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...Joint Chiefs of Staff. The reason is that one of two top candidates is a tough-talking Leatherneck who thinks today's military are deployed too often for too long and are buying too many weapons at too high a price. The appointment of Marine General John Sheehan, commander of the U.S. Atlantic Command (his main rival is the current Joint Chiefs Vice Chairman, Air Force General Joseph Ralston), would make him the first Marine to serve as the nation's top military officer and could spur serious change. The 6-ft. 2-in. Bostonian and decorated Vietnam...
...January 1995 the U.S. Atlantic Command chief, General John Sheehan, who had pressed to ease tensions with Havana, began badgering the White House to clear out the 20,000 Cubans at Guantanamo. Riots were possible, he warned, and by his staff's estimate, a permanent refugee camp would cost some $2 billion. Three months later, partly with that figure as ammunition, Administration moderates staged a policy coup. Under Secretary of State Peter Tarnoff began secretly talking to Ricardo Alarcon, president of Cuba's legislature. The Guantanamo refugees would be sent to Florida. To stanch any new exodus, U.S. Coast Guard...
...Sheehan, the FMO's supervisor on duty for the lab area, said the snow on top of the Science Center blew into drifts nearly four feet deep...
...take it all that seriously. It's just something to laugh about," said Brendan D. Sheehan...
Brendan H. Sheehan '96 recalled Piedrahita's wit and intellect, saying he believed Piedrahita had a special affinity for economics, friendship and "sweeping women off their feet...