• "We have some of the best specialists here, " says Dr. Supija Mokkavesa, surgeon general of the Thai army's medical department, which oversees the facility.

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  • Seizing the opportunity provided by Dr Fox's plans for decentralisation, General Sir Peter Wall, the head of the army, asked Major-General Nick Carter, a former commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan and the director-general of land warfare, to carry out a review that would shape the army of the future.

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  • Putting aside the statistical dispute, the general in charge of the Army's disability agency says the criteria for the disability have not changed.

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  • Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid said he will call for the resignation of General Wiranto, the former army chief, from his cabinet post because of alleged responsibility for human rights abuses in East Timor.

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  • He was not arrested because he was damaging the political prospects of the Administration, or the personal interests of the commanding general, but because he was damaging the Army, upon the existence and vigor of which the life of the nation depends.

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  • General Masud Uddin Chowdhury, the main adversary of the army chief, General Moeen U Ahmed, was in effect demoted for the second time since he led the coup that ousted the squabbling politicians in January 2007.

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  • The head of the British Army, General Richard Dannatt, and the head of the British armed forces, Air Chief Marshal Jock Stirrup, have both said British troops are stretched by fighting wars in both Afghanistan and Iraq.

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  • The Army's top legislative official has taken responsibility and resigned, said the Army statement, which summarizes the results of an investigation by the Army Inspector General.

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  • He rose through the ranks to become a brigadier general and the army's chief of staff in 1970 during the military regime of President General Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio.

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  • His other portraits include General Sir Mike Jackson - the former head of the British Army - and the current head, General Sir David Richards.

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  • North Korea's military statement Thursday, from an unnamed spokesman from the General Bureau of the Korean People's Army, said its troops had been authorized to counter U.S. "aggression" with "powerful practical military counteractions, " including nuclear weapons.

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  • They claim the younger Mr Lee's rapid ascent through the ranks of the army to become a brigadier-general by the age of 32 rested purely on merit, as did his promotion to the post of deputy prime minister after only six years in politics.

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  • And, after comments by the current head of the Army, General Sir Peter Wall, that the 2015 "deadline" for ending UK combat operations could be varied by conditions on the ground, Lord Dannatt said it was "cheap and wrong to say the military are just looking for a military solution".

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  • The commander of the rebel Free Syrian Army, General Selim Idriss, has called for the lifting of the EU embargo, saying it is having a much more negative effect on the opposition than on the Assad regime.

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  • Mr. Ntaganda was made a general and deputy commander of the army's operation in eastern Congo the same forces receiving U.N. support.

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  • Major General Scales is one of the army's leading intellectuals and his op-ed was an important one because it signified a real shift within the military establishment.

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  • "No one was as interested in Iraqi art as he was, " says Brownfield's former boss, Brigadier General Richard Cripwell of the British Army, who headed the American-led coalition's energy study group.

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  • But since the May 2 commando raid that killed Osama bin Laden, which Pakistan considers a grievous breach of sovereignty, the powerful head of the army, General Ashfaq Kayani, has called for a halt.

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  • It is likely that the resignation of the Minister of Defense reflects a general discontent in the army.

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  • Walter Huffman, the Dean of Texas Tech School of Law and a former Army judge advocate general, says the wheels of military justice move slow, but they do grind on.

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  • The most recent victim of this purge is General Momcilo Perisic, dismissed as the Yugoslav army's chief of staff.

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  • But as the battle between Mr Sharif and the chief justice intensified, it drew in General Jehangir Karamat, the chief of the army.

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  • During his three and a half years as chairman of the joint chiefs, Admiral Mullen has flown to Pakistan well over 20 times for meetings with the head of the army, General Ashfaq Kayani, in an effort to build a personal rapport with the man widely seen as the most powerful in the country.

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  • The author of that letter, also written to Senator McCain, is retired Army General John Vessey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff more than 20 years ago.

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  • Such teams were called in to investigate the mysterious and sudden death of Army Chief General Asif Nawaz and the Egyptian Embassy bombing in the '90s.

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  • During his military career, he briefly served as commanding general of the U.S. Army Space and Strategic Defense command.

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  • Meanwhile, head of the Army General Sir David Richards warned once again that Britain could not afford to fail in Afghanistan.

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  • Mr Cameron also confirmed that former head of the Army General Sir Richard Dannatt would become a Tory defence adviser and may serve in a future Tory government.

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  • Speaking to the BBC, the outgoing head of the British Army, General Sir Richard Dannatt, said British forces could remain in operations in the country for up to five years.

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  • "No one can say a war will break out in Korea or not and whether it will break out today or tomorrow, " said the spokesman for the General Staff of the North's Korean People's Army (KPA).

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