Word: commandant
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...Jimmy was one of those guys. In the army it’s very hard to be liked by both your commanders and your subordinates. Jimmy was able to balance both. He was loved up and down the chain of command,” Wiger said...
...once Wahlberg toed the O’Donnell Field rubber, fitting in was not a problem—a major league fastball tends to command instant respect...
...camps scattered across the Iraqi desert; the grit of battle and the prospect of losses to come seemed to produce even more clear-eyed determination among the military leaders to finish the job. After a ceremony for fallen servicemen at his headquarters in Doha, Qatar, last Friday, Central Command Chief General Tommy Franks gathered his staff and tersely told them, "There will be more." Says a senior Administration official: "We're seeing a hardening and steeling of the troops." That's good. Because for the Americans on the road to Baghdad as much as for the President commanding them...
Sources: AP, U.S. Army, Marine Corps Systems Command, GlobalSecurity.org CDC, Center for Defense Information and U.S. Institute of Peace
...made their acquaintance in the mountain village of Beyara, which is one of the main Ansar bases. Sufis from a nearby village had come to lend a hand clearing up the mosque, which has been rocketed by the U.S. on the grounds that it was an Ansar command post. None of the helpers looked a day under 70, and although they were picking and pulling at the mountain of rubble with vigor, they were not making much headway. They did not mind being interrupted...