not of all centuries.
This patient was a 65-year-old white male accountant who entered the New York Hospital for his fourth and terminal admission on June 26, 1959, because of disabling weakness and general debility.
In general, it appears that educational decisions and educational policies are made by people who intend to act in the interests of the society as a whole.
Unfortunately, few of the artists ( writers, movie producers, dramatists and musicians ) who have used American folklore since 1900 have known enough to distinguish between the two streams even in the most general of ways.
During the Civil War, Custer, who achieved a brilliant record, was made brigadier general at the age of 23.
Those who, because of population mobility and the reputed desire of employers to train their own employees, would limit vocational education to general rather than specific skills ought to bear in mind the importance of motivation in any kind of school experience.
Like Philadelphia's late Dr. Albert C. Barnes who kept his own great collection closed to the general public ( Time, Jan. 2 ), Thompson, at 61, is something of a legend in his own lifetime.
She had used his rumpled shorts as the very image of his childishness, his lack of control, his general male looseness, while she remained cool, airy, and untouched, the charming teacher who disciplined an unruly body.
While there is general agreement on these six families, there are some points of disagreement among linguists who study Afroasiatic.
Gen. Gideon J. Pillow, who had been initially in command in Tennessee as that State's top general.
Gen. John B. Floyd, who was to take command at Fort Donelson as the senior general present just before Brig.
An amateur who dabbles in a field out of casual interest rather than as a profession or serious interest, or who possesses a general but superficial interest in any art or a branch of knowledge, is often referred to as a dilettante.
As head of state, Queen Elizabeth II is represented in Antigua and Barbuda by a governor general who acts on the advice of the prime minister and the cabinet.

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