Military spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Orisi Rabukawaqa responded the next day by saying that the Military was not an ethnic Fijian body, that it stood to serve the entire nation, and that there was no colour bar in its recruitment or promotion.

* Anthony Nicholls as Military spokesman

A Ruling Military Council spokesman stated that Prem was not behind the coup.

Smirnov, who was closely associated with Nikolai Bukharin, was a political commissar in the Red army and represented the Left Socialist-Revolutionary Party and was the main spokesman of the Military opposition.

Military spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Orisi Rabukawaqa alleged on 4 October that almost seven thousand Chinese nationals had entered Fiji illegally since 2003.

On 8 October, Military spokesman Captain Neumi Leweni publicly alleged that attempts to bring the Military under the financial authority of the Home Affairs Ministry were a deliberate ploy to undermine the Military.

On 11 October, Military spokesman Captain Neumi Leweni said that relations between government and military officials had deteriorated to the point where they were no longer on speaking terms.

Military spokesman Captain Neumi Leweni said that the Military would not comment on the matter publicly.

Taniela Senikuta, spokesman for the Fiji Peacekeepers Association, said on 15 February that the association wanted to know about the status of the fund because they made compulsory contributions to it, and called on the Military to allow the fund to be audited.

Military spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Orisi Rabukawaqa told Fiji Live on 16 February that the Military had, in fact, complied with the Supreme Court order by allowing state auditors to audit the trust fund over a period of three months in 2005.

Military spokesman Captain Neumi Leweni reacted on 17 February by claiming that the overspending had been forced by politicians ' orders requiring the Military to provide security for prisoners held on Nukulau island, and to guard the Monasavu Dam.

Military spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Orisi Rabukawaqa was quoted in the Fiji Times on 22 February 2006 as saying that the Customary Fisheries Bill, which proposes to guarantee indigenous Fishing rights, was a threat to national stability.

Military spokesman Captain Neumi Leweni countered by saying that the Minister had no authority to discipline the Commander, as it is the President, not the Minister, who is Commander in Chief of the Military.

Tora's release was strongly criticized by Military spokesman Captain Neumi Leweni.

On 12 October, Military spokesman Captain Neumi Leweni emphasized that the Military still wanted the bill withdrawn in its entirety.

On 3 September, spokesman Rabukawaqa insisted that the Military was not opposed to the Qarase government as such, but only to the controversial Unity Bill, which he said had security implications.

Nevertheless, he appreciated the Indo-Fijian contribution to the Military, and noted the success of Lieutenant Colonel Mohammed Aziz, the head of the Military's legal unit who was a pivotal figure in the court martial of soldiers who mutinied in 2000.

The next day, Lesi Korovavala, Chief Executive Officer of the Ministry of Home Affairs, told the Fiji Village news service that the Military had undertaken the reductions on its own initiative, in consultation with the department, an explanation corroborated by Lieutenant Colonel Rabukawaqa.

Between 1925 and 1929 Askin served part time as a Lieutenant in the 55th Battalion, Citizens Military Forces.

After graduation from high school, he was accepted to the U. S. Military Academy at West Point, where in 1952 he earned his Bachelor of Science degree and was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the U. S. Air Force.

* Second Lieutenant Robert Riddel, Military Cross, 10th Battalion Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders, Passchendaele, 12 October 1917

In 2009, Lieutenant James Adamson, aged 24, of the Royal Regiment of Scotland was awarded the Military Cross for a bayonet charge whilst on a tour of duty in Afghanistan: after shooting one Taliban fighter dead Adamson had run out of ammunition when another enemy appeared.

Lieutenant General Wamala was among military cadets sent to Monduli Military Academy in Tanzania in 1979 ( now the TPDF's Tanzania Military Academy, which Ugandan cadets still attend ) and served as Inspector General of Police until 2005.

The platoon leader was 1st Lieutenant William T. Ryder, who made the first paratroop jump for the US Military on August 13, 1940 at Lawson Field, Fort Benning, GA from a B-18 Bomber.

Thanks to his older brother, Napoleon, Louis was given a commission in the French Military, and was promoted to Lieutenant in the 4th Artillery Regiment, and from there he was made Aide de Camp on Napoleon's staff.

At the time of his death in August 1917, he was a Second Lieutenant in the ( British ) Royal Field Artillery ; Lt. Osler's grave is in the Dozinghem Military Cemetery in West Flanders, Belgium.

In 1975, the United States Army Center of Military History published Building a Volunteer Army: The Fort Ord Contribution, by Moore and Lieutenant Colonel Jeff M. Tuten.

From nearby Fort Snelling, the 710th Military Police Battalion ( commanded by Lieutenant Colonel George William Eggerss ) provided tight security around this hangar.

The Military Advisor to the Commonwealth Government was US General Douglas MacArthur, who was assisted by Major Dwight Eisenhower and Major James Ord ; along with four officers from the Philippine Department, under Major General Lucius Holbrook ( 1936-1938 ) and Major General Grunert ( 1940-1941 ), as well as retired Lieutenant colonel Sidney L. Huff.

Along with Lieutenant Colonel Dwight D. Eisenhower, the chief of staff to Major General Douglas MacArthur, the Military Advisor to the Commonwealth Government of the Philippines, and Mr. Rodriquez of the National Power Corporation, Casey presented the project to President Manuel Quezon, who approved it.

Abizaid was commissioned a Second Lieutenant of Infantry upon graduation from the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, Class of June 1973.

Sarit Thanarat was educated at a monastery school, and entered the Royal Thai Military Academy in 1919, not completing his military studies until 1928, after which he was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, slowly rising through the Officer Corps.

For their skill and bravery in defending Villers-Bocage, Lieutenant Cotton was awarded the Military Cross and Sergeant Bramall the Military Medal.

Ja ’ far attended the Military College in Baghdad before transferring to the Military College in the Ottoman capital of Istanbul where he graduated in 1904 as a Second Lieutenant.

This course of events disturbed Lieutenant General Frederick Weyand, commander of U. S. forces in III Corps, which included the Capital Military District.

He served in the U. S. Army from 1966 through 1969, where served as a Lieutenant in the Military Police Corps, and in the Army Reserve, Civil Affairs Branch, through 1972.

Colonel Zerbo established the Military Committee of Recovery for National Progress as the supreme governmental authority, thus eradicating the 1977 constitution.

* Military Aviation Authority: Director Colonel Josef Otta

Amongst those arrested were Générals Daniel KATSUVA wa Katsuvira, Land Forces Chief of Staff, UTSHUDI Wembolenga, Commandant of the 2nd Military Region at Kalemie ; FALLU Sumbu, Military Attaché of Zaïre in Washington, Colonel MUDIAYI wa Mudiayi, the military attaché of Zaïre in Paris, the military attache in Brussels, a paracommando battalion commander, and several others.

The members of the junta, known as the Military Executive Committee ( Comité Exécutif Militaire ), were Garde commander Colonel Franck Lavaud, Major Antoine Levelt, and Major Paul E. Magloire, commander of the Presidential Guard.

# Colonel Abdullah Senussi: Director Military Intelligence.

* The Constitutional Force, by Colonel George Jackson Hay 1908, reprint Ray Westlake Military Books ( 1987 ) ISBN 0-9508530-7-0.

His brother Francis Clere Hitchcock went on to join the British army and fought during World War I where he was awarded the Military Cross and rose to the rank of Colonel.

* Colonel Sergey Nikolayevich Golovko, GRU ( Soviet Military Intelligence )/ KGB ( Committee for State Security )

A Military Committee of the Party ( CMP ) was named to head an interim government with the conservative Colonel Joachim Yhombi-Opango to serve as Head of State.

Colonel Zerbo established the Military Committee of Recovery for National Progress as the supreme governmental authority, thus eradicating the 1977 constitution.

: c. SAASS's first director, Colonel William Fortner, stated in 1991 that the new school ( originally called the School of Advanced Airpower Studies ) " will be similar to the Army's School of Advanced Military Studies at Fort Leavenworth ", with additional focuses on air power topics.

Working with Colonel Sidman Poole of U. S. Army Intelligence, the researchers of the Military Geological Unit began microscopic and chemical examination of the sand from the sandbags to determine types and distribution of diatoms and other microscopic sea creatures, and its mineral composition.

In July 1862, Lincoln installed Colonel John S. Phelps as Military Governor of Arkansas, though he resigned soon after due to poor health.

However, during his tenure as Chief of the General Staff ( 1985 – 89 ) General Sir Nigel Bagnall directed that British Military Doctrine was to be prepared, and tasked Colonel ( later General ) Timothy Granville-Chapman ( an artillery officer who had been his Military Assistant in Headquarters 1st British Corps ) to prepare it.

* Colonel Arthur M. Hitch, Superintendent of Kemper Military School, 1928-1948.

* Colonel Thomas A. Johnston, Builder of Kemper Military School, Superintendent and President from 1881 to 1928.

Colonel James Poage, a veteran of the American Revolution, arrived in the free state of Ohio from Staunton, Virginia in 1804 to claim the he had been granted in what was then the Virginia Military District.

In the early 1990s the Military Intelligence Board, chaired by DIA chief Soyster, appointed an Army Colonel, William Johnson, to manage the remote viewing unit and evaluate its objective usefulness.