When Wiranto took over the military in March 1998, Suparman was plucked from the remote Natuna archipelago to become East Java's regional military commander.
The day ended with a rendition of military musical march The Beating of Retreat.
The central government in Bamako, which had been democratically elected, was overthrown in a military coup on March 22nd in the vain hope of preventing a northern takeover.
Islamic extremists with links to al Qaeda carved out a large portion of northern Mali last year, taking advantage of a chaotic situation after a military coup in March 2012.
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They agreed in Helsinki to convene interim political and military committees in March 2000, and to try to assemble the resources needed for a joint force of up to 60, 000 troops.
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In Bamako, a group of young artists got together after the military coup in March and formed the movement, Sofas de la Republique (Warriors of the Republic), in a tribute to the great warriors of the Mandingo Empire.
Another hearing for their case is expected at Ofer military court on 6 March but their lawyer says they have been told their detention will not be extended further.
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He said the final phase of military intervention would continue throughout March and be scaled down in April.
But the mainly secular coalition of human rights group fell out, especially after a march on the military headquarters turned violent.
Mali plunged into chaos in March after a military ruler overthrew the president, shaking one of West Africa's most stable democracies.
Our political march, our military forces and security forces will carry on in the protection of our people until the end of the day.
The Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's best organised opposition group, had already pulled out of the protest camp and denounced the march on the military HQ for, "causing chaos".
Iraq's prime minister, Nuri al-Maliki, a Shia, has repeatedly stressed that the military campaign he launched in March, backed by American and British forces, was not directed against any one faction, certainly not just the Mahdi militia.
In the district of Baba Amr, which bore the brunt of much of the military onslaught in February and March 2011, a shiny new banner of President Bashar al-Assad is plastered on a building pockmarked by shrapnel and bullet holes.
Most lawmakers are horrified that the automatic spending cuts now scheduled for March would cut military spending by 9.4 percent and domestic spending by about 8 percent. (And note this so-called sequester would exempt Social Security and Medicaid as well as Medicare benefits from any cuts).
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Mali's crisis accelerated in March, when junior military officers staged a coup, ending 20 years of democracy.
Mr McKinnon has never denied that he accessed the computer networks of a wide number of US military institutions between February 2001 and March 2002.
Chaos has rocked the country since March, when a military ruler overthrew the democratically elected president, shaking what had been one of West Africa's most stable democracies.
Pyongyang cites upcoming U.S.-South Korean joint military exercises scheduled to begin on March 4, as "reckless war moves" designed to "unleash a total war on the Korean peninsula with a pre-emptive nuclear strike".
The Islamist fighters have controlled the vast desert stretches of northern Mali, with the weak government clinging to the south, since a military coup in the capital in March last year unleashed chaos.
In March 2012, junior Malian military officers mutinied, overthrowing the civilian government in Bamako.
The State Department confirmed U.S. military plans in Poland as early as March.
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He seized power in March of 1982 through a military coup, and held it for 18 months until he was overthrown.
Ecuador broke diplomatic relations with Colombia in March 2008 after a Colombian military attack against a FARC camp inside Ecuador.
Truman agreed to integrate the military, so Randolph called off the march.
Interim security and military committees will be set up in March.
While doves are aflutter with the notion that the military-industrial complex is on the march, nobody expects Japan to become a major weapons exporter anytime soon.
Spain has the Royal Spanish March, but when this military tune became the national melody in the late 18th Century, despite several attempts, it has never had officially accepted lyrics to sing with it.
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