I tried to do so by calling to their attention some of the problems that a senior departmental policy officer faces.

The senior policy officer may be moved to think hard about a problem by any of an infinite variety of stimuli: an idea in his own head, the suggestions of a colleague, a question from the Secretary or the President, a proposal by another department, a communication from a foreign government or an American ambassador abroad, the filing of an item for the agenda of the United Nations or of any other of dozens of international bodies, a news item read at the breakfast table, a question to the President or the Secretary at a news conference, a speech by a Senator or Congressman, an article in a periodical, a resolution from a national organization, a request for assistance from some private American interests abroad, et cetera, ad infinitum.

* Air marshal, a senior air officer rank used in Commonwealth countries

* Adrian Johns ( born 1951 ), English governor of Gibraltar and former senior officer in the Royal Navy

Mark Antony had been the most important and most successful senior officer in Julius Caesar's army ( magister equitum ) and, thanks to his military record, could claim a substantial share of the political support of Caesar's soldiers and veterans.

The Trustees elect a President to serve as the chief executive officer of the Institute and administer the affairs on the Institute on behalf of the board, a Provost who serves as the chief academic officer of the Institute below the President, and ten other vice presidential and other senior positions.

In many navies, the rank of commodore was merely viewed as a senior captain position, whereas other naval services bestowed upon the rank of commodore the prestige of flag officer status ; commodore is the highest rank in the Irish Naval Service, for example, and is held by only one person.

Although not flag officers, modern day commodores in the U. S. Navy rate a blue and white command pennant that is normally flown at their headquarters facilities ashore or from ships that they are embarked aboard when they are the senior officer afloat.

Commodore is also a title held by the senior captain within a shipping company and by the senior officer of many yacht clubs and boating associations.

In the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary, the senior elected officer of the organization is the National Commodore, also there are commodores elected for the individual district commands of the Coast Guard Auxiliary.

The Chief of Naval Operations ( CNO ) is a statutory office () held by a four-star admiral in the United States Navy, and is the most senior naval officer assigned to serve in the Department of the Navy.

He appointed fellow officer Maximian Augustus his senior co-emperor in 285.

The posting did not appeal to his mother, who wrote to Lord Charles Beresford, then a senior naval officer, member of parliament and personal friend, to use his influence to obtain something better.

The international naval brigade force of naval marines placed itself under the senior officer present, which was Seymour.

* 1945 – Sivakant Tiwari, senior legal officer of the Singapore Legal Service ( d. 2010 )

The Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, the senior uniformed officer, is General Abdul Fatah Khalil a-Sisi and the Chief of Staff is Lieutenant General Sedki Sobhi.

Capra was assigned to work directly under Chief of Staff George C. Marshall, the most senior officer in command of the Army, who would later create the Marshall Plan and be awarded a Nobel Peace Prize.

A further attempt in daylight succeeded in breaking into the position but intense fire from three sides resulted in control being lost as the commanding officer was killed, and four of his senior officers were wounded or went missing.

Washington quickly became a senior officer in the colonial forces during the first stages of the French and Indian War.

He reluctantly accepted, and served as the senior officer of the United States Army between July 13, 1798, and December 14, 1799.

As a result, on February 24, 1966, a small number of army officers and senior police officials, led by Colonel Emmanuel Kotoka, commander of the Second Army Brigade at Kumasi, Major Akwasi Afrifa, staff officer in charge of army training and operations, Lieutenant General ( retired ) Joseph Ankrah, and J. W. K.

Hardy handing over command of the Kenya Army to Brigadier Joseph Ndolo on 1 December 1966, British influence was underlined with the appointment of Major General Robert Penfold as Chief of General Staff, a new position as senior officer of the entire armed forces.

An inDuna guided each regiment, and he in turn answered to senior izinduna who controlled the corps grouping.

The result was that the Red Army officer corps in 1941 had many inexperienced senior officers.

* Dean of the Diplomatic Corps, the most senior ambassador in a country's diplomatic corps

Justinian contributed to the development of the thematic organization of the Empire, creating a new theme of Hellas in southern Greece and numbering the heads of the five major themes-Thrace in Europe, Opsikion, the Anatolikon, and Armeniakon themes in Asia Minor, and the maritime corps of the Karabisianoi-among the senior administrators of the Empire.

Despite the unprecedented size of Pompey's corps of legates — he received the right to appoint 24 of these senior adjutants — for his scourge of the pirates from the Mediterranean, Afranius did not number amongst them, as his patron chose to cultivate his links with the Roman aristocracy by appointing only men of distinguished family.

When the Army of Virginia was created June 26, to include Gen. Frémont's corps, with John Pope in command, Frémont declined to serve on the grounds that he was senior to Pope and for personal reasons.

Tactically and administratively, each corps area commander was the senior army officer for his geographical area, typically functioned as a commanding general of an existing Regular Army corps or division in their area.

Until fully activated with its own headquarters staff, an army area was typically jointly staffed, headquartered and commanded by the most senior corps commander in that area.

However, after the war started, the recently-purged Soviet senior command ( Stavka ) structure was apparently unable to handle the formations, and the armies and corps were integrated into new, smaller " Armies " and those into fronts.

Because of his senior rank, Belyayev became the first commander of the cosmonaut corps.

In this way, the U. S. Air Force places great responsibility upon its senior non-commissioned officer corps to mentor and develop future leaders.

" He is chiefly remembered for his exploits under the Duke of Wellington in the Iberian Peninsular War and at the Battle of Waterloo, where he was mortally wounded while his division stopped d ' Erlon's corps attack against the allied centre left, and as a result became the most senior officer to die at Waterloo.

They are joined by senior representatives of the judiciary and members of the diplomatic corps.

Towards the end of May, General Monash was placed in command of the Australian Army Corps, and Hobbs became the senior divisional commander in the corps.

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 ).

Until 1942, First Army's commander was always the senior commander of one of its three corps areas.

The SRMO is assisted by the Corps Regimental Sergeant Major ( CRSM ), who is the most senior Warrant Officer in the corps.

In October 1941, Sir Arthur Tedder and Arthur Coningham, senior RAF commanders in North Africa, created joint RAF-Army Air Support Control staffs at each corps and armored division headquarters, and placed a Forward Air Support Link at each brigade to forward air support requests.

When I Anzac Corps became the first to depart for France, Birdwood, as senior corps commander, took over command, swapping with General Godley who assumed command of II Anzac Corps.

Although James B. McPherson was in command of an army at the time of his death and Sedgwick of a corps, Sedgwick had the most senior rank by date of all major generals killed.

The office of Verger has, for the most part, disappeared in the Roman Catholic tradition, the closest function being that of the sexton or the head or senior usher, particularly in those churches ( usually large establishments, like St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City or the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, DC ) that have an organized and formal corps of ushers.

The others were senior combat commanders of the Prussian Army ( Crown Prince Albert initially commanded the Saxon Army as a corps under a Prussian field army, but later took command of a combined Prussian / Saxon field army ).

In addition to these responsibilities, the officers are the primary instructors for their cadet corps or squadron assisted by senior cadets.