From there, Mr. Ren was promoted to Technician, Engineer and Deputy Director, a deputy-regimental-chief-equivalent professional role that had no military rank.
On the most expensive suits the cuff buttons, which mirror the pips of military rank, can be undone, allowing the sleeve to be rolled back.
Since ancient Egypt, if not long before, hats have served the practical (protection against heat and cold) and the symbolic (religious function, military rank, social status).
The Earl of Wessex, who left the Royal Marines, and Princess Margaret's son Viscount Linley, who also does not hold military rank, wore black morning coats.
From June 2005 to June 2006, he served as Special Assistant (for Values and Vision) to the Secretary and Chief-of-Staff of the U.S. Air Force, with the equivalent military rank of Brigadier General.
When you make the request, you must include your name, Social Security number, monthly income and source of income before military service, current monthly income, military rank, date you entered military service and date you are eligible for discharge.
In 1894, Captain Alfred Dreyfus was secretly arrested, wrongfully convicted by a court martial of high treason, sentenced to life imprisonment, stripped of his military rank and shipped off in chains to solitary confinement in the sweltering heat of Devil's Island, a French territory off the coast of South America.
Military members of the rank of colonel and above will not be entitled to severance packages and cannot work for the new Iraqi government, once it is established.
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Despite the fact that doctors at Fort Carson diagnosed Talley with chronic PTSD and depression, his commanding officers charged him with a military crime and demoted him in rank.
She now had the rank of colonel in Soviet military intelligence, and was the recipient of numerous medals.
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The same brutality which makes it unlikely that any coups or conspiracies can succeed, makes him hated by his own people and the rank and file of his military.
In the military, the debrief process is nameless and rank-less to ensure every relevant opinion and observation is heard.
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These kinds of programs would have to be instituted for every man at every rank throughout each branch of our military operations.
In the military culture, which places a premium on rank in decision making, many senior officers and their inner circles of aides do not bother to seek or follow the advice of more junior public affairs officers, despite their education, experience and training.
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Mr Olmert served as a military reporter, and got his low officer's rank only as a reservist.
Although the diplomatic talk is of restraint, Mullen was anything but diplomatic in describing North Korea's leader, who Mullen said is acting in an effort to set up a succession plan for his son, whom he recently elevated to the rank of four-star general in the Korean military.
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In 1998, he was disciplined for being drunk on duty, and his rank was reduced to specialist from sergeant, according to military officials.
At the very least, many, like Wahid himself, are rank outsiders far removed from the inner circles of the military and the bureaucracy.
He is an unknown, callow youth between 28 and 31 years old, promoted to the rank of major-general by his father after some military training in China.
The question is: Will rank insubordination on a scale arguably not seen in a military commander since MacArthur faded away nearly six decades ago be rewarded by still higher office?
The rank-and-file of private armies are often members of official police or military auxiliary forces.
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Sabrina Harman doesn't rank high amongst the seven soldiers so far charged in the prison scandal, either in military terms or in public recognition.
Abdul Fatah Khalil al-Sisi, the head of military intelligence, to defense minister and head of Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, with the rank of field marshal, Nile TV said.
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