Word: commander
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...steamy darkness of a summer night on the Persian Gulf, Staff Sergeant Alfredo Guerrero was making the rounds of the observation posts under his command. He stepped onto the roof of one of the apartment buildings at the Khobar Towers near Dhahran and said hello to the two other members of the U.S. Air Force security police posted there. Then something caught his eye. Below he saw a white Chevrolet Caprice pulling into a public parking lot adjacent to the compound. Nothing odd about that, but the car was being followed closely by a large tanker truck...
...about 408 people, most of them Republicans who served in the Reagan and Bush administrations. Stored for two years in the vault behind Livingstone's desk, the reports were collected in 1993 and 1994 by Livingstone's friend Anthony Marceca, a civilian gumshoe with the Army's criminal-investigation command whom Livingstone handpicked to help process a mountain of security-clearance forms...
...hold power is to have at your disposal blunt instruments. But without influence, power dies out at the end of its own channels of command. To have influence is to gain assent, not just obedience; to attract a following, not just an entourage; to have imitators, not just subordinates. Power gets its way (when it gets it). Influence makes its way. And in free societies it makes its way further...
They should never have taken off in the first place. Air Force regulations permit military planes carrying VIPs into East European airports like Dubrovnik's to land only by daylight and in clear weather. The Air Force's European Command had applied for a waiver of these regulations. Safety officers at the Pentagon denied the request, but the 86th Airlift Wing apparently disregarded the denial. On high-profile vip flights, comments an Air Force officer, "the pressure to accomplish the mission on time is unspoken but great." Last week's firings should set up a much needed counterpressure...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: An Air Force inquiry has concluded that the April 3 crash of Secretary Ron Brown's plane in Croatia was the result of "failure of command, aircrew error and an improperly-designed instrument approach procedure." In a 22-volume, 7,000 page report, investigators concluded that all three factors were necessary for the accident to occur. The report said the plane should never have been allowed to land at Dubrovnik, because it was not equipped to handle the airport's 1930's-era navigational landing system. In addition, the pilots were not properly trained for landing at civilian...